Staff Roundtable: How Are We Feeling About NCAA Football 12 Now?

[Daniels2386]

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Pretty sure I have more experience than you in software development.

Im saying this with 0 sarcasm.

Please by all means do tell me exactly in detail why a BETA wouldn't help at all. I thought that was the sole purpose of a BETA? Id love to hear what you have to say about it. Honestly

[aarontab]

Quote: Originally Posted by Daniels2386

Dude its mother effin 2011 lol not 1999. How long has EA been doin this? This game is the Diarrhea you speak of and I dont mean that in a positive manner. Ive been playing these games since like Madden on Super NES. Ive seen them progress. You guys just must not know where Im coming from. You can call it Monday morning w.e you want to. I call it accurate, I know what Im talking about. How long did it take this community to find glitches or bugs? We found these 'gamekillers' in a matter of a week or 2. So if they would've put out a BETA for lets say just a measly week they could've either A) Fixed it before the release OR B) Get a heads up on a patch to have ready as close to release as possible. IM TELLING YOU lol a BETA would have made this game ALOT better. Why is that so hard to accept? Cause its a random person telling you this? Cmon now be smart

I'm not sure after reading this, what do you think would have made this game "alot" better? I'm just curious.

[aarontab]

Quote: Originally Posted by Daniels2386

Im saying this with 0 sarcasm. Please by all means do tell me exactly in detail why a BETA wouldn't help at all. I thought that was the sole purpose of a BETA? Id love to hear what you have to say about it. Honestly

Do you think we have connections at EA or do you just really need somebody to validate your opinion? What good is convincing us? Focus your energy on emailing EA your ideas if you feel so strongly, i'm sure it won't be long before everybody will see the light and sing your praises.

[bkrich83]

Quote: Originally Posted by Daniels2386

Im saying this with 0 sarcasm. Please by all means do tell me exactly in detail why a BETA wouldn't help at all. I thought that was the sole purpose of a BETA? Id love to hear what you have to say about it. Honestly

Do you really have any understanding of the test cycle? Do you really know what a beta test is? They had a beta, it just was not public it was done internally. Now whether that is the best route is another debate.

Too many people tossing terms around that they don't really understand.

[bkrich83]

Quote: Originally Posted by aarontab

Do you think we have connections at EA or do you just really need somebody to validate your opinion? What good is convincing us? Focus your energy on emailing EA your ideas if you feel so strongly, i'm sure it won't be long before everybody will see the light and sing your praises.

Everyone is an expert. If you disagree with their opinion you are wrong.

[aarontab]

Quote: Originally Posted by bkrich83

Everyone is an expert. If you disagree with their opinion you are wrong.

I don't even disagree with him, tbh i don't even know what his stance is other than "beta beta beta beta beta horrible game beta beta"

[bkrich83]

Quote: Originally Posted by aarontab

I don't even disagree with him, tbh i don't even know what his stance is other than "beta beta beta beta beta horrible game beta beta"

I don't either. But his tone is not helpful.

[Daniels2386]

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Do you think we have connections at EA or do you just really need somebody to validate your opinion?

Validate my opinion I guess...? I just wanted to bring up BETA and see what people thought about it, but that turned into heckling me which I dont mind. Like I said before it seems like a majority of the problems could have been spotted early in a BETA... If thats NOT the case im fine with that, but I know enough about CPU's and video games to the point I want a detailed response of 'Why not' . Dont just say 'because' or 'No, that wont work'.

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Focus your energy on emailing EA your ideas if you feel so strongly

Why would I do that when theres over 100's of pages right here. Both good and bad. If they was going to do something they would have done something.

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what do you think would have made this game "alot" better?

in short ... competition. You think they care what anyone thinks at this point about there product? No one else makes football games. That is a fact and the one thing EVERYONE should be able to agree on. If you play football you buy from EA. There an Monopoly man, a Empire! lol I get/have had the feeling that they honestly dont care NEARLY as much as people think. I thought I was pointin out the obvious, but some people seem oblivious to it. Thats why I say and have said this game has outstanding potential, but its like they dont care enough about there own product to tie the loose ends and let it reach its potential. If they had competition or fear of losing revenue, I bet they would pay a little more attention to whats going on :/