solid idea if speed really gets bogged down. CPU games feel like a chore at this point. We are just starting season 6. Probably about the same pace as last time.
It sped things up a lot. I enjoyed it. Seems like others did as well. We are running it again for another season.
We allowed a user to switch to Bama (he’s a Bama fan) because everybody’s teams were already stacked. Holy shit - it’s unbelievable how much the game favors that team. They were low 90’s and ranked 88th in the country when he took them over. Since then: In year 1, he managed to go 3-2 against users (I was his two losses, and my team was unbelievably good last season). Won a user playoff game in 2OT. He landed NINE 5-star’s and the number 1 recruiting class. Also got a number of “key” recruits who weren’t 5 stars, like a 99 spd/acc/agi/cod transfer WR with platinum everything. He’s already 96-96-96 team rating In Year 2, he’s the only user on the board for two of the three 5* QB’s. He will be unchallenged for both (after landing an elite dev 5* QB last season). He will have the #1 class again with EASE. It’s a combo of having no recruiting challenger in the Southeast and somehow having a lvl 5 in the best Texas pipeline. When I opened up the schedule, his pre-set schedule had home games EVERY SINGLE WEEK from weeks 3-7. It’s insane. Like the game can’t help but prop up Bama. It feels active. Intentional.
Fun facts: Championship Contender grades can just randomly break a number of seasons into a Dynasty. No rhyme or reason for it, that anyone can figure out. You'll just have a user capped at a B+ or an A-, while other teams are at an A+, and the lower rated team clearly deserves to be higher. Conference Prestige is also determined by alphabetical order when all things are equal between multiple conferences. So if the Big 10 and SEC are equal across the board, but there are too many teams in the A+ category, the SEC could drop to A- for no other reason than the name of the conference starts with "s." I have fallen victim to both of these issues, and, as a result, fell from a 5 star prestige to 4.5 this season, coming off a National title, tons of draft picks, etc. Just a super trash video game lol
It really is. They don't play test dynasty at all and all of the effort is in making an impression in the first 3 or 4 weeks after release. It is a trap product. And part of it is that there is absolutely no incentive for it to be unsurpassed in a year, OR for it to be clearly superior to a new Madden in a month. If you look at it from the perspective of a suit at EA, you can see that after the initial nostalgia when it came back last year that in the end EA sports is incentivized to never get it right.
Video games, as a whole, seem to be suffering from the issue of profit over creativity. Less and less studios are interested in making an all-time great games and more concerned with making money. It's disappointing. Add in the gambling/addiction piece for sports games, specifically, and you have an industry that just "isn't what it used to be," unfortunately. I saw a CFB take from a guy in a Discord server that I thought was super interesting. He said his group buys the game every year, but not at launch. They wait til it goes half off around Black Friday, and that's when they all buy it and dive into their new OD. So they're still playing an annual cycle like everyone else... they're just paying half price and starting it after all the super obvious bugs from launch get patched out. Seems like a very solid approach. I don't really care about the money piece, but I know others do. And starting your OD when you have as close to a finished product as you're going to get seems smart.
You two dimwits are still circle jerking about the same shit two years later. At least Scribbley just doesn’t play.
