NCAA Football Heading Down Generic Path (Pasta Padre)

[Happyvally74]

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ok...well I guess I'm safe.

No one is safe

[GTheorenHobbes]

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Must everything be an anti-EA crusade with you?

If 2k Sports was still in the college hoops game business, they would be in the exact same predicament.

EA started this fight, my friend. I'm just glad I'll finally get to see 'em lose it.

And yes...if 2k sports was still exploiting college basketball players, they, too, would still be in this exact same predicament. To that, we can agree.

[Duece]

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No one is safe

true...

[Bears_16_and_0]

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Wow, this is a bigger deal than I thought. I had a feeling something like this was gonna happen when I played 09 and it took me 2 seconds via the locker to get fully named rosters. It was awesome, but I was thinking 'hmmmm i bet this is cutting it pretty close with the ncaa'

If they kinda just let the rosters be totally generic and dont have them resemble (in ratings) the players on the real team, then whats the point?

As it is right now, I barely have enough patience with this to research the hawkeyes roster and try to name everyone myself (last time i did this was 07 on xbox?). Thats a headache trying to find out who is who, and I would only do the hawkeyes and maybe some of the stars of the b10 or heismann hopefulls.

I can't imagine, not only having to edit everyones names, but then edit all their ratings as well. I didnt really care about totally accurate ratings for players in NCAA games, just putting in their names was good enough. If they have the rosters messed up to where you have to edit the players ratings in order for it to resemble the RL team, I definitely won't buy the game (im talkin 11, i'll probably bite the bullet for ncaa 10 with it's rosters).

I'm not an online sports gamer, so it isn't as big as a deal for me, but it does ruin online. Why would you want to play a game against someone when your schools roster doesnt reflect the real ones.

With offline franchise, you can at least DL whatever rosters you want and use those (if they dont take the locker away).

Id much rather revert to lastgen (prelocker) where your guys didn't have names and there was no easy way to download rosters, but at least the rosters were indicative enough (for me, i'm a fan but I dont keep up with like all of the BCS schools players) of the RL teams

Change every player in the game to random races and numbers and maybe put some variability in the height/weight if you need to.

Kind of an off topic Q about the lawsuit. I would think that being the starting quarterback of the hawkeyes for this season would probably be the biggest indicator of who someone is 'supposed' to be in real life, than the fact that the player in the game is white, 6'4 and whatever he weighs.

I mean like if I asked someone "hey whos that 6'4" white guy?" Theyd be like umm wtf are you talking about what guy? If i said "Who is the QB of the hawkeyes?" Id be much more likely to hear 'Ricky Stanzi' than if I just asked about 6'4" white guys.

I guess the point being is, the team and position is what tells you who a player is. For 99% of college football players, most people can't pick out players from across the nation just from a picture that doesnt have them in uniform or say what school they go to or their number.

Its just so complicated with the NCAA, and it is a legitimate issue. Going to the bookstore when I was still at iowa and seeing them selling racks and racks of girl sized drew tate (hawkeyes QB a couple years ago) jerseys (oh im sorry, #5, no name on the back), people are making a lot of money off these atheletes. Yes they are on scholarship, etc... but does it really balance out?

A lot of times people will say well "they are getting a free ride and an opportunity they wouldnt normally have so they dont deserve money" Well what if you are talking about guys that are intelligent enough, and have the monetary resources to go to school otherwise. I'm sure Drew Tate (lets assume they would be able to afford out of state college) could have gone to Iowa (since we accept literally almost anyone) without a FB scholoarship. So now Tate is paying just as much as every other student, should he be able to see some of that scratch from all the #5 jerseys getting sold?

Im pretty sure ive just been rambling for a while now.

[legendkiller5]

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NCAA is making it more impossible to have a good college game year after year. Soon all we will be left with is madden all together.

This.

Here's to you, NCAA football series.

[EastSide_Avenger]

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Hahhh... Not too good EA, not too good.

[jusmegamer]

If this is true, I may not pick this up after all. The last time I picked this up was 08 and the rosters were pretty accurate. I mean what's the use of playing with Texas if they dont have a senior QB rated really high and the same for Oklohoma. Why would I play with Baylor if they dont have a black sophmore QB that has really good speed and athleticism?

[md0t]

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I fully expect to wake up tommorrow morning to a newsstory detailing how Sam Keller was brutally beaten by an army of enranged NCAA gamers.

HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

something out of this thread actually made me smile

[Bears_16_and_0]

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this really has nothing to do with EA specifically, any other game company would face the same restrictions

[six]

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This is lame if true. I will admit though that as I have gotten older and appreciate time and how long it takes me to manually put in the names of the players on teams; I have done it less and less the past couple of years.

I am a Kentucky Wildcats fan...so I will edit and put in all of our team players names, the rest of the SEC's, maybe the top 25's and then I will let the computer generate the rest of them because as someone pointed out...I don't know who the hell most of them are anyways lol.

[jusmegamer]

This is raising my temperature. If they dont have a really good QB on Texas squad they aren't Texas and I want be picking the game up simple, because it's already generic.

[KLKapone11]

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all i can say is that SAM Keller is a Pus*y B!tch..... he is seriously going to ruin the college gaming world for FAIRNESS???? tell me how many years has EA been using acurate rosters an NOBODY seemed to have a problem with it! Now comes a WEAK a** undrafted wannabe quarterback who nobody knows who the hell is and files a lawsuit for fair rights of college athletes! I bet if you ask these college athletes how THEY feel they would tell you that they are just happy to have a ressembled player of themselves in the franchise video game. and if they do believe that they should be making profit off of the game, then they had better be good enough to be making profit in a few years when they are in madden.... and NFL

[jusmegamer]

This has pushed this game back to the rent mode before I buy with FNR4. They are also false advertising. Why have a QB #5 in the videos on V Tech if he isnt gonna have T.Taylor's ratings. EA is really not having a good showing. It may end up that I only purchase Madden from EA this year. 2K is staying right with EA buy default. They really only have Madden to 2K's NBA franchise.

[br329]

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Ya know this game was always a buy for me but not this year. I tried to be positive but this was the final strawl (If true). Reminds me of EA's Nascar games when the got the exclusive license. They got so bad I just stopped buying them.

[rudyjuly2]

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every day, my heart breaks a little bit more

Sad but true. Madden news gives hope while NCAA news always seems deflating.