Ashes Cricket General Discussion

[Kass D]

"I bought the digital version" would be a better phrasing.

Thanks mate. English is my 4th language. And am pretty bad in it sadly

 

[Chief]

Thanks mate. English is my 4th language. And am pretty bad in it sadly

Oops: To qualify this, I wasn't correcting your language as such - I was just making sure no-one misinterpreted that as "I pirated it".

 

[Mr Snrub]

I really hope didn't fall for the reddest of red herrings that was rapido patchy or whatever.

Ashes had 2 patches in 2 days after release, and incremental vs big bang was an internal discussion BA said they were having and Max showed a thread about a different game that proved rapid patching for ps4 existed last year.[DOUBLEPOST=1521104580][/DOUBLEPOST]

Now that's the true story.

Competition vs low hanging fruit with nowhere to go.

When the patches for Ashes that have come out so far have all come out in a fairly compressed time-frame shortly after release, it gives you your first clue that it's possible to produce patches more rapidly for this title already. It sort've points right at incremental vs all-inclusive which coincidentally was discussed apparently.

Then when you have another developer in August last year very kindly laying out the rapid patch scenario and exactly how it works and how it was being utilised, more than four months before it was supposed to be, and under completely different and more logical criteria, then it kinda makes you realize that there's some information at odds with what we were told.

At the end of the day with no-one else making cricket games, the current developer has absolute power. I can't remember what used to be said about that.

 

[Spoobir]

I really hope didn't fall for the reddest of red herrings that was rapido patchy or whatever.

Ashes had 2 patches in 2 days after release, and incremental vs big bang was an internal discussion BA said they were having and Max showed a thread about a different game that proved rapid patching for ps4 existed last year.

Also even if it is true that wouldn't explain why there have been no incremental PC patches like there were for DBC17.

 

[Mrakh]

Has anybody had an issue with academy files corrupting? For the 2nd time in 2 days I have just flicked on the game and ALL downloaded teams have lost their kits and all logos are now the big ant logo, this is the 3rd overall time this has happened to me. I’m on Xbox. Super frustrating in a game that I otherwise love.

 

[Spoobir]

 

[balkeet]

Lmao

 

[TemPSaad]

Oops: To qualify this, I wasn't correcting your language as such - I was just making sure no-one misinterpreted that as "I pirated it".

Dont think the game is available to pirate from what I know.

 

[Kass D]

Dont think the game is available to pirate from what I know.

No its not and i paid for my copy as well. I just wish BA treat us like they are treating the tannins fans . All in all this will not change till we get another game developer interested in cricket. Its strange , cricket is like the 2nd biggest sport in the world,

 

[gkvarma18]

One game play related doubt i am asking to Dutch .In the vids that you posted yesterday showing that we can check and see our glance while batting. Is it an addition in the new patch. If yes then that's very nice addition to the game play as we could be able to change our glance at the crease and flexible enough. Thank you Dutch.

 

[Mondy]

Out of curiosity is a three month wait for a patch considered poor these days? Do other studios respond quicker? My memory of playing FIFA back in the day is that patches were few and far between but that was 2015.

 

[Mondy]

By the way I like the idea of the beta-testers thread. Does the ban on non-beta testers apply to Ross and BA coz I’m sure they’ll be itching to comment... they’re paid to do so you know.*

* Yes I’m aware that I’ve flogged this joke to death**

** Can’t promise I won’t continue to flog it***

*** Unless the mods ban me and then I’ll just throw it randomly into polite conversation.

 

[Chief]

No its not and i paid for my copy as well. I just wish BA treat us like they are treating the tannins fans . All in all this will not change till we get another game developer interested in cricket. Its strange , cricket is like the 2nd biggest sport in the world,

I've never ever bought this - I've had games out when there's a competitor and when there hasn't been. It's never been part of my decision making regarding the development of the game. Not once that I can think of. Maybe in terms of marketing/pr, but never development.

I've never know it where the people actually in charge of making the game are driven by anything other than making it as good as possible.

I suspect that the current state of affairs is more down to the developer being stretched across too many titles, driven by commercial necessity. Nothing to do with there being no other cricket game out there. I'm not sure it counts as a monopoly if even the monopoly holder cannot make money out of it: why would anyone else get involved?

 

[blockerdave]

I've never ever bought this - I've had games out when there's a competitor and when there hasn't been. It's never been part of my decision making regarding the development of the game. Not once that I can think of. Maybe in terms of marketing/pr, but never development.

I've never know it where the people actually in charge of making the game are driven by anything other than making it as good as possible.

I suspect that the current state of affairs is more down to the developer being stretched across too many titles, driven by commercial necessity. Nothing to do with there being no other cricket game out there. I'm not sure it counts as a monopoly if even the monopoly holder cannot make money out of it: why would anyone else get involved?

it's an interesting perspective.

but when you look at AO tennis and Ashes cricket, the differential in competition vs the differential in support, you can see why we reason like that.

i don't blame BA for making a decision in their commercial interest. but it doesn't mean i support their lack of engagement with the community or feel the community should pretend everything is still rosy

 

[gkvarma18]

One game play related doubt i am asking to Dutch .In the vids that you posted yesterday showing that we can check and see our glance while batting. Is it an addition in the new patch. If yes then that's very nice addition to the game play as we could be able to change our glance at the crease and flexible enough. Thank you Dutch.

Could you please answer to this Dutch.