Booting up NCAA, grabbing your favorite team, and then utilizing “QB No. 5” has a tendency to break the college football experience. EA understands that. NCAA Football 09 will be the first time players will be allowed to create their own rosters and upload them through the game's network to share with others. This new option makes it much easier for players to get rosters since it forgoes going onto a website and jacking in a memory card or some other peripheral. Unfortunately, the new NCAA offering appears to have a crucial flaw. Editing imported rosters can corrupt depth charts, team rankings, or even delete teams entirely.
Kotaku recently had a conversation with EA about the glitch. EA is assuring that they are working fervently to repair the problem, although there has yet to be a mention of a specific date for a patch. Our take from it is that players should not even bother with the feature for the time being. While only people that have edited user uploaded rosters have experienced the glitch, it is probably safe to assume that the entire roster system may be subject to at least some sort of residual issue.
Personally, I think this is a massive oversight on EA’s part. The company fully knows that the first thing that most NCAA Football players do is find a roster that has all the names, rankings, and profiles for the current year. Yet, while it’s a big “whoops” moment, we have a feeling it will get sorted out very soon. For now, though, Mr. McFadden should probably stay “RB No. 5.”
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6:13 AM on 07.15.2008
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I think.
It's a real shame that this pops up just when EA starts making so many strides towards satisfying the game's hardcore fan base, but at least it makes me feel a BIT better about being away from my 360 for a few days. Hopefully, this bug will be quashed by the time I get home.
getting the rosters usually is the first thing someone does. It will definitely be the first thing they do now that you can get them online.
This has the potential to blow up big if some of the bigger schools magically go missing from your game and people not as in the know as people that read video game sites and magazines cant figure out how to get their favorite team back.
actually, I've never downloaded rosters for NCAA. Once or twice for Madden (08 rosters for 07 w/draft picks, etc) but in NCAA either I name them myself, or within a few years in a dynasty, they're all replaced by recruited players with their own generated names.
First thing I'm doing is setting up the online dynasty feature...
This really is quite a whopper of an oversight though...