Peter Moore Wants E3 Open to Community, Deflects NCAA Football 09 Criticism
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In his latest blog entry, Peter Moore comments on the state of E3 while indirectly brushing off criticism directed at NCAA Football 09. He goes on to thank the community for helping to get some of the issues with the latest releases (NCAA, Nascar) addressed so quickly.
The consensus seems to be that E3 was awful this year and that major changes are needed. Moore suggests that fans of the games should be involved in the event. Considering EA’s focus on involving the community that should not come as a surprise.
Let’s invite the community. With the right planning, involving our biggest fans in E3 would bring back some of the raw passion the event has lost.
Moore also touched on the company’s interaction with the community and how it has been of immediate benefit. He cites the producers posting on the EA Sports World forums (don’t exist) while linking to the same old terrible EA forums.
We’d love it if every game was perfect, but in all my years in the industry I’ve never seen a game with zero bugs. Because of the fans, we’ve already addressed a handful of issues in NCAA Football and NASCAR, and if we can create an environment to continue to get our games in the hands of you, our fans, sooner, then I’m all for it.
While gameplay is always going to be subjective there is no excuse for broken features. While they are actively working on getting them fixed that doesn’t change the fact that areas such as player editing and Online Dynasty have caused major headaches for consumers.
July 25, 2008 at 10:14 am
he’s right about letting the fans come I mean isn’t that who the games are 4
if ur NOT 1st ur Last
July 25, 2008 at 10:17 am
What a joke, come out and say it, you dont give a crap what we think as long as it sells. These arent minor issues, these are the highly touted features of the year that are broken. For Shame EA…………
July 25, 2008 at 10:29 am
Pasta: How about removing every comment that are simply saying “1st/first” or any variation there of?
And how could EA let those bugs be in the final product? No tester even tried to edit a player/roster? Not a single person involved with the game?
July 25, 2008 at 10:34 am
All in all the game is fun so stop complaining.
July 25, 2008 at 10:36 am
big wig “out of touch” say a little truth to cover the “real” truth kind of guy..i give yiu Peter Moore.
July 25, 2008 at 10:38 am
[quote comment="29965"]All in all the game is fun so stop complaining.[/quote]
so is checkers. But checkers aint broke and delivers what it says it will deliver.
July 25, 2008 at 11:15 am
i wont buy madden or ncaa, i would probably rent them if i had to play them. i learned my lesson a way back. it always some excuse as to why there were bugs, wrong uniform, lack of alternates, lack of double number editing. you will usually hear “we will get it in next year”, well i still waiting from four years back moore.
July 25, 2008 at 11:41 am
Here’s an interesting quote I found when browsing from
5w-g.com “I don’t think the investors give a shit about our quality. They care about our earnings per share.” – Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello. Hmmm…..
July 25, 2008 at 1:20 pm
EGM: Reviews madden 09
Madden NFL 09 – A, B, A-
Good: Shockingly pretty
Bad: The play-by-play coach needs some coaching
MAdden 09 preorder commercial: http://youtube.com/watch?v=x5mhaGn8rwg
Pasta please activate my account or resend the activation I cant start new threads in forums, Thanks
July 25, 2008 at 1:54 pm
that online dynasty, ive given up on… the roster bug is okay, and I like that on demand thingy they got on there (online feature). Gameplay is dope, but the playing online… I swear to god I have not finished a game yet on there… it is horrible. I refuse to play online now. Weird huh? you can listen to the 30 minute updates form espn, on demand espn, but you cant play online LOL. Damn.
July 25, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Seriously guys all this is rediculous….These guys know that Madden and NCAA are the only football franchises out so they can leave the games with all the errors and bugs because they know once drop time comes around everyone is buying a copy….its money in the bag, then when all of us notice how annoying these things are, they immediately tell us that next years game will be so much better and yadda yadda yadda…..I popped in the game for the first time and I thought it was amazing but as I got deeper in my dynasty with the Irish I noticed that kirk and lee were commentating on plays that happened 5 minutes ago….and then the crowd started reacting 10 seconds late to every play…..and worst of all I was in my 3rd play of the series just coming out of halftime when kirk was still telling me the score of the game….it went like this…..”The score at halftime is…..5 sec…..The Fighting Irish…..10 sec…..35……10 sec……Navy……15 sec……6.” That just pulled my faith right out of that game…oh man its like every time i put it on i pray the commentating will sync with my gameplay…..Thanks for your time guys God Bless
July 25, 2008 at 2:12 pm
[quote comment="29973"]i wont buy madden or ncaa, i would probably rent them if i had to play them. i learned my lesson a way back. it always some excuse as to why there were bugs, wrong uniform, lack of alternates, lack of double number editing. you will usually hear “we will get it in next year”, well i still waiting from four years back moore.[/quote]
couldnt have said it better
July 26, 2008 at 10:51 am
All this means is EA is buying E3…;)
July 26, 2008 at 2:40 pm
ea is horrible, there games are horrific, and people that support them are horrificly horrible.
July 27, 2008 at 1:12 am
E3 has been getting crappier every year since I was going, and I heard from others that it got even worse since then. I will be going to E for All(basically E3 for everybody, but smaller) again hoping that it will have gotten bigger and better then last year. E3 going back to the “one-upmanship” as he put it would still be better then what they have now.
I think he might be hinting at an Electronic Arts Expo of sorts for gamers held just by EA, but possibly exhibiting other developers products.