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This game should be banned under the Trade Descriptions Act for having the nerve to call itself a computer cricket game. I am absolutely appalled at this absolutely atrocious game. As a player who can usually get to grips with the game inside a day or so and like many can usually master it really qucikly, I must admit to the frustration this game brings. A week or so ago I posted some cautionary posts regarding the game and was told to chill out and not get so stressed...now those same people are cussing the game themselves. The only thing which is annoying me more than this waste of space of a game is the naive and sheep like people who still think what HB Studios have done is not scandalous.
Comments like 'the game can be vastly improved with a few patches', 'if you just bowl the same line and length ball it will be more challenging', and there was even a suggestion that HB Studios and EA didn't have enough time to complete the game but have done a good job in the time scale. THIS IS TOTALLY UNBELIEVABLE. We the public are paying money to these companies to come up with an improvement on the previous game. They have had over 15 months to prepare the game. WHAT THE F*** HAVE THEY BEEN DOING WITH THEIR TIME. The suggestion that with a few patches we can improve the game is just so laughable. We shouldn't have to touch the game, otherwise we would be working for HB/EA. Sometimes we have such low expectations of these companies in these times of modern technology that it beggars belief.
I honestly believe, even more so after a few games of this complete rubbish of a game, that if EA wanted a better cricket game they should employ people on this website, who make patches and mods, instead of the team of monkeys that can't even seem to come up with the most basic of programming and bug fixing. Some of the stuff that has already been commented on is just purely unacceptable. The fielders walking across the pitch, the byes etc, I mean really do they even test the game for a lengthy time to eradicate these. The workers at HB are probably not even cricket fans rather some snotty nosed out of college kids who have no appreciation of how cricket dynamics should work. This really is the work of a level one programmer on a Spectrum +3. When you are batting you shouldn't have to change your style so that you don't score excessively, and when you are bowling the whole premise of a game is that you try and get the computer out using a variety of balls. You shouldn't have to discipline yourself to bowl balls which will not get the batsmen out because you are destroying the whole enjoyment and challenge of the game.
As I am writing, it seems that the glossy stats stuff and stadia and the tours and options have all been thrown in because they simply have not got an idea on how to do anything with the gameplay. It is a travesty that these people should get away with this dross. This is a disgusting effort!
Comments like 'the game can be vastly improved with a few patches', 'if you just bowl the same line and length ball it will be more challenging', and there was even a suggestion that HB Studios and EA didn't have enough time to complete the game but have done a good job in the time scale. THIS IS TOTALLY UNBELIEVABLE. We the public are paying money to these companies to come up with an improvement on the previous game. They have had over 15 months to prepare the game. WHAT THE F*** HAVE THEY BEEN DOING WITH THEIR TIME. The suggestion that with a few patches we can improve the game is just so laughable. We shouldn't have to touch the game, otherwise we would be working for HB/EA. Sometimes we have such low expectations of these companies in these times of modern technology that it beggars belief.
I honestly believe, even more so after a few games of this complete rubbish of a game, that if EA wanted a better cricket game they should employ people on this website, who make patches and mods, instead of the team of monkeys that can't even seem to come up with the most basic of programming and bug fixing. Some of the stuff that has already been commented on is just purely unacceptable. The fielders walking across the pitch, the byes etc, I mean really do they even test the game for a lengthy time to eradicate these. The workers at HB are probably not even cricket fans rather some snotty nosed out of college kids who have no appreciation of how cricket dynamics should work. This really is the work of a level one programmer on a Spectrum +3. When you are batting you shouldn't have to change your style so that you don't score excessively, and when you are bowling the whole premise of a game is that you try and get the computer out using a variety of balls. You shouldn't have to discipline yourself to bowl balls which will not get the batsmen out because you are destroying the whole enjoyment and challenge of the game.
As I am writing, it seems that the glossy stats stuff and stadia and the tours and options have all been thrown in because they simply have not got an idea on how to do anything with the gameplay. It is a travesty that these people should get away with this dross. This is a disgusting effort!
