Would you have Preferred a Completely Fictional Rosters or the Real Rosters?

[RaysTheCups]

Both obviously have a lot of pros and cons. It's tough to say for me. Because it some ways I want complete customization and in some ways, I love having almost all of the real players.

[TripleCrown9]

Re: Would you have Preferred a Completely Fictional Rosters or the Real Rosters?

Completely real because without them, there is no game. Period.

[RaysTheCups]

Re: Would you have Preferred a Completely Fictional Rosters or the Real Rosters?

Completely real because without them, there is no game. Period.

I tend to agree. The benefits far outweigh the negatives. I understand why some prefer fictional, but I agree with you.

[COMMISSIONERHBK9]

Re: Would you have Preferred a Completely Fictional Rosters or the Real Rosters?

Yes I love the real roster. Cut down on time on roster creators having to rename everyone

[brent3419]

Re: Would you have Preferred a Completely Fictional Rosters or the Real Rosters?

Im fine with the real roster

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[zukes]

Re: Would you have Preferred a Completely Fictional Rosters or the Real Rosters?

The roster is fully fictional within 5 years anyway, unless there are medical redshirts. Real rosters for sure!

[Dagan]

Re: Would you have Preferred a Completely Fictional Rosters or the Real Rosters?

At this point, fictional. I feel like the game's potential is gridlocked because they catered to these NIL kids instead of fans / consumers more so. Give me wide open rosters to edit, and limit me to 25 or so of the most generic head styles possible. I don't care if a player model looks exactly like the real kid with their helmet off and posing on the sidelines, etc. I care about the product on the field more than anything, and that requires none of how a kid 100% looks off the field.

For everyone of you (or even if it's EA Sports themselves) that might respond with trying to label me or anyone with my perspective as just some entitled person. That's BS. It's also incredibly contradictory to turn around and defend the choice to enable a few thousand kids thinking they've achieved and derserve celebrity status enough to such fearful, catered to degrees. EA paid out NIL money to even have this hassle and gridlock and still very much expects us to pay into their company exponentially more. And then if they / those of you just expect everyone to deal with it and suck it up? That sounds pretty entitled, too. So, at the very least, we have a double-edged sword of perspectives. My stance, at this point in time (because they can remedy everything if they want to) has to stay that the game has incredibly muted potential, and it's directly because of NIL.

I would honestly like the option to choose between a roster full of NIL and such that I can't edit, or allow me a fully generic roster that I can edit to the fullest (just limit the face / head options). Maybe that's the perfect compromise.

[PhillyPhanatic14]

Re: Would you have Preferred a Completely Fictional Rosters or the Real Rosters?

I would have 0 interest in a fictional roster.

[KSUowls]

Re: Would you have Preferred a Completely Fictional Rosters or the Real Rosters?

Given the climate with regard to customization. I'd rather have fictional.

After 1 year in dynasty, half of the star power has probably graduated/left for the NFL. It's still great to have those young freshman and sophomores that your favorite team has recruited, but those guys are gone after just a couple of seasons too. The college game needs real players less than a pro sports one does imo.

[dylanrocks83]

Re: Would you have Preferred a Completely Fictional Rosters or the Real Rosters?

I hate that we have to trade one for the other. I still don’t think we should have to based on other sports games, but I’m not a lawyer. EDIT: after 11 years I’d hope this game would be better all around, not trading some features for others.

[TCrouch]

Re: Would you have Preferred a Completely Fictional Rosters or the Real Rosters?

Considering every time the game released in the past, the first week was just refreshing boards and seeing who had an edited roster, and those would be partials or mistake-filled (or the one year I did all the schools MYSELF)...


Real. Even if some players are missing and you can't edit Jimmys and Joes, I don't care. It's got enough and it's not "QB#1 passes to WR#88", when I don't know most of the players on most of the teams, anyway.

[KingCobb]

Re: Would you have Preferred a Completely Fictional Rosters or the Real Rosters?

At this point, fictional. I feel like the game's potential is gridlocked because they catered to these NIL kids instead of fans / consumers more so. Give me wide open rosters to edit, and limit me to 25 or so of the most generic head styles possible. I don't care if a player model looks exactly like the real kid with their helmet off and posing on the sidelines, etc. I care about the product on the field more than anything, and that requires none of how a kid 100% looks off the field.

For everyone of you (or even if it's EA Sports themselves) that might respond with trying to label me or anyone with my perspective as just some entitled person. That's BS. It's also incredibly contradictory to turn around and defend the choice to enable a few thousand kids thinking they've achieved and derserve celebrity status enough to such fearful, catered to degrees. EA paid out NIL money to even have this hassle and gridlock and still very much expects us to pay into their company exponentially more. And then if they / those of you just expect everyone to deal with it and suck it up? That sounds pretty entitled, too. So, at the very least, we have a double-edged sword of perspectives. My stance, at this point in time (because they can remedy everything if they want to) has to stay that the game has incredibly muted potential, and it's directly because of NIL.

I would honestly like the option to choose between a roster full of NIL and such that I can't edit, or allow me a fully generic roster that I can edit to the fullest (just limit the face / head options). Maybe that's the perfect compromise.

I'm not quite certain what is muted from your perspective other than the ability to edit ratings because you think EA got it wrong. I can relate to that as I think teams are rated too high, personally if you aren't top 5 you shouldn't be a 90 or above school or player and if you aren't top 25 team you shouldn't be 80 or above. Lower tier power 5 teams like Baylor, Vandy, Maryland, Rutgers, Arizona, California etc should be low 70s lower tier group of 5 should be in 60s or even 50s. But EA doesn't do it that way, and with ratings progression unless your gonna edit the players every year in a dynasty you lose that quickly anyway.

Supposedly they will be unlocking some editing of fi tional players soon.

I will miss being able to create recruits. It was fun to create kids of legendary players later in dynasty and try to recruit them.

I can assure you that EA would far rather kept doing what they did with NCAA then deal with NIL....but lawsuits and all.

[LowerWolf]

Re: Would you have Preferred a Completely Fictional Rosters or the Real Rosters?

I actually played NCAA 14 with the auto generated names. When the lawsuits started flying, I never understood why they didn't just go that route. All the real players are gone in four years anyway. For me, the game always became more fun when I was playing with my recruits. I suspect that won't change with CFB 25.

I'm fine with the real players. But I'd have been fine with fictional players (with auto generated names) as well.

[TarHeelPhenom]

Re: Would you have Preferred a Completely Fictional Rosters or the Real Rosters?

Let me preface this by saying, I'm all about editing and having options. I hope they give us that option. With that being said...

I made a video yesterday going through every player on UNC's roster. It took me 50 minutes JUST TO DO THAT. With having 85 man rosters, I cannot imagine how tedious and how late my it would be to edit a generic roster. Heck, even being able to edit the real roster just makes me tired thinking about it.

So in that sense, I choose Real Rosters all day long and just for myself, in a small way, am glad they took that out of my hands so that I can just enjoy the game and play.

[WilliamPoole]

Re: Would you have Preferred a Completely Fictional Rosters or the Real Rosters?

How about just let us edit the rosters? what does it matter if I'm sitting in my living room changing names of players with no intention of going online. I should be able to make my players named historacal figures from WW2 germany if i want. Why would you restrict me as the player?? ive been playing EA since madden 89 and it's too bad because these games could be absolutely awesome if they wanted them to be.