NCAA Football 10 Blog: Season Showdown: Show Your Skills

[WisconsinSports414]

Quote: Originally Posted by MBFranchise

The reason for SS is to make money. If teeny-boppers and their moms buy this game because of SS, then EA will prove it was a valuable addition. EA has no real reason to cater to hardcore gamers since they will buy the game regardless. Instead, their focus is on reeling in more sales. Its a business, its about money. Why don't people understand this?

This is true. I don't get it either, frankly.

[stoncold32]

Quote: Originally Posted by countryboy

no offense taken. But I'm not sure whats so meaningless about it.

Well, if you recall last year, they also said that multiple thing would be improved in the patches....such as DB zone/man coverage. None of which seemed to change at all after the patch.

[stoncold32]

Quote: Originally Posted by MBFranchise

The reason for SS is to make money. If teeny-boppers and their moms buy this game because of SS, then EA will prove it was a valuable addition. EA has no real reason to cater to hardcore gamers since they will buy the game regardless. Instead, their focus is on reeling in more sales. Its a business, its about money. Why don't people understand this?

Agreed. It's not just a coincidence that it is called the "Coke Zero" SS. I wouldnt be surprised if Coke told EA they'd pony up much of the games budget if EA would make them more 'visible' in the game.

Throw in the Pontiac half-time/post-game placements, and EA wins whether we buy the game in mass, or not.

[countryboy]

Quote: Originally Posted by stoncold32

Well, if you recall last year, they also said that multiple thing would be improved in the patches....such as DB zone/man coverage. None of which seemed to change at all after the patch.

ok

[TheWatcher]

Quote: Originally Posted by MBFranchise

The reason for SS is to make money. If teeny-boppers and their moms buy this game because of SS, then EA will prove it was a valuable addition. EA has no real reason to cater to hardcore gamers since they will buy the game regardless. Instead, their focus is on reeling in more sales. Its a business, its about money. Why don't people understand this?

It sure is all about money, but that's a given like the sun is going to rise every morning... However, I sincerely doubt that teeny-boppers or many others will buy this game because of a feature like Season Showdown, lol. If they cut the feature tomorrow I highly doubt it would have an impact one way or the other. I feel like this is one of those features that just winds up being an eye-roller. At least online dynasty has some value. But this?

As I've said in the past, casuals--especially the youngest ones--buy the games primarily because it looks cool (graphics), and then because it's fun to play which they base off of the last game or through a friend. To them, the lack of realism in terms of being able to do unrealistic things is fun, to us it's a gamekiller.

The fact that they're spending so much time on this online stuff is perplexing, considering how small their fanbase is compared to Madden and other titles. It's time to make some priority changes. If I'm only pulling down like 700K to 800K sales which is what they've pushed about every year this gen, I don't see the point of spending so much time on online stuff. It's obviously not their bread and butter and not the reason people are buying this game as the sales haven't been leaping since adding any of it.

[kmart2180]

What Im wondering is why do they care so much about this SS when I havent seen 1 person say they would like the mode. Why even waiste time on these blogs when nobody cares about this garbage mode?

Who's idea was this things anyways? There had to have been a million other things that could have been done than this. How does 1 come up with a list of .....Ol/DL....QB deep/medium/short accuracy rating...SS......And SS ends up winning out.....things that make you say hmmmmmm.

I hate to be harsh but NCAA Football games are being bought by the hardcore fans of College Football. We'd appreciate a sim game before all these little uneeded gimmicky features make there way into the games.

[boritter]

Quote: Originally Posted by MBFranchise

The reason for SS is to make money. If teeny-boppers and their moms buy this game because of SS, then EA will prove it was a valuable addition. EA has no real reason to cater to hardcore gamers since they will buy the game regardless. Instead, their focus is on reeling in more sales. Its a business, its about money. Why don't people understand this?

I disagree. As I posted in another thread:
Madden and NHL and Fifa have really focused on gameplay the past few years and the gameplay has become TONS better. Fifa has surpassed Pro Evo in the eyes of most hardcore gamers just like EA's NHL series has leapfrogged the NHL2K series. Both NHL and Fifa got better by fixing the gameplay, not by appealing to casual gamers.

NCAA has not focused on gameplay and (SURPRISE!) the gameplay is still basically the same as it was in NCAA 07.

Furthermore, I doubt very many casual gamers are reading the EA Sports blog months before the game comes out. Only us hardcore fans do this. Also, read the Madden and NHL blogs and you'll see that they are dedicated to gameplay improvements. NCAA is the only blog that focuses on fluffy crap. If I wanted a gimmick game I would buy a Wii.

A game does not have to be casual to sell well. I think that is a terrible excuse.

[granddogg]

I dont understand some of yall last year ncaa was better than madden