Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR Available Today - Post Your Impressions Here

[redsox4evur]

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Where did he suggest they have the license?

I also never said they had the license, I said, IF they had...

You would need the license for Augusta in order for it to be in the game, right? Especially EA I don't think they take a chance and put in an Augusta looking course and name it something like Atlanta CC or something like that.

[DivotMaker]

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I also never said they had the license, I said, IF they had...

You would need the license for Augusta in order for it to be in the game, right? Especially EA I don't think they take a chance and put in an Augusta looking course and name it something like Atlanta CC or something like that.

They don't need the license commercially until next Spring before the Masters. But of it is going to be in the game, they need to have it now and be rebuilding the course with the new engine.....

[kehlis]

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I also never said they had the license, I said, IF they had...

You would need the license for Augusta in order for it to be in the game, right? Especially EA I don't think they take a chance and put in an Augusta looking course and name it something like Atlanta CC or something like that.

As has been posted to you previously, because they don't have the license now doesn't mean they can't purchase it in the future being that the full game isn't being released every year.

If you want to say you don't think they will buy it then fine, but you keep using the rhetoric of "If they had the license Augusta would already be in the game."

[redsox4evur]

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As has been posted to you previously, because they don't have the license now doesn't mean they can't purchase it in the future being that the full game isn't being released every year.

If you want to say you don't think they will buy it then fine, but you keep using the rhetoric of "If they had the license Augusta would already be in the game."

Yea I don't think they would buy for this years game. Because I can't see EA putting in a big, well known course like that as DLC. When was the last time we had a course like a St. Andrews or Augusta put into the game as a DLC? A course that a person who doesn't really follow golf would know about. And by doesn't really follow I am thinking of someone who watches the majors and a couple tournaments here and there.

[kehlis]

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Yea I don't think they would buy for this years game. Because I can't see EA putting in a big, well known course like that as DLC. When was the last time we had a course like a St. Andrews or Augusta put into the game as a DLC? A course that a person who doesn't really follow golf would know about. And by doesn't really follow I am thinking of someone who watches the majors and a couple tournaments here and there.

Ignoring the hiatus due to the console switch when was the last time this game was not an annually released game?

[redsox4evur]

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Ignoring the hiatus due to the console switch when was the last time this game was not an annually released game?

Yea I don't think it has. But I was just asking if EA has ever left out a big name course and then put it in as a DLC. Because I can't see EA leaving a big name course like Augusta or St. Andrew's to be a DLC course. And if they done it before I will gladly agree that this could happen.

[kehlis]

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Yea I don't think it has. But I was just asking if EA has ever left out a big name course and then put it in as a DLC. Because I can't see EA leaving a big name course like Augusta or St. Andrew's to be a DLC course. And if they done it before I will gladly agree that this could happen.

Completely missed my point.

No, major courses have not traditionally gone in as DLC. But we've also never had a semi annual release and heck we don't even know when the next game will be released. Everyone is assuming 2 years but it might be 3 or even 4.

Point is we are dealing with a situation with no precedence so we can't compare it to anything EA has or hasn't done in the past.

[calbearlover]

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Exactly what I am doing and it is challenging. Also turned of green grids completely last night and scoring is even more realistic so far. Of course that was on Bay Hill. I might not feel that way on Troon or other courses that have more slope in their greens....

Lastly, I am going to experiment this weekend on running my putting cursor to the direction I want it, then running it all the way off the green to see if I can dial in any sort of distance feel with the putter.....

What I'm doing now for putting is this. 7 feet or closer dial a distance. 8-11 feet I push the aim marker to 15 feet. 12-20 ft I push it back to 25 feet. 21-50 feet I push it to 75 feet. Anything over that I push it to 100 ft.


This adds another level to putting. Takes about a half a round to get used to it but makes the putting very rewarding when you sink one or lag one close.

[jbd345]

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Completely missed my point.

No, major courses have not traditionally gone in as DLC. But we've also never had a semi annual release and heck we don't even know when the next game will be released. Everyone is assuming 2 years but it might be 3 or even 4.

Point is we are dealing with a situation with no precedence so we can't compare it to anything EA has or hasn't done in the past.

Well said. Hope they do put in Augusta at a later point. I would gladly pay $10 for it. And they did say after they announced that it wasn't going to be in the game they were looking at maybe be dlc. I'm assuming that was just pr bs but hoping for the best.

[vmoney883]

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Have to agree with the person that said no chance Augusta being in the game. Makes no sense at all to leave out the biggest selling point of the game only add it is DLC a few months down the line.
If you could include it in the game, you would make it was there for launch to hit the sales, or at least mention at launch when it would be.
The Masters in some ways is this game. That course and event would make people buy the game.

[kehlis]

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I'm very shocked to see Tiger's name show up on the leaderboards in season 3.

[saucerset]

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Well said. Hope they do put in Augusta at a later point. I would gladly pay $10 for it. And they did say after they announced that it wasn't going to be in the game they were looking at maybe be dlc. I'm assuming that was just pr bs but hoping for the best.

For so many years Augusta has been the crown jewel of golf and yet it was only added to an EA game (that started in 1990) in 2011. I would love to see it in the game also but, due to license agreements, I don't see it coming back any time soon. I really hope I am wrong.

[kehlis]

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Have to agree with the person that said no chance Augusta being in the game. Makes no sense at all to leave out the biggest selling point of the game only add it is DLC a few months down the line.
If you could include it in the game, you would make it was there for launch to hit the sales, or at least mention at launch when it would be.
The Masters in some ways is this game. That course and event would make people buy the game.

Oh I don't think it's likely at all, my only point was that to dismiss it as impossible because it wasn't included at launch isn't necessarily fair.

[vmoney883]

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I hope I am wrong about everything I have said but it's worrying how quiet EA have been about the DLC when you consider how many people are asking them.

[DivotMaker]

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Have to agree with the person that said no chance Augusta being in the game. Makes no sense at all to leave out the biggest selling point of the game only add it is DLC a few months down the line.
If you could include it in the game, you would make it was there for launch to hit the sales, or at least mention at launch when it would be.
The Masters in some ways is this game. That course and event would make people buy the game.

What some of you are forgetting, this is not an annual title. There is no timetable or plans for "the next version". The Augusta license expired when EA had zero revenue from Golf game sales. They knew they could not get it in at launch, especially since they missed this year's Masters. If they do get the license back, they will do it as DLC and my guess us that would be a premium DLC that would not be free. It took them over a full year to build Augusta for TW12, so this will take some time, and specially building the course again from scratch.