wasteyouryouth
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My post was more a response on how silly the comment about EA was. I don't know about Big Ant's finances or their motivations. But it does feel like a stretch to get two big licensed games out for a small studio in such close proximity. If anything the fault would be too much ambition. I'm sure they wanted or were expecting Ashes to be in a far better state than it was, bugs wise, upon release. Like you say EA have separate studios that are probably as big or bigger working on each title with people that probably focus on nothing but one game all year round.
My concern as a player of Ashes is that if the whole studio has shifted to focus on AO, given the state that is in (I've not played it but from what I've seen and read my interest has gone from 'very interested' to 'well... I might see if it improves and pick it up in a sale'), how easy will it be to move even some people back to Ashes? Given the staggered release of AO, more broad nature of the license, you could still sell it around the time of the French Open or Wimbledon on the basis of it being tennis with licensed players. Whereas, other than maybe a bit of a bump during the English cricket season or barring bringing in further licensed teams it's not really going to get that.
Of course I know nothing of what's actually going on. It does feel like the same situation we had before the release with people (me included) pulling theories out of thin air about how Big Ant has abandoned the game when the reality could be that people have been focusing on both games simultaneously, beta testers are playing a new build as we speak and by the end of the month both games could be patched and in far better place. It could be that they don't have the resources or inclination to respond to all of the rubbish on this forum at the moment.
I do think even the smallest update, like @Cricket Life suggested, about what is being worked on would be good.
