Meh, if Codies decided to ignore the feedback given to them by members/admins of this community and the resulting game was crap, that is there financial fault. EA is bad but it is miles better than BLIC.
You are forgetting that BLIC 07 topped the sales charts in both the UK and Australasia for quite a while and vastly outsold Cricket 07.
A good way to think about cricket is to think about what generally always would happen if you played a game at lunch time at school, someone would come along, bat and then leave. Cricket video games have to tap in to that market to be successful in terms of overall sales, it doesn't result in a good game, but that isn't needed for sales success.
A perfect cricket game would be the smashing around the park affair that results in a fun pick up and play game on low difficulty, but become realistic at a higher one, to appeal to both sets of fans. If compromises are made, they will always go towards what will earn them the most amount of sales dollars, the casual cricket gamer.
A video game has to be fun to play as a game to make money, a completely realistic cricket game isn't going to do that. But the ideal is to be like many of the other EA Sports games, and have the realistic stuff beneath the surface for the people who want it, like FIFA is a great simulation of Football, but you can still play the kick 20 goals in 10 minutes on easy sort of game, which is more fun, but less like Football.
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