If the patch was submitted to Sony/MS on August 2nd I really think it will be out very, very soon.
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If the patch was submitted to Sony/MS on August 2nd I really think it will be out very, very soon.
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Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
AKA: Save your brain, i.e. you won't get dumber every time you read his posts.
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Originally Posted by morsdraconis
Except maybe the "love" part. ;)
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Originally Posted by morsdraconis
and the don't go away partQuote:
Originally Posted by steelerfan
Well it looks like the Patch won't be out until Mid-September.
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Originally Posted by MattUM2
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The Ben Haumilton interview today on OS.Quote:
Originally Posted by Deuce
The host said, "I'm gonna say 28th."
Ben replied, "...well I would LOVE that, but I can't say either way."
Operation Sports is talking about some interview that Ben H. did today. He still had no patch date to provide. That's leading people to speculate that the patch hasn't been sent to Microsoft or Sony, which would put it in the early/mid-September time frame.Quote:
Originally Posted by Deuce
As far as I can tell, it's all speculation though.
I listened to the podcast last night and didn't get the impression the patch hadn't been sent off yet. Maybe I missed it, but I didn't hear the same thing some at OS discussed. If they submitted it to MS/Sony, they won't have a date until MS/Sony give them one.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffHCross
The thing that I don't understand is that Ben said he would LOVE for the patch to be out on August 28th. That doesn't make sense if EA submitted on August 2nd. Certification is 2-3 weeks and there is no way it would be released that late if EA had submitted it at that time. Ben should have said I expect it to be but you never know. I'm guessing EA submitted the patch on August 2nd to their own quality services team which then runs their own checks and submitted it to Sony/MS. Maybe there was a problem and a delay. I don't know. But if the patch was truly submitted to Sony/MS on August 2nd then the patch should be out very, very soon. Something isn't right about the August 2nd date.
It wasn't ever officially stated that it was submitted on 8/2... that was our assumption due to past experience. However, like you said, that might have been the day that they submitted it for in-house testing. And who knows, maybe during that in-house testing the also corrected some other significant bugs and decided to roll them into the second patch rather than wait on them to be included in a subsequent patch.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rudy
I would LOVE to get a job offer tomorrow, and even if I expect one I would still LOVE for it to actually happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rudy
It's possible that he meant something like that. Instead of the "I would love it, but it'll never happen" quote that the OS guys were interpreting.
my interpretation was that Ben would love for it to happen but it's totally out of his hands at this point...the ball is in MS/Sony's court as they say
That was my interpretation as well. He would love it see it happen on the 28th, but that date would be up to MS and Sony and how long it'll take them with the certification process. I definitely didn't get a "we'd love to have it out by then, but it'll never happen because we haven't submitted the patch yet or the patch was just recently submitted" vibe like all the idiots over on OS are practically having seizures thinking and talking about.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pig Bomb
This just proves you should never listen to anything said on OS.
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Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn
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Either way, with the patch coming so late and Madden available on the 26th, NCAA will be forgotten by a portion of the gaming public. I am definitely in for Madden so I suspect that NCAA will be on the shelf until the fall.
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Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn
Officially this is ridiculous. Get the darn thing out already. The fact that "Sony/Ms" or who the F ever has to "approve" this crap and they take so long is pathetic.
I don't think it's fair to blame Sony/MS for this yet. We don't know exactly when EA released the patch to them. I do share the frustration of the wait.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jayrah
Waiting on the patch is starting to get frustrating. I keep having multiple freezes and it's ruining the game for me.
I'm blaming the system of certification. The fact that the manufacturer can't certify their own crap to get a game-breaker fix to the consumer as soon as humanly possible is ridiculous. If everything's ready for us, there is no reason it should take more than a week to certify through the upper ranks. 2-3 weeks is a system thing only, with the way tech is these days and the system needs to be changed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rudy
On that note though. Id rather wait up to an extra month for the game to get beta tested online and fixed out the box. I realize they're getting everything into the game that they can. But something of this magnitude just shouldn't be allowed to happen. Every other game freezes, every third game fails to transfer. I've wasted 40+ hrs on games that didn't end up counting and its pathetic.
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The patch isn't so much the big thing for me, it's the TUNER SET. However, what I don't get is why EA attaches tuner sets to the patch??? They are totally seperate and supposed to be seperate...???...
As a software tester that has to approve stuff before it goes to the customer ... I completely disagree. There's a reason for the wait.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jayrah
100% agree. It totally defeats the purpose to only do tuner sets with patches. It makes no sense.Quote:
Originally Posted by jaymo76
They might have reasons for wanting to put them out at the same time and blend them together.... I am predicting a LOT of unhappy customers after these come out so might as well have all the fall out at once.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rudy
I am always worried with patches. Pre patch 2 last year, I found the cpu run game to be the best run game in the NCAA series, ever. After the patch it was just awful, very similar to this year.
Yeah it is a double-edged sword. On one hand you want the things broken fixed, but on the other you dread what will be broken by the patch.
Obviously, I do not know the complexities of the tuner files, but these have the outward appearance based on past fixes attributed to them of being something that would be great if the community could modify. It would appear to give community leaders or commissioners the ability to tune progression, recruits initial ratings, fumbles, injury occurrence, drop frequency, slider effectiveness, and more. This is obviously not something for the casual gamer, but for the hard core it would give us more control over how the game plays.
Agreed. Seems like some titles have all of those options, others don't. I've never figured out the pattern (of who includes the options) though.Quote:
Originally Posted by roccogator
Waiting for the patch is no big deal at this point. But EA knows about how long certification takes. And why release it so close to Madden makes no sense. They would have to know some sort of time frame to even say that the patch would be out before the end of August. I like how slickly they worded it in the patch 2 details. "The patch will be out before the end of August" which now basically meant "Around the end of August, possibly last day of August" But they worded it to give you hope that it could have been out as early as mid August. Especially when the first major update over the past 2 or 3 years has usually be released in mid-August.
Heres the thing that bugs me, I know about the whole certification thing. But If they charged for this update, I would bet the farm that it would have been out a week or two before Madden. No way they would release a patch that you had to pay for in competition with Maddens launch. It would get passed over by a lot of people.
Dont the gaming companies have to charged after a certain amount of patches anyway??
I think the tuner set has to be released with the patch because it modifies the way things occur once the game has been patched. If they apply a tuner set pre-patch they would have to turn around and apply another tuner set post-patch.
With regards to timing, no matter where the patch is, if it fixes the few minor things I'm annoyed with then I'm happy. I haven't had nearly as many problems as some have mentioned.
Sounds like Pasta is of the opinion that NCAA is "preparing" gamers to accept that a patch will not be out until September... brutal!
You know what they say about opinions, and Pasta is one.Quote:
Originally Posted by jaymo76
While he may be right, he's wrong alot too. He's just a traffic whore.
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Technically, they only have 5 more days to get it out before it will be September, not including weekends. I've very rarely seen a patch released on a weekend, so I'd say Pasta is dead on.Quote:
Originally Posted by jaymo76
On another note, I'm kind of baffled as to what is taking them so long. If everyone remembers last year with NCAA '11, they RELEASED the game's THIRD patch in early September(a web site I just checked out said September 7th, which sounds about right), so they're a lot further behind this year than they were last year.
I don't have any "inside information" on this, but my best guess is that they had to add things to the patch that weren't initially accounted for. In that Dead Pixel interview, Ben said there were things in the patch that aren't listed in the blog and that he'd do another blog later to address those. That's my guess as to why it's not out, but who knows?Quote:
Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn
Yes. After Patch 2. Which is why the second patch is *usually* later in a product's life cycle and *usually* much larger than Patch 1. So, if you reverse the conversation about them charging us for a Patch, it makes business sense to delay as long as practical to release Patch 2, and make sure it has as much content as is reasonable. You'd hate to release Patch 2 and leave out something worthwhile. Because once Patch 2 is released, you're faced with the decision of not patching again, or paying to do so. Sucky business decision.Quote:
Originally Posted by GatorBait06NC
That's also why there are a lot of titles out there that only release two patches, no matter how long their product lifecycle.
It's also a good reason to not do a release day patch. The retail disc shouldn't have any major issue that requires a day one patch because everyone knows the first two weeks after release are where the big issues come up. If you don't waste one of your free patches at release it makes it easier to do two of them later.
Haven't played in a week, I take it the patch isn't out yet?