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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@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.
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.
- @SamA329 Yeah, I agree. Being able to bomb drives 400+ yards into knee high rough then spin a lob wedge back 18 feet is just too arcade. If EA really wants to keep this live service game going they need to continue improving the online competition modes. Career mode was fun. But beating up a coded program eventually becomes boring. Testing your abilities against other players is what provides long term replay value.
Agreed.
i can just see some out of touch EA exec saying “With AI we can reduce our delivery platform costs!”
@SamA329 wrote:
@ELF014My 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.I couldn't agree more with you as far as 2K showing EA where the strength of their game was... and EA chose to ignore it because they somehow knew better.
EA couldn't even reach the level of their previous release from 9 years ago. I never played Rory... and have only seen video content from it, but at least they had caddies that would tend a flag when needed.
If they had nothing but upgraded the graphics from that game, I'm not sure if the current one is any better. That is how weak the current effort feels to me.
Absolutely agree with this game is DOA. The last great EA golf game was TW14. Even though 2K23 is no TW14, 2k23 is blowing the current game out of the water. The same trend happened with NBA Live 19 against NBA 2K19. If gameplay is not improve in next patch, this series is DOA and current game might be the last EA golf game. I am guessing EA has conceded the golf genre to 2K like it did with Basketball. That is possible reason game is now selling for $10 and no investment in improvements is made. The investment has been more focused on Madden, EA FC, NHL and UFC.
@PalomaMarvel24 wrote:I am guessing EA has conceded the golf genre to 2K like it did with Basketball. That is possible reason game is now selling for $10 and no investment in improvements is made. The investment has been more focused on Madden, EA FC, NHL and UFC.
Exactly what I think Paloma. There's not enough money to be made in a golf game for EA, they're going to budget lots of resources for games giving them top revenues like Madden, FC and UFC. And like one of my kid told me, golf is grandpa sport... it made me feel so old. 😞
I think Patel leaving is likely tied to him seeing that EA wasn’t interested in making the great golf game he knows is possible with the tech now.
It honestly has made me pretty excited for the next 2K golf game
@BuckHasTheBook wrote:I think Patel leaving is likely tied to him seeing that EA wasn’t interested in making the great golf game he knows is possible with the tech now.
It honestly has made me pretty excited for the next 2K golf game
Looks like I will be joining the bandwagon.
