I reckon he's pretty reasonable. You can tell him you think things need improvement etc and he's pretty good from my experience. He just doesn't have any time for the "LET'S START A PETITION FOR AN EA GAME!" morons who just go on the forums to bag it and in completely unconstructive ways whilst bitching that it should be like Madden.
To be honest, I just reckon a lot of the whinier fans just don't like it when their boring venom isn't solely one way... and seriously, a fair few of the detractors here have very little useful to say outside of bagging the game whilst demonstrating they don't get economics.
RossTah,
Fair point, some people have wanted EA to develop the game, but chances are it would be shipped out to some of their third party developers located in Russia and we would likely get a far inferior product to what is currently available.
I personally do not want EA to develop the game, unless it is with their larger sized studios like EA TIBURON. Imagine if 2K Sports developed the game with their previous NFL development team, those guys had a lot of talent. By the time they made NFL2k5, to this day the game is still considered the greatest NFL video game.
If Big Ant want fan interaction, that is great. But they cannot have it one way. They cannot expect to put themselves out their to the public and not expect to get some level of heat, considering the poor quality of their products.
RLL1 - Most likely one of the worst sport games to be made.
RLL2 - Massive improvement, but still so buggy and varied very little. Every game played out the exact same way. Terrible animations and some shocking game play mechanics, such as passing in general was shit house, kicking was crap, contesting the ball from kicks was abysmal. Almost every fundemental aspect of rugby league played out very poorly, but nonetheless it was still far better then RLL1 (only due to how shit RLL1 played).
If Big Ant had a different development history, the general consumer would not be bagging them out like they have on Facebook, their own forum and this forum. Go have a look at Operation Sports and see the content being provided by customers/gamers from various EA Games.
I want this rugby league game to be fun and not littered with annoying gameplay mechanics. Hopefully they pull through, but the game alleged comes out on 10 September, we have seen ZERO actual gameplay. Forget the trailer which is just a close up of the replay.
As for Ross, the bloke is a tool. Always has been. Posted on here several years ago when RLL1 was being released, then pissed off as soon as everyone returned to mention the issues with the game. Then bam he returns with the news about RLL2, but as soon as he is provided feedback, he takes off again.
He wanted everyone to worship him, simply for the fact that his company are developing a game that we want. Like I give a shit who develops the game, as long as it is good. Tru Blu do not care, they want a return on the product. If not Big Ant, they would find someone else.
Ross cannot hack any negative feedback. He wants us to simply love the game with all the shitty features and gameplay issues. We tried to mention them, yet he takes it personally.
Remember Mario from SIDHE, did he receive the same level of heat, nah...why not? Cause he did not respond and treat the general community like garbage.
