Archive for the ‘NCAA Football’ Category
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Encouraging Early Sales Numbers Reported for NCAA Football 12
EA Sports today has declared that sales of NCAA Football 12 are up 17% for the first two weeks of release compared to last year. According to their estimates 700K copies have been sold - putting NCAA 11's numbers at the same point at approximately 598K. NCAA 11 went on to sell 667K through the end of August. It will be important to wait on independently collected official NPD sales numbers for the first month before making any final declarations regarding NCAA 12's success but it has at leas...
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NCAA Football 12 Tendency Bug in Rosters Will be Fixed in Patch
NCAA Football 12 released with a number of serious problems that have been well documented which has prompted some response. Sadly add another to the running list with an issue that was discovered in named rosters. While the majority of the problems have thus far gone unaddressed by EA Sports this one is said to already be in line for the upcoming patch which would still be weeks away at a minimum. (more…)...
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NCAA Football 12 SuperSim on the Web
As one of the new web-based features in NCAA Football 12 the SuperSim feature comes as part of the 'Commissioner Pack' DLC for $7. That pack also provides for the ability to run five Online Dynasties and advance the week via the web - though that feature has been delayed to sometime in August. SuperSim can also be purchased separately for $2. After being down for several days the web SuperSim appears now to be fully functional so I took it for a spin. The feature is impressive in some res...
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NCAA Football 12 Online Dynasty Contract Issue Now Fixed
Earlier today I posted about several issues being experienced within Dynasty mode in NCAA Football 12 after having spent hours running tests - most of which were related to Online Dynasty. The hope was that some of those could be fixed server side. The "Transfer Failed" error that came up when a coach was fired or had their contract expire was one which seemed to have that potential to be immediately addressed. EA Sports has pushed a server side fix for the offseason contract error which ...
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NCAA Football 12 Dynasty Problems Surface
With NCAA Football 12 having now been out for nearly a week reports are starting to come in on issues discovered within Dynasty mode. Outside of the exception of the absurd wait time for advancing Online Dynasty each 'week' and some problems progressing when utilizing Teambuilder squads the mode looked to be relatively clean on the surface with good sim stats and the Custom Conferences and Coaching Carousel working properly. (more…)...
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NCAA Football 12: Hits and Misses
With NCAA Football 12 EA Sports made some prominent feature additions that were directed primarily at the more hardcore fans of the series while promising some important improvements to gameplay. Following up on Sunday's full impressions posting what did NCAA Football 12 deliver on and where did it go wrong? Find out in this 'Hits and Misses' review. (more…)...
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Pastapadre Teambuilder Design Winner
Once again thanks to everyone who took the time to work on a submission for the NCAA Football 12 official Pastapadre Teambuilder design contest. With over 4K votes cast it was Entry #2 as the resounding winner picking up 35% of the vote. The next highest came in at 14% and the remaining all fell in the 2-12% range. If you'd like to download the team to use yourself it can be found under the gamertag SteelByDesign. The designer of the winning entry has chosen to join the Official Pastap...
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New Features in NCAA Football 12 Lack Necessary Follow-Through
While I work up the 'Hits and Misses' review for NCAA Football 12 to be posted tomorrow one thing over the last week has become apparent: well-intentioned and heavily hyped features are absent the necessary foresight or simply haven't been implemented completely. (more…)...
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