Re: Can't edit ratings in dynasty even with Player Edit Permission enabled
@cgpetru wrote:I watched that video, and the fact he's acting like we should have known we'd never get customization is the most EA-shill thing I've heard him say. I've watched his madden vids for years. But he's actually trying to tell us that A) All creators who had exclusive access to the game were TRANSPARENT about this, along with EA, which is completely false. He never mentioned it ONCE. and B) A simulation college football game CAN'T allow 'create a player' because of whatever player-likeness litigation, which is ironic because the game has a ROAD TO GLORY MODE where you create a fake player anyway.
These people are breaking down and running circles to defend a blatant ridiculous lack of customization from EA. As we know, EA is one of the shadiest companies in the WORLD - look back to some of their 'grand' releases such as Battlefront 2, where they completely botched a sandbox game with the Star Wars IP. Their absolute silence on this is everything speaks volumes, and trust me that they're already more focused on MUT/CUT packs for their game in 2025 rather than fixing this. It's pathetic.
It's true that we were told ahead of time that create a player would not be in and that NIL players would be virtually untouchable. However it was never confirmed what we could do with recruits. The week before release there were 2 different streamers, one said he thinks we can edit recruit ratings, the other said he thinks we can't. Then the screenshot of the dynasty settings started circulating and it seemed that ratings editing of recruits would definitely be in the game. And you are absolute correct about the contradictions that arise when people try to make the NIL excuse. RTG exists, Teambuilder exists, and the fake fill in players exist, at least a couple of whom can be made into likenesses of legends.
As to EA on the whole, it's just sad what EA games have become considering where they came from. Some of my favorite gaming memories are from EA games. NHL 06, Madden 04, Madden 08, Madden 12, and NCAA 10-14 were probably my most played sports games ever. If we venture outside of sports my most played games period are probably EA shooters: PVZ Garden Warfare 2, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, and even Battlefield 1. Hell I hated the setting and the gun limitations of BF1 but I gave it a chance because of the history of the franchise and it was a pretty good game albeit with some flaw. The only shooters that come close to those listed in terms of playtime and enjoyability for me were COD 4, WaW, MW2 (2009), and BO1. And they really don't come all that close especially to the peak EA shooters for me (GW2, BF3).
Then with Battlefield V it went way downhill. Then they hyped up BF 2042 as a "love letter to BF3 / BF4 fans" and when the game comes out it is broken, missing essential features, and doesn't even play like a Battlefield game. The current state of the game is much better after a couple years of "fixing" it, but it's still a ways below even BF1 in terms of quality and core Battlefield gameplay.
The PVZ series went through something similar. Battle for Neighborville released with very little hype and came as a surprise to most people. I got it immediately of course because I'm a PVZ superfan and browse the Garden Warfare subreddit several times daily so I got wind of it there. But players were already lower than they could have been on release. Then when the game launches multiplayer has a lot of problems. Not glitches per se, but gameplay mechanics that had unintended consequences that made PvP not fun at all. I grinded bot mode to level up and did the campaign stuff and then didn't start the game for a couple months. When I came back to it they fixed multiplayer and it was actually very fun. But they had already lost a very significant portion of their playerbase, and a lot of them didn't come back like I did. The game also suffered from a mixture of false advertising as well as misplaced expectations. Players were expecting it to be a Garden Warfare 3, and in fact it got leaked that one of EA's internal code names for the game was actually Garden Warfare 3. It was not a sequel to the Garden Warfare games though, it was a hero shooter. That plus the botched launch turned a lot of people off what ended up being a good game. If they had waited until the game was actually ready to play well, and marketed it as "PVZ's take on a hero shooter" I think it would have done a lot better both in terms of sales and long term player base. That game also had one of the best battle pass systems of any game. You could buy prize bulbs to advance in the pass if you didn't have time or didn't want to play, but everything on the pass could be earned just by getting XP in matches. There were other things to buy for real money only but those were purely cosmetic items. All character upgrades were on battle passes and those could be obtained 100% for free.
It's just depressing to me because this company used to produce so many great games. I'm fair and I can give second chances as well as chances to fix things. But at a certain point these things become a pattern and we've seen this story go down before. I hope they can fix CFB 25. I've said before if they make the ratings editing option actually work and patch in number editing and fix the scheduling glitches I'd be more than happy to buy the game again despite getting a refund for it initially. But these are things that have to be fixed. Ratings editing is essential for long term play of a dynasty. As is number editing. I don't want to play with a QB who wears #21 or WRs who wear numbers in 30s and 40s. It's even worse when you spend a lot of time recruiting that 5* recruit and he's going to be the future of the team for the next 3-4 years and then he gets on the team and he's got #21. That instantly ruins that dynasty save.
