EA Sports' Season Ticket Hears Crickets on Debut Day (Kotaku)

[ggsimmonds]

Quote: Originally Posted by MurphyDynasty5

This another EA screwjob! Like an idiot I paid the $25 and even though I have a great internet connection the game has been downloading for almost 4 hours and is only 23% done. At this rate I might get to play 2-3 games before monday. By comparison Red Dead Redemption downloaded in roughly 40 mins on my connection. How many times does EA get to screw me over before I wise up??? GOD I pray they lose their exclusive rights someday.

Calm down dude. The problem is probably on your end. The game downloaded in ~25 minutes for me and my connection is probably not much better than yours. It could be high server traffic but I kinda doubt it. Nothing to start huffing and puffing over.

[bkrich83]

Quote: Originally Posted by MurphyDynasty5

This another EA screwjob! Like an idiot I paid the $25 and even though I have a great internet connection the game has been downloading for almost 4 hours and is only 23% done. At this rate I might get to play 2-3 games before monday. By comparison Red Dead Redemption downloaded in roughly 40 mins on my connection. How many times does EA get to screw me over before I wise up??? GOD I pray they lose their exclusive rights someday.

Not sure what season ticket has to do with exclusive licensing.

Are you on XBL or PSN? How fast is your connection? I downloaded the game in 30 minutes this morning. I have XBL with a 18MB connection.

[RealmK]

Personally I'm glad I sprung for it, for nothing else I get to play the full version without dropping 60, and play other titles I normally wouldn't even have an interest at all in like FIFA. Finding out the Extra Point was dropped took this game from a prolly buy (Gameplay is decent to a casual football guy like me) to a no sale because a presentation element that I feel all sports games should have at this point was sadly outright dropped.

[mestevo]

I wonder what their expectations were for this, I mean it's not like there were TV commercials and stuff about it when it was announced 25 days ago. I'm not sure I really saw much in the way of advertising after the announcement outside of Twitter (15k followers) and Facebook (ton of Likes, but only a couple hundred comments on any given news post).

[carnalnirvana]

it came out after ncaa and besides madden EA sports does not have 4 more games i want to try out...i refuse to even look at fifa for another 2 yrs.

it would have been wasted money, i may have been likely to give another company the money but not EA.

if they make it 5-7 dollars per game in the future i would have tried it

[DeceptiveBlaze]

I bought the season ticket and it was worth every penny to me. For five bucks a piece i get to try madden, fifa, nhl, tiger, and ncaa all earl so i can make sure i want to invest 60 dollars into the game on release day. I havent played nhl or tiger woods in years and because of the ticket i could potentially buy those game this year too

[willz1985]

i just don't get the rush for it.

I use a supplier over here in UK and I generally get the game 2 days before release date anyways so I don't see the need to pay 25 quid to get to play the game a extra day earlier and get a measly discount on DLC.

[martz28]

Quote: Originally Posted by peter77733

Okay.....I just spent $25 on this season ticket since im off this weekend and dont want to wait until Tuesday but here's a question.... How do I download the official roster update? I read that I need to be an Xbox Live Gold member. Is this true because if so, this is such crap because I dont play online. Only time im online via Xbox Live is for rosters, demos/trials, dlc and to purchase arcade games. If true, this sucks as I just wasted $25 for nothing. UGH.

what i did in madden 11 was go to online , then go to view depth chart (not roster update) when you clicked on depth chart a message would pop up and say that your roster is out of date then click yes to DL it. I didnt get to try this in madden 12 with the season pass but maybe that will work for you.