{"id":1266,"date":"2008-08-02T08:37:31","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T12:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/08\/02\/ncaa-football-09-patch-update\/"},"modified":"2008-08-02T08:39:14","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T12:39:14","slug":"ncaa-football-09-patch-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/08\/02\/ncaa-football-09-patch-update\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Football 09 Patch Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cgblog\/images\/videogames\/ps3\/ncaafootball09\/ncaafootball_09_boxart.jpg\" alt=\"NCAA Football 09\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" \/>It looks like EA Sports is about to do the needful and patch NCAA Football 09.  We can look at this two ways.<\/p>\n<p>WTF was EA thinking releasing a game with this many issues?  Or we can be grateful that EA Sports is addressing the many issues with the game.  At this point the horse is out of the barn, so I am going to wait and see what if the gameplay improves.  If it does, we may have a wonderful game on our hands, but will anyone notice as <em>Madden 09<\/em> is due in 10 days?<\/p>\n<p>Patch info at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.operationsports.com\/forums\/ncaa-football\/259572-patch-1-2-info.html\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.operationsports.com\/forums\/ncaa-football\/259572-patch-1-2-info.html', 'OS');\" target=\"new\">OS<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalsportspage.com\/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=12922&start=350\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.digitalsportspage.com\/modules.php?name=Forums&amp;file=viewtopic&amp;t=12922&amp;start=350', 'digitalsportspage (Page 15)');\" target=\"new\">digitalsportspage (Page 15)<\/a>.  The follow could really improve my gameplay experience<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dynasty<br \/>\n\u2013 Faster simming between weeks<\/p>\n<p>Gameplay<br \/>\n\u2013 Improved coverage on kicks<\/p>\n<p>Bug Fixes<br \/>\n\u2013 AI sliders for will now work correctly<br \/>\n\u2013 An issue with missing stats after simming has been fixed<br \/>\n\u2013 Ball carrier will no longer run out of bounds when changing hands and heading towards the sidelines<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Am I upset that purchasing this game day one basically made me a \u201cbeta\u201d tester?  Yes, I am.  Should EA have delayed the game until it fixed some of these issues?  Yes, absolutely.  Should EA Sports get a \u201cpat on the back\u201d for doing the right thing?  Maybe, but this may also encourage the behavior of \u201crelease it now, patch it later\u201d games.  Still, happy horse shit aside, I am looking forward to an improved game when the patches are available.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like EA Sports is about to do the needful and patch NCAA Football 09. We can look at this two ways. WTF was EA thinking releasing a game with this many issues? Or we can be grateful that EA Sports is addressing the many issues with the game. At this point the horse &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/08\/02\/ncaa-football-09-patch-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NCAA Football 09 Patch Update<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}