NCAA Football 13 News Post

NCAA Football 13 Will Not Feature In-Game Saves

09:33 AM - May 8, 2012 by Steve_OS

For those that have asked about it. According to Justin Dewiel, Community Manager at EA Sports, NCAA Football 13 will not feature in-game saves.

If it's not in NCAA Football 13, odds are it won't be in Madden NFL 13 either.

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# 21 TDenverFan @ 05/08/12 05:24 PM

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Originally Posted by bkrich83


	Right. Because pausing a game and leaving a console on for 24-48 hours makes a lot of sense. Good call.

I've left my 360 on for about 10 hours without any issues. I was downloading a large demo.

Even when games had in game save, I usually just paused it and turned off the TV. Took less time to start back up that way. Not even an issue to me.

# 22 thelasthurtknee @ 05/08/12 05:33 PM

I was joking about the pause button. Figured u guys would get that. Its like a ladies lunch social in here. i guess grown men need a little smily face to get sarcasm these days

and i didnt see anyone in here bash anyone. we just got alot of good news about this game. you guys need to relax. if i wanted to be dick i would of said dont start what you cant finish. huh?

if i was trying to offer a advice i would say just play as a coordinator as you can play a game in under half of time with no special teams either.

you guys need to relax around here. i dont think ncaa ever had in game saves anyway. madden did and ncaa was getting it but they cancelled it last minute and they explained why. that was a while back though. if it was on ps1 games i cant remember it. but im sure it was much easier to save the file back then. hell we had create a play on ncaa 99 and 2000 i think. we even had playoff option.
deep breaths everyone

# 23 bkrich83 @ 05/08/12 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by thelasthurtknee


	I was joking about the pause button. Figured u guys would get that. Its like a ladies lunch social in here and i didnt see anyone in here bash anyone. we just got alot of good news about this game. you guys need to relax. if i wanted to be dick i would of said dont start what you cant finish. huh?

You could have gone that route. It just would have resulted in me embarrassing you.

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Originally Posted by thelasthurtknee


	you guys need to relax around here. i dont think ncaa ever had in game saves anyway. madden did and ncaa was getting it but they cancelled it last minute and they explained why. that was a while back though. if it was on ps1 games i cant remember it. but im sure it was much easier to save the file back then. hell we had create a play on ncaa 99 and 2000 i think. we even had playoff option. deep breaths everyone

Whether it had it or not is not relevant. It's 2012, pretty much every major sports game release, if not every major sports game release has this feature now. that's the problem. It can't be that difficult, if it is, why does every other sports game developer do it, and why have they been able to do it for years?

The problem is, for someone like me, where getting that kind of time is tough to come by, it's quite literally a deal breaker. It makes no sense to buy a game, I can't play. That's the frustrating part. I want to be able to play the game, but since a basic core feature is not a priority for them, I will be unable to.

# 24 bkrich83 @ 05/08/12 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by TDenverFan


	I've left my 360 on for about 10 hours without any issues. I was downloading a large demo. Even when games had in game save, I usually just paused it and turned off the TV. Took less time to start back up that way. Not even an issue to me.

How about for 48 hours, or 72 or a week? Saying pausing the game is a viable option to use in place of in game saves is quite ridiculous, to the point, it's not really worth a response.

# 25 bonannogiovanni @ 05/08/12 05:52 PM

besides, if you leave the game paused, you cannot play any more games on the console. The lack of in game saves is anachronistic nowadays.

# 26 bkrich83 @ 05/08/12 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by bonannogiovanni


	besides, if you leave the game paused, you cannot play any more games on the console. The lack of in game saves is anachronistic nowadays.

that was my other point, in this day and age, there's really no excuse at all not to have in game saves. There just isn't.

# 27 jWILL253 @ 05/08/12 06:09 PM

Yeah, considering that every sports game not made by EA Sports has this feature, this is pretty much unacceptable. Shows the imcompetency of EA, even with the increased size of the gameplay team...

# 28 BA2929 @ 05/08/12 06:56 PM

Dang. I was hoping this would be in. Luckily for me, I have copious amounts of time to spend playing video games and would only use it sparingly. But, it sucks for those people with kids and little time to spare.

# 29 bkrich83 @ 05/08/12 06:57 PM

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Originally Posted by jWILL10


	Yeah, considering that every sports game not made by EA Sports has this feature, this is pretty much unacceptable. Shows the imcompetency of EA, even with the increased size of the gameplay team...

You'd think if SCEA can make something like cross platform saves work between the PS3 and the Vita, by now EA could make something like in game saves work.

# 30 MNgoph @ 05/08/12 07:33 PM

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Originally Posted by TDenverFan


	I've left my 360 on for about 10 hours without any issues. I was downloading a large demo. Even when games had in game save, I usually just paused it and turned off the TV. Took less time to start back up that way. Not even an issue to me.

It is an issue with me. Two sons that play the ps3, as well as the wife and daughter who play and the youngest girl who wants to watch Netflix, the in game save is huge for me. Why I can save after every hole in Tiger Woods but not save at the end of a quarter is a terrible mistake.

# 31 charter04 @ 05/08/12 10:13 PM

The only reason any of us are pointing out this problem is because the game sound good and worth playing. If I thought the game was going to suck I would care. The other problem I have had is playing all the way the second half or forth quarter only to have the game freeze. This also happens in Mass Effect 3 and Skyrim but, I would already saved it in-game. It happened a lot more on NCAA 10 and has gotten better but, it still happens. Everything about the game sounds great it's just crazy that they dropped the ball with this yet again.

# 32 Hooe @ 05/08/12 10:38 PM

Yeah, given the history of the XBOX 360 and its fail rate, I wouldn't be comfortable leaving it on and paused for hours on end, let alone days.

Though I personally am not bothered by its omission, at least for this year, I can fully understand the frustration over the lack of this feature.

# 33 jenglund @ 05/08/12 10:54 PM

This bugs me to no end. In-game saves should be available, and it's so frustrating that it's not.

More and more gamers are older, and yet, as we get older, we have other things going on, and we can't always sit down for an hour to play. Sometimes I have 20-30 minutes to jump in and play something, and I'll throw in something that doesn't require a huge time commitment, or allows in game saves, like 2K or The Show.

And not just these sports games...I would rather play adventure/RPG games that allow for frequent saves, as opposed to those games with a long time between save points.

These are GAMES...they are supposed to be fun. Let us have fun on our own terms.

# 34 boritter @ 05/08/12 11:01 PM

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Originally Posted by jkra0512


	Sure it might not matter some people, but it's another last-gen feature that has yet migrate to the current-gen...seven years later. Especially since it's been on the community wishlist for a while now. This feature seems like it's pretty standard across sports gaming...and gaming in general. Not an intelligent move by EA Sports...

Exactly my thoughts.

Almost every night I play 15 minutes of NBA 2K12 while my wife showers. Once she is done I "save and quit." This allows me to sneak in 3-4 extra games per week.

But I cannot do this with any EA Sports titles.

In short, this makes me (and many others) play EA's games less. Yet they fail to realize this is bad for them.

# 35 Sanchez_Mareno @ 05/08/12 11:18 PM

Was going to purchase anyway but disappointed nonetheless

# 36 PowerofRed25 @ 05/09/12 04:13 AM

This has never been an issue for me. I live alone, I only start games when I know I can finish them and in the event something comes up, I've got no problem leaving my system on for however long to finish.

However, this seems like one of those features that should be a common sense add by EA. It cannot possibly be that difficult to employ, given its use in damn near every other game of the type (some for many years). I had a post on here a few weeks back about how most popular sports games have had the basics right for a few years and just subtly improve each year, meanwhile EA still struggles getting the most fundamental basics down. This is one of those basic fundamental things that EA seems to ignore in lieu of insane features no one really cares that much about.

# 37 w00dy Hayezz @ 05/09/12 08:54 AM

This would be nice to have but with all the improvements they did make i'm sure this was not a high priority. I don't really understand the outrage, especially when people who have been playing it and dealing with it through last years bug infested game are now calling it a dealbreaker. To each his own i guess.

# 38 jeremym480 @ 05/09/12 09:31 AM

I understand the frustration and would love to see in-game saves implemented, however at this point I'm pretty much over it and have accepted that we probably won't see them (for NCAA and Madden) on this generation of consoles.

I especially feel for those of you with kids because I know your gaming time can be scarce. I don't have any kids so when I sit down to play I know that I am unlikely to be bothered for the next hour or so. I think that I used an in-game save a total of 1 time each for NBA 2K12 and MLB 2K12. If an emergency came up and I had to leave, I certainly wouldn't leave my console on for hours on end. I would just turn it off. My gaming is not that serious, so I'd just restart the game before I chanced the likelihood of getting a RRoD.

# 39 ODogg @ 05/09/12 10:16 AM

Aside from whether or not it's needed by me, you or anyone else the real question is IS IT REALLY THAT DIFFICULT OR TIME CONSUMING TO PUT THIS IN??

I mean c'mon, it's not that important to me, although I'd like it, but it's obvious that every single year this is a HUGELY important feature to many folks out there and yet it's ignored.

Very frustrating, come on EA, get with it and get this in so it's a non-issue!!

# 40 charter04 @ 05/09/12 12:11 PM

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Originally Posted by ODogg


	Aside from whether or not it's needed by me, you or anyone else the real question is IS IT REALLY THAT DIFFICULT OR TIME CONSUMING TO PUT THIS IN?? I mean c'mon, it's not that important to me, although I'd like it, but it's obvious that every single year this is a HUGELY important feature to many folks out there and yet it's ignored. Very frustrating, come on EA, get with it and get this in so it's a non-issue!!

Exactly. I am not outraged about it. I just can't understand why it's not in yet. To hear people say things about all the other features and how it just wasn't a priority is just silly. What if being able to save a game at all wasn't a priority? An in game save is a basic function of most games. It's not a new feature. If games on the Saga had this then it should be common by now. Actually it is common in basically every other game. I will be buying the game but, I get tired of people taking up for EA on stuff like this.

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