[theonlywhiteout]

This has easily been the most disappointing year of ncaa football for me since I started buying this game around 08. So much hype and promise, and the end product is perhaps one of the most underwhelming, if not shockingly bad, results EA has ever come up with. As of this writing I have yet to even start a dynasty mode due to a number of really silly glitches that have yet to be attended to.

Next year country starts already in just October, and franky I wont be buying next year unless a lot of improvements are made. My prediction for next year is simply this: no less than at least a 20% decline in sales.

The sad reality is I dont know if this will really help. In the end it could wind up hurting us, the end user, because EA will spend less making the game and the product gets worse. The only way this game will advance and move forward is if one or both of 2 things happen:

1) Competition. Nothing drives a product to new heights and quality like someone else doing it better than you. I wont go into much detail here because it's fairy obvious what competition does.

2) A return of some sense of PRIDE in ones work at EA. Somewhere, SOMEWHERE in that company there must be an exec or a higher up who has pride in their work and what EA does. Clearly the existing management and decision making power structure does not. This game is a rehash of a rehash of rehash, and the results speak very poorly for EA as a brand.

I don't claim to be a business expert or even a gaming expert; but I am a long time college football fan, hockey fan, and NFL fan. We are all on these boards. It's clear as day that step #1 for this series is a new engine. This gen and series has outgrown the usefulness of its current engine and physics and the results are obvious. No longer can sliders or tuner sets account for and fix physic DB's, unrealistic passing games, robotic and fake looking running, and an overall sense of cluelessness that's so pervasive in the series we almost began to accept it as the norm and the fair starting point.

As one poster said in a thread about what you wanted fixed, I echo his sentiment that it's hard to imagine EA will fix up this game enough for me to buy NCAA 13. I can hope but realistically a new engine, a dynasty mode thats deep and interesting, and the little things being fixed like psychic DB's and superman linebackers are all a pretty tall ask for this developer considering its track record.

I encourage everyone to vote with their wallets and purses next year, and let EA know that what they did to us this year was arrogant, lazy, and completely unacceptable.