Will There Be A CREATE A FAN?

[slicknickshady]

Im just curious since madden 2005 has it and That is also an EA Game.

I notice a lot of EA games are similar so im just curious?

[Sauru]

if they have create a fan i am gonna fill the entire stadium up with sho and gloveguy. force them to watch every single game of live i play.

[GloveGuy]

HA! Bet you thought I wouldn't notice that. Talk about one the most worthless features ever put into a sports game. That's worse than ESPN implementing a button-mashing feature for jump balls.

[Andrew]

It hasn't been mentioned anywhere, so I don't think NBA Live has that feature. As far as Madden goes, it seems they've already done so much with Dynasty and Owner Mode that they can afford to add superfluous details like that. The NBA Live team are still refining features that are already in the game, I'd be surprised if they added Create-a-Fan before further Dynasty improvements.

Even the addition of All-Star Weekend which some people probably feel is unnecessary is coming along with other significant improvements to features already in the game. Judging by their recent additions, I'd say the production team is more interested in adding new features that impact gameplay or Dynasty mode directly.

[John-John Joe]

Create-A-Fan has to be the most useless waste of time in sports gaming history. Ok you create one, then what? Pause the game you you can use your controller to scour the crowd to find out if your "fan" got good seats?

Instead of them worrying about this they should use their time, energy and resources to implement more productive things like:

- The ability to do a sign and trade as well as offer the mid level exception, veteran's minimum and 10 day contracts.

- Create-A-Team Perfect for a guy like me who plays with his buddies. you should be able to choose name, design jersey and logo and decide what city you represent. Then when you and your buddies all create your team you can then access some sort of tournament mode that keeps track of evrybody's stats, wins, losses, etc.

[sho89mtx]

HA! Bet you thought I wouldn't notice that. Talk about one the most worthless features ever put into a sports game. That's worse than ESPN implementing a button-mashing feature for jump balls.

u took the words right of my mouth. Try and spend some time on graphics EA not stupid features like "Create a fan"

[Riot]

*shakes head*

please, just give it a rest. Every single post is about EA's graphics. Stop it.

[J@3]

HA! Bet you thought I wouldn't notice that. Talk about one the most worthless features ever put into a sports game. That's worse than ESPN implementing a button-mashing feature for jump balls.

u took the words right of my mouth. Try and spend some time on graphics EA not stupid features like "Create a fan"

Yeah I'm sure they spent months perfecting create a fan, does it ever cross your mind that maybe they just added it so people could enjoy the game a bit more? And no, spending an extra couple of hours on the graphics wont make a giant difference. Even if they did there'd still be "certain" people... well, person, that would say it isn't good enough.

[jayp]

i still hope they would make a Create-A-Dynasty... were you could create uniforms, arenas and draft your own players much like the CHA expansion.. i don't know how they would implement the protected list though..

[Sauru]

thats what i want. a create a team feature where you take them into your dynasty. pick a city, make a stadium(or even pick from a few precreated ones), pick team name, uni colors, and so on. then you start your dynasty with them in an expansion draft.

on another topic, thats why i like gloveguy, he can actually have fun with stuff like what i said. it was intended as a joke not to start a war.

also i fully agree that a create a fan is worthless. i rather them not waste any time on it at all. i would never use it, not even once to test it out. i could care less about the fans. if they started useing the crowd from lakers vs celtics i would not care. myself i am more into the sound, i never even notice the crowd visually but its the sound that i like.

[Colin]

I will probably end up using create-a-fan come May when the game has little to no replay value left.

[Andrew]

I agree that it's a fairly pointless feature. I was just suggesting that the Madden team added it as their Dynasty Mode is (apparently) already at a point where you can't add much else - a small extra kind of like the single player practice mode in NBA Live.

[Matthew]

I dunno.. I thought crib mode on espn football last year would be pointless. If the create-a-fan feature shows the level of satisfaction and opinions of the fans for your franchise, i think that would be an ok mode (i have no idea what ea has actually done with create-a-fan, madden isnt released down here yet...).

But i agree with andrew, i'd much rather the trade engine be revamped (so that teams actually want to trade ex stars with big contracts for nothing, like jerry stackhouse or penny hardaway) instead of create-a-fan.

[SonnyDano]

worthless. i too would rather have create-a-team. with a almost fully customizable list of things to do with that. creating fans just seems pointless.

[dnztravis]

This just porves my point in the first place. Eventhough create a Fan is already pointless but why would Live fans want the same exact feature from another game put into theres

Like ownermode for instance.

[fgrep15]

HA! Bet you thought I wouldn't notice that. Talk about one the most worthless features ever put into a sports game. That's worse than ESPN implementing a button-mashing feature for jump balls.

I was wondering what the whole point of that was, I mean why so much into the jumpball lol

[NNpF]

I know a lot of you think Create-A-Fan is stupid but it's not just used to 'create a fan'. Once you do create a fan then in your franchise, after every game you can check if that fan was happy with the prices, his teams performance etc. So if you create enough you basically know if it's time to lower prices, trade players or move away from the city. These are the kinds of small features that makes Madden that much better than Live. I know I may start an argument here but Madden has always been my first choice (not because it come out first ) but because it is just such a great game with an awesome dynasty mode and other things, like you actually get to do the training in Training Camp instead of just watching your guys shoot around and lose ratings. I know Live 2005 will be an awesome game but it is still far away from Madden.

[Matthew]

NN, i agree with you. Create a fan isnt as useless as it may sound. If Live ever reaches maddens level, then id have no problems seeing it introduced. But untill live is on that level, id rather see the development team bring in more important features, or revamps the dynasty mode and gameplay.

[Andrew]

I think most people feel Madden's Dynasty Mode is more advanced than NBA Live's at the moment, but as far choosing Madden over NBA Live, it's really a matter of your interests. I don't follow the NFL but I am a basketball and NBA fan. As great as Madden might be, it doesn't simulate NBA basketball so I don't buy it - I don't have any interest in it.

In that respect, I don't think you can really compare the two or say that one is better than the other. If you wanted to buy a basketball game, you wouldn't buy Madden just because it has better features.

[Matthew]

But I think its safe to say that Madden is alot more advanced than what Live is. If I could only choose one, it would be madden. Actually no, it would be live, and id get espn nfl as well

[Sauru]

i would say that madden is easily the most indepth sports title. still i would buy live over it simply cause i like basketball more.

[John-John Joe]

I think most people feel Madden's Dynasty Mode is more advanced than NBA Live's at the moment, but as far choosing Madden over NBA Live, it's really a matter of your interests. I don't follow the NFL but I am a basketball and NBA fan. As great as Madden might be, it doesn't simulate NBA basketball so I don't buy it - I don't have any interest in it.

In that respect, I don't think you can really compare the two or say that one is better than the other. If you wanted to buy a basketball game, you wouldn't buy Madden just because it has better features.

I think what we tend to forget sometimes here is that all of us aren't american. The NFL/american football doesn't have the same appeal globally that it does domestically. So safe to say with alot of NLSC members, they could care less about Madden, ESPN NFL, or football itself......

But I agree totally with Cambyman and others it would be an absolute dream for franchise mode to get to the level of Madden's. I honestly wonder how they feel personally about the disparity........

[Matthew]

I honestly wonder how they feel personally about the disparity........

I've thought about this for a while. I can see why madden has more resources pumped into it, becuase for 1) espn nfl is breathing down its neck, and football in america from what i can tell, has the biggest supporter base. But, to be totally honest, i cant see why things from madden cant be used directly in live, like the owner mode. they are being run by the same company... why not have one team devoted to doing the base for the dynasty modes, with the appropiate teams and producers doing the difference for the live and madden that need to be done. but i am happy with the development for live lately.. but i think it could be better.

[Andrew]

I certainly agree with that. Madden's Dynasty Mode sounds awesome and any improvements to NBA Live are fine by me; I'd like to some of the ideas I hear have been used in Madden find their way into the NBA Live series. But I personally wouldn't buy it over NBA Live as I'm a basketball/NBA fan, not an NFL fan.

[John-John Joe]

I honestly wonder how they feel personally about the disparity........

I've thought about this for a while. I can see why madden has more resources pumped into it, becuase for 1) espn nfl is breathing down its neck, and football in america from what i can tell, has the biggest supporter base. But, to be totally honest, i cant see why things from madden cant be used directly in live, like the owner mode. they are being run by the same company... why not have one team devoted to doing the base for the dynasty modes, with the appropiate teams and producers doing the difference for the live and madden that need to be done. but i am happy with the development for live lately.. but i think it could be better.

I guess what it all boils down to are the development teams. Madden's developers Tiburon, are as hard working and innovative as you can get. No disrespect to EA Canada but their accomplishments with Live are dwarfed by that of Tiburon with Madden.

I'm with you totally on one team doing the dynasty modes for all the games. I always wondered why EA Canada never just scrapped their build completely and got Tiburon to give their franchise mode a face lift. Maybe monetary issues?