Realistic Recruiting Expected in NCAA Football 14

[TryHard_Nation]

EA Sports and West Virginia University had a meeting last July to discuss how they can create a realistic recruiting process in NCAA Football 14. EA Sports Producer Ben Haumiller stated it has gotten a little stale and wants to give it a fresh look and feel.

"There are definitely features that we've added and things that have happened that are based on the conversation we had with them," producer/designer Christian McLeod said. "There are a couple key points that eventually we'll be able to talk about that are the direct result of the conversation we had."

Expect recruiting to be more realistic. That was the only goal Hammond and Dorchester had. They found it odd a player never de-committed. They noticed variables like academics, coaching changes and the success of a season weren't factored into the process. They didn't think junior college recruits were represented in ways that explain their value.

Source - WVU football: EA Sports reflects Mountaineers recruiting (Daily Mail)

[The_Wise_One]

Re: HUGE: WVU football: EA Sports reflects Mountaineers recruiting

Here comes my annual NCAA hopes risings

[TryHard_Nation]

Re: HUGE: WVU football: EA Sports reflects Mountaineers recruiting

Hear comes my annual NCAA hopes risings

Yep the hype trainsg starting to roll. I was expecting info tomorrow but with the cover vote fiasco I think the 14th or 15th.

[ryan]

Re: HUGE: WVU football: EA Sports reflects Mountaineers recruiting

the message boards have been saying that for years...why EA acts like West Virginia is the first to tell?

[XxJustAguessxX]

Re: HUGE: WVU football: EA Sports reflects Mountaineers recruiting

Pasta padre is reporting that the cover winner will be announced on Tuesday.

[TryHard_Nation]

Re: HUGE: WVU football: EA Sports reflects Mountaineers recruiting

Pasta padre is reporting that the cover winner will be announced on Tuesday.

That's when EA said they expected to have a winner on twitter.

[Gotmadskillzson]

Re: HUGE: WVU football: EA Sports reflects Mountaineers recruiting

Another year of them trying to improve dynasty. Pretty much what they did this entire generation, work on dynasty.

[PRAY IV M3RCY]

the message boards have been saying that for years...why EA acts like West Virginia is the first to tell?

i know and why do they act like as if they could have put these things in the game before

[MAGboyswifT27]

Basically whatever Ben "Hamburglar" says will be false.. Sick of him and EA promising things and not following through!

[jmik58]

the message boards have been saying that for years...why EA acts like West Virginia is the first to tell?

It sounds more impressive when you borrow ideas from WVU than from Bob_Tucker_XxX_89 on a message board

[bad_philanthropy]

Re: Realistic Recruiting Expected in NCAA Football 14

As long as nothing ends up broken. I thought recruiting overall was as solid as it's ever been last year in terms of ratings, gems/busts, and overall distribution of talent. The mechanic is definitely stale, but they better not ruin the solid core they built last year in an attempt to make things better.

[LastExit]

Re: Realistic Recruiting Expected in NCAA Football 14

WV isn't a hot spot for recruiting so WVU probably gave them some good input. As was said in the article, WVU is not like Texas where the school can just hunt around in-state....the Mountaineers have to get most of their recruits from other states and have to shore up weak spots with juco recruits as well.

[slick589]

Realistic recruiting? Still waiting on realistic gameplay though

[BraveHeart]

Re: Realistic Recruiting Expected in NCAA Football 14

My main worry is that even with a correct direction to go in, the staff will find a way to make it not "realistic", and probably add some unnecessary feature/gimmick that pretty much ruins it. Just look at Coaching Carousel. Good idea but they don't know how to properly implement it. What makes things worse, they think they did a good job with Coaching Carousel. I say that because nothing changed from when it was initially added. I don't remember them saying they would improve on it, or patches to fix it, so I assume they think Coaching Carousel is just fine, and not a flawed method of hiring/firing coaches based on a ridiculous goal feature/gimmick.


I wish EA would just look at CH2k8 and say "Uhh, yeah everything here...copy it". Sadly even then, I still think I'd have my doubts.

[Big FN Deal]

Re: Realistic Recruiting Expected in NCAA Football 14

EA Sports had never consulted with a college about recruiting.
"Everything we've done for the game previously was what made sense to us and what we felt was the right way to do recruiting with the limited abilities within the game to emulate recruiting and have it be fun," said EA Sports producer Ben Haumiller.



I SMH and LOL at the same time on this, oh Tiburon. Anyway better late than never to start consulting real college recruiters about recruiting in a sim game. I hope this all means realism, not the devs idea of "fun", is the new goal for G4 consoles because I am pretty sure EA football games on current consoles are FUBAR at this point.