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NCAA Football 10 Community Playdate

Posted On: Jul. 22, 2009 11:43 AM EST By: Dewiel 11 Comments

Now that NCAA Football 10 is in stores, we thought it'd be a good time to set up a game with the devs night. For those of you not familiar with this type of event, you will have the opportunity to play a game of NCAA Football 10 with members of the dev team along with members of the EA SPORTS Community and Live Production teams.

The event will take place on Thursday, July 23, 2009 from 5-9pm EDT on the XBOX 360 and will feature several members of our team including:

 

- Russ Kiniry (EASPORTS RussK) - NCAA Football 10 Designer

- Ben Haumiller (EASPORTS BenH) - NCAA Football 10 Designer

- Larry Richart (EASPORTS LarryR) - NCAA Football 10 Associate Designer

- Greg Heddlesten (EASPORTS GregH) - NCAA Football 10 Associate Designer

- Mike Scantlebury (EASPORTS MikeS) - NCAA Football 10 Assistant Producer

- Will Kinsler (Raczilla) - EA SPORTS Community Manager

- Justin Dewiel (Dewiel) - EA SPORTS Community Manager

- Eric Gray (Emantx) - EA SPORTS Broadcast Producer

- Rob Thompson (SAMamboking) - EA SPORTS Broadcast Host

- Jason Thompson (PrimetimeSA) - EA SPORTS Broadcast Host

*Please note that each team member's gamertag is noted in parenthesis above.

While we'd like to play a game against everyone, we realize that we are only going to play against some of you during the event so we are encouraging everyone to play games against each other and upload the highlights to beta.easports.com for the rest of the community to see. We will be creating a thread in the NCAA Football forums around the event for everyone to interact as well. On our end, we plan on recording and posting a few of the games we play on the site along with a recap article so that everyone can take part in the event. This is your chance to be the first EA SPORTS Community member to beat an EA SPORTS employee in NCAA Football 10. Don't miss out!

Good luck and make sure you are online and ready to go on Thursday July 23, 2009 at 5pm EDT. For those of you planning on participating, let us know and if you have any questions, feel free to post them in the comments section below as well!

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  • TreyIM2 said July 16, 2009

    Just wanted to say that I am REALLY enjoying NCAA 10 on my PS3. Yes, it may not be getting most of the new stuff that Madden 10 is but the game play is GREAT and adding the sliders was icing on the cake, for me. Kudos and I look forward to what you guys do for NCAA 11 because I assume that NCAA 11 will get the Madden 10 treatment with presentation, Pro-Tak, onfield refs and chain gangs and more. This is my first NCAA Football purchase since the release of NCAA 2005. Again, great job with the gameplay...

  • BinLadenLovesYou said July 16, 2009

    here's what makes a passing game realisic(two factors):

    1) how much time the QB has to throw.  if the QB has too much time he will find the open WR with ease.  if the QB doesn't have enuf time then the user will get frustrated .

    2) the ability of the DB's and WR's to cover the WR's.  

    i don't think NCAA is a very good game because the DT's don't seem to get any pressure.  you can get pressure off the edges but the inside pressure is terrible in NCAA 10.  the DB's aren't very good this year either.  the man coverage needs to be tightened up so there are more incomplete passes.  the zone coverage isn't as good as madden 09.  it's going to be a long year for NCAA 2010 defensive users.

  • Dewiel said July 16, 2009

    Hey guys, thanks for the feedback. We are using this thread as a place to discuss the community playdate, but feel free to post your thoughts on this year's game here in the NCAA Football 10 forums: forum.ea.com/.../488.page

  • MegaBearsFan said July 16, 2009

    Awe, no playdate for us PS3 users...?

  • Dewiel said July 16, 2009

    MegaBearsFan, this event is only for the XBOX 360, but we are working on something similar for the PS3.

  • MegaBearsFan said July 16, 2009

    Cool!  Are you guys going to have voice-chat on your end?  If so, I would suggest for you to record all the chat conversations and review them when you start working on NCAA 11, as comments by yourselves and your opponents made while playing actual games might make for very valuable feedback and a great source of new ideas.

    Just a thought.

    By the way, in case you don't hear this enough, the amount of interaction between the dev team and end-users this year has been phenomenal.  I don't know how long you've been doing these blogs, but they were great to read this year and really got me excited (and worried to a degree) about this year's games.  I hope this level of interaction with the community continues (or even expands) in the years to come.

    Thanks for giving us fans the opportunity to express ourselves!

  • Inside EA said July 23, 2009

    The NCAA Football 10 Community Playdate is now underway and the community and EA SPORTS participants

  • Inside EA said July 23, 2009

    I just finished my first game in the NCAA Football 10 Community Playdate against xRomo_9winz. He brought

  • Inside EA said July 23, 2009

    After losing my first game of the NCAA Football 10 Community Playdate to BiH Patriot and his UFC Trojans

  • Inside EA said July 23, 2009

    The NCAA Football 10 Community Playdate is in full swing and the community has the edge over the EA SPORTS

  • gatorfanatic said September 25, 2009

    To all of the NCAA Football Dev. Team....Please oh please for the love of god in NCAA Football 2011 on the Road To Glory feature, please allow any skill position player that we create ex:WR, HB, DB let them return punts and kick offs. I'm getting tired of saying it, but the feature would be so much better if you allowed them to do that. Also add hair styles to choose from because I highly doubt that any college student that plays football or anything else has a shaven head at all times.  Please oh please please please do this for the me and the rest of the community. What I ask should only take up like 3-7 lines of code to do.

    Please please please please Dev. Team to NCAA do this and NCAA will be a whole lot better than Madden.