NCAA Football 09 Patch 2 Info (Pasta Padre)

[Geekboy]

Will the roster patch and the second patch be available on the Xbox Live Silver account or do you have to have gold?

[countryboy]

Quote: Originally Posted by muggins

I understand there are normal patch processes, but when you have such fundamental flaws in a game such as this one you might want to speed it up a bit.

How can they speed it up? If it takes a minimal of 1 month to patch the game and the game released on July 15th, I would still think that the quickest they could get a patch out would be late August.

Just my .02

[roadman]

Quote: Originally Posted by muggins

I understand there are normal patch processes, but when you have such fundamental flaws in a game such as this one you might want to speed it up a bit.

If they sped it up, other things might go haywire. I certainly don't want that to happen, either.

Last year the patch came in December and everyone was as happy as a lark after the patch. This year it will come three months sooner while the college season still is in full swing.

[countryboy]

Quote: Originally Posted by ASB37

I'd say it's pathetic that a game that is released in July is so buggy that consumers need to wait till September to be be able to play it. I can understand that for what the norm is one month may be fast for getting a patch out, what i am saying is what if NCAA 04 was released with these kinds of bugs and a patch wasn't something that was feasible at that time what would have happened? Patches should only be used to fix minor things games shouldn't have to get 2 patches shortly after release for it to be in working form. These game companies need to be held to some kind of accountability.

we're talking about two different things. I never said that its not pathetic that the game has these issues. I was talking that I don't find that them getting a patch out in September pathetic.

[muggins]

Quote: Originally Posted by countryboy

How can they speed it up? If it takes a minimal of 1 month to patch the game and the game released on July 15th, I would still think that the quickest they could get a patch out would be late August. Just my .02

Why does it take a minimum of 1 month to patch? Have programmers come in on the weekends. When we have an issue with code at work our programmers will often stay til 7 pm on Saturday nights.

Not to mention that a few of these bugs were known about before the game even released...

[roadman]

Quote: Originally Posted by ASB37

No i think alot of people would be happy, myself included, if this game worked correctly on July 15. Not September....if this game wasn't going to be funcitonal till September then take a few extra months and release it then.

I would love that too, but we aren't living in a perfect world.

I can't recall the last sports game that I've bought and played that there wasn't a patch for.

Madden, NCAA, NBA2k, College Hoops, MLB2k etc......

[BIG CAROLINA]

We have a few choices here, either play it as is until the patch comes out, shelf it until the patch comes out or just get rid of the game.
All of this back and forth is getting people no where but frustrated. Everyone has there point of view and going back and forth is not going to change anything.

[muggins]

Quote: Originally Posted by roadman

If they sped it up, other things might go haywire. I certainly don't want that to happen, either. Last year the patch came in December and everyone was as happy as a lark after the patch. This year it will come three months sooner while the college season still is in full swing.

Well obviously not 'everyone'. I sold my copy in August. I did have an alternative new shiny game last year though

[countryboy]

Quote: Originally Posted by muggins

Why does it take a minimum of 1 month to patch? Have programmers come in on the weekends. When we have an issue with code at work our programmers will often stay til 7 pm on Saturday nights. Not to mention that a few of these bugs were known about before the game even released...

My guess would be that given that it usually takes 2 weeks for the patch to get thru all the certification processing, and the time it takes to identify the bugs, patch the bugs, test the patch, I would say that equates to about a months worth of work.

[rhombic21]

Quote: Originally Posted by countryboy

My guess would be that given that it usually takes 2 weeks for the patch to get thru all the certification processing, and the time it takes to identify the bugs, patch the bugs, test the patch, I would say that equates to about a months worth of work.

Again though, I would add this.

They KNEW that the following issues were BIG problems with the game on June 1, and I know that they knew because I told several lead gameplay developers personally.

- Kickoff returns/punt returns
- Zones being messed up
- Faulty Pass Rush
- CPU never throwing deep
- Bad man coverage on HBs
- Stafe catching

They knew they were going to release a patch that would address gameplay issues post-release (they told me this as well), and they very easily could have been working on fixing those issues in the month and a half prior to the game even being released.