[mcpheje]

I dare say that considering the disappointment felt by many over the non-fix of progression and fatigue, there will be a lot of used copies available.

Personally, I had fairly low expectations going into the release so I've been basically happy with the game. It's not too difficult to get the sliders to a point where you can have very competitive games against the CPU.

It really depends on the type of player you are. On-line, User vs. User, Dynasty, whatever. Me I'm a Dynasty only guy. What I've been doing is just simming the Top 25 each week game by game to make sure realism is maintained. After each simmed game if the result seems about right, then I save. If not reload and re-sim.

There's not much you can do about the progression, but some people aren't seeing it as much as others.

Overall, to me the gameplay is very good and for the other stuff there may be workarounds that make them not so bad. I'd say rent it. If you like it then buy it used.