EA SPORTS FC™ Team
EA Staff (Retired)Can you take your ps supercars and the life back and give us back good A.I. and accurate laptimes? Apparently the FL at Bahrain was 19.56 my last race. You guys completely * up a great game. Seriously what the hell does EA do that is good these days?
@NoManuelAutoonlyThey expressly said numerous times that they are working on fixing the AI. What more can they do on the matter than working on fixing the issue? Do you expect these things to be magically fixed immediately just because you want them and want them now? I'm sorry but that's not how reality works and especially in game development things that may seem easy to fix from someone that doesn't know the context can be in reality very difficult to adjust properly.
I understand the frustration of users, because I'm one too and I have issues with the game myself (especially for what it concerns the VR implementation - to make a single example how the camera works, shaking all the screen instead of the cockpit as it's usually done) but this doesn't give me the freedom to be a narcissistic individual that thinks that the world revolves around him and expecting changes to be done at his personal whim and pace.
There are instances where it is appropriate and even necessary to make a scene about, and others where you just look like a fool doing so. If they did brush the problem of the AI under the rug then you will have a point on posting dozens of angry comments on the matter, but they said numerous times they are working on it (and David even clearly stated that they are aware that it's a game breaking bug and they will fix it). What more do you expect from them given the context? Fixes to a game don't magically fall from the sky.
I just ask you and others that are not satisfied with the product right now to at least be reasonable on the topics you put your anger towards.
Well well well, here we are again.
As usual the game release was fine and with each patch we're getting back old bugs that were already fixed in the past or even new bugs without any relation to the patch notes.
To list just two that were patched back into the game now with 1.07:
- Tyre temps after formation lap reset to 70, temps are only saved for the host. (actually a new bug)
- Quali-Timer resets for someone rejoining the session, giving him an advantage to drive while others can't (Same as last year, was also patched into the 21 game..)
Man please beta-test your goddamn patches, it's literally the same ... every year and we keep asking for QA on patches.
If you don't feel like testing patches on your own before releasing them, just ask us players.
We all know we're paying for an unfinished game every year anyway so there will be plenty of players who are willing to betatest these patches, just to assure you don't break the unfinished game more and more with each patch.
Sorry to sound angry here, but I am since history repeats itself every year and I can't cope anymore.
By the way I'm not even mentioning any of the non-gamebreaking issues since you need to focus on a stable game.
@NoManuelAutoonly wrote:
@DavidG53This is the attitude the team has? No wonder you turned a great game into a rolling lump of *
If I were a dev like David and was doing this on my own time and free will, with no obligation to customers or my employer, I would have the same attitude.
Devs like him can decide to give up on us and go back to coding based on what they're provided with by their managers. And we would get only CM, their legally correct PR statements which might be not helpful at all.
At least devs can explain to us why things happen in game and we can give them feedback about what should change to make game more enjoyable for us.
And devs can also speed up bug fixing process as they can decide what more important, not someone whose job is only to reply "it's being worked on and will be fixed in future updates".
I understand the frustration, I am also a customer who isn't fully satisfied with the product, but we also must see beyond our anger and give them chance and time to fix things.
They received the full purchase price and we are not the testers of this game.
@Gilles61 wrote:They received the full purchase price and we are not the testers of this game.
You're preaching to choir, mate, I bought Champions Edition. However, as @Amioram said, fixed will not fall from blue sky.
And I also wrote that I understand you guys, I am not fully satisfied customer either. But maybe this will force EA/Codemasters to test next releases and patches more rigorously (I am an optimist). Also, all these issues could have been caused by Marketing who didn't want to wait for stable release, or Project Management that didn't allocate enough resources for beta testing. And I guess CMs will not tell us which scenario actually happened. I just hope they learned their lessons and things will get better.
