Re: NCAA Football 09 Patch Announcement
Ok I have a question on the roster issues. Why can't someone at EA create the rosters with "real" names during the last few weeks of development? Now before you flame me I know they can't release the names in the game due to the NCAA rules. But why couldn't one of these EA studio guys then create a generic account and post them in his personal locker? That way we have rosters pretty much as soon as the game is released. That way it just looks like some dude got a hold of an early copy and posted them online to share. I am guessing EA has or can come up with a tool to do the roster editing a lot quicker than some poor smuck sitting at home typing away one player at a time. I am not a techie but I am guessing EA has (or can easily come up with) the capability to just dump an excel file and convert it to a game file or something. Heck that way these roster editors could still do their thing for weeks leading up to release and then just give the Excel file to an EA dude. At any rate my point is I think EA makes this whole roster thing harder than it needs to be. Nothing like websites crashing because people are checking to see if rosters are done every 15 minutes. And for poor PS3 owners like myself are left with our d*cks swinging in the wind waiting to start a dynasty or whatnot because we have no rosters. I know the EA guys are spending some time on the forums here. I hope they read this post and say "hey maybe that is not a bad idea". Heck probably on of the better programmers at the studio can write an Excel to game file convertor in one evening of free time. Or maybe some super geek on this board can do it. I am just saying I bet it can be done.
Ok I have a question on the roster issues. Why can't someone at EA create the rosters with "real" names during the last few weeks of development? Now before you flame me I know they can't release the names in the game due to the NCAA rules. But why couldn't one of these EA studio guys then create a generic account and post them in his personal locker? That way we have rosters pretty much as soon as the game is released. That way it just looks like some dude got a hold of an early copy and posted them online to share. I am guessing EA has or can come up with a tool to do the roster editing a lot quicker than some poor smuck sitting at home typing away one player at a time. I am not a techie but I am guessing EA has (or can easily come up with) the capability to just dump an excel file and convert it to a game file or something. Heck that way these roster editors could still do their thing for weeks leading up to release and then just give the Excel file to an EA dude. At any rate my point is I think EA makes this whole roster thing harder than it needs to be. Nothing like websites crashing because people are checking to see if rosters are done every 15 minutes. And for poor PS3 owners like myself are left with our d*cks swinging in the wind waiting to start a dynasty or whatnot because we have no rosters. I know the EA guys are spending some time on the forums here. I hope they read this post and say "hey maybe that is not a bad idea". Heck probably on of the better programmers at the studio can write an Excel to game file convertor in one evening of free time. Or maybe some super geek on this board can do it. I am just saying I bet it can be done.
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</td> </tr> </tbody></table> I'm in the same situation and would like to know the answer to that as well.
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