EA Accessibility Policy and 3 click play

And then taking it one step further, once 3 click players have finished the career mode and the challenges, they are left with very few opportunities to earn the in game coins, because after you exhaust the payouts for career etc, you can no longer earn more than a couple of thousand a week from the daily and weekly quests. 

Those earnings being further reduced if they throw in the daily tournament requirement, when the arcade 4 hole variant isn't on the free entry... 

The situation honestly feels like those of us who can't use a game controller have been hung out to dry by the devs. 

"EAbleism, it's in the game." 

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@Noya_Wesa wrote:

And then taking it one step further, once 3 click players have finished the career mode and the challenges, they are left with very few opportunities to earn the in game coins, because after you exhaust the payouts for career etc, you can no longer earn more than a couple of thousand a week from the daily and weekly quests. 

Those earnings being further reduced if they throw in the daily tournament requirement, when the arcade 4 hole variant isn't on the free entry... 

The situation honestly feels like those of us who can't use a game controller have been hung out to dry by the devs. 

"EAbleism, it's in the game." 

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I don't every remember getting coins for career play. Unless you mean completing challenges.

I don't disagree with you that EA has left those not using the stick on the controller out in the cold. However... I think we also have to consider that EA had never designed this game for anything but for controller joystick input. That the 3-click option was added as an afterthought.

I know it is not a popular thought, but it is what it is. I'm hoping that they will expand features for the 3-click players to include them in all facets of the game; but I'm not hopeful. 

@ELF014  Yeah, I'm leaning into that "it is what it is" concept more and more as time goes on. 

 

Overall, I think I'm moving further and further into the 'expectations managed' kind of mindset with every new patch, after seeing them address either things that nobody asked for, or things that make no great difference overall, and I'm allowing that to set the stage. 

Watching what they do versus what they said they were going to do... 

 

I mentioned the coins in career mode, because there are the points for tournament wins etc.  

 

The quests give great rewards as do the challenges, but once they are gone and as EA keep adding more things to buy there's going to be a very large wealth gap developing for the neglected players. 

@Noya_WesaQuest was what I meant.

But I agree with you about the direction about EA's patches. It seems they take very little advice from the community, and it is more about a roadmap that they have already predetermined. And if it is something on their roadmap it may get pushed up on the schedule.

But you are right, they have limited the 3-clickers ability to earn VC. But I have stopped playing the game basically 4 weeks ago... and there is nothing I need anymore to play the game.

I play this game with a game controller but I use the 3-Click method because I prefer it for many reasons. I find that when I play using the swing stick, it's way to easy. No challenge. Also, I like to fade and draw the ball on a lot of my shots, and the way EA has the swing mechanics of the fade and draw with the swing stick is ridicules. The 3-click mechanics for fading and drawing makes much more sense. I agree with you about making the 3-Clickers have the same options and opportunities as the swing stickers. I just think the game is way more challenging and fun using the 3-click method than the super easy sting stick method. I use to love the swing stick in the older games like Tiger Woods '14. But those days are long gone I guess.

3-click only online tournaments shouldn't be much of a leap.

Wouldn't EA's Tiger Woods 99 have everything you'd probably need? Blocking controller players from entering certainly won't be a problem, heh.

Wasn't the Wolf Creek design taken from TW99?

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@texastincup wrote:

3-click only online tournaments shouldn't be much of a leap.

Wouldn't EA's Tiger Woods 99 have everything you'd probably need? Blocking controller players from entering certainly won't be a problem, heh.

Wasn't the Wolf Creek design taken from TW99?

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Wolf Creek is a real course as far as I know.

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@MadTiger64 wrote:

I play this game with a game controller but I use the 3-Click method because I prefer it for many reasons. I find that when I play using the swing stick, it's way to easy. No challenge. Also, I like to fade and draw the ball on a lot of my shots, and the way EA has the swing mechanics of the fade and draw with the swing stick is ridicules. The 3-click mechanics for fading and drawing makes much more sense. I agree with you about making the 3-Clickers have the same options and opportunities as the swing stickers. I just think the game is way more challenging and fun using the 3-click method than the super easy sting stick method. I use to love the swing stick in the older games like Tiger Woods '14. But those days are long gone I guess.

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I have mixed feelings about which is easier. I absolutely prefer the swing stick now. I was a diehard 3-click person because it was what we all grew up with. It was with the start of THE GOLF CLUB franchise that I switched over. And now after using it for almost a decade... my mind has been fooled to believe how I manipulate my swing is akin to my actual golf swing.

I actually feel I stroke my putts... I don't just ram my joystick to the 12 o'clock position. The same is true when I hit full swings or chips... I tend to swing slower on more delicate shots. Though I do blast out of bunkers.

I have tested 3-click out of curiosity... and at the easiest difficulties it is really easy to execute. For myself I found on the highest difficulty settings there seemed to be a bit of a lag with my button press. I mean you can get used to it but it seemed there on my PS5.

I do agree timing is more difficult at this level with 3-click. But the shots represented by 3-click are much more accurate. I didn't feel I got nearly the same amount of unexpected errant shots as I saw when using the stick.

I feel both are different and probably need to be kept in separate categories for tournament play.

Though I'm not opposed EA trying an Open Tournament where both formats were welcome... I'm just not sure who would participate.