Another REALLY bad launch...

So..... for the second year, we're the beta testers.

The 'i can't hike the ball' glitch

Large TB dynasties timing out after 1 hour of 'importing'

RTG errors and Road to CFP cheating with "lag sweep right" old school router chicanery...

Even the forum acts buggy sometimes lol

All of the above errors are just indicative of the culture of the company that makes this imo...  The patch for all of this will probably not arrive until the end of this month..   the patch needed to fix the screw ups that patch #1 caused won't show until the actual CFB season starts, and dumb 'lack of research' stuff and fluff is added.  And tbh, I'm flush with this... I learned all this last year with how 25 was released.  I'm just the old man on the porch screaming at the kids now saying 'IT WASN''T ALWAYS LIKE THIS.."  This game would come out every year BETTER, and for the most part, finished and polished UPON RELEASE.  Were there bugs and exploits?: ABSOLUTELY, but they were known, admitted, and able to be worked around... They'd even get patched if they were egregious, or they'd allow you to trade in a cart/cd if a new version of the Madden 2001 or w/e was patched and there was no way to use the net to update... That's not how it works anymore... Dev teams at all vid game companies are stretched VERY thin, and don't have the staff that they used to thanks to better comps and AI.  The crunch these devs go thru is CRAZY.. i get it.  BUT....

Don't sell an incomplete product and expect people to want to walk you thru how to make it better YEAR AFTER YEAR because frankly, the QUALITY CONTROL at EA for this game, has been abso**bleep**i*g terrible.  It'd be one thing if there was a few performance lag issues in the menu, or overall bugs or oversights on team unis or a stadium name... But for the last two years, TB and Dynasty has been a crapshow of errors and game crashes at launch... I pre ordered on Jul7, DLed on the 10th, and it took me 3 days to get a dynasty with 16 tb teams to actually load.  I encountered just about every glitch IN-game described that you'll see in the forums.  Couldn't snap the ball, wear and tear just killing my guys, stupid contested catches, an inordinate amount of RNG dictating what's happening on the field instead of a penalty happening due to what a player does on the field and of course, the good old random crashes either halfway thru the game or at the very end of it, forcing another play of the same game.  I'ma play thru it THIS year, because due to TB site LAST year being so buggy and all the time and $ i dedicated to this stupid cause.

I'm also pissed that i couldn't create my Tiburon U REACHAROUNDS to lampoon you all this year... At least the algorithm caught THAT in TB, and the TB site IS vastly better, so ty for that... but the product on the TV STILL leaves a bunch to be desired... Do better? yes.. sure.. We all want to do better... Do better than just 'Do Better.."

Do better, but FASTER, too.. This game will be REALLY good right when the CFPlayoff starts, and that's a shame, considering i'll lose some video game juice as the actual CFP season trolls along... (I actually like to go to 2 Syracuse games a year at the dome instead of playing at home)

  I do KNOW that your main competition for the market space this time of year (not counting Madden) is really NBA2k.  They don't have the amount of  glaring issues on release, and most of the designing and etc is in game.  Their game, from a cosmetic standpoint and online performance, is pretty spot on upon release.  Can't say the same with just a normal play now game on release with this game... a skinned version of Madden that's been built upon for the last 35 years.  

Do better, faster...  Rant over