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[CRMosier_LM]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pared

While I agree with you, the more respectful board members would agree that there is a noticeable difference in pre and post release support on the forums here. It's a cycle that has been pretty apparent for a few years now. Without knowing EA's allowances for public discussions on game "issues" I can honestly say there is certainly a difference when a game is getting praised due to hype and being blasted due to bugs/glitches/broken features.

I agree completely! My answer to that has always been "same with every company" but yet we as a community tend to act like its only EA (and Activision on most other sites). That isn't a "sticking up for EA" statement, its a "you aren't the only ones" statement across not just gaming but business in general. And by saying that I'm NOT saying it is right or ok by any stretch, essentially you can say I'm being "captain obvious". I want better post release support and whatnot for every game I play, obviously Madden and NCAA are included. Imo the issue isn't that they want the dev team to be here so they can let them know what's wrong, its that they want them here to yell, scream, and troll them as you see in this thread. Now I know there are some great posters here, I was here long before becoming a GC, and there input is awesome but the hate and ignorant statements are just downright wrong and no matter what justification people wanna come up with, it shouldn't be tolerated.
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[Broncos86]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pared

While I agree with you, the more respectful board members would agree that there is a noticeable difference in pre and post release support on the forums here. It's a cycle that has been pretty apparent for a few years now. Without knowing EA's allowances for public discussions on game "issues" I can honestly say there is certainly a difference when a game is getting praised due to hype and being blasted due to bugs/glitches/broken features.

With how volatile this board (and others) can be, I'm not sure I'd come here much either if I were working on Madden/NCAA. The level of venom and putrid behavior is staggering, and I'd be too embarrassed to ever post here again if I said some of the things that people come here to say.

It's even worse with these rookies who come here, brand new, and instantly mouth off as if this is a platform from which to launch their vile poison towards EA. I love Madden and NCAA just as much as the next guy, but some people get too personal about it.

[mtoo22]

Quote: Originally Posted by Broncos86

With how volatile this board (and others) can be, I'm not sure I'd come here much either if I were working on Madden/NCAA. The level of venom and putrid behavior is staggering, and I'd be too embarrassed to ever post here again if I said some of the things that people come here to say. It's even worse with these rookies who come here, brand new, and instantly mouth off as if this is a platform from which to launch their vile poison towards EA. I love Madden and NCAA just as much as the next guy, but some people get too personal about it.

Almost every large forum is this way. Not that it makes it right, but you have to ignore those who just spout off and yell, and look at the real people who want to see a difference.

[SageInfinite]

Vile poison....lmao

[JerseySuave4]

The problem with the developer interaction wasn't the bashing, it was the fact that, like someone else already said, they'd look past the questions about things that really have an impact on the game and answer the questions about the glitter and fluff. We'll ignore the question about Special Teams but look at the reflection on this helmet when you're in the replay screen zoomed in right in tight on the helmet.

And how many years have we heard about Progressive Lighting? I feel like every year we hear about the sky and time change and progressive lighting.

To the person before that was saying NBA 2k12 and MLB the Show have flaws and aren't perfect, you're right. But those games are on a much higher level to where you can overlook some of those flaws because the rest of the game is so good. With NCAA the flaws make an ugly game uglier. The game doesn't play like football.

And being the only college football game out there, they are the only ones we're going to direct our displeasure with. So when year after year Ben and his boys hype up new features and then they either don't work correctly or don't impact the game enough to overlook the negative, it's going to annoy people.

They hype up, "We've added Custom stadium sounds this year so you can add your own music." Then we get the game and it doesn't even work correctly. "We added Teambuilder so you can import your own teams from the internet." Then they leave you with half-assed options, no text box, no picking your team brand, no sock options, etc. Then we ask and ask and ask for a text box and they add a half assed text box with 3 choices of text. "We added coaching carousel!" Then we get to play it and it doesn't work right.

So they're hyping up these new features and then they don't even work. Then on top of that Special Teams still remains untouched, Defense hardly gets an update, animations are still ugly, linemen still act like they ride on the short bus, defensive linemen cut on a dime, etc.

Yea a lot of us who complain end up getting the game anyway but as you can see from the other thread, it's mainly because of our love of college football and having no other options for a game than this game actually being good. I ended up selling my game back for the first time ever last year because the game was such a mess.

They put out a game and right away they need to make a patch for it.

For every person who is negative towards this game there is an EA nut hugger who makes excuses and either overlooks the flaws or is simply too blind to even see them. Yes people want to have fun and enjoy a game but it's hard to when the game is so filled with bugs and glitches. And the frustration of coming here year after year and saying the same things over and over only to have them basically ignored gets frustrating.

[Scrapps]

Quote: Originally Posted by Broncos86

With how volatile this board (and others) can be, I'm not sure I'd come here much either if I were working on Madden/NCAA. The level of venom and putrid behavior is staggering, and I'd be too embarrassed to ever post here again if I said some of the things that people come here to say. It's even worse with these rookies who come here, brand new, and instantly mouth off as if this is a platform from which to launch their vile poison towards EA. I love Madden and NCAA just as much as the next guy, but some people get too personal about it.

I tend to think people have a right to voice their displeasure considering the recent history of this game. And I agree. Saying this game sucks or going off on some rant, is not at all productive. However, this once great game, has been an absolute joke, on the current gen consoles. Every Feb/March, the hype train gets rolling touting their "various" new features. Yet, when the game is released with countless glitches/bugs, all of a sudden, the silence is deafening.
Countless posters have asked for a simple explanation of how the various ratings translate into actual gameplay. Whats that you hear? Crickets. Nothing. Not a word. Anyone with any affiliation to EA, goes into hiding. If Bin Laden had half the fleeing capabilities of this company, he'd probably still be alive. Or, maybe he is. Yet, as sure as the sun emerges every single day, February rolls around, and you can plainly hear something chugging down those tracks.

[roadman]

Quote: Originally Posted by Scrapps

I tend to think people have a right to voice their displeasure considering the recent history of this game. And I agree. Saying this game sucks or going off on some rant, is not at all productive. However, this once great game, has been an absolute joke, on the current gen consoles. Every Feb/March, the hype train gets rolling touting their "various" new features. Yet, when the game is released with countless glitches/bugs, all of a sudden, the silence is deafening. Countless posters have asked for a simple explanation of how the various ratings translate into actual gameplay. Whats that you hear? Crickets. Nothing. Not a word. Anyone with any affiliation to EA, goes into hiding. If Bin Laden had half the fleeing capabilities of this company, he'd probably still be alive. Or, maybe he is. Yet, as sure as the sun emerges every single day, February rolls around, and you can plainly hear something chugging down those tracks.

I agree with a good portion of this post. NCAA, with all the issues last year, was deadly silent.

As far as your opening statement, depends on how far a poster takes the displeasure. No way anyone can prevent a poster from hitting the send button if the post goes over the line.

It's happened in the past and it can happen again.

[Pared]

Get back on the topic.