Postgame wrote:...
Hope this helps.
I know there are priorities while making a game, that you can't put everything you want in the game in a year cycle, etc but there has been things that have been asked for years and it's like those things were ignored, two that come to my mind right now are animations and body models. Are you telling me those couple aren't in the A or B in the priorities list? As you've said the foundation of the core gameplay has to be locked down before adding other stuff but aren't animations a huge part of the foundation? If the game doesn't look right or the moves made by the players are awkward, it doesn't matter how responsive the game could be, gamers would be turned off by it. I believe that if you ask most basketball gamers where would they locate animations in a priority list they would place it really high.
About body models, I've read that the team during the Live 13 cycle have spent around 100 hours making each face. Were faces part of the A or B of priorities? Yeah, most faces were really good but if the body models don't look right then it doesn't matter how much effort it's been put on faces. The entire graphic part of the game should be treated the same, faces, body models, body types, lightning, uniforms (which from the pics don't look that good), stadiums, etc.
Most basketball gamers have been disappointed and not trusting EA's basketball department because they feel they haven't been listened and taken into consideration, they/we are looking for a bidirectional exchange of communication whcih they/we feel you care about us because, after all, we're people who are potential consumers of your products.
Also, I feel it's very difficult to give feedback about the game when we we almost don't know anything about the game itself. The only things we could give feedback about something relatively current is some few screenshots, a trailer and a leaked gameplay video (which could be useless since Scott said today that the video is old). If you really want feedback then the team shouldn't hide from us like you did during the Live 13 cycle because it doesn't help any side. I'm not asking a full game of gameplay per month but we need to know and see more about the game in order to help make it better. People over the Live forums around the internet feel ignored by EA so you (EA Bbal team) need to try to erase thad bad image even though you're not entirely to blame, I feel that if you want to gain again people's trust you shouldn't just be here because it makes the rest feel outside of this.
I hope you, Scott or the rest of the team don't take it the wrong way, I'm trying to give constructive criticism to maybe help you realize how many feel about the Live franchise.