Online dynasty concern

[HoosierTexan]

So interestingly enough, in our dynasty (look earlier in this thread for the beginning of this tale) we had some issues, but people wanted to keep chugging forward. So we get to week three with all kinds of stuff happening, and go to advance to week 4. What do you know? Everything is fine. All the scores are reported right, and everyone is happy. But then we went through week 4, had someone quit (they weren't happy about the earlier stuff), removed them from the dynasty, and then advanced to week 5. Well now 3 of the 7 games have wrong scores, with one of the games resulting in a player having a loss when it should have been a win.

What saddens me most about this is I really think it could be the death knell for this online dynasty. I don't think guys are going to want to keep playing, especially when it doesn't seem to matter, since the computer is going to make it up anyway.

I will also mention that while I was advancing this time (from week 4 to 5) I had a lot of connection issues with the EA servers. Now if you ask me, it seems that the EA servers are being overwhelmed, and that they didn't properly anticipate the amount of traffic that would be coming to them with the release of this game. I'm not a computer expert, but I do know my way around enough to see that a lot of the issues folks are discussing in this thread appear to be server side issues. Games not being saved correctly, games rolling back to past save points, etc.

It's just frustrating, but I am hoping something will be resolved before our dynasty loses even more players.

[lsuguy13]

Like its bull**** one of the reasons i bought this game was cuz of this feature and it doesnt work.

[N51_rob]

Quote: Originally Posted by stewaat

BOOOOOOOOOO Man this is bumming me out. This is the feature I was so excited for. Why can't it just work correctly? Seriously...they did so much work for this feature and we can't even use it! Rosters & online dynasty SHOULD NOT have bugs! These are inexcusable...I can deal with the occasional bad play by the CPU (It's way overblown in these threads BTW) and bad special teams return game. Those things you can accommodate for and adjust to. However, when the product you get has SERIOUS BUGS which make you unable to utilize the features...then you have a PROBLEM. This sucks, can't do anything about it but wait. What am I gonna do go outside EA headquarters and hold a picket sign saying "FIX THE DAMN GAME"? I've been one of the people trying to say "Hey, let's take the game for what it is, a video game. They have put out a good effort and have given us some great new features that should outweigh the bad." Well EA, so far you guys have DROPPED the ball...BAD! Roster patch: Great you guys got it out early...but why in the hell are we having this problem? It's never happened before. Next in line is a QUICK fix to the online dynasty servers or something. Why should we have to wait AN ENTIRE YEAR for you guys to figure it out. Please just address the most important issues at hand.

I couldn't agree more with you and Rynoaid. I wasn't going to buy this game this year after 08 then I heard about Online Dynasties, something that had interested me for a while now. So I go on the hunt again, get all excited. Commit to a league where we do more than just play games. We have a website, forums a lot of other things to ensure that we keep our members active and interested. Well we finally start after all the Roster BS, and we advance from week 1 to week 2 and BAM! Wrong stats, scores. So we have guys that won games, getting losses? How is that even possible?

With all due respect to Adam and Ian, I'm pissed off, I'm mad, I feel mislead. How could a problem with the biggest new feature be missed? Seriously who QAed and tested the Online Dynasty? I mean this game out of the box was horribly broken. (not talking about gameplay here) Roster Editing: broken, Online Dynasty: broken. We aren't even a week from the street date yet. (I guess since it is 1:28 EST we are.)

I'm so angry right now. I just want the features that worked in years past to work, and the new features that are hyped to work out of the box. Am I asking to much? These are huge issues to me because I am a sports gamer. Could care less about FPS, MMORPG, Racing games. Football is the video game that I enjoy most. Haven't had a lot of that yet. I'm just so frustrated right now.

[chia]

Wow, my friend and I just encountered hella problems in our 2 person OD...

To the point where it's going to be pretty much impossible to convince him to give it another chance thus making this game useless to me... but EA got my 60 bucks so im guessing they don't really give a ish

[bgdave39]

Add another one to the list of broken online dynasties.

-Xbox 360
-12 Man Dynasty
-Started from dt linders rosters, unedited, but depth chart changes made from inside the dynasty.

In week preseason recruiting, I lost recruiting two times after i had done it and it saved and i exited out. We go onward to week 1. All is well, everyone plays there game and set to ready to advance.

Advance to week 2, the commishes screen shows him as being 2-0 with the dynasty in week 2. (he only played one game). My screen shows us in week 1 with 9 of the 12 members having lost their results, and 6 of the 9 also lost their recruiting.

It is laughable to me to think that a game could ship with such a small amount of quality testing to its' #1 advertised feature. I mean this stuff should have been caught immediately if any testing were done for it. I am just completely lost as to how this could even happen.


NCAA 09=decent game but massive failure due to completely absent quality assurance in nearly every aspect.

[jamesda3asu]

Quote: Originally Posted by N51_rob

I couldn't agree more with you and Rynoaid. I wasn't going to buy this game this year after 08 then I heard about Online Dynasties, something that had interested me for a while now. So I go on the hunt again, get all excited. Commit to a league where we do more than just play games. We have a website, forums a lot of other things to ensure that we keep our members active and interested. Well we finally start after all the Roster BS, and we advance from week 1 to week 2 and BAM! Wrong stats, scores. So we have guys that won games, getting losses? How is that even possible? With all due respect to Adam and Ian, I'm pissed off, I'm mad, I feel mislead. How could a problem with the biggest new feature be missed? Seriously who QAed and tested the Online Dynasty? I mean this game out of the box was horribly broken. (not talking about gameplay here) Roster Editing: broken, Online Dynasty: broken. We aren't even a week from the street date yet. (I guess since it is 1:28 EST we are.) I'm so angry right now. I just want the features that worked in years past to work, and the new features that are hyped to work out of the box. Am I asking to much? These are huge issues to me because I am a sports gamer. Could care less about FPS, MMORPG, Racing games. Football is the video game that I enjoy most. Haven't had a lot of that yet. I'm just so frustrated right now.

Well said n51 a lot effort went into these websites and I have a pretty good and patient group if people start quitting I might be the lead in the mob with a torch heading toward ea head quarters. If they care this little about one of their biggest sellers it is a shame.

try #2 coming up.

[chapmanosu1]

This is a joke. And it doesn't look good considering Adam doesn't seem like he's able/allowed to answer questions in this thread. Not ripping him, he has done a ton for us, but it is quite apparent he has been instructed to stay away from answering us or doesn't know what to say.

It would help if we could at least narrow down possible reasons for this happening.

[kneebon5]

We have the same problem. Happened in week 3 and week 4 with two different people. They both got losses when they really won. Which kills the dynasty. Everyone was added at the same time this is on 360.

Is there a time frame that we need to wait before we advance to the next week after everyone is done? Like 10 mins? an hour? a day?

[Mad 69]

I'm having the same problems most of you are in the Online Dynasty as well as problems in offline dynasty as well. The quick sim is broken, so no off or online dynasty for me. At this point I would be happy with a full refund from EA.

I think more than a few of us just knew that something was not going to work in regards to Online Dynsty, EA servers have svcked for years and they just killed themselves with this fiasco...

[Clarity]

Quote: Originally Posted by lsuguy13

I am the commish of a dynasty and we were about to play the national championship game. In a 8 team league. Well i was still on the real screen and someone told me that there dynasty had started over and sure enough it went back to the pre season for the 2008 year and we had to start the year over? what can i do to prevent this? and can i not get it back to where it was?

Same thing that happened to me as described on page 7. Once one person gets rolled back, everyone else will be too.

I really hope they directly address this in the patch that's coming. I won't waste my time with another league if I have to wonder at what point will it crap out and roll back.