Madden NFL 13 Title Update #2 Available Now (Updated to Include Full Details)

[crpav]

Quote: Originally Posted by Armor & Sword

Yep...but nobody wants to read...or comprehend. This is nothing new. But the lynch mob mentality persists. We are all frustrated we have a game that is incomplete. But what else can you do? I am playing other games. No reason to get worked up over a video game.

I understand your thoughts and agree some. I complained too and I can see how yeah it's a waste of time since what can you do right? However if a patch to fix things true long time Madden fans expect to see takes several months by then the love of football starts to lessen as basketball starts and seasons change. I myself don't care much for editing and fantasy draft rosters but when the computer AI is just plain stupid and makes for a very unrealistic play experience then that is where I draw the line. Not everyone plays online or wants to. I could play and have fun against the CPU playing madden way back on the PS2 days so why can't I/we now?

[Marvc]

What if they made you pay 40 bucks for the game than another 20 bucks for all the updates and fixes since they are obviously selling us an incomplete game of a mess alluding to bugs and glitches!

[fripperiffic]

Here is a big one. Will the patch effect current CCM offline? Online? Or do I have to start all over?

[Tyrant8RDFL]

Yes The Sliders Now Work for Online CC Woooooo Hooooo!

Just practicing what im going to type when a real patch comes out

[Double-J]

Any word on whether or not they fixed the fair catch bug in the patch?

[Boltman]

Gonna fire it up and see if there are any noticeable changes to my already started offline CCM.

[whaley]

I'm a software developer for a living (albeit in server-side business middleware, which I'd argue is way simpler than platform game development).

This game has only been released to the public for two weeks. Depending on the bug sometimes it takes that long just to reproducible bug, triage it, and get a patch for it and get it committed to the main code line. This isn't even counting manual QA and several other things that go into the release process. This stuff isn't easy.

Chances are the stability fixes being mentioned are things that were causing actual loss of gameplay, crashing, major loss of functionality, but were only rarely occurring such that the risk of releasing the game with those bugs in there was small and they've probably been able to successfully reproduce and patch those critical issues.

Developers aren't gods and can't just simply "write more code" to fix something. Give them a break in expecting something so soon.

Of course, with this said, there are lots of warts (and CCM gameplay!) that really should be able to get patched in time for that bigger patch that people keep alluding to in 1-2 months. Realistically hold off on being disappointing until then. The fact there actually seems to be a somewhat predictable patch cycle shows that EA Sports actually does care here - I've worked in software shops that didn't care before and never bumped priority on things that caused loss of functionality for a minority of users and didn't plan a patch cycle accordingly.

[Knickerbocker]

I get what you ppl are saying BUT ...

There have been a lot of problems the developers were aware off. Like the zone problem which is the exact same one as NCAA (they patched it) so I'm sure they could have worked on a decent patch pre release already.

Also Accel clock online CCM or injuries online CCM. Cmon someone had to have noticed that before they released it.