NCAA Football 12 News Post

NCAA Football 12 Update From EA SPORTS

10:34 AM - September 21, 2011 by Dewiel

Hey Everyone,

I’d like to provide everyone with an update on where we are with the two of the main issues with NCAA Football 12. Once I have more information to share, I’ll provide another update.

- No Huddle Issue introduced in title update #2

We’ve identified and fixed the “No Huddle” bug that was introduced in title update #2. Since becoming aware of the issue, we immediately began work on a resolution and this will be released in the next title update. Title Update #3 is currently in our own internal certification process and we’ll provide an update once we make it through the 1st party certification process (Sony and Microsoft).

- Transfer Fails

The team has been working around the clock to identify and address the transfer fail issues that some of you have been experiencing. While we have been successful in addressing many of the transfer fail issues that users who were stuck in “Bowl Week” were experiencing, we are still investigating the other versions of the transfer error. It’s important to let you know that the “Transfer Fail” message is a generic message and could be one of several different issues. We have been reaching out to the community to collect additional information about their Online Dynasties to help us track down and solve these issues. With the number of customizable options available in Online Dynasty, it’s imperative that we get these details in order to replicate the issues. We thank you for your continued support and detailed feedback on the issues at hand.

If you are experiencing a transfer fail issue, and have not done so already, feel free to provide us with the following information here in this thread:

Name of Dynasty:

Console:

Gamertag/PSN ID:

Commissioner's Gamertag/PSN ID:

Number of users in Dynasty:

Exact week/spot where you are stuck:

Date & Approx time of your last transfer failure error (Please try again and provide the info if you don't remember):

When it is failing? (For example, is it when you're trying to upload a game, a team change, or after advancing a week? If it's advancing a week, can you include whether it is when you're advancing to or from your week. For example, advancing to week 7.):

Any special settings in your dynasty (Custom Playbooks, TeamBuilder,
Coaching Carousel, Custom Conferences):

If you're using Custom Conferences, what changes did you make? (Ex. Turning the Big East into a 16 team league):

Do you/can you provide a video link showing off the exactly what you’re seeing on your console? Visually seeing this is huge for the developers.

Please copy and paste the format above in your response so that it's easy to pass along to the team. Thanks in advance.

Thanks,

Justin Dewiel, EA SPORTS Community Manager

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Member Comments

# 141 malky @ 09/25/11 09:39 PM

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Originally Posted by BoSoxPujols


	EA already our money. They don't really care for the most part. They are already into the dev cycle for 2013. They will throw us a few bones but at this point 2012 is a lost cause.

And it will be a lost cause to get my money in 2012 unless they get NBA2K11 accolades.

# 142 MWit28725 @ 09/26/11 12:45 AM

Name of Dynasty: RoseBowlB1GvsPAC

Console: PS3

Gamertag/PSN ID: MWit28725

Commissioner's Gamertag/PSN ID: MWit28725

Number of users in Dynasty: 8

Exact week/spot where you are stuck: Year 1, Week 4

Date & Approx time of your last transfer failure error (Please try again and provide the info if you don't remember): September 25, 11:33 PM (EST)

When it is failing? (For example, is it when you're trying to upload a game, a team change, or after advancing a week? If it's advancing a week, can you include whether it is when you're advancing to or from your week. For example, advancing to week 7.): Right after I played my game for Week 4. I concluded my game and it went back out to the dynasty homepage and then when it should have uploaded my results, the transfer failed popped up. I hit 'retry now' to load my results about 50 times but to no avail.

Any special settings in your dynasty (Custom Playbooks, TeamBuilder,
Coaching Carousel, Custom Conferences): Custom playbooks are on (not sure if anyone uses them, i personally do not) and custom conferences.

If you're using Custom Conferences, what changes did you make? (Ex. Turning the Big East into a 16 team league): Kansas and Kansas St to Big Ten, Moved Nevada, Fresno, and Hawai'i to MWC, ULM to WAC, SMU and TCU to Big XII

Do you/can you provide a video link showing off the exactly what you’re seeing on your console? Visually seeing this is huge for the developers. I do not have a video link, sorry.

Hopefully you can help us. We put off starting this because of knowing about this issue then we started it because I thought it seemed like it was fixed (from stuff I read around here) only to run into those issues. Its extremely frustrating and makes me lose a lot of faith in this game. I just don't understand how this game is so totally flawed. We had a great time last year with our dynasty despite all the flaws (weeks where your recruiting points dont count, games not counting and the cpu giving results different from the games played.) It just totally sucks. Im not even sure I'll buy this product next year. Sorry for the rant.

# 143 pdiehm @ 09/26/11 08:27 AM

So, if it's in the game...it's not in this game

# 144 Keyser Soze @ 09/26/11 09:39 AM

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Originally Posted by pdiehm


	So, if it's in the game...it's not in this game

This year it's more like, "if it's a feature on the box, it's broken and likely will freeze your xbox!"

# 145 hobutash @ 09/26/11 05:03 PM

This is my 7th year of buying EA Sports NCAA football. I was having a good time with the game, then there is an update, and I think this is for something small which it mostly was. Then I get into my 5 year of offline dynasty and update 2 comes along. I work full time so this game is more or less not my main priority, however, I did pay $60 for this game. After the 2nd update which was 3 weeks ago now I have been unable to run my offense or defense, so I come to this website which I just recently discovered because I cannot play my game. I've never had the problem before. The game was fine mostly so they update it and make it unplayable and to make it worse the last response on this blog was 4 days ago (by Dewiel whom I'm assuming is working for EA Sports) and there was no ETA or update 3! This is completely unsatisfactory business protocol. We should have been all e-mailed with our EA accounts about how and why they game is wrong OR how there is a recall for this product. At the very least as consumers we should be given a discount on NCAA 2013 for the sale of a broken game. If these issues are not fully addressed I am fully prepared to get legal assistance to file a lawsuit for bait and switch or other legal phrasing pertinent.

# 146 Dewiel @ 09/26/11 07:44 PM

UPDATE: Title Update #3 addressing the "No Huddle" issue has made it through our own certification and has been sent to Sony & Microsoft.

The team is also still working on the transfer fail issues and tracking down the specific issues based on your feedback. Thanks again for taking the time to provide as much information as possible.

# 147 knighthawksfan @ 09/26/11 09:25 PM

Thank god the ncaa team listens too it's fan unlike some people that make madden 12 omg the game is a piece of garbage if I didn't have a league on that I would take it back to the store.

# 148 green94 @ 09/26/11 10:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Keyser Soze


	We need an update. We are nearing 50% of the college football season and the basketball games are released in 2 weeks... COME ON, its almost October and my game doesn't freaking work yet. How about daily updates please.

What about your game doesn't work? Serious question.

# 149 RogueHominid @ 09/26/11 10:46 PM

Wow. I put this game down a week and a half ago to check Madden out, thinking that the third update would do much more than this.

I played the game since release and liked it a lot, despite the flaws. A three-month turnaround on fixing a glitch as fundamental to the game as the transfer bug is simply inexcusable, and it's a little disappointing to hear that other fundamental issues aren't being addressed by the patch.

I know the argument that we're lucky to get patches at all, but I think the case of NCAA 12 was just a terrible and unnecessary debacle because there's such a good foundation in the game. I really hope someone tries to edit a roster to see what happens before they decide to go gold next year, or to sim some seasons in online franchise and see what happens, or to take out or reprogram plays that have been issues in the game for years.

As much as I supported the product early, these issues have left a bad taste in my mouth and will assuredly prevent me from purchasing the game on day one. I'll just keep my fingers crossed that 13 does all the good things 12 does without the warts.

# 150 ofpveteran73 @ 09/27/11 12:25 AM

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Originally Posted by tommygunn


	A few other things still busted: - DB's and LB's are still psychic on pass coverage - Hard to throw an "in between" touch pass, can only throw a bullet or lob - CPU chooses to "kick" 90% of the time after winning toss - Punts always bounce forwards the same way, they never bounce backwards. - Impossible to block kicks and xps

dude I've blocked 3 punts and 10 extra points plus thats not broken and I have had many punts bounce backward on me.

# 151 xxSTEELCITYDxx @ 09/27/11 01:35 AM

it would be realy nice to also get an roster update now that the season has started thanks!

# 152 Keyser Soze @ 09/27/11 09:49 AM

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Originally Posted by green94


	What about your game doesn't work? Serious question.

I get TRANSFER FAILED any time I am in any online dynasty. I can not play even in a brand new online dynasty without getting this error. Game is broken.

# 153 tarheelguy4736 @ 09/27/11 01:52 PM

I honestly enjoy playing the game. Im in year 4 of a Wake Forest dynasty and love every minute of it. Yes there are some problems with the game that I wish they would fix but there isn't much I can do about it but express my concern. There are so many things that I wish they would incorporate in to the game and even bring back from last gen console NCAAs but it seems like that isn't going to really happen. I do think competition would drive this game to be better but I don't think that will happen either. If they game gets worse than it is than ill stop buying it. This is honestly the only game I buy from EA because their other games have progessively gotten worse every year. Im not ripping on them but just saying that their games arent what they use to be and maybe thats because of management or a change in management that has lead to this lack of quality in a lot of games. Like I said, I enjoy playing this game with the time I have to play it but I do agree that it has some pretty big holes that need to be fixed but that those holes should have never been there in the first place.

# 154 NDAlum @ 09/27/11 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Keyser Soze


	I get TRANSFER FAILED any time I am in any online dynasty. I can not play even in a brand new online dynasty without getting this error. Game mode* is broken.*

NCAA '12 is not broken

I would be upset if I were in an online dynasty and it wasn't working properly.

# 155 ren6175 @ 09/27/11 10:42 PM

Game isn't broken for me either. Planning on going downstairs to play now.

# 156 Keyser Soze @ 09/28/11 10:52 AM

Well I have tried everything all the way up to deleting the entire game off my xbox and clearing cache and I still get TRANSFER FAILED every time. Count yourself lucky to not get the TRANSFER FAILED which means OD = OVER message.

# 157 Phobia @ 09/28/11 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Keyser Soze


	Well I have tried everything all the way up to deleting the entire game off my xbox and clearing cache and I still get TRANSFER FAILED every time. Count yourself lucky to not get the TRANSFER FAILED which means OD = OVER message.

I have about had it with the online dynasty. Mine freezes after literally every game. I have to quit out the game and then restart NCAA 12. When I get back in the OD then all my highlights are missing but lucky the scores and stats stick.

Then I have to replay about 6 to 8 games due to after finishing a game, I get "EA servers are down, transfer failed"!

I get so pissed when I have to waste HOURS replaying games due to the fact EA can't get this game to work correctly! Then the other guy in my online dynasty has lost multiple games due to this same thing. He sent me a text message just last night and here is what it said.

"I'm gonna break something. I'm about to never play this ******* bull**** again".

So then I ask him whats wrong?

"I just got the EA servers are down, so this game won't count. I went 35/51 for 441 yards and 5 Tds 0 turnovers. Played the game of my life and then this crap! This is sad"

Now this is a casual player, he does not visit forums like this. But you often hear that it is just people like us that are frustrated with the game. That is not the case!

# 158 Phobia @ 09/28/11 11:50 AM

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Originally Posted by nortobc


	This happened to me for the 1st time last night. I've never had the game freeze on me. It happened when I was trying to download the highlights. However, last night was the 1st time I've tried to download highlights. I think some highlights get corrupted. I tried downloading 4 highlights and the 1st 3 downloaded properly, but the 4th one just hung there for like 20 minutes. I couldn't cancel, even though there was a "hit X to cancel" message on the screen. I had to quit the game. Then I go into the dynasty and the story never got uploaded, much less the highlights.

Yup that is the exact same thing that happens to me literally every game.

# 159 fistofrage @ 09/28/11 11:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Phobia


	Yup that is the exact same thing that happens to me literally every game.

I stopped playing online dynasties 2 years ago because of dropped games. I would have some **** human vs. human games only to have them freeze in the 4th quarter or at the end of the game going into OT or at the final download results screen.

It got to the point I was just simming the games against the AI and then intervening in the 4th quarter if I had to pull one out because I wasn't going to waste hours of my life replaying games.

Its a shame they can't get this and other advertised features to work. They should simplify, make sure everything works and then gradually re-introduce features that work that we used to have on the PS2 8 years ago.

# 160 Phobia @ 09/28/11 12:08 PM

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Originally Posted by fistofrage


	I stopped playing online dynasties 2 years ago because of dropped games. I would have some **** human vs. human games only to have them freeze in the 4th quarter or at the end of the game going into OT or at the final download results screen. It got to the point I was just simming the games against the AI and then intervening in the 4th quarter if I had to pull one out because I wasn't going to waste hours of my life replaying games. Its a shame they can't get this and other advertised features to work. They should simplify, make sure everything works and then gradually re-introduce features that work that we used to have on the PS2 8 years ago.

What is sooooo damn frustrating is me and my cousin are having a complete blast with the game. But when the game does not work and FORCES you to do more work which takes away from you enjoying the game. It makes you not want to touch it which is sad.

Only 3 games have made me as frustrated as I have been.

1) UFC 2010
2) NCAA 12
3) Fight Night Champion

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