Still no Other modes to play with friends, just same Divot derby style stroke with friends. No reward system after lvl 50 (Give some coin reward for hitting another lvl or something). i see after a round i have well over 1,000,000 points that do nothing. They have the game modes we want for local. How hard is it to transfer those modes to online? The 20th of April was our last patch. EA went dark after that. What is going on?
@Sneakler wrote:
@RichACStarting with "if you read my comment properly" was a nice touch.
Now let's get something straight, the person you replied to never said this was ONLY a day or two ago when he was having issues. It has been their entire experience it sounds like. So maybe you should have read his comment properly instead of getting all edgy to complete strangers over the internet.
So you're very next sentence is just sad because you dismissed his entire issue because there were server problems for a half a day.
What in the world does your computer being 9 years old have to do with another person having issues? You're not having issues, that's great, this guy is.
You're assuming just the same as me it seems. But the reason I assumed as much is the timing of his post, and him. I don't know why you are upset with me for giving news that it was all of ea's servers past few days and had nothing to with the game. Interesting...
Was the last patch where they removed game modes from matchmaking? And added 5 difficulty settings for stroke for private?
On there official page they lied! they said that these modes were available... Look at pics!
I started playing golf games competitively with Links 2001. The sad part is after all this time I still feel like the Links games were the most complete golf games. In Links everyone had the same stats so it was all about skill. After Links kinda went under i switched to Shot Online which was a whole different experience. SO is a golf MMORPG with unrealistic but challenging game play. Club distance is insane, but you need to use spin on the ball to achieve those. Yes you can hit the ball 700 yrds, but controlling it is another story. Also there was a lot to that game in regards to FW lies and what not. They would severely impact your shot. The main issue w/ shot online is that stat gap and cash shop. People would spend thousands and even 10s of thousands on clubs, stat items, clothes, exp items, etc etc....When I first started playing this was not much of an issue, but as the game grew the cash shop just kept getting worse and worse till I could not keep up. Pretty soon the pure distance between guys could not be made up by just skill alone. They did create tournaments where everyone had the same stats or same stat pool at least which was nice, but it was kinda too late at that point. I would love to see an AAA company make a shot online type game w/o all the cash shop items. Cosmetics could make a killing if the rest of the game was good.
With all that being said I think EA made a good game, but woefully lacking in features. I think what they have is very solid, but its pretty criminal the lack of game modes they came out with. No turn based match play is just head scratching. I could understand if they were a new company jumping into the market, but they had good success w/ the TW games so you would think they should have been able to build on those w/o stripping most of the game play modes. The game was delayed for like a year then again so I am not sure what they were focusing on. I will continue to play as I like the game they just need to add more competitive features. I wish they would have teams and some sort of format for those along w/ ranked match play games.
@jitter77 wrote:I started playing golf games competitively with Links 2001. The sad part is after all this time I still feel like the Links games were the most complete golf games. In Links everyone had the same stats so it was all about skill. After Links kinda went under i switched to Shot Online which was a whole different experience. SO is a golf MMORPG with unrealistic but challenging game play. Club distance is insane, but you need to use spin on the ball to achieve those. Yes you can hit the ball 700 yrds, but controlling it is another story. Also there was a lot to that game in regards to FW lies and what not. They would severely impact your shot. The main issue w/ shot online is that stat gap and cash shop. People would spend thousands and even 10s of thousands on clubs, stat items, clothes, exp items, etc etc....When I first started playing this was not much of an issue, but as the game grew the cash shop just kept getting worse and worse till I could not keep up. Pretty soon the pure distance between guys could not be made up by just skill alone. They did create tournaments where everyone had the same stats or same stat pool at least which was nice, but it was kinda too late at that point. I would love to see an AAA company make a shot online type game w/o all the cash shop items. Cosmetics could make a killing if the rest of the game was good.
With all that being said I think EA made a good game, but woefully lacking in features. I think what they have is very solid, but its pretty criminal the lack of game modes they came out with. No turn based match play is just head scratching. I could understand if they were a new company jumping into the market, but they had good success w/ the TW games so you would think they should have been able to build on those w/o stripping most of the game play modes. The game was delayed for like a year then again so I am not sure what they were focusing on. I will continue to play as I like the game they just need to add more competitive features. I wish they would have teams and some sort of format for those along w/ ranked match play games.
I feel you on the everyone had the same stats thing man. Tiger Woods 08 on the pc version is the all time great golf game. Nothing has surpassed that yet in any category. I too grew up on Links, I've must of played almost every golf game made for the pc and Links is part of the core evolution indeed. I started out with EA's first golf game. World Tour Golf in 1986. The thing even had a map maker and course editor. blew the minds off the industry at the time. 2k sports and wgt just didn't have the same playcontrol or sporting feel i was use to with ea sports games. This game, even though a little different and missing alot of the features and options we use to have (most notably turn based multiplayer) still has that at its core making me nostalgic.
@CkYMaximus wrote:On there official page they lied! they said that these modes were available... Look at pics!
part of the problem is we need to build up the player base man. We can add 12 diff game modes. but if there only 1000 people qeuing, gonna make it even harder to find matches which is some peoples complaints. For me it hasn't been so bad imo. Although there is the 1 or 2 guys i really don't want to play against lmao. But If I get them in a threesome I'll give em play.....pause..... All I want is for them to give us turnbased stroke play for the competitive mode with a chat box at least. bare minimum lol. And put a shot clock to avoid automatic triple bogeys.... that is annoying. And if someone forfeits quits/disconnects give the guy who plays on a win and the one who forfeits a loss.
I see tons and tons of potentional in this game, which i never saw in their browser based game they came out with years ago. So i'm trying to keep my comments positive and realistic mindful of others who have not tried the game yet reading them. Closest thing I've had to tw08 on the pc in 15 years.
Yes the game is dead. Average player base is about 500+ even on the weekend. i have stopped playing went back to 2k. this game is to simplistic. No penalty for going in rough or bunkers. 0 math involved. Whenever a new patch comes out i will check back and see if the game is any better.
