OT: EA Sports NCAA 2015
Today's long read: Polygon on the demise of NCAA 15
"It shows a team with a figurative hand tied behind its back trying to create a game that is interesting and desirable. Many of its elements presage the live service that major publishers expect of licensed video games today, particularly sports. And it shows there are developers who, at a moment’s notice, would bring the game back today if given the green light."
https://www.polygon.com/2019/10/25/20932385/ncaa-football-15-canceled-leak-ps3-xbox-360
December 19th, 2019 at 10:44 PM ^
EA decisions really are rolling out
December 19th, 2019 at 11:27 PM ^
I thought this was an Erin Andrews update
December 19th, 2019 at 11:32 PM ^
I’d play that game, if you know what I mean
December 19th, 2019 at 11:50 PM ^
Erin Andrews is played out. Get you some Katie Nolan!
December 20th, 2019 at 10:07 AM ^
Why does it have to be one or the other?
December 19th, 2019 at 11:18 PM ^
I am outraged! I thought this was about the stadium gates opening early (early admission) for sporting events back in 2015.
December 19th, 2019 at 11:51 PM ^
1, 2, 3, 4, uno, dos, tres, cuatro!
Dale!
December 20th, 2019 at 2:58 AM ^
Uno, dos, tres, she a thot though.
December 19th, 2019 at 11:58 PM ^
It's funny that was direction they wanted to go with more user created content, because that is what I tell everyone they should have done to start with when I am interviewed about our rosters. My pitch was also have a forced create a roster from the beginning of the game that customizes each team to their real life strengths. I really hope EA gives us a call when they start the next version because I think the ideas we have will leave Madden in the dust.
December 20th, 2019 at 12:16 AM ^
I always wanted a stadium designer option, or the ability to add on to/modify existing stadiums. I had heard that before the game was killed EA was working on a Minecraft-like stadium editor, but I'm not sure that's been confirmed.
December 20th, 2019 at 8:50 AM ^
That’d be awesome. I like the challenge of taking a small school in a small conference and turning them into a juggernaut. It’s feels odd to win 10 consecutive national titles with Texas State and still be playing in a 30k capacity stadium...
December 21st, 2019 at 2:46 AM ^
They were, but it was still a few years out from when the game went defunct from the best of what I remember.
I was heavy into roster building in that time period. I, along with a few other guys on Operation Sports named/modified a lot of the public rosters that people used in the late 2000's. It was interesting because it was heavily encouraged by EA (EA people would at least decently regularly communicate with a few people who were building rosters on OS in terms of feedback).
December 20th, 2019 at 12:42 AM ^
I get all the uproar about getting paid and stuff but how much could each kid possibly get from this? There are over a hundred teams and 70 players each so there’s over 7000 kids to pay.
December 20th, 2019 at 3:05 AM ^
Whatever they decide to pay them will just be reflected in the price. So if the game is $60, they'll just bump it to $70 or whatever. In 2014 they sold over a million copies, so that extra $10 would be 10 million giving each kid roughly $1400
December 20th, 2019 at 6:32 AM ^
And then the IRS takes it's cut... It's not a lot of money to pay out in royalties, but the point is that the kids are (would be) getting paid for their services. That is something that we, as adults, take for granted - we don't work for free. It's not fair that we should expect them to do so when thousands of people are cramming into stadiums to watch them, and millions others watching on TV.
December 20th, 2019 at 9:19 AM ^
They aren't working and if the kid whos a backup at Ball State thinks football is a job he is an idiot and will blow that $1000 on weed and booze.
Edit: I'm for the players profiting off likeness. Let's just not act like every kid is working for the university.
December 20th, 2019 at 10:08 AM ^
Even if you’re a backup you are working for the university. You still have the same time requirements, and your scout team play matters. They should be paid for their labor, plus name and likeness if someone wants to use it.
I’m sure I’m in the minority, but with the amount of money that’s put into college athletics, I think their should basically be free agency instead of recruiting. The market would works itself from there
December 20th, 2019 at 10:24 AM ^
Thats the same responsibilities a D3 athlete has. And that backup at Ball State will make nothing more than a scholarship in a free agent market. So do you care about fair pay for fair work or players ability to maximize earnings?
December 20th, 2019 at 6:41 AM ^
Yeah, because that's how economics works. Never mind that every other new game cost $60
December 20th, 2019 at 7:10 AM ^
How many copies of that game do they sell? Are they really going to sell enough copies to give every player in the country $1,000+ and still make a profit? If a guy doesn't want to sign, do you just have a player with no number?
December 20th, 2019 at 8:41 AM ^
Let’s put this way...back in the day I got NBA 99 as a Christmas present for the Nintendo 64. I picked the Orlando Magic and my older brother picked the Chicago Bulls. My roster matched the team as I knew it (Hardaway, Shaq, Grant, Anderson, and one other guy), while the Bulls has some no name dude “R Guard” who wore #99. Down by 2 with 1 second to play, my bother inbounds to this R Guard dude who promptly drains a shot from the far free throw line for the win.
Moral of the story, they will be in the game regardless, it’s up to them if they want to get paid for it.
December 20th, 2019 at 7:17 AM ^
I wish to play NCAA 14 again though I’ve have to buy a new xbox 360 hard drive... and controllers... you know what, why not buy a whole brand new Xbox 360!!!
December 20th, 2019 at 8:37 AM ^
I wish anyone but EA would make sports games. They have the market cornered with licenses and therefore don't need to really do anything from year to year.
December 20th, 2019 at 9:45 AM ^
I can't remember the name of the game, but I remember a college football game in the 90s that had teams with roughly correct colors named after the city the college was in. So, for instance, you could play Ann Arbor vs. Columbus, or Provo vs. Tallahassee. It was pretty freakin' awesome for the time.
December 20th, 2019 at 11:00 AM ^
Damn. That sounds like exactly what Ii would have been waiting for out of that game. Please come back!