"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, …”4-Player Lobby Disconnection / Suspected Account Profile Desync (Xbox Series S)
Hi everyone, I am reaching out to the community and the moderation team to report a specific, repeatable matchmaking issue on Xbox Series S that appears to be tied to backend account data rather than local hardware. Currently, I am completely unable to play in 4-player lobbies, and I am hoping a Community Manager can escalate this to the technical team for a look at the backend. The Issue 3-Player Lobbies: Work perfectly with no latency or disconnection issues. 4-Player Lobbies: The exact moment a 4th player joins the lobby, everyone is instantly disconnected. How It Occurred The issue began after a full reinstall of the game. Matchmaking worked briefly until I attempted to join a lobby with one specific friend. The moment they joined, the connection crashed. Since that specific crash, my profile has been unable to host or join any 4-player lobbies, even when that specific friend is not online. Because the issue persists across different groups of players, it appears a corrupted matchmaking state or token may be stuck on my EA profile's cloud data. Troubleshooting Already Attempted To help narrow this down and save the moderation team some time, I have already thoroughly tested all standard local troubleshooting steps: Game Reinstalls: Performed a full 72GB game reinstall 4 times (this temporarily resolved it once, until the specific player conflict occurred again). Console Cache: Cleared the Xbox Series S local cache and performed a hard power cycle. Save Data: Deleted local console save data and cleared the "Reserved Space" multiplayer cache partition. Network: Power-cycled my home router/modem for 5 minutes to completely flush the NAT routing tables. Because the issue immediately returns upon syncing my profile, it strongly indicates a backend data conflict rather than a local network or console issue. Request for Escalation I have attempted to navigate the automated EA Help channels to request a manual Account Sync Reset to clear this matchmaking state, but I have been unable to reach a support advisor through the automated system. Could a Community Manager or Moderator please pass this case along to the technical or server team? I would be incredibly grateful for any help getting my EA ID investigated so I can get back to playing full rounds with my friends. Platform: Xbox Series S EA ID: dazedhorse Gamertag: dazedhorse Thank you for your time and assistance!4-Player Lobbies Broken (Backend Profile Corruption) & EA Help is a Dead End
I am posting this here because EA Help has made it completely impossible to speak to a human being. I am experiencing a game-breaking matchmaking bug on Xbox Series S that is completely isolating my profile from 4-player games, and I have absolutely no way to reach anyone at EA to fix it. The Issue 3-player lobbies work perfectly fine. The exact microsecond a 4th player joins the lobby, Everyone is instantly disconnected. How It Happened I previously did a full reinstall of the game. It actually worked temporarily after that, right up until I attempted to play with one specific friend. The moment they entered the lobby, the connection crashed, and my profile has been completely broken ever since. Now, even when that specific "problem player" is not online, I still get disconnected the moment any 4th player enters the lobby. This clearly indicates that the lobby crash injected a corrupted network token straight into my EA profile data, which is saved on EA's backend cloud servers. Troubleshooting Already Attempted To save the forum moderators from posting generic copy-paste advice, please know that I have already tried the following system-level steps: Performed a full 72GB game reinstall 4 times (which only worked once until the conflict happened again). Cleared the Xbox Series S local cache and performed a hard power cycle on the console. Deleted local console save data and cleared the "Reserved Space" multiplayer cache partition. Unplugged my home router for 5 minutes to completely flush the NAT routing tables. None of this works because the second the game boots up, it downloads my active, corrupted profile state directly from EA's servers. The Support Nightmare I tried to contact EA Help to ask an advisor for a manual backend Account Sync Reset to clear this glitched matchmaking token. However, the current support is nonexistent. The automated live chat is a useless bot that goes in infinite circles, refusing to route to a real person. To make matters worse, EA has shut down its support presence on X, leaving paying customers completely stranded with zero human utility. Is it possible for a Community Manager or Moderator to please escalate this to the technical team? My EA ID is effectively poisoned on your matchmaking servers, and I just want to be able to play a round of Ryder Cup golf with my friends.Road to the Masters Bug
When playing the Callaway Sponsors Challange the “Big Bertha” challenge is glitched. One of the challenges is to hit all 5 drives in the fairway. I have done this multiple times and each time it only grants me 3/5 fairway shots. It doesn’t count the first 2 shots. After my 3rd fairway shot, it shows 1/5, then when I complete the challenge, it shows 3/5. Would go without saying, but yes, all 5 of my shots are landing in the fairway.PGA Tour Road to the Masters
Why is the flight of the golf ball in slow motion? The ball is very slow to come down and when it does it bounces in slow motion. Additionally, ball motion is slow during putting and the ball falls into the hole in slow motion. Has anyone else experienced this? Platform XBOX - Series S.
