NCAA Football 13 - October Title Update Now Available

[gigemaggs99]

When starting a new online dynasty, I'm getting a validation error when trying to load up rosters--I can start a new online dynasty without rostes though

I have mixed feelings on this one....it seems like EA has always been straddling the line, they ship the game out with numbered players and no names. They give you the option to generate "random" names and also have the roster share option. However they still ship the game with numbers only. It's like they are covering their butt.

For a "right now" feature it's cool to be able to play with the real names, you can always go in and name them yourself, would take a lot of time, but you can still edit them and name them. For the "long term" I don't see the big deal with the names, if you play a dynasty mode game and stay at a school for 4+ years you are working with randonly generated names anyways.

I guess it's cool to be able to play with Johnny Manziel on A&M but I'm fine with using #2 also. In the end I guess it's not a deal breaker for me.

If EA removes this option it won't be the end of the world for me, if they move NCAA in the direction of Madden's CCM and Online Only, that will be the deal breaker. I enjoy playing in online dynasties but I also enjoy the offline content. EA please do not remove the offline content. You can add more Online, but please do NOT remove the current offline.

I also have a mixed review of the game, I guess it's just how it is. They make a huge deal about release dates, even early demo releases, yet here it is Oct 20th (EDIT: I don't even know what day it is.... Oct 22 ) we've just received the 4th update and now the game is playing pretty good in my opinion. My biggest complaint was the no-huddle fubar, which by the way wasn't broken prior to the other patches coming out...go figure....but I just find it ironic that the game was release in July, now in Oct it's pretty good and pretty darn playable. It just seems silly to have a "deadline/release date" but it's not really....almost 3 months after the "release date" the game is more complete....I don't know too many other companies that can have a 3 month extension.

I'm just saying it would be really SWEET if NCAA 14 could come out sometime in July, heck wait until August or right before the real NCAA season starts if you can have a completed project. Wouldn't it be nice if they could give us a finished complete product, then focus all of their attention and man-power on NCAA 15? Just think, each year it would be better and better b/c they would have more time to focus on the newer installment and less time playing catch-up with post production patches and what-not.

Personally the game plays great to me, still waiting/hoping the Utah St. unis will come out sometime....if they don't come out until NCAA 14 it's no big loss, just would be cool if they could come out with more frequent uniform store updates/packages.

End rant.

[baseballplyrmvp]

they'd never push back the ncaa release until august. it'd hurt both madden's and ncaa's sales

but i agree with your other points

[gigemaggs99]

they'd never push back the ncaa release until august. it'd hurt both madden's and ncaa's sales

but i agree with your other points

Ah yes, you are correct. See I wasn't thinking of the almighty dollar, I was being silly and thinking like a consumer. You are correct....it's always struck me as "different" when I pick up my midnight release of NCAA they (Gamestop) gives me a flier with a coupon that will give me extra credit if I trade the game in on the upcoming release of Madden. I'm kinda like, shouldn't I take it home and play it first?

Morale of the story, I forgot about capitalism when I posted my previous thoughts. MY BAD!

[JeffHCross]

I have mixed feelings on this one....it seems like EA has always been straddling the line, they ship the game out with numbered players and no names. They give you the option to generate "random" names and also have the roster share option. However they still ship the game with numbers only. It's like they are covering their butt.

Gus, there is a CYA factor, but ... they are not allowed, by NCAA rules, to ship the game with accurate names built-in. Whether or not the numbered players is still against the rules is being debated in the courts, but there's no doubt that shipping the game with named rosters (accurately named rosters, that is), would be a violation of NCAA rules. I, personally, think they could ship the game with randomly-generated names and that would be okay (to get rid of the "#2" names), but they'd probably be forced to make sure every player on every team didn't happen to come up with their real name.

I'm just saying it would be really SWEET if NCAA 14 could come out sometime in July, heck wait until August or right before the real NCAA season starts if you can have a completed project. Wouldn't it be nice if they could give us a finished complete product, then focus all of their attention and man-power on NCAA 15? Just think, each year it would be better and better b/c they would have more time to focus on the newer installment and less time playing catch-up with post production patches and what-not.

Uhm, not totally sure where you went with this, but ... no. The development cycle on NCAA 15 starts on (or slightly before) the day NCAA 14 releases. Probably, more accurately, the day NCAA 14 goes gold. So unless you move the NCAA release date back a month or two every year, you're still stuck with a ~12 month development cycle. There's no getting around that with a release date that doesn't move.

[JeffHCross]

When starting a new online dynasty, I'm getting a validation error when trying to load up rosters--I can start a new online dynasty without rostes though

Have you tried multiple rosters? I've never heard of a validation error before, so I don't have any idea what could be causing it.

I'm also seeing some say that the 360 patch was only 6mb while the PS3 patch is 34mb. There's no reason they should be that significantly different

I thought I'd been told in the past that 360/PS3 file sizes, for downloads, were regularly different. Something to do with 360 being able to patch more cleanly and PS3 requiring more of a "rollup" type patch.

[keepitnappe9]

I would think fairly high in order to include updates for Utah State, TCU, and others that had their default uniforms redesigned.

Any update on this? Maryland has new ones with variations planned.

[gschwendt]

Any update on this? Maryland has new ones with variations planned.

We only know what EA says... so far they've not said anything new on the topic.

[CLW]

And THIS is why the uniform storm was a DUMB idea. Every time one of the 100+ teams wears slightly different color socks, helmets, jerseys or cups people freak when it is not instantly available to them for free.

[gigemaggs99]

And THIS is why the uniform storm was a DUMB idea. Every time one of the 100+ teams wears slightly different color socks, helmets, jerseys or cups people freak when it is not instantly available to them for free.

I hope I don't come across as "freaking out".... I don't have a problem paying for the DLC, the last 2 pay updates have been great. As long as they continue to only be a few dollars I'm all for it. Utah St has used these new uniforms since the beginning of the season, they aren't something special or a 1-time game....I'd rather have the "everyday" uniforms before we get the "special occasion" uniforms. Would be nice to get the Utah St. I'm cool w/ the others.

[Unconquered]

Yeah, the Uniform Store has been a disappointment for me. NCAA 13 has been out almost four months ... I was expecting one or two more uniform updates by now, especially for the teams that unveiled new default uniforms before the season began.

[JeffHCross]

I was expecting one or two more uniform updates by now, especially for the teams that unveiled new default uniforms before the season began.

I was too, though there could be multiple reasons why more progress hasn't been made. Purely speculation, but perhaps certain uniforms have been denied, requested to wait until NCAA 14, etc ...

[baseballplyrmvp]

I was too, though there could be multiple reasons why more progress hasn't been made. Purely speculation, but perhaps certain uniforms have been denied, requested to wait until NCAA 14, etc ...

maybe the art team is touring the country getting all the new additions to stadiums that we've linked to.