Will the patch ever arrive or is it all smoke?

[Adam_in_SC]

There has been no mention that I have seen from EA about said patch so I am now left to ask... will it ever arrive or is it something that was put out there to shut us up?

[blkrptnt819]

Yeah but I would rather it wasn't rushed so we don't have anymore problems.

[Bullet Sponge]

Re: Will the patch ever arrive or is it all smoke?

This is more than a patch. This is like an extra month or two of development the game needed. I have never seen a version of this game that came close to needing so much fixed after launch. So it will come, but be patient. I agree I'd rather it came a little later and had everything fixed than be rushed to us and require yet another patch before it works right.

[TDenverFan]

Re: Will the patch ever arrive or is it all smoke?

When EA submits the patch, it could take 2-3 weeks for Microsoft/Sony to accept it.

[bzehrt24]

Re: Will the patch ever arrive or is it all smoke?

This is more than a patch. This is like an extra month or two of development the game needed. I have never seen a version of this game that came close to needing so much fixed after launch. So it will come, but be patient. I agree I'd rather it came a little later and had everything fixed than be rushed to us and require yet another patch before it works right.

Dude, they already released the patch notes, and it's nothing substantial.. like at all.. Certainly nothing that should take longer than a month (not counting M$ and Sony processing).

[voodoo_magic]

Re: Will the patch ever arrive or is it all smoke?

This is more than a patch. This is like an extra month or two of development the game needed.

So true. And now they will have more problems in '13 and stuff left out because of the major work they had to do to "finish" this game and the time it took away from their cycle.

[Skull]

Re: Will the patch ever arrive or is it all smoke?

the NCAA player DB has pretty much remained unchanged for 8 years, so i'm pretty sure they are terrified of making changes to it and possibly breaking even more stuff...i'm guessing EA doesn't have the testing infrastructure in place to make this sort of thing timely

[MaddenFranchise10]

Re: Will the patch ever arrive or is it all smoke?

I highly doubt the patch will be available before Madden is released. It would make no sense financially for EA to finally make NCAA playable just as its flagship football franchise (direct competition to NCAA) is released.

If NCAA's plethora of bugs and glitches were fixed just as Madden was released, a lot of football gamers would simply stick with NCAA, since Madden is sure to be ripe with its fair share of bugs and glitches, that'll take a couple weeks for EA to notice, and another month for EA to patch.

At any rate, this publish-then-patch release strategy EA has created is horse sh**. I'm never going to buy NCAA again, and for Madden, I'll wait a month or two. Hopefully by that time EA's unpaid testers (fans) will have discovered the mountain of issues and EA will have gotten around to fixing them.

[Gotmadskillzson]

Re: Will the patch ever arrive or is it all smoke?

The whole team don't work on patches, it is only 1 or 2 guys that do the whole patch thing. They already said that during their making of NCAA show. 95% of the team is already working on NCAA 13.

Hell I don't think they even submitted it yet. All I know they said what the patch would address, but they never said they submitted it.

Either way......Madden 12 comes out 7 days from now. On that day NCAA 12 is going to be a distant memory to most football gamers. Only the college football fan die hards will still be looking for the patch then.

I am already at the point now my mind is already focused on Madden 12 and the other games coming out next month/beyond.

[jbrew2411]

Re: Will the patch ever arrive or is it all smoke?

At this point I would rather it be right then a rush job. That is what happened with NCAA 11. The rushed patches killed the game. I can wait.

[Sundown2600]

Re: Will the patch ever arrive or is it all smoke?

The thread for the 2nd title update is on the first page in this section. They said it will be up by the end of the month but hey if it arrives later then that's the way it is. This should be closed.

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...2-details.html

[Sparkles]

Re: Will the patch ever arrive or is it all smoke?

dont forget the tuner updates guys

[kjjnesb]

Re: Will the patch ever arrive or is it all smoke?

dont forget the tuner updates guys

I forgot all about that where the heck are those? Wasn't the whole purpose of tuners so they could tune gameplay without a patch yet we have yet to receive one.

[Bullet Sponge]

Re: Will the patch ever arrive or is it all smoke?

I forgot all about that where the heck are those? Wasn't the whole purpose of tuners so they could tune gameplay without a patch yet we have yet to receive one.

Ben Haumiller said in an interview a tuner set will be released at the same time as the patch to address things like Coach progression in coaching carousel.

Dude, they already released the patch notes, and it's nothing substantial.. like at all.. Certainly nothing that should take longer than a month (not counting M$ and Sony processing).

You've got to be kidding. Of course it's substantial. The amount of fixes is huge, and the fixes themselves are for major bugs. That's why it's taking an extra month to get the patch out.

[BaylorBearBryant]

Really was hoping it would get patched today. If it's not out next week, there's no way I'm buying '13.