My thoughts on Teambuilder
So this is going to be my overall thoughts on Teambuilder. What I liked, what I don't like, and what I think could be improved on in the future. Hopefully, the devs see this and add it in future updates.
First off I wanna say that I had a good time creating my teambuilder team. I think for a beta its pretty solid. a bit laggy, but not to the point where it's unusable. Having the option to have over 625 different combinations is insane and I love that the devs did that. Having total custom customization of where you want to place the logos is nice. I am a bit disappointed that there are no jersey designs options just sleeve designs options. I would've liked to see some jersey design options in there. Hopefully, they'll add more in updates. Another thing I'm kinda disappointed in is that there's no option to have text on the jersey. I know of the method to do it, but it would've been nice to have the feature in there. The same thing applies to the endzone text as well. I do like the fact that you can change the preset logos to the colors you choose. Overall the jersey customization is really good, just maybe add more designs and the ability to add text to the jerseys without having to resort to a method to get text on the jersey.
Now for some of the gripes, I have with teambuilder.
Firstly, I understand from EA's perspective on using a copyright logo. That makes and I get where they're coming from. However, I see the frustration from some wanting to make FCS schools, or their alma mater. I'm 50/50 on this because like I said, I get where EA's coming from, but at the same there's like NDSU and BMU teams on the site anyway, and I haven't seen them removed yet. So, I don't know what the issue could be. Maybe the filter is very loose and is not working at the moment, I don't know.
Secondly, and this has been bugging me and maybe some others, but I'm not sure. But while I understand you can't edit player names that have opted-in, it makes no sense why I can't edit my players, unless I go into a private Dynasty and edit them there. I get the appeal of Dynasty and it's a really fun game mode, not gonna lie. But I shouldn't have to go into a separate game mode to edit player names. At the very least I should be able to edit in the game in the teambuilder menu or have a menu where you can see what teams you downloaded, and edit the players in there. Kinda like how it was in 14. However, I can see from EA's perspective, they don't want another lawsuit on their hands, but I think they could've come up with something else rather than this method.
Finally, there is the stadium tool. Kinda saw this coming based on what they showed in the deep dive and some videos based on the deep dive, but I honestly thought we were gonna get a custom stadium tool. I mean, its not bad for what it is now, but having no generic stadiums and having to choose a school that doesn't have any branding is kinda annoying.
That's all I have. Pretty good foundation, but really lacking in some departments.