Will the patch ever arrive or is it all smoke?

[Adam_in_SC]

There has been no mention that I have seen from EA about said patch so I am now left to ask... will it ever arrive or is it something that was put out there to shut us up?

[blkrptnt819]

Yeah but I would rather it wasn't rushed so we don't have anymore problems.

[Bullet Sponge]

This is more than a patch. This is like an extra month or two of development the game needed. I have never seen a version of this game that came close to needing so much fixed after launch. So it will come, but be patient. I agree I'd rather it came a little later and had everything fixed than be rushed to us and require yet another patch before it works right.

[TDenverFan]

When EA submits the patch, it could take 2-3 weeks for Microsoft/Sony to accept it.

[bzehrt24]

Quote: Originally Posted by Bullet Sponge

This is more than a patch. This is like an extra month or two of development the game needed. I have never seen a version of this game that came close to needing so much fixed after launch. So it will come, but be patient. I agree I'd rather it came a little later and had everything fixed than be rushed to us and require yet another patch before it works right.

Dude, they already released the patch notes, and it's nothing substantial.. like at all.. Certainly nothing that should take longer than a month (not counting M$ and Sony processing).

[voodoo_magic]

Quote: Originally Posted by Bullet Sponge

This is more than a patch. This is like an extra month or two of development the game needed.

So true. And now they will have more problems in '13 and stuff left out because of the major work they had to do to "finish" this game and the time it took away from their cycle.

[Skull]

the NCAA player DB has pretty much remained unchanged for 8 years, so i'm pretty sure they are terrified of making changes to it and possibly breaking even more stuff...i'm guessing EA doesn't have the testing infrastructure in place to make this sort of thing timely

[MaddenFranchise10]

I highly doubt the patch will be available before Madden is released. It would make no sense financially for EA to finally make NCAA playable just as its flagship football franchise (direct competition to NCAA) is released.

If NCAA's plethora of bugs and glitches were fixed just as Madden was released, a lot of football gamers would simply stick with NCAA, since Madden is sure to be ripe with its fair share of bugs and glitches, that'll take a couple weeks for EA to notice, and another month for EA to patch.

At any rate, this publish-then-patch release strategy EA has created is horse sh**. I'm never going to buy NCAA again, and for Madden, I'll wait a month or two. Hopefully by that time EA's unpaid testers (fans) will have discovered the mountain of issues and EA will have gotten around to fixing them.