Re: Editing non NIL player ratings and create a player option
I think the fact that true player editing is not available in the game has people willing to make compromises that we shouldn't have to make. The reason this whole thing started in the past was because the players weren't paid and EA were putting models in the games that were a reasonable facsimile to those players. Also those rosters were shareable across the community.
Fast forward some 11 years from the last release, the players are paid. Now maybe there is some agreement in their contract that prohibits EA from allowing us to edit them but, if that's the case, why wouldn't EA just divulge that in the dynasty reveal (we all know that it's because it might hurt sales). Also the rosters are now local to our consoles or only in online dynasties that are essentially locked by the commissioner.
What is most perplexing about this whole thing is the fact that if the players are getting paid and you have the permission to use their likeness, how is this game now any different from Madden? In Madden the players appear under a collective agreement with the NFLPA, but you can edit everything on those players...name, height, weight, appearance, age, ratings, abilities, etc. If you choose to, you can make an entire fictional league with Madden. To think that a game that only has 4 years (5 if you include redshirts) of licensed players being completely blocked off creatively from the player from that point forward with really weird roster makeups and player design decisions, it's simply maddening.
I hate that I spent my money on something that I'm clearly not willing to play in it's current state (editing is an enormous problem but it's in a photo finish with sim stats right now). Speaking of sim stats, how are they still getting this wrong? They've had sim stat issues in the past with Madden last gen. Anyway I'm just not going to touch the game until the necessary fixes are put in the game. Maybe that's a stupid protest because I've already bought the game, but this way they can't get the satisfaction of of thinking I'm playing the game when I'm really just scrolling through the rosters for hours trying to find the players that I can edit on a team I might want to play with.
