Will there be a EA PGA Tour 2025?

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@ELF014 wrote:

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@Mickstudio1308 wrote:
@ELF014I'm a sim player and yes if I play very well I can win every tournament in the career mode so I will like to have harder setting. But what exactly you think EA could do to please us ?

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When I was playing this game... I played with a stock character (no skills, etc...) on SIM settings with additional features disabled. The only thing enabled was the wind meter.

With career mode set to 100% and playing 4 full rounds, I would take the lead in every tournament by Saturday and start pulling away from the field.

A lot of tournaments had someone shooting -10 or something extremely low in round 1 so it took me a few rounds to track the leaders down.

But to answer your question, the game just doesn't play realistically... the greens are way too slow. The ball physics don't feel right at times. I have hit wedges into greens that slope into me that will roll out... and on the very next hole on a green sloping away from me have the ball spin back uphill 30 feet.

Rough has no effect in reducing distance, or reducing spin on the ball. Flop shots are too easy to hit, and stick like glue from every type of lie or green slope. The lack of spin on mid irons is also odd an odd combination for how easy it is to stick shorter clubs. The fall off seems quite extreme.

Don't get me wrong for those looking for a fun, casual outing I think this fits that itch. But for someone looking for a more realistic experience this isn't it.

My issue with EA is that this was packaged and advertised as a full on simulation experince using Shot Link... multiple shot types so you can play like a pro. To be honest I don't thing I ever used more than 6 shot types because scoring in this game was so easy.

If EA had packaged this as just a GOLF GAME, I wouldn't have as much of an issue. I would put it in the category of Mario Golf and Hot Shots Golf. But when they promoted it the way they did... I expected more realism.

What happened to Electronic Arts original slogan... "If it's in the game... it's in the game!"

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First off, I definitely hope there is not a 2025.  I prefer a live service and prefer this game be updated.  I'll pay for pro passes if the game continues to evolve.  We need to go back to games being supported for years by developers instead of whipping out a new version with minimal updates every year.  That model is a giant rip off.   I played DOD, TF, & CS then CS Source for the cost of Half-Life for like 12 years before ponying up for CS:GO, and  played that until migration to CS 2  last year (for free!).   I want support like that for my purchases!

Second, I do agree with many of the items you specifically mention, but not all:

Agree:

Rough has no effect in reducing distance, or reducing spin on the ball.

Flop shots are too easy to hit, and stick like glue from every type of lie or green slope. 

Disagree:

The greens are way too slow.   

           These seem to vary by course with Augusta being the fastest.  There are a few courses (like the Wetlands, where I would agree seem to slow); however, most seem reasonable to me.  

The ball physics don't feel right at times. I have hit wedges into greens that slope into me that will roll out... and on the very next hole on a green sloping away from me have the ball spin back uphill 30 feet.  

 I don't really experience this since the very early iterations of the game.

The lack of spin on mid irons is also odd an odd combination for how easy it is to stick shorter clubs. The fall off seems quite extreme.

I also don't experience this (or maybe we define mid-iron differently?  I consider them 7-9 based on sets I play personally.)  I would imagine this may be due to you not allocating skill points.   All irons through 6i seem to have a reasonable progression for spin to me.  I would say at the 5 there is a bit of a leap that could be tightened up a bit, but it isn't anything that can't be accounted for.

Overall, the game is far too easy.   I don't play SIM because I don't like 2-dimensional putting, but I have no trouble shooting 18+ under par on Tour or Tour+ settings (Tour + = I remove the zoom and shot shaping in career).   I also allocate all my skill points, though I have removed them from putting in order to give some challenge.

I think the progression in the game is a big cause of a lot of a lot of complaints.  The "RNG"  is all over the place until you allocate skill points and get legend blueprints, but once those are in, it all comes down to who sneezes during a backswing and finally misses a birdie or par 5 eagle.

At end game (skills allocated and legend blueprints) there are definitely tweaks that need to be made.  The #1 really being that RNG for distance and spin needs to be cranked up considerably for all shots out of the rough and even more so out of the heavy rough. #2 being the flop shot needs to be more like the blast shot (has rollout) when it comes out of the rough. #3 Driver RNG needs increased for Power drives.  Right now, this game is bomb it 380, hit 60 wedge from fairway 90% of the time.