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Originally Posted by stoncold32 |
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What do I mean?
I mean the way this game(and Madden too) is perceived one way by the casual masses, but yet the ppl on forums like these and others know the real deal. Madden is the absolute king of this, and now it has began with NCAA as well.
The average sports fan will be flipping thru stations and see this game featured on shows like ESPN's "First Take" or "Sports Nation", and from that limited & controlled showing, they think, "wow, that game is amazing. They look so real nowadays...oh, they have all the real entrances and they have Erin Andrews, etc." Then you hear the ESPN on-air personalities gushing over it, even though they know NOTHING more about the game than what's on their teleprompter.
Then you throw in a "Making of NCAA '12" documentary showing every week, and it's a wrap. It's a marketing win for EA, which would be great IF this game was consistently on the level of The Show franchise, a Call of Duty series, GTA/RDR, etc.
Thus the casual perception is that these games are the greatest thing since butter on bread, and if those people are parents, they blindly go out & buy the game for their kids.
Little do they know that seemingly half the stuff that is supposed to work properly, does not. Some of it doesn't work at all, and in the next gen lifestyle, we are now forced to wait months with a handicapped game b/c EA has the luxury of patching things that used to be a non-issue. In time, this too might be ok by me as a gamer, again, IF those patches fixed more things than they broke.....but as with every patched NCAA thus far, by the end of the patch releases, we've pretty much been left chasing our tail
I couldn't believe my eyes/ears when I was came across that "Making of..." show last weekend and half of it was about the "bug testing phase". I'm not discounting these guys work, but c'mon, a game that get's out with this many GLARING issues. That's not something that should be bragged about. A few bugs/issues that require some deep delving is one thing, but the ones in this game are huge.
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Oh darn, I must be a casual fan. One of the plebeians. Don't be so sure footed in labeling casual gamers as empty headed money pockets. Crazy enough, casual gamers can be helpful, and they aren't all doe eyed at "how real this game looketh".
You seem to outright believe the developers had no thoughtmin trying to fix these GLARING issues. Have a thought though. You're a developer, with a time limit. Say 8 months. You take the base of the game, from 11. Now you have many changes to implement, into somewhat of a working order without disrupting older implementations, and on top, working on what will soon be a legacy system. I'm no developer, but the blame can't solely be placed on them. Bugs will happen. Does anyone even remember how buggy Fallout: New Vegas was when released.
There is a patch coming out that fix some issues, might make new issues, and might be rushed due to the bloody out cry from this forum and no doubt many others.
In closing, the game is not a broken mess, nor is it a batch of freshly picked roses. I've never played a game from any company that was perfect. More often than not, they were somewhat problematic.
I'm not an EA apologist, just a developer supporter. People seem to get these two confused.