UFC Undisputed 2010 Patch Update, Sales Slower Than Expected

[Jukeman]

Quote: Originally Posted by thegut

It appears Yukes just had no clear direction on where they wanted to go with this game. They wanted to add too everything in the game(which I think is ambitious) but never finished anything they attempted and then never tested the game. If they would have hired 5 testers to play the game, all of the game's completely GLARING issues could have been fixed or addressed some way. The career mode looks great when you first get the game but just an hour into it the problems are popping up everywhere. Champs that never fight. Fighters never age. The same fighters fighting each other over and over. The annoying stat decay. The whole mode is just monotonous and completely unrealistic. The game play issues.....what to say that hasn't been said a thousand times. The one thing that really ticks me off is removing the button mash escape and being forced to use IMHO the most craptastic idea of the "shine" technique. They said they did this to stop the cheesers online....then they put moves in the game (omaplata, unblockable td's ect) that are obviously cheese moves. This game just was not planned out. People talk and the THQ is seeing slow selling because nobody can drop 60 dollars on a game that is going to require a HUGE patch, if they can even fix the issues.

Maybe they did have al;ot of tester, they just dont care like fast food workers (food never looks like the commercial)

[Vast]

Quote: Originally Posted by thegut

It appears Yukes just had no clear direction on where they wanted to go with this game. They wanted to add too everything in the game(which I think is ambitious) but never finished anything they attempted and then never tested the game. If they would have hired 5 testers to play the game, all of the game's completely GLARING issues could have been fixed or addressed some way. The career mode looks great when you first get the game but just an hour into it the problems are popping up everywhere. Champs that never fight. Fighters never age. The same fighters fighting each other over and over. The annoying stat decay. The whole mode is just monotonous and completely unrealistic. The game play issues.....what to say that hasn't been said a thousand times. The one thing that really ticks me off is removing the button mash escape and being forced to use IMHO the most craptastic idea of the "shine" technique. They said they did this to stop the cheesers online....then they put moves in the game (omaplata, unblockable td's ect) that are obviously cheese moves. This game just was not planned out. People talk and the THQ is seeing slow selling because nobody can drop 60 dollars on a game that is going to require a HUGE patch, if they can even fix the issues.

Good post

[delspf]

Quote: Originally Posted by bad_philanthropy

I wonder if they can patch career mode to make fighters retire when they get around a certain age.

Makes you wonder exactly what they "overhauled" in career mode. Considering they said they overhauled this mode the most.

Career is not patchable. Simple as that. They can't patch in a progression system. Which should have been put in to begin with. This would have let fighters age in skill, retire correctly ( not at a random generated fighter retiring ), allowed AI CAFs to come in through the ranks & replace said aging/retiring fighters.

This is what was wrong with 09s & they said they addressed it but it hasn't shown up in game.

I have been saying this since release. I should just make it my sig but I think they hit a serious coding wall with the final build. They had to revert back to some previous build & tweak what they could on that to make deadline. I don't think financially they could afford to delay the game. I don't think they envisioned this type of backlash on the product either though.

I seen a quote somewhere about a THQ person not understanding why sales are so slow.
/facepalm

2009 UFC saved THQ i believe.
2010 UFC is going to destroy THQ. I don't think they are going to be able to bounce back from this. I know personally I won't be buying 2011 if THQ/Yukes is still behind it. I don't think Zuffa will be attached to them in the near future either.

Now with EA on their heels & basically taking all the bad press from this game & seeing what to do and NOT to do, THQ is just on the losing end and they have no one to blame for it except themselves.

This coming from a long time No Mercy fan too.