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NCAA Football 09: To Buy or Not to Buy?

03:35 PM - July 14, 2008 by RaychelSnr

It is understandable if you found yourself confused or lost through all of the madness of this past weekend in the NCAA Forums here at Operation Sports. Now that we have made it to Monday, d-day for many NCAA gamers, it is time to start thinking if NCAA Football 09 is worth the money or not. Be sure to check out our latest article, NCAA Football 09: To Buy or Not to Buy to help make your decision!

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	"The collective NCAA community has gone through a huge range of emotions the past 48 hours or so. Those emotions have undoubtedly ranged from envy, anger, concern, confusion, crazyness, and even sheer joy for some. This wide range of emotions all stems from many gamers across the country scoring early copies of NCAA Football 09. Unfortunately, these select few gamers have taken the NCAA Community along a wild ride which has led to many gamers deciding to discount buying NCAA Football 09 altogether."

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# 21 Cdenz @ 07/14/08 07:22 PM

if people could just wait for a patch would send EA a damn message to get this **** str before releasing a game.

# 22 btseroyer @ 07/14/08 07:24 PM

Not buy.

This game looks terrible IMO.

# 23 Dakingroundhere4 @ 07/14/08 07:55 PM

While the issues with this game are troubling i don't think that not being able to name a player should deter you from at least renting it. It looks like a fun game to play and people should make there own descisions on what THEY think about it. One mans trash is anothers treasure you feel me?

As for the talk about madden.... lets be real guys... Madden is made by different people so lets cut this premature talk of madden bombing and wait for the final version to come out to pass judgement

# 24 bigdaddy32 @ 07/14/08 08:02 PM

I am 36 years old, I have been playing video games since the Intellivision. I have sufferred thru the last two releases of NCAA FOOTBAll on XBOX. To put it simply I will just wait for news of a patch, that will fix this bug filled game. I wish we could go back to the 80's when all you had was fun.

# 25 gamemaster-2005 @ 07/14/08 08:10 PM

this looks to be my 1st time in like 6 years that I will be skipping on release date. These nasty bugs have me worried in till they fix there broken game I will pass.

# 26 texbuk84 @ 07/14/08 08:11 PM

i already have the game. it's amazing whether i had the rosters or not. ONLINE DYNASTY BABY. THATS ENOUGH FOR ME.

# 27 umd @ 07/14/08 08:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Dakingroundhere4


	While the issues with this game are troubling i don't think that not being able to name a player should deter you from at least renting it. It looks like a fun game to play and people should make there own descisions on what THEY think about it. One mans trash is anothers treasure you feel me? As for the talk about madden.... lets be real guys... Madden is made by different people so lets cut this premature talk of madden bombing and wait for the final version to come out to pass judgement

umm. Madden and NCAA were developed at the same time - they share much of the same teams.

# 28 Dakingroundhere4 @ 07/14/08 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by umd


	umm. Madden and NCAA were developed at the same time - they share much of the same teams.

Thats the first time i've ever heard of them sharing the same dev team. teh fact of the matter is it's 2 different games. MAdden is Madden and Ncaa is NCAA. SImple as that

# 29 umd @ 07/14/08 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Dakingroundhere4


	Thats the first time i've ever heard of them sharing the same dev team. teh fact of the matter is it's 2 different games. MAdden is Madden and Ncaa is NCAA. SImple as that

Alrighty then. We'll agree to disagree on that one. Simple as that.

# 30 chappy14 @ 07/14/08 09:37 PM

great to hear someone else with the intello. I received my dads from him a few years back, we still hook it up for a game of 4 hour football every thanksgiving. No patches necessary.
If the guy went the wrong direction, you did it!

# 31 marc68 @ 07/14/08 09:48 PM

My god I hope Madden isnt as screwed up....aww who am I kidding, it will be.

# 32 JakeCourtney @ 07/14/08 09:51 PM

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Originally Posted by marc68


	My god I hope Madden isnt as screwed up....aww who am I kidding, it will be.

Yep, my hype just went away and I probably won't be buying either titles this year.

# 33 xylocaine @ 07/14/08 10:02 PM

See what happens when you are a monopoly. You have to buy the broken Crap EA sells. Are you meaning to tell me during beta testing no one edited the rosters and the first few hours people have found a bug large enough to make the game suck!

This is like the psp bug a couple of years ago.

LOL nice one EA

# 34 DJ @ 07/14/08 10:15 PM

Maybe I'll pick up '08 since it's cheap (never played it) and wait until these issues in '09 are addressed.

# 35 AuburnAlumni @ 07/14/08 10:21 PM

I've been one of the more critical guys on here.

Bottom line folks...

If you can handle offense-oriented games, buy it. It's fun. It's a blast to play online and online dynasty will be phenomenal.

I'm a defensive minded guy, always have been, which is why I'm harping on the lack of pass rush/Robo QB, but honestly, this is the most fun I've had since 06.

It's a very solid title.

# 36 Rules @ 07/14/08 10:39 PM

Well, I have had time to digest everything that I have been reading. I am now officially going to pass on NCAA 09 this year. This will be the first time in the history of EA's NCAA that I have done this. They dumbed down the defense to make the game more fun for the casual gamer. Sliders don't seem to help that issue and I am a defensive player. If Madden ends up the same way, I will officially walk away from all of EA's games if this is what the future holds for us hardcore gamers. Who wants a arcade football game?

# 37 xdishnshoot24x @ 07/14/08 10:46 PM

im getting it no matter what....its not the same playing 08 when 09 is out you know, so im going 2 take a chance & buy this offensive oriented game and hopefully fixing the defensive AI, everythng will be fine

# 38 thescoop @ 07/14/08 11:07 PM

I'm leaning towards the don't buy side. I can't go back to playing without the named rosters so that is a huge bumber for me.

Also, I don't want to have offensive shootouts all the time. That is disapointing too. It maybe the first time in years I take a year off of NCAA. I was willing to look past a few minor things like my teams uniforms not being right and knowing our stadium expansion won't be there till next year, but the roster thing and lack of defense is helping me choose not to buy.

I'm disappointed that I got my hopes up so high again this year. Hopefully EA patches it real soon and maybe my mind will change. Of course I won't make a final decision till tommorrow when I see the game. The biggest question is can I hold off on a game I've enjoyed buying year after year?

I wish EA would give us an answer as to when they might actually get this game patched. It is sad that games are being released all the time now that are buggy and need to be patched. Not just EA, all companies need to stop depending on xbox live and PSN to fix games that shouldn't have been released.

At least it was caught early and hopefully we'll get a patch within a month. Still too long. Tomorrow, I'll decide what I'll do.....I'm leaning towards not, but I know the empulse will get me.

# 39 bkrich83 @ 07/14/08 11:15 PM

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Originally Posted by thescoop


	I'm leaning towards the don't buy side. I can't go back to playing without the named rosters so that is a huge bumber for me. Also, I don't want to have offensive shootouts all the time. That is disapointing too. It maybe the first time in years I take a year off of NCAA. I was willing to look past a few minor things like my teams uniforms not being right and knowing our stadium expansion won't be there till next year, but the roster thing and lack of defense is helping me choose not to buy. I'm disappointed that I got my hopes up so high again this year. Hopefully EA patches it real soon and maybe my mind will change. Of course I won't make a final decision till tommorrow when I see the game. The biggest question is can I hold off on a game I've enjoyed buying year after year? I wish EA would give us an answer as to when they might actually get this game patched. It is sad that games are being released all the time now that are buggy and need to be patched. Not just EA, all companies need to stop depending on xbox live and PSN to fix games that shouldn't have been released. At least it was caught early and hopefully we'll get a patch within a month. Still too long. Tomorrow, I'll decide what I'll do.....I'm leaning towards not, but I know the empulse will get me.

Why would you have to play without named rosters?

# 40 tj1182 @ 07/14/08 11:35 PM

Screw it, I'm still buying it. It's not like I haven't played a bug free game from EA the past few years on the PC.

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