Re: Thoughts on Fifa20
Okay. let me explain a few things.
1. The studio that made Madden did not make these two games. EA Vancouver was responsible for NHL and Fifa. Fifa had input from another studio, but I forget who that was offhand.
2. Karen was the one who coded the original feedback in Madden and worked closely with the madden team since they're all in Orlando.
3. When a game is created, certain things are budgeted. NHL spent a lot of their budget on the online improvements as well as the visual stuff which apparently the game desperately needed. They also had to record a whole new set of play by play and commentary data as they lost/didn't renew the NBC license.
4. Nothing happens overnight. For example, it took Madden three years to get the text to speech menus. I'd like to point out that neither Fifa 19 nor NHL 19 had anything int he way of narration.
5. Going back to 3 for a minute. Nothing int he industry if free. You want a feature coded in? you pay the programmers to code it. You want something extra spoken, you pay your voice talent. When I worked as a software engineer, we would have to create a plan and then figure out how many man hours it would take. We'd then bill our clients for those man hours.
So my advice is. instead of being disgusted with EA which is totally counter productive, understand that Rome was not built in a day.
Also. here's the most important thing to keep in mind. Nowhere does it say that any company has to make their games playable at all. The CVA states that certain portions such as in game chat have to be accessible, and getting to those parts has to be accessible, but they do not specify anything further than that. Anything extra that we are getting is a nice bonus.
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