NCAA Football 10: Every Game Counts
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Earlier this evening I speculated that the “Every Game Counts” motto for NCAA Football 10 would tie into a big new feature or mode. What that is has actually just been revealed in the press release announcement for the game.
True to the tradition of the award-winning franchise, NCAA Football 10 continues to push the bar on innovation with new online modes. NCAA Football 10 brings the excitement of college football to fans across the nation like never before with its newest feature, Season Showdown. In this new mode, every game counts as fans declare their loyalty to a favorite school and give the ultimate show of support in a nationwide competition. All college football fans will have an opportunity to participate in Season Showdown, as credits not only accumulate in-game but players can also earn credits for their school via new web-based games. Millions of college football fans around the country will be on a mission to prove their school is number one with NCAA Football 10’s Season Showdown.
I suppose this will be an interesting thing to follow and passionate fans of particular schools will likely work hard to represent them. However this doesn’t seem that exciting to me. Multiple games have had variations of competitions to represent teams online. It will have to be explained in more detail what makes this more engaging than just trying to help your favorite school earn meaningless bragging rights.
March 19, 2009 at 2:41 am
like you said it meaningless
March 19, 2009 at 2:41 am
Isn't this kinda similar to something FIFA did? I don't remember what it was called, but if I'm an Arsenal fan, and Arsenal's playing Man U, I'd connect to a game against a ManU fan and that game would be tracked in a sort of virtual season decided by the combined records of all users in these games.
March 19, 2009 at 10:51 am
GO ARSENAL!!!!!
March 19, 2009 at 2:42 am
I guess this is alright but maybe worries some that they're talking about it like its a big deal. Calling this an innovative online mode is an insult to online dynasty and online team play.
March 19, 2009 at 2:43 am
pretty much yea
March 19, 2009 at 2:59 am
Stole my tag line, MFers LOL
March 19, 2009 at 3:20 am
Are they going to use it for something productive and see which teams are getting used ad nauseam online and use that information to figure out what's broken that makes that team ridiculously overselected?
March 19, 2009 at 3:22 am
Sooooo i guess i will be the only person playing on behalf of WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY…..
or UM lol
March 19, 2009 at 4:29 am
did any of you notice that the player has a sleve on one arm and not on the other, finally!
March 19, 2009 at 4:34 am
The sleeve is probably just the half sleeve that goes up to the elbow from the wrist. Can't really tell from the pic…
Not a good news story…Boo!
Normally I'm all about the info. but this is weak…
March 19, 2009 at 4:37 am
Euro 2008 had a similar thing to this, where you played as a country and accumulated points for it. Something like that. I agree that it's "meaningless bragging rights" unless there's something we don't know yet. I went to Seton Hall, they don't even play college football, so I have no team to brag for.
March 19, 2009 at 5:39 am
This is the big new feature this year? If so, then it just continues to affirm my belief that the NCAA team doesn't understand what we really want at all. So far it's just shaping up to be yet ANOTHER mediocre underwhelming game this year.
March 19, 2009 at 5:47 am
I never hate on EA for news…but seriously, this time it was pointless. Give me create-a-school and then I'll get excited. And don't give me a stripped down version like they have on Madden.
March 19, 2009 at 6:29 am
NCAA and Madden 10: Every game sucks
March 19, 2009 at 7:11 am
NCAA and Madden 10: Jerseys still dont have sleeves!
March 19, 2009 at 11:20 am
Indeed
March 19, 2009 at 11:55 am
why do they do things like this when the actual game needs so much work. EA needs to take a class on priorities. quit wasting time adding pointless stuff.
March 19, 2009 at 1:16 pm
EA just doesn't get it. Instead of fixing the gameplay they are just adding more pointless features. This is what happens when you have exclusive licenses.
March 19, 2009 at 1:57 pm
How MANY times do i have to tell you people, NCAA 10 and Madden 10 have different leadership, Ian cummings is running madden right now, hes tryinig to make it as sim as possible. While the Ncaa guys will take things from madden as im sure madden will take from NCAA but im sure NCAA's vision is more add more online features since they were a hit last year with there online dynasty stuff. While madden is just worrying about gameplay!
March 19, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Who gives a shit, honestly? It sounds dumb and when the gameplay was so broken last year, you would hope that is the first thing they address. I barely played online and would much rather use effective sliders and play against the computer. Too many lame asses online who cheat or do some stupid thing that gives them an unfair advantage. With the computer, you should be able to have a real life team and have them play like the team does in real life. That's what I want
March 19, 2009 at 2:15 pm
unfortunately that is never going to happen
March 19, 2009 at 3:19 pm
AMEN!!! When will the assholes at easports get it!! they are putting more effort in stuff that most gamers don't give a shit about, how about fixing the actual game play!!! how about bringing a tv style presentation, you have espn use it !!! how about more user customization ,sliders , camera angles etc. While madden 10 is getting new stuff thats impacting the actual game play{tongue in cheek} once again ncaa is getting screwed over !!!! minor online features what!!!! fuck easports!!!!
March 19, 2009 at 3:18 pm
…wow, another pointless feature. ncaa used to be the best game but madden might take over. what about people who don't play obsessively online like 4 games a day. I prefer offline dynasty and campus legend for one thing and those havent changed in the entire time they've been a feature. This feature is sad because it's EA once again creating a ridiculously simple feature and trying to play it as a major thing (its basically online play but you can only play as one team) and there is no positive outcome for the team who has the most "points" or whatever, its soooooo easy to see whats going to happen,the big schools with huge fan bases will dominate… WOW don't let it be a BIG surprise when USC and Texas and whatever team has a fast, exploitable QB, are at the top. I'm afraid this game will be weeeak if this is the biggest addition and all the gameplay and offline features remain relatively the same. EA, surprise me.
March 19, 2009 at 5:47 pm
I don't see how this is going to work that well when there's obviously going to be more people, fans or not, playing as Florida or Ohio Stat than there will be with Duke. I'll be interested to see them go into more detail with this, but hopefully EA has more in store than just over-hyping this one feature.
March 19, 2009 at 10:46 pm
I will play any1 in NCAA 10 with Duke. True Duke fan. So if u want to play me reply back.
March 20, 2009 at 4:39 am
they had that feature in ncaa basketball 09
March 20, 2009 at 5:04 am
Who cares about every game counts, REALLY???? How about cleaning up the game itself, I dont know what to say?
"LESS HYPE MORE SUBSTANCE", How about that for a sales pitch, now that would get me excited for the game.
March 28, 2009 at 8:17 am
Apparently every game counts, except when Appalachian State beat Michigan. EA has yet to put the Mountaineers or any FCS squad in the game. There are a million other things that are better than this ridiculous "addition". No one cares about this mode, I know from the people that play FIFA. 5-6 schools will be in contention for this by default and nobody from those schools or any other school will really care who "wins".
ZzzzzzzzZzzzzzzz I think it's about time to give up on EA. Look at this topic. Pretty much every single reply is a complaint. If people were even half excited about what EA was doing with NCAA 10, you'd think we'd at least see that. These companies with exclusive licenses are getting lazy. This was the first year I didn't buy an MLB game (if I had a PS3 I would have easily bought The Show) and it might be the first I don't buy NCAA Football, Maybe a rental at best…
April 9, 2009 at 10:19 pm
if it wasnt for online dynasty i would never buy this game. but i'm addicted to O.D. so im gonna buy it anyways.