NCAA Football 12 Title Update #2 - Waiting on Approval From Microsoft and Sony

[Dr Death]

Quote: Originally Posted by mestevo

Pick any page or two of this 70+ page topic and read it, there's very little for a developer (or anyone from EA for that matter) to need to keep up with. I have a 9 week old son at home, what I've read is not unlike his crying for food, and as soon as that bottle is in his mouth all is right in the world. I guess we should all post random incorrect things since there is apparently the expectation that EA will chime in to correct you.

Okay... we have lack of comprehension skills and now you have proven that your memory isn't very good either... I will cut you some slack since you have a 9-week old. Congrats on the newborn, by the way. Back to the point... someone posted a new thread that said something like: Patch To Drop September 7

I think he originally typed November 7 but a mod changed it to September.

So no, EA would not have had to scour through X number of pages to find this little nugget... it was an entirely new thread that was on page one for a number of days.

And it would have been so very easy to post in there immediately and say, "This is false." But they didn't.

[mestevo]

Quote: Originally Posted by balcobomber25

Did your son pay $60 for that bottle only to find out it didn't work? Did the makers of that bottle then promise your son that it would be fixed by the end of August, only to find out on the very last day of August that it would be any longer. We are consumer of a product, a very bad product from a company that makes millions off of us we have every right to be pissed off and for most people sounding off in forums is the best way to do it. Not to mention it is one of the most effective ways, If I just stumbled onto this page when I was considering buying NCAA 12, I might have saved myself $60, Of course then I wouldn't have that nifty coaster with a picture of Mark Ingram on the front of it.

As you illustrated, metaphors only go so far before they're ridiculous. I am all for being upset, I only object to the gross over exaggerations such as your coaster example. If I stumbled into this thread I'd have to poke around and to find one that had actual information in it to see if it would affect me, there's little to help guide a purchase decision here.

[balcobomber25]

Quote: Originally Posted by mestevo

As you illustrated, metaphors only go so far before they're ridiculous. I am all for being upset, I only object to the gross over exaggerations such as your coaster example. If I stumbled into this thread I'd have to poke around and to find one that had actual information in it to see if it would affect me, there's little to help guide a purchase decision here.

Sadly that is not a "gross over exaggeration" , the game has sat on my coffee table since the first week it came out. I am not one of the "fanboys" either who just blasts EA at every chance they get, I love the NCAA games.

[Sundown2600]

Quote: Originally Posted by mestevo

As you illustrated, metaphors only go so far before they're ridiculous. I am all for being upset, I only object to the gross over exaggerations such as your coaster example. If I stumbled into this thread I'd have to poke around and to find one that had actual information in it to see if it would affect me, there's little to help guide a purchase decision here.

I for one did not take your analogy too far, but you left yourself wide open lol, but with that said I do stand on your side of the fence. However It's getting to the point where it just makes no sense buying these games at launch. In this case even waiting almost two months after release would be a bad move for the avg consumer. We're not talking about field texture issues or gray sleeves or silly problems from past games. We are talking about a freeze bug that kills dynasties faster than the SMU death penalty. Totally unacceptable and for the record I have been very patient and understanding. The gameplay is great and I love the new tackling system, but how many Play Now games can I take before I get bored? Some ppl just got to that point much sooner than I did, so I understand their frustration.

[balcobomber25]

haha I enjoyed your SMU comment, sadly anyone born after 1990 probably wont get that reference. But you hit the nail on the head, the biggest issue is the same people who come onto these boards to complain (myself included) are the same people who line up at Gamestop the day of release to buy this game on the first day. And that's all EA cares about is their opening week sales. That is where video game companies make the most of their money. And until the masses stop you will see more or less the same every year.

[jfsolo]

Some time in late July 2012, this will be the announcement, "We are working on a second patch for NCAA Football 13. We can't say with any specificity when it will be released. After the patch passes through Sony/Microsoft certification and is uploaded, we will put out a list of what was patched and tuned."

No matter how much crying there is message boards, it would be foolish them to say anything else but this.

Hopefully anyone expecting a policy of Glasnost, will have refrained from purchasing the game at that point.

[mcavner]

EA does say that, "Our mission is to deliver the world's best customer experience for the world's best games."

If you're going to say that, people are going to expect... something.

[huskerwr38]

Anyone else losing interest in NCAA due to the patch delay and Madden being out?