[quote name='FriskyTanuki']
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showpost.php?p=6907647&postcount=185
The game isn't a broken product, though you were happy that they were working on this patch and am now shitting on it's release.[/QUOTE]
I made that post before I learned my league was completely broken, with a draft it wouldn't allow us to have, and game results that will not be recorded. I made the assumption that since this year's focus was the online portion of the game, that it wouldn't have many problems. So, definitely. Shame on me for that. But I'm sorry. As more bugs are uncovered, my approval rating for the game drops. As Matt said, the game is not completely broken, but certain parts of it are...for the second year in a row. The fact that they're "willing" to fix it just seems secondary to the fact that those problems still exist.
wildcpac made a good point in saying that people are demanding more and more from sports games, so they're not "just roster updates". And as a result we're seeing more problems. I agree completely. We're getting quantity over quality, and I just don't like it. I've always understood that sports games were more than "just roster updates", so I'm not really one who needs all these play modes and options and everything else they're spending time on.
I don't even play multiple seasons of my franchise and I rarely make it through one complete RttS season. Why? Because by understanding that the game is more than just roster updates, I plan on buying it again the following year. As we've discussed before in these threads, adding so much depth to the Franchise and RttS modes somewhat goes against the "buy it every year" philosophy that I'm sure SCEA wants you to have (unless they start allowing you to import your RttS save file from the prior year).
Of course I don't mind these things, but they should never come at the expense of solid programming. All I want is a game that plays solid for one season. When you start taking away 2 weeks here, a month there, to fix things that don't work right out of the gate, it starts to depreciate that one year value. Don't get me wrong. The game is still a very good game of baseball. I believe that moreso than I did last year. I just know they can do better. It just feels like their priorities are out of whack (again as wildcpac mentioned).