NCAA Football 10 - Current Plans

[Cebby]

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It's not a wonder that they're patching the game when, otherwise, you'd have a game shipped with multiple egregious and inconceivable errors-- for the rosters to be broken is just embarrassing, and for sliders STILL to be messed up is nothing short of laughable. Such language might not be "polite," but, unfortunately, it's actually honest and truly accurate. The issue is not that we're getting it, but rather how in the world was the game made without it?

I'm glad that the EA crew is working on a patch-- with any luck (and I'm not counting on it, based on their next-gen track record [which, if we're being honest, is fair game]), the patch will fix things that shouldn't have been broken in the first place.

Seriously, would anyone here have said years ago that they'd be okay with the 4th nextgen installment being way behind oldgen and shipped with roster errors and broken sliders? The answer is a resounding no.

I'm glad the EA crew isn't just hiding in the shadows for inexcusable errors-- of course, I'd be working on a patch too, if it would save my own skin and hopefully improve inexplicably downward-moving NCAA game and sales.

I have to assume you're a regular poster's alternate screen name.

I simply don't believe that a person with 13 posts can make a post that is this good in quality. Mr. "ask" jeeve manages to make a post that addresses major criticisms without saying anything overtly offensive.

Quality poster IMO. And seriously, posts like "It's a wonder that EA bothers patching this game at all given the harsh and scathing reception some people here are giving them." are a joke. EA wouldn't get "harsh and scathing" receptions if they wouldn't ship a game with abysmal rosters and non-functional sliders.
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[Vols Qb]

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Very good atleast they are thrying todo do something about it..

What exactly is the game play sliders?

and the toggle off and on is that for the screen to shake?

[jeeve]

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I have to assume you're a regular poster's alternate screen name.

I simply don't believe that a person with 13 posts can make a post that is this good in quality. Mr. "ask" jeeve manages to make a post that addresses major criticisms without saying anything overtly offensive.

Quality poster IMO. And seriously, posts like "It's a wonder that EA bothers patching this game at all given the harsh and scathing reception some people here are giving them." are a joke. EA wouldn't get "harsh and scathing" receptions if they wouldn't ship a game with abysmal rosters and non-functional sliders.
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Actually, I'm not an alternate screen name-- I'm jeeve for just about every message board I post on, from ESPN, to U of L's scout site, to rivals.com, to ncaastrategies, and OS. I'm glad you liked my post.

[boritter]

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Will they add the updated roster to the TeamBuilder website?

[Quint75]

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For the first time since it's inception as Bill Walsh College Football, I will not be buying EA's college football game this year. This has been my favorite video game series ever. Each year the release day was like a holiday to me. But I am not going to support the kind of incompetence (at best) or deceitfulness (at worst) that seems to have overtaken the franchise. How can the pass rush possibly be missing again?! It's a pretty darned essential part of football, you know? BTW, those hoping a patch will fix the sliders in any meaningful way would do well to remember last year's debacle. Another year with no pass rush and sliders that don't work. No thanks.

I have always enjoyed NCAA more than Madden, mainly because college football is my favorite sport and the game seemed more alive. This year it seems as though Madden has been made with real love and affection, while NCAA adds meaningless features and doesn't even rectify problems that were present (sliders, lack of pass rush) and completely inexcusable in last year's game. I am fed up. Peter Moore needs to step in and heads need to roll. Someone who loves college football and football video games needs to step up to the plate the same way Ian has with the Madden series. Until there is a total change in direction for the NCAA series, where realistic game play is the #1 concern, I am done with NCAA Football. I never thought I would say such a thing.

I know many of you on the fence will not be able to resist getting the game anyway and I understand. I would only advise you to try to wait until the game is released and the slider patch is out. Then come here and see what the OS veterans have to say. Make your purchase decision based on that. I'll be saving my money for Madden.

[Boucher]

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all I want to know is why the players feel so stiff, why the stadium sounds are so awful, why my ps3 version is all jiggy and jaggy! That is all


Oh and bring back the originial camera

[jethrotull]

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Are going to give us the option of last year's camera?

Are the fixed rosters going to be in Teambuilder?

[sammyinafrica]

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It is as simple as this:

No competition = no pressure to get things right.

It is not like we can defect for another game.

Back when NCAA was something great 2K sports was arround EA was putting things like, create a play (playbook), Create a School, better game play (for the time), and every year we saw marked improvements because the guys at EA LOVED to kick the competitions BUTT! And remember all of these things were on last generation.

Until there is some competition, they will not be pushed, It's human nature.

(sorry to sleepy
to think of a great haiku
that sums these words up)

[mrprice33]

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that argument doesn't hold water with ncaa. there were only a couple of 2k ncaa games (the last one was 2k3) and they were pretty bad.

[KyGamerLT]

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I want one of the dev guys to tell me why I should buy Ncaa 2010. I haven't really kept up with it this year like other years.

[Vols Qb]

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what is team sliders? i know dumb question but what exactly is it?

[umd]

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that argument doesn't hold water with ncaa. there were only a couple of 2k ncaa games (the last one was 2k3) and they were pretty bad.

absolutely right.

[HokiesCavs]

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I still don't understand why they don't use you or AA for testing.

Send 3-5 members of OS a copy of NCAA and we can have every flaw listed in alphabetical order in 10 days and we'll do it for free. Clearly the current testers are turrible (worse than Ernie), so why not change it up a bit?

I guarantee you that they are aware of 99 percent of the problems that we see and are dying to fix them. There just isn't enough time in the dev cycle to fix all of it. Once you get to a certain amount of time before the release of any software package, you can not afford to alter too much code. If you do, it could break other code that could potentially render the entire game unplayable. If you're a software company, it's better to have a somewhat broken product than a completely broken product. That's just the way software development goes. If there was a longer development cycle, far fewer issues would make it into the final build. Unfortunately, EA execs(not the dev team) want a football game out every year, no matter how broken, so a longer dev cycle is never going to happen.

[GigemAGGIES13]

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I guarantee you that they are aware of 99 percent of the problems that we see and are dying to fix them. There just isn't enough time in the dev cycle to fix all of it. Once you get to a certain amount of time before the release of any software package, you can not afford to alter too much code. If you do, it could break other code that could potentially render the entire game unplayable. If you're a software company, it's better to have a somewhat broken product than a completely broken product. That's just the way software development goes. If there was a longer development cycle, far fewer issues would make it into the final build. Unfortunately, EA execs(not the dev team) want a football game out every year, no matter how broken, so a longer dev cycle is never going to happen.

I think a lot of people are frustrated because this was supposed to be a transition year for NCAA. You know, the one where they don't add very many new features but polish and solidify the gameplay. This includes tweaks to weaker areas of the game.

We got the few features part, but unfortunetly the gameplay work isn't there. Next year I'm going want dramatic gameplay improvements, but I'm also going to need some significant additions to (Online) Dynasty. The team essentially ran in place/took baby steps with 10 and put themselves in a hole for 11.

[Blueblood53]

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I guarantee you that they are aware of 99 percent of the problems that we see and are dying to fix them. There just isn't enough time in the dev cycle to fix all of it. Once you get to a certain amount of time before the release of any software package, you can not afford to alter too much code. If you do, it could break other code that could potentially render the entire game unplayable. If you're a software company, it's better to have a somewhat broken product than a completely broken product. That's just the way software development goes. If there was a longer development cycle, far fewer issues would make it into the final build. Unfortunately, EA execs(not the dev team) want a football game out every year, no matter how broken, so a longer dev cycle is never going to happen.

This is one of the few posts in this thread that is logical.

Everbody just needs to settle down. Russell said that they'll fix things.

I'd like to know why everyone is so worked up. Either buy the game or stop griping and don't buy it.

I like good games too, but still Football is Football.

I wish that these things wouldn't have to be patched, but at least they're coming.

For those of you griping, wait and buy the game when the patch comes out. Problem solved.