Open letter to EA regarding Team Builder
Dear EA and the EA College Football 25 Development Team, I am writing to express my concerns regarding the persistent issues with the Team Builder website since the game's launch on July 19th. Nu...
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We're well past the point where refunds need to begin being offered by EA. Everything related to TeamBuilder has been nothing but a massive bait-and-switch. They're begging for a class action lawsuit against them. They advertised this, and multiple others features, as being available for the game. And this feature in particular has been essentially unavailable, nearly a month in to the release of the game. We're coming up on the game being nearly 10% through its cycle, and we've been practically without one of the main features that people bought the product for.
I'm tired of all these companies, EA in particular, using a release date for a game as nothing more than a beta test that eats in to a significant portion of the game's life. We should all be on the payroll at EA for how many things everyone is finding wrong with everything in the game. Things that even a SINGLE QA tester at EA should have encountered within less than a day of playing the game. This is outrageous.
@KleShreen The biggest case for a class action lawsuit is them hiding that you need to pay for a subscription service to use the Teambuilder teams in a dynasty. At first they advertised offline dynasty - people preordered the game. Then they switched to saying private online dynasty with no mention you had to pay - people preordered the game. Then they didn't require a subscription to playing a private online dynasty during early access - people who bought the game early posted about it, so a private online dynasty didn't seem like a big deal, so people bought the game. There was a big uproar when suddenly you had to pay to play, EA didn't acknowledge it in their list of issues and didn't update their marketing even with fine print saying you had to pay, and people continue to buy. I've never been an EA-basher, even with all of the bugs (even though the Teambuilder site is terrible, even for them, especially considering that it worked great back in '14 - I'm guessing trying to make a common build for Madden is what busted it), but this is definitely misleading at the very best and intentionally against lawful business practices at the worst.
