"New: EA Golf" Using Same Game

Not knowing anything about the industry (HUGE DISCLAIMER in case this makes no sense financially or businesswise) but I believe EA should take the opportunity right now to corner the market on the golf gaming industry.

It seems people may be trending towards sports games that are almost more like simulators than games (and this is where my ignorance may show). I believe the current EA Sports platform, redone, can be extremely popular.

People without the game: $149.00. Those who already own it get a 50% discount.

Imagine this game with the following improvements (with input from the whole community, developers can take the best ideas and combine them):

• Rework the characters. They are horrible and everyone seems to know this. There is quite a bit of technology that I believe photographs can be used to make the likenesses much closer and less…they’re just bad right now.
• Can you add a few new players as well? Women and men.
• Aren’t there new “engines” that can run this game with much better graphics and more efficiently? (See? I’m ignorant.)
• Create 3-4 times the amount of random spectators and have their reactions make more sense.
• The announcing is quite good SOMETIMES. Oftentimes though, it makes little to no sense.

o   Announcing something the AI golfer does, as if I did it (scores, etc.)

o   The shot is short right and I hear, “A little left and a little long but…”

o   Within one game you can hear the same thing at least 4-5 times.

• Announcer improvements:

o   Announcements based on past experience with each particular course.

o   (This is where the big $$$ may come in) Use 4-5 different announcers and even use someone “following” the golfer.

• Consider the current cast of announcers on TV.

o   Create at least 4-5 times the number of different sayings that may come up.

o   Make the sayings more appropriate to what is actually happening.

• Personally created golfers could look more like the person creating them.

o   Again, use photos. For people to create their own golfer, have them input 4-5 photos of themselves at different angles. Use these photos to create a much more realistic golfer that players can “believe” are actually themselves playing with PGA golfers. The better the realism, the more immersion. The better the immersion, the more fun.

o   It seems you can input your face onto cheap phone apps and get a caricature made in seconds. I can’t imagine a gaming company can’t do this fairly cheaply. I know it was done with the old Xbox 360 and the “Kinect.” I would imagine you could use the USB port and a thumb drive or something now??

• Fix the bugs!!!

o   Playoffs don’t work.

o   New seasons? No way to advance anymore.

o   (Look online and pick the biggest problems first and work your way down.)

• Start a “What Would You Want to See” forum and let fans decide what should be implemented. Find the best whatever number of ideas, pull those out, and have people rate them 1-10 on importance to them. (I’m sure there are better ways but this just popped into my head.)

These are just a few ideas but hopefully the picture can be seen. The courses could look almost as if you are there. The crowd can look and sound much more realistic. The announcers can sound like you are watching on TV.

I believe the basis and technology used in the first place in this game are phenomenal.  And since you already have the base game, only improvements need to be made, keeping costs down (is my guess). No need to reinvent the wheel.

But it is time, I think, to step up to the plate with all of the new technology before someone else chooses to. Or maybe no one else is competing and you can sit and continue making money on this as-is since the “other” golf game is so terrible.

I don’t know. I just know there is some serious potential to create a golf game that is used as the basis throughout the world that this company can monetize easier and quicker, especially since the fanbase is already here, and continue to update through the years. Think of MSFS2024: It had/has tons of bugs (many of which have been fixed), but it’s a great platform to grow on. Only with golf.

Very interested in hearing others’ thoughts! Would you pay for the upgrade? Would you buy this at this price point if you didn’t have this game already? I believe you can charge a premium when you have a premium game. “If you build it, …”