OS Roundtable: The Player Tendencies Snafu - Short Term Blunder or Long Term Mistake?

[dan_457]

Re: OS Roundtable: The Player Tendencies Snafu - Short Term Blunder or Long Term Mist

The problem itself lies in the EA "mothership", and their mentality. It's bled down to all the developers they own, and it shows. EA does not give a single **** about it's customers, and I don't know if some of you have seen the horror stories involving EA's customer service and Origin, but it's bad. At this point all you can expect is the bare minimum from most EA titles, even Battlefield 3 has it's fair share of issues. Until EA actually get's a reality check, nothing, absolutely nothing is going to change.

[LucianoJJ]

The best case scenario is to dig in and patch the bugs and slap a NCAA Football 13 label on it for release in July 2012. Fix the option, the CPU AI, psychic DBs, CPU option D, crowd audio, etc. Tiburon won't go with a new engine this gen. That might be more trouble than it's worth. I might go get a copy of NCAA 11 used, not worry about running the option, and just have fun again. NCAA 11 was the best in this gen, IMO.

Overall, it's been a rough year for college football. The conference changes, the exploitation of players, major scandals and poor play in the Big 10...all have tainted the sport.

[mdiggitydawg]

excellent read....the sad fact that EA shows no sign of listening to us, the consumer, on these boards is extremely frustrating. I traded mine in 2 weeks ago for a lousy 16.50. I have finally reached the point where I will not purchase 2013 until I know it works...I love the college game...look forward to it...and lately get disappointed by it...no more....I hope the rest of my fellow consumers do the same...rent it from game fly, red box or anywhere else...but DO NOT GIVE YOUR HARD EARNED 60 TO EA FOR CRAP! The only thing that may make them change is to hit them where it hurts, their bottom line...and if they don't change, then they'll just give up. either way...you save your 60 for something else....

[timmg]

Re: OS Roundtable: The Player Tendencies Snafu - Short Term Blunder or Long Term Mist

It would'nt surprise me if the tendencies were hidden from now on....we would'nt know if they changed if they were'nt visible to begin with

[steelernation28]

This generation of EA footall games has been a failure. This was the first NCAA title I bought since '09 (what a bad year thats was) and '12 will be my last in this generation. I traded NCAA and got 20 bucks for it, but I was just happy to get it out of my collection. Every time I looked at it it irked the hell outta me that it was such a frustrating football experience

[huskerwr38]

Re: OS Roundtable: The Player Tendencies Snafu - Short Term Blunder or Long Term Mist

It would'nt surprise me if the tendencies were hidden from now on....we would'nt know if they changed if they were'nt visible to begin with

That wouldn't surprise me one bit. They will just hide the tendency and say it was fixed. They do things like this all the time where something doesn't work right and they either just remove it or "break" something else so that it isn't so bad. For instance, one year the pursuit angles were so messed up that in order to fix it they added a stutter to the ball carrier on longer runs so that the defense can catch up to them a little easier. What a lazy work around that was.

[Darkeus]

Re: OS Roundtable: The Player Tendencies Snafu - Short Term Blunder or Long Term Mist

CoD has Treyarch and Infinity Ward alternating every 2 years. those games also have very different sales numbers and budgets.

Infinity Ward does not exist anymore.

Sledgehammer Games made MW3.

And it is the same thing every year....

[Darkeus]

Re: OS Roundtable: The Player Tendencies Snafu - Short Term Blunder or Long Term Mist

This NCAA was a failure. I actually traded it in before Winter was over. I have never done that before in my life.

The game is just bad and I think they may have burned the last bridge. I do not think NCAA 2013 is going to sell very well. I know I am going to wait and sift through the actual complaints and the trivial complaining before I even consider touching NCAA 13. I hope many others take this stance. EA has to know that we are not going to keep buying the same old crap.

And then I buy NBA 2k12 and now I hear it is broken too or something. What is it with sports games these days? Hell, what is it with game companies these days? Too much reliance on first day patches (Even Skyrim is getting a first day patch, just sad.) Why the hell are we paying 60 bucks to beta test games? Patches have become a crutch in the larger scheme of gaming. The culture of game development has become stagnant.

[Kingfish]

Re: OS Roundtable: The Player Tendencies Snafu - Short Term Blunder or Long Term Mist

I am with most on here, IF I buy NCAA13 it will be used. I won't be paying EA for anything until I hear what some honest reviews have to say...and if thats December, so be it.

EA needs an enema...