NCAA's Broken Dynasty Mode -- Another reason we need a revolution

[Mdwills3521]

Why wouldn't it hurt offline users??? There's some people that have xbox silver because they don't like shelling out $9.99 a month to listen to some twelve year old saying how big his endowment is. I love offline-dynasty and I don't have any friends that really play the game.

[Deegeezy]

I do believe you downloaded something but I have a hard time believing it is the patch. More people would be saying this and we would certainly have heard from EA by now.

[Mdwills3521]

Quote: Originally Posted by charter04

No. I am playing offline Dynasty. I think it would be for both.

Was it at the start screen or when you logged into the dynasty??? I just loaded it and nothing showed up. Sorry to pester you bout this Charter but I'm just curious.

[Solidice]

Quote: Originally Posted by charter04

I have Xbox 360

did you play other games since the last time you played NCAA 11, or did you clear the cache since the last time you played NCAA?

patches on 360 are saved to the cache folder, and it only keeps a few game updates at a time. you probably just re-downloaded the first patch.

[charter04]

Quote: Originally Posted by Mdwills3521

Was it at the start screen or when you logged into the dynasty??? I just loaded it and nothing showed up. Sorry to pester you bout this Charter but I'm just curious.

I was when I turned the game on. The only reason I thought it might be is because of a post I read on the EA forums. A guy on the 27th talked to a CS rep and he said it might be out that day. He probably was just saying that but it was just weird that it updated after I read that. I am sure it was not now that it seems no one else has had it. I don't think ea would give me the patch but not anyone else. LOL

[charter04]

Quote: Originally Posted by Solidice

did you play other games since the last time you played NCAA 11, or did you clear the cache since the last time you played NCAA? patches on 360 are saved to the cache folder, and it only keeps a few game updates at a time. you probably just re-downloaded the first patch.

I think your right.

[jsquigg]

Quote: Originally Posted by MMChrisS

They are mutually exclusive to a certain point. But the real point I'm making is that this brokenness is the result of developers trying to put a fresh coat of paint on a el camino and calling it exciting again. For those who have played the series for a long time you'll agree: Dynasty mode, at it's core, is the exact same mode it was in 1998. The year is now 2010, I think it's time to rethink the entire process and formula dynasty has gone with for 13 years because yes, it is incredibly stale. You dont have to reinvent the wheel, but at least put some focus back into it (ie be the coach). Right now, what are you in dynasty mode? The coach? If so then it hardly scratches the surface of the college fb coaching world and on that point alone: it's a highly flawed concept.

It's ignorant to say that dynasty mode hasn't changed since '98. While the mode hasn't innovated in awhile, there have been many positive and negative changes to dynasty mode. You're letting your own personal expectations ruin any objectivity you might have. Unfortunately, that's the tone many of your articles take. You can't always want a revolution, especially since dynasty mode only needs to be tweaked, even if they did change to a career/coach mode most of the functional aspects of the current dynasty would be expected to remain consistent.

[marktg30]

Any word from EA about this? Maybe it is something they can tune/patch.

I have a feeling that it would require the deletion of any Dynasties, though.