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Quote: Originally Posted by bigkev

2 Million copies is insane, HB has struck gold convincing 2K to be their publisher. Unless EA can develop a course creator, they will never be able to compete with that. It kind of show a company can do extremely well with a crappy career mode, if there's tons of courses available created by users. Don't even have to bother communicating or fixing bugs, just let the users create contents.

What data are you using to support the notion that the course creator / tons of courses are what is making the difference?

The course creator has been there from TGC1 -- the differences now are 2K exposure, Pro golfers, more polish and PGA stuff, gear/apparel -- no?

I confused why, at this juncture and on this particular release, we'd give credit for the success to a feature that's always been there.

I'm not at all convinced that mainstream fans who are into the PGA Tour, real golfers, gear/apparel oriented features care much about "endless courses", so long as they have 20 or 30+ good (ideally great) ones.