No one is playing this game
I don’t hold Steam to be the be all and end all of game usage, but it is a reliable source of truth. 115 people playing in steam right now. finding online players is getting much more difficult...
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We're going to EA Rory territory, got a feeling EA will cut their losses with lack of interest in golf games. Not enough money to be made here, probably why some of their top devs went to 2K to work on their golf game.
@Katybee_1313 wrote:We're going to EA Rory territory, got a feeling EA will cut their losses with lack of interest in golf games. Not enough money to be made here, probably why some of their top devs went to 2K to work on their golf game.
I don't think there is a lack of interest in golf games. I think there is a lack of interest in poorly designed and supported golf games.
I'm guessing EA PGA Tour made a pretty big splash on release, but the ripples have settled after people got a chance to get intimate with the product.
It is sort of like dating... you get blinded by the pretty face and promises. But after 7 months things haven't changed and you are feeling unfulfilled.
2K doesn't check all the boxes either... but the alternative is not to play any video golf.
I've been hoping for months that EA would realize they didn't cater to a large enough group of players. And that they would start correcting a multitude of poor decisions they made when designing the game.
@ELF014 ”It is sort of like dating... you get blinded by the pretty face and promises. But after 7 months things haven't changed and you are feeling unfulfilled.”
This not only sums up EA PGA but might the the best comparison made to an EA game ever 😆. I laughed out loud reading this bit and can say it hits the nail on the head perfectly!
For a little trip down memory lane, I played not only my copy of TW 2014 but also my copies of… get ready for it… PGA Tour 96 and European PGA Tour (both on the SNES) and BOTH of those were not only EA Golf games, but still better gameplay wise than their latest offering and those two older games are almost 30 years old.
I have no idea how many copies EA sold, but it was less than 1M copies for EA Rory, they cut their losses and quit making golf game. So if they sold less than 1M copies of this one, it will probably be the same. It would explain why there's no improvement on game play and top devs have moved to the 2K golf game.
@Katybee_1313 wrote:I have no idea how many copies EA sold, but it was less than 1M copies for EA Rory, they cut their losses and quit making golf game. So if they sold less than 1M copies of this one, it will probably be the same. It would explain why there's no improvement on game play and top devs have moved to the 2K golf game.
This one confuses me... if these two where top developers that had significant impact of the final product we call EA PGA Tour, WHY would you hire them?
The game is an obvious disaster in so many ways... from gameplay, to menu design, multiplayer, physics... etc. The list goes on and on...
And if their former employer thought highly of them would EA not have done something to retain the architects of this franchise?
EA has invested a lot of resources on this game, and I think they are aware that there is a viable market here. They just have the wrong vision of what needed to be developed for the community.
If they leave the genre I personally will be disappointed.. while I felt HB Studio's had a personal stake in improving the game, 2K I feel has a different agenda.
Without someone to push 2K to improve the game... advancements will be trivial.
Case in point... the updates prior to EA' release... and what has been updated since.
- @ELF014 My guess on some devs leaving leans more toward they probably weren't going to be able to implement what they wanted. As in "we can do this, this and this, it'll take X amount of programmer hours and testing" Management then says sorry not in the budget, don't have the programmer manpower or just not interested.
It really looks like EA made the game for casual/arcade golfers. One look at 2K's societies and TGCTours 2K23 site should have told EA there IS a large demand for a realistic golf game, with multiplayer capabilities AND there needs to be a way for all these players to meet up to do it. Heck HB/2K worked with TGCTours to create an API for them.
We shall see just how committed EA is to this game over the next 6 months.
Please provide article/info of the top devs leaving EA? Thanks!
@Bogeygolf83 wrote:Please provide article/info of the top devs leaving EA? Thanks!
@ELF014 wrote:
@Katybee_1313 wrote:We're going to EA Rory territory, got a feeling EA will cut their losses with lack of interest in golf games. Not enough money to be made here, probably why some of their top devs went to 2K to work on their golf game.
I don't think there is a lack of interest in golf games. I think there is a lack of interest in poorly designed and supported golf games.
I agree with this.
EA, or any other developer, would have great interest if only they would knock out a top class game.
EA has solutions here. One is to fix the obvious issues which, seemingly, are constantly ignored and to introduce crossplay like now.
Crossplay alone would go a long way to helping this game flourish.
@BlackCat09522 wrote:
@ELF014 wrote:
@Katybee_1313 wrote:We're going to EA Rory territory, got a feeling EA will cut their losses with lack of interest in golf games. Not enough money to be made here, probably why some of their top devs went to 2K to work on their golf game.
I don't think there is a lack of interest in golf games. I think there is a lack of interest in poorly designed and supported golf games.
I agree with this.
EA, or any other developer, would have great interest if only they would knock out a top class game.
EA has solutions here. One is to fix the obvious issues which, seemingly, are constantly ignored and to introduce crossplay like now.
Crossplay alone would go a long way to helping this game flourish.
For me the biggest improvement would be a toggle switch in settings to turn off random swaying swing line.
- @ELF014 Well said as usual.
