Ongoing NCAA Basketball 09 Community Event
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EA Sports is currently hosting a community event for NCAA Basketball 09. Community manager Marcus Stephenson is running a live blog of the event on EA Sports World which stretches through tomorrow. You can check that out here for the first day and for day two here.
Things have been puzzling surrounding this title. It is two months prior to releasing and the game hasn’t been officially announced. No news has been made available on it, not even the cover athlete. In fact the game isn’t even in the system for retailers and can’t be pre-ordered. While some good info should come out of this event when that will happen is still even unknown due to likely NDAs.
Certainly because of this speculation has started as to why that may be the case. With no competition there isn’t necessarily the pressure to push the game early, but at the same time it would seem as though they’d want to work on winning over the College Hoops castaways. It isn’t quite the same as 2K not having shown gameplay of NBA 2K9 a month out because they have an established history of delivering up to their fans expectations. NCAA Basketball in more than just a name is starting from scratch.
September 9, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Sounds good Pasta.
September 9, 2008 at 9:55 pm
I heard that they were building the game from the ground up this year. I hope they don’t use the same engine as Live although the probably will knowing EA. They would rather continue to use the same engine instead of admitting that the Live engine is flawed & robotic. They probably want to wait until Live is released to start showing any gameplay videos. I hope they deliver this year. We all know what EA does when there’s no competition.
September 9, 2008 at 9:58 pm
good more B-BALL info can’t get enuff
if ur NOT 1st ur LAST
September 9, 2008 at 10:19 pm
yea this sucks… now ncaa basketball is taken from me, because im for sure not playin EAs college hoops. I swear if EA ever takes 2k9 away from me I might as well just go sell my ps3.
September 9, 2008 at 10:55 pm
[quote comment="35795"]I heard that they were building the game from the ground up this year. I hope they don’t use the same engine as Live although the probably will knowing EA. They would rather continue to use the same engine instead of admitting that the Live engine is flawed & robotic. They probably want to wait until Live is released to start showing any gameplay videos. I hope they deliver this year. We all know what EA does when there’s no competition.[/quote]
I’m not sure if that’s entirely true, I guess we’ll find out soon. It would concern me especially since the development cycle for this year is short a month.
September 9, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Man i sure am gna miss CH2K that game goes hard! im still playing it! March MAdness sucks! hopefully they can deliver this yr. But judging from nba live games lately, and their lack of compettion this year i surely doubt it.
September 10, 2008 at 6:33 am
DId EA sign an exclusive license with the NCAA or is 2K just taking a year off from making College Hoops?
September 10, 2008 at 6:57 am
[quote comment="35813"]DId EA sign an exclusive license with the NCAA or is 2K just taking a year off from making College Hoops?[/quote]
2K made a business decision not to continue the College Hoops franchise. It was interesting because about 2 weeks before that I did an article about how I wasn’t sure that there was enough total sales to support two different titles.
September 10, 2008 at 8:32 am
Is that Picture from your blog from March Madness 08 or Ncaa Basketball 09?
September 10, 2008 at 8:33 am
March Madness 08. There aren’t any screenshots for NCAA 09 out yet.
September 10, 2008 at 8:48 am
Should be interesting to see how this sells considering the updated 2009 rosters will probably be hitting 2k share on CH2K8 right before the season starts. CH2K8 is probably the best college hoops title ever. I’d be willing to make the switch to NCAA, but the quality is just not there- and based on the Live demo, is still a year or so away.
I just can not see EA including as much as CH2K8 did into their game- all the stadiums, all the teams, all the alternate jerseys, chant creator, alternate venues during the tourney, weekly wrap up show with highlights, selection show, etc.
There’s really no reason why this new NCAA game can’t include all the features as CH2K8, especially since they are the only game in town- but with 2k share available to provide updated 09 rosters, does it really matter?
How about this Pasta- the reason the game hasn’t been talked about yet is because they are waiting on the Take Two sale to EA. Once this is done it will be revealed that the reason CH folded is because the development team immediately started working with EA on their college basektball title due to the impending sale. Juicy Gossip!! haha.
September 10, 2008 at 10:39 am
What do we know about the CH2K8 2009 rosters via 2K share? Are we guessing that someone will update all the rosters that way? I would love to have the new rosters and not have to spend any money on a new game.
September 10, 2008 at 11:52 am
[quote comment="35823"]What do we know about the CH2K8 2009 rosters via 2K share? Are we guessing that someone will update all the rosters that way? I would love to have the new rosters and not have to spend any money on a new game.[/quote]
I can pretty much guarantee someone will spend the time to edit rosters, create freshman, etc, and have this roster ready by the opening of the season. Heck, people are still updating MVP 05 for the PC, so why not College Hoops?
September 10, 2008 at 1:28 pm
[quote comment="35832"][quote comment="35823"]What do we know about the CH2K8 2009 rosters via 2K share? Are we guessing that someone will update all the rosters that way? I would love to have the new rosters and not have to spend any money on a new game.[/quote]
I can pretty much guarantee someone will spend the time to edit rosters, create freshman, etc, and have this roster ready by the opening of the season. Heck, people are still updating MVP 05 for the PC, so why not College Hoops?[/quote]
Yea people are still updating rosters for 2K5 so I’m sure someone will update CH2K8. It amazes me that EA is probably the wealthiest company out there but yet their games (with the exception of NHL 09, Fight Night, and FIFA) are lackluster. What are they doing with all the money just sitting on it? They’re definately not putting it into game development because there’s no reason that they’re games shouldn’t be the best out there. If people are saying that they would still rather play CH2K8 over NCAA 09 then what does that tell you. That said, NHL 09 is sick & I don’t even like hockey.