BCS Will Continue as the Postseason Format For All Years of Dynasty in NCAA Football

[Husker_OS]

Quote: Originally Posted by aholbert32

Why is that "malarkey"? Would you prefer they make up criteria? It is what it is.

They made up criteria for the Playstation version.

Just saying.

I think EA's not doing this due to the many other problems and the criteria for picking teams shouldn't have much weight on their decision.

[JerseySuave4]

Quote: Originally Posted by The_Rick_14

You could do that but if that's not how selections are going to made then people would complain that it wasn't right. The other piece to figure out is how the bowl games that get the first round of playoffs will be rotated and picking the national championship game site. I would have liked a generic playoff like you suggested, but the NCAA/BCS may not have allowed that option. It won't effect me enjoying the game. Gameplay determines that one.

I'd rather people be complaining about how the playoff was selected than have no playoff in there at all.

[blkrptnt819]

Thank You EA. Long live the BCS!!!

[T-Moar]

Quote: Originally Posted by CM Hooe

What about the previous fourteen years then, or every single release between then and now? I assert that if one were to accurately form an expectation, one should form such an expectation from strong - and more importantly recent - trends rather than from one-off examples. That anything should be expected from things that were done nearly two decades ago when both college football and the video games industry have changed dramatically over that timespan strikes me as illogical and ridiculous.

This. Plus, after they openly said that they don't put stadium renovations in before they're finalized, why would anybody expect that they would include an actual dramatic modification to the college football season's framework before it was complete? They JUST released the list of bowl sites. As bad as rankings and schedules are now, can you imagine if they forced a playoff system in too?

Is it disappointing that they didn't include the playoff this year? Yes.

Is it surprising or unwarranted? Absolutely not.

[JerseySuave4]

Quote: Originally Posted by Husker_OS

They made up criteria for the Playstation version. Just saying. I think EA's not doing this due to the many other problems and the criteria for picking teams shouldn't have much weight on their decision.

I think they're not doing it because it involves more work and they can't even get things like running motions to look right in a year where they're touting the run game as the big improvement.

[Hooe]

Quote: Originally Posted by JerseySuave4

So what's the big deal with creating some sort of way to pick the 4 teams for the playoffs?

From Tiburon's standpoint, it's more cost-effective to do the design and implementation exactly once at a time when all the specifics of how playoff team selection will be handled are tacked down.

If they made up something this year and it turned out to be a fundamentally wrong approach, they'd have to scrap and redo it, which is time and money that could have gone to implementing a different feature in the previous year for this current version.

[JerseySuave4]

Quote: Originally Posted by CM Hooe

From Tiburon's standpoint, it's more cost-effective to do the design and implementation exactly once at a time when all the specifics of how playoff team selection will be handled are tacked down. If they made up something this year and it turned out to be a fundamentally wrong approach, they'd have to scrap and redo it, which is time and money that could have gone to implementing a different feature in the previous year for this current version.

No they wouldn't, they go to new systems soon anyway so they won't be worrying about this current gen for much longer, the new systems will become the priority and they can rework it on those.

[Big FN Deal]

I am not buying NCAA 14 either way but I totally feel anyone that's "dissed" by this announcement. It doesn't seem like that hard of thing to implement a playoff OPTION, Tiburon makes up whatever else they want to.