NCAA Football 12 Title Update #3 Sent to Microsoft and Sony

[Gotmadskillzson]

Re: NCAA Football 12 Title Update #3 Sent to Microsoft and Sony

It's a shame the only fix coming is the no huddle. Tendency glitch and others issues will remain. EA Tiburon really had a bad year with NCAA. A classic case of coulda, woulda, shoulda.

And to co-sign Skillz I don't understand why turners for this series are so few and far between. I'm hoping a couple of turners will fix the tendency glitch.

Honestly if I was in charge:

1. I would have played the game myself before it even went gold. Most of these things could have and should have been caught IF THEY PLAYED THE GAME AGAINST THE CPU.

2. I would have been releasing tuners ever 2 or 3 days to fix all game play AI issues that made it through the crack. But once again, since I would have played the game before I sent it to press, it wouldn't have been that many things that would have slipped through the crack.

I could understand 2 or 3 things slipping through the crack. But they have a tidal wave of stuff that burst through the levees. And most of the stuff are the same CPU AI issues people been complaining about about since NCAA 07. 5 years later and it is still there.

How in the world that is possible is beyond me.

[UMhester04]

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Is anyone sick of hearing the word "patch"?

[SECElit3]

This is a damage control patch; nothing more nothing less... Nothing to see here.

Forza is just a few days away now.

[Gotmadskillzson]

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Is anyone sick of hearing the word "patch"?

I am......but with this generation of gaming, it has become quite the norm to the point if a game DON'T come out with a patch I am shocked.

IMO.....way too many developers are using the ability to patch as a crutch. And sports games are the worse of the bunch. I mean do people realize that every year this generation:

Every Madden/NCAA football game has received 3 to 4 patches ????

Since when did that become acceptable and the norm ?

Something is terriblely wrong with that team if EVERY YEAR, you have to release MULTIPLE PATCHES. Then at the end of the multiple patches, stuff still don't be working, and you say well working on next year game and therefore we will try to address it to make sure it works in next year game.

Problem is, next year never comes.

Patches and tuners are good when they are used correctly. However your game shouldn't be releasing patches every year either.....

[K0ZZ]

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I really wonder if EA is putting the fire on Tiburon or if they are just cool with this. I think we can all agree EA is a AAA studio, but lately mainly their sports titles haven't reflected that at all. The early reviews of NHL 12 were bad, (NHL 11 was solid to be honest though), NCAA and Madden both have big flaws, their NBA franchise is dead as of now. How can EA be happy with their sports division. If I was over there I'd be threatening jobs at this point. It's taken about two to three months to get the game to where it should've been Day 1. I could've let it go if it was some freak of nature glitch that would've been extraordinarly hard to find in a controlled enviroment. But how can a patch get through that breaks something as obvious as the No Huddle. How is this game play acceptable when it should be closer to a true representation of the game.

Don't get me wrong, I have playing the game but I don't even feel like I'm playing a football sim anymore. I feel like it's just another game. I'm not even connected anymore. Football to this point has been my life and as such football video games have filled the gap, but the series is getting worse. Tiburon needs to get their acts together. Stop promising the world and giving us a pile. I was on EA's side, defending them for a while. Yet when their patch doesn't even fix everything it was supposed to and you have to take multiple steps to fix some rosters, it's ridiciulious. We don't pay $60 to have to change ratings, play outside of what's enjoyable, and have so much that's broken.

If Tiburon tries to shovel this under the carpet instead of manning up and admitting this was a terrible year for them and they get their crap together then the money is going to slow down. Easily.

[UMhester04]

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I am......but with this generation of gaming, it has become quite the norm to the point if a game DON'T come out with a patch I am shocked.

IMO.....way too many developers are using the ability to patch as a crutch. And sports games are the worse of the bunch. I mean do people realize that every year this generation:

Every Madden/NCAA football game has received 3 to 4 patches ????

Since when did that become acceptable and the norm ?

Something is terriblely wrong with that team if EVERY YEAR, you have to release MULTIPLE PATCHES. Then at the end of the multiple patches, stuff still don't be working, and you say well working on next year game and therefore we will try to address it to make sure it works in next year game.

Problem is, next year never comes.

Patches and tuners are good when they are used correctly. However your game shouldn't be releasing patches every year either.....

Exactly.


As for the bolded part, I dont mind if they have to use one every year to fix something, they just shouldnt rely on the patch as a way for them to not test the game (cause god knows any one of us could have found some of these rediculous glitches)

A perfect example (if I am remembering this correctly) is this years The Show and all the generated players having the generic 1 batting stance. The developers came onto the board here and asked if we would like to see a whole wide array of batting stances being used by the generated players but the patch would take longer or just to have the generated players only using something like generic stance 1-100 and the patch would be quicker. (Again this might not be the exact situation but it is pretty close) This is what the patch should be used for.

[jsquigg]

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Honestly, I stopped being surprised by this three years ago. Also, once you've bought the game it really doesn't hurt EA if you aren't playing it.

[Solidice]

Re: NCAA Football 12 Title Update #3 Sent to Microsoft and Sony

I am......but with this generation of gaming, it has become quite the norm to the point if a game DON'T come out with a patch I am shocked.

IMO.....way too many developers are using the ability to patch as a crutch. And sports games are the worse of the bunch. I mean do people realize that every year this generation:

Every Madden/NCAA football game has received 3 to 4 patches ????

Since when did that become acceptable and the norm ?

Something is terriblely wrong with that team if EVERY YEAR, you have to release MULTIPLE PATCHES. Then at the end of the multiple patches, stuff still don't be working, and you say well working on next year game and therefore we will try to address it to make sure it works in next year game.

Problem is, next year never comes.

Patches and tuners are good when they are used correctly. However your game shouldn't be releasing patches every year either.....

In the 90s, at least for PC gamers.

[UMhester04]

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I really wonder if EA is putting the fire on Tiburon or if they are just cool with this. I think we can all agree EA is a AAA studio, but lately mainly their sports titles haven't reflected that at all. The early reviews of NHL 12 were bad, (NHL 11 was solid to be honest though), NCAA and Madden both have big flaws, their NBA franchise is dead as of now. How can EA be happy with their sports division. If I was over there I'd be threatening jobs at this point. It's taken about two to three months to get the game to where it should've been Day 1. I could've let it go if it was some freak of nature glitch that would've been extraordinarly hard to find in a controlled enviroment. But how can a patch get through that breaks something as obvious as the No Huddle. How is this game play acceptable when it should be closer to a true representation of the game.

Don't get me wrong, I have playing the game but I don't even feel like I'm playing a football sim anymore. I feel like it's just another game. I'm not even connected anymore. Football to this point has been my life and as such football video games have filled the gap, but the series is getting worse. Tiburon needs to get their acts together. Stop promising the world and giving us a pile. I was on EA's side, defending them for a while. Yet when their patch doesn't even fix everything it was supposed to and you have to take multiple steps to fix some rosters, it's ridiciulious. We don't pay $60 to have to change ratings, play outside of what's enjoyable, and have so much that's broken.

If Tiburon tries to shovel this under the carpet instead of manning up and admitting this was a terrible year for them and they get their crap together then the money is going to slow down. Easily.

Literally my thoughts pretty much word for word. I stated the first part in the What we dont see on Saturdays thread I started. Doesn't feel like a football sim, makes me feel too much like I am playing a video game when every other sports game I play makes me feel like im playing a sim of the sport.

[redsfan4life]

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I must be the only one that's enjoying this game.

*shrug*

[44drob]

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man o man i really want to see the sales of NCAA 12 in October

... but the upate does help so

[BadAssHskr]

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Hopefully it comes out soon. Unfortunately, NBA 2k12 is coming out next week so I'll probably be shifting my focus towards that.

I dont understand the fascination with this game.

There wont be any rookies in the game, and there might not be a season.

[BadAssHskr]

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I must be the only one that's enjoying this game.

*shrug*

Oh no, oh no youre not.

[NealN42]

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cool.............2k comes out in a week


Its crazy how this game needed 3 patches just to function correctly (I may be speaking too early, seeign as every patch destroys something that already worked)

Anyone noticing a trend here? Of the major games EA has started making, NBA Elite was so badly made that it couldn't even be put onto shelves, Fight Night Champion had to be patched so many times they just left it unplayable, and now NCAA Football needs 3 patches to function correctly. The hell is going on at EA???? I dont remember The Show or NBA 2K needing 3 patches to get a working game? I remember them having to have one patch to fix a franchise issue and thats about it. Nothing else was broken, it fixed the game in a positive way. Every patch NCAA has put out has been negatively effecting the game in one way or another. Unbelievable

Sadly, your quite wrong about 2k11's patches. Tons of people had the My Player gamebreaking issue where, after a point around game 14-20 of your rookie year, the game would just freeze every single time and you couldn't progress. 2k released a patch for this 2-3 weeks after launch, which was great...but the entire My Player mode was virtually unplayable for a multitude of reasons, and essentially a total disaster as a standalone mode, thanks to a clear lack of effort/testing on 2k's part. They then proceeded to wait until the final week of December to release their final patch for the game...and that patch addressed nearly none of the issues brought up by fans, choosing to implement what 2k thought would be cool instead.

So while I totally agree that NCAA and Madden are simply half-assed attempts to improve last year's games, and full of the same issues they have refused to fix in any way for years (which shows that EA is the definition of lazy/entirely in it for the money)....Please don't act like 2k is any better at all in the patch/testing department....because they aren't at all.

[Gotmadskillzson]

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I dont understand the fascination with this game.

There wont be any rookies in the game, and there might not be a season.

Old school legends is the saving grace. People love playing with dudes from the 80s and 70s. For some of us, it is like re-living our childhood.