EA Sports working on fixes for NCAA Football 2009 bugs
by Griffin McElroy 
{ Jul 26th 2008 at 6:30PM }
July 15 was meant to be a day of great rejoicing for collegiate football fans, as it was the day EA Sports elected to hand down this year's model of NCAA Football. Unfortunately, a couple of NCAA Football 2009's newly implemented features (the EA Locker roster system and online dynasties) didn't work properly for a few unlucky players, occasionally erasing entire teams or failing to register online victories for a small percentage of gridiron gamers. Luckily, EA seems to be working diligently to recover from these costly fumbles.
According to EA spokesman Tyrone Miller, a patch to fix the EA Locker has been submitted to Microsoft and Sony for approval, and should be available to download during the first week of August. They've yet to announce any repairs to the online dynasties, though sports game blogger Pasta Padre reported that EA was able to fix his online dynasty after submitting his in-game issues to the company. Whether or not EA will make a similar fix downloadable for the rest of the bug-riddled masses remains to be seen.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Sora @ Jul 26th 2008 6:56PM
I believe you mean the first WEEK of August, not the first "seek".
juju187 @ Jul 26th 2008 7:02PM
played it on psp.
Still sub par football.
E A sports its in your wallet...
Badger_badger_badger @ Jul 26th 2008 7:07PM
Go Irish!
Co @ Jul 27th 2008 4:26PM
lol right. wait, r u serious???
Vol @ Jul 26th 2008 7:11PM
This is inexcusable. EA should have the bugs worked out of their football program by now. I mean, they have been releasing this same game for 8 or more years now.
Von Dozier @ Jul 26th 2008 7:22PM
"for a few unlucky players"
A few, aka everyone.
You should have seen the OperationSports boards when this game was released. It was chaos over there. Even made better by the fact that Lead Designers from NCAA and Madden frequent the boards and post regularly. It was painful seeing the designers get verbally destroyed. But so, so worth it.
Smasandian @ Jul 26th 2008 7:36PM
Didnt have any problems with it, but it could be the case of not playing it that much.
But this is nothing compared to 2k Sports products. Played MLB 2k8. Didnt finish one game past the 4th inning, and each game after that was even less. The last game lasted 1 pitch.
Same happened with hockey and basketball. Atleast EA Sports, I can actually play the game.
But of course its EA, and everybody comes out to talk bad about them and not other companies that do worst.
The Dark Lord Meowcifer @ Jul 26th 2008 8:00PM
What about the bug where you lose control of your RB on options, and he decides to sprint towards the sideline?
Smasandian @ Jul 26th 2008 8:23PM
Didn't have that one either.
A bug I can take. Not playing the game at all, even just one single game I cannot. Or crashing half way through. For a stats hound like me, its horrible.
x407x @ Jul 26th 2008 8:36PM
I have no problems with the game plus I am having a great time!
As for MLB 2k8...that game was horrid beyond belief
CelticKrush @ Jul 26th 2008 9:08PM
I wouldn't mind EA updating this game some more. The first couple of days was a mess, people were stalling or crashing all the time. Its not so bad now. Why does this game seem worse than last year?
BIGFAT @ Jul 26th 2008 10:22PM
i wonder if Xplay will change there review score they gave it a 2 out 5 mainly because of the glitches.
and the reason why i didn't buy it.
DangerMouse @ Jul 26th 2008 11:34PM
I hate how they're starting to treat console games like PC games by releasing patches while allowing sloppiness to happen by having bugs slip through the final testing stages. I can understand more complication in games these days, but the number of people and knowledge of games would seem to be much greater. I can understand a game being updated that is designed to be played online from the get-go, but something which generally played offline is unacceptable.
If the game is fucked up, get it straight and send out new copies.
Smasandian @ Jul 27th 2008 2:13AM
I assume you can dl the patch through their website and then patch it through the console.
Its funny though because the majority of problems are online related anyways.
BlueFin175 @ Jul 27th 2008 4:50AM
Exactly the same kind of issue with NASCAR 09, constant freezing and profile lock ups meaning any and all progress is lost for good. The usual crap programming from EA I'm afraid.
Phour ZwanZig @ Jul 28th 2008 12:51AM
I have not had one problem with Nascar 09.. Dude, hate to say it but it may be you machine.. I had problems with Madden 07 and everyone else said they never had it crash when you were done w/ a game but b4 it saved.. Well mine did.. I havent check it yet on my new system, but I do know that other games that used to crash, no longer do soo...
just my 2 cents
tlozwarlock @ Jul 27th 2008 11:22AM
Hey EA,
How about fixing the bug where, inexplicably, there's no TV commentary in Legend mode? How about fixing the bug where custom stadium sounds just stop working after the first or second quarter? Or how about the bug where, for some ungodly reason, you can save rosters/profiles with the exact same filename (aka, overwrite) but still have two separate files in File Manager? How about the bug where the sliders on the custom difficulty settings don't work? How about the bug where your running back gets grafted onto the back of his lead blocker?
Thanks,
tlozwarlock
Co @ Jul 27th 2008 4:28PM
Or how about the bug where the Wii version SUCKS ASS. Thanks EA, that's $50 more in my pocket.
tmacairjordan87 @ Jul 27th 2008 5:19PM
After almost 2 years on the market, you're still surprised when the wii version of something sucks? You deserve to be disappointed then.
Co @ Jul 27th 2008 9:44PM
tmac, how are you still alive? Oh wait, I haven't found you yet.
gcountach @ Jul 27th 2008 5:28PM
How can this game be so buggy? They only had to test the new features, and they had a whole year to do it!
xxzone @ Jul 28th 2008 1:34PM
Yeah I love how they are always so careful to say "few unlucky players". That is just crap. Why can no one be honest anymore. Operation Sports has turned into an EA fanboy user base. You seriously won't fine more mature users (the site is awesome), but to have the majority of people on there complaining means you really screwed up.
I can't remember the last time I rented a game with so many bugs...oh wait...Deadliest Catch Alaskan Storm. That was just as buggy easily. Freezing and all. That was a first attempt at a game though, not a mature title. This is really really pathetic, and it's a shame there is no competition to benefit from them dropping the ball. A simple QA pass would have detected a lot of these issues, so I can't understand how it made it out in this state other than them knowing about it, needing to meet a release date, and expecting to patch later. Which if that is the case, things are even worse off than I thought.
Keith Shelton @ Jul 29th 2008 12:25PM
I download rosters from the EA locker and I don't get teams disappearing but I do get a few fun little bugs.
My favorites include, when lining up before the snap, you hold down R2 to check your play and the routes are all squiggly and unreadable.
Also, you'll see your receivers lining up and instead of having a square or triangle above their heads to indicate which button, a question mark appears there so you have no idea.
Finally, the in-game music just does not work. It'll work for kickoff and maybe the 1st quarter, then it just stops and won't come back unless you re-do all your custom music.
Is the game playable? of course. Although its annoyingly buggy and irritating.
rmchair @ Aug 4th 2008 10:10PM
The squiggly lines is the home-field advantage thing. That, believe it or not was by design. As is the field being 5 yards too narrow so that every RB flare is out of bounds, the stats being based on hour games when you play 20 minute games, the playclock running while you pick your play when real coaches decide it during the previous play, the fact that the qb has to wind up to throw after you press the button, the fact that 40 % of plays have the snap jumped- very realistic.