Given the update is going to include labels above each fielder, there is no reason you shouldn't know where all 9 fielders are after the patch.
I guess that must be the only point you disagree with.
There are also other issues at play, people who play multi-player locally, can tend to play via a broadcast view (batting) to accomodate the bowling player. Cutting from 3rd person to 1st person view and then back again is a little jarring especially with how often it's required in shorter games with bowlers changing more often (even for some playing in default view).
For those in a broadcast view there's the mental side of what you see in 1st person on the right will then be on the left (and vice versa). Not altogether hard to comprehend, but with such intent focus on batting, it can be easy to lose that, lose a wicket and your temper all because of perspective shifts.
Really this all amounts to what could or perhaps should be a personal choice. Design choices are to be respected and I myself think this one works in single player, I love it in fact. With time to play the game naturally it's perfectly immersive to look around the field in this manner, when viewing the game in default batting views.
At the end of that day, you can't solely base design choices on people who think exactly like you do. People need to embrace options, because they keep more people playing, for longer. The main obstacle here should be advantage and with my points above, it's obviously easy to negate that. Simply put, it just feels jarring at times and difficult at others in multi-player for myself and many others.
There are people who aren't like the hard core players who may just "get used to it". There are people who'll get sold on this game by their friends who'll only play this for a couple of games in the weekend with other friends, who'll be frustrated by the time it takes and the perspective shifts involved.
Really there should be a simple way to "implement traditional multi-player". After all some people will lose interest having to:
Change batting to broadcast cam for multi-player (after searching out which cam they like).
Change bowling cam to the distance they like (a lot of people have changed away from running cam, sure some have kept it).
Invert batting in the options, so they can bat properly to a mate they're playing.
Go through Fielding cam to find the right one (Fielding 1 seems to help get a lot more perspective in multi-player)
Find the right running cam (so it goes on).
Then learn an all new method to look around the field which does not feel easy when you're learning the game, especially in multi-player.
(Let's face it, the IGN guys basically did this right away to play each other).
Finally, go out a lot with batting already being quite hard or too easy on the bottom levels.
Accesibility in multi-player is obviously an issue (albeit minor to people who know what they are doing) and the 1st person view is a small part of that. Right through the development we were told that we are somewhat less than 1% (and more hardcore) fanbase.
The casual (and supposedly massively larger) fanbase aren't all likely to sit down and love the options at default including this one and the game needs to sell well. I think this could all be sorted out, give everyone want they want and no-one an advantage.
What's wrong with that?
