StormySteve
Club Captain
Further to an HB progress thread....
We've all (or most of us) bought Cricket 2002/4 and now 2005 and we've all cursed, swore at, criticized Electronic Arts for bugs, difficulties in batting, bowling, animations, no patches and lack of save games etc...but in truth who is to blame??? who actually beta tests the software??? Lets be honest EA do patch their software the likes of Sim City, Medal of Honor, Command & Conquer series and the great FIFA have all be patched at one point or another, so really there's proof that they do patch games...
If us (the cricket 2XXX community) report bugs to the EA Admins, QA dept and Tech Support dept and they in turn contact HB with no reply which does seem to be the case then it's hardly EA's fault, just HB chucking out "beta" quality software to meet Ashes deadlines or to be out before BLIC.
I personally don't think there will be a Cricket 2006 because the World Cup is in 2007 so if EA take on another HB cricket game it's likely to be a rushed out in time for the World Cup bugged Cricket 2007 if EA are daft enough to put up with another "beta" quality game...
..which surely must damage their pretty good IMHO reputation and to be honest they are pretty good.
Steve S.
We've all (or most of us) bought Cricket 2002/4 and now 2005 and we've all cursed, swore at, criticized Electronic Arts for bugs, difficulties in batting, bowling, animations, no patches and lack of save games etc...but in truth who is to blame??? who actually beta tests the software??? Lets be honest EA do patch their software the likes of Sim City, Medal of Honor, Command & Conquer series and the great FIFA have all be patched at one point or another, so really there's proof that they do patch games...
If us (the cricket 2XXX community) report bugs to the EA Admins, QA dept and Tech Support dept and they in turn contact HB with no reply which does seem to be the case then it's hardly EA's fault, just HB chucking out "beta" quality software to meet Ashes deadlines or to be out before BLIC.
I personally don't think there will be a Cricket 2006 because the World Cup is in 2007 so if EA take on another HB cricket game it's likely to be a rushed out in time for the World Cup bugged Cricket 2007 if EA are daft enough to put up with another "beta" quality game...
..which surely must damage their pretty good IMHO reputation and to be honest they are pretty good.
Steve S.