Limits to Player Editing in EA Sports College Football 25 FAQ - Page 43 (2024)

I revised it down to 17.

The following is the growing list I have of concerns or just flat out contradictions, as the claim that we will not have full player editing across the board in the game, CFB25. Most of this falls in scenarios where someone is going to stream or upload recorded footage of playing the game (for all to see – free). If anyone wants to call these assumptions, okay, fine. I consider these very safe assumptions, but also quite educated guess-timations, especially knowing what happened the year we didn’t have it in Madden. When the game drops, I will test these to confirm. Here we go:

1. NCAA14 still exists, as do the previous versions of the game with far other players that can be edited / created and used. No lawsuits or complaints have arisen regarding those games that continue to be sold (and their price tags increased exponentially). These games are all over the internet to watch – for free.
2. CFB Revamped is built off of NCAA14 specifically, everyone knows it, and for next to a decade, no litigation or complaints at all have been made regarding player creation, full on editing, team uniform mods, roster sharing to extents, etc. etc. etc. These games are all over the internet to watch – for free.
3. Madden games have for the entirety of the NIL era been allowing the creation / editing of these same NIL players per draft class rosters, and the roster sharing has been unlimited. How is this any different? The games played with them are all over the internet to watch – for free.
4. If I can’t change ratings to at least be middling, as I go into a Dynasty with the desire to rebuild a team, how long before I get fired because I have players that suck?
5. If I can’t change ratings to somewhat better have players match my desire to change schemes / playbooks, again, how long before I get fired?
6. If I can’t change ratings at all in Dynasty, as in, all I can ever do is rely on the ratings as decided by EA devs (ugh), then how long do you expect that I’m going to play this game, especially if I’m not a fan of what will obviously be just a handful of loaded teams full of stars / star ratings?
7. (the same above, but) how long before any of the online players / streamers get tired of playing as only one of the handful of loaded teams – maybe never getting to play as their true favorites?
8. If I can’t change ratings or player edits to teams that are suddenly way better than the ratings only EA devs were able to decide, then how long do you think it’ll be before people are fed up waiting on EA devs to fix ratings, and instead, folks just stop playing the game?
9. If this game is going to have MUT, isn’t that changing ratings and abilities to players?
10. If this game is going to have MUT, how long before the sim / dynasty community gets fed up, as EA devs have a long track record of revising those ratings and such, quite speedily compared to ever changing rosters / ratings / abilities for the sim crowd – how long do you expect it’ll take before the sim crowd quits playing the game?
11. If I can’t change ratings or player edits, doesn’t that directly go against the primary thing that all game developers desire – replay ability?
12. If you are blocking the editing ability of NIL players and/or the mock up CAP of said players, does that mean that we will never for the cycle of that player ever get to have a player on the opposite side of the ball wearing that jersey number?
13. If I can completely create every player, any team, etc. using the Teambuilder option – what’s the difference?
14. If the protecting of NIL players is such a big deal, no editing can be made, then are the star bulk of them going to have scripted goings on? I’m absolutely going to be paying attention to rather a coded type of favoritism.
15. If I can’t edit ratings or abilities, and if this new Wear / Tear system is glitched like crazy – even if just the injury/toughness/stamina ratings are horrible – not allowing any of us to tune things to fix whatever issues, then how long before folks just quit playing the game?
16. If we can switch teams to any conference, said teams start to really stink and lose a lot, and if these games are streamed online for all to see, how is that not also considered an edit and giving whatever NIL kids a bad look?
17. If at any time the game decides that some NIL star kids transfer to different colleges (prestigious or horrible ones, either way), and if these games are streamed online for all to see, how is that not also considered an edit and giving said NIL kids a bad look?

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I revised it down to 17.

The following is the growing list I have of concerns or just flat out contradictions, as the claim that we will not have full player editing across the board in the game, CFB25. Most of this falls in scenarios where someone is going to stream or upload recorded footage of playing the game (for all to see – free). If anyone wants to call these assumptions, okay, fine. I consider these very safe assumptions, but also quite educated guess-timations, especially knowing what happened the year we didn’t have it in Madden. When the game drops, I will test these to confirm. Here we go:

1. NCAA14 still exists, as do the previous versions of the game with far other players that can be edited / created and used. No lawsuits or complaints have arisen regarding those games that continue to be sold (and their price tags increased exponentially). These games are all over the internet to watch – for free.
2. CFB Revamped is built off of NCAA14 specifically, everyone knows it, and for next to a decade, no litigation or complaints at all have been made regarding player creation, full on editing, team uniform mods, roster sharing to extents, etc. etc. etc. These games are all over the internet to watch – for free.
3. Madden games have for the entirety of the NIL era been allowing the creation / editing of these same NIL players per draft class rosters, and the roster sharing has been unlimited. How is this any different? The games played with them are all over the internet to watch – for free.
4. If I can’t change ratings to at least be middling, as I go into a Dynasty with the desire to rebuild a team, how long before I get fired because I have players that suck?
5. If I can’t change ratings to somewhat better have players match my desire to change schemes / playbooks, again, how long before I get fired?
6. If I can’t change ratings at all in Dynasty, as in, all I can ever do is rely on the ratings as decided by EA devs (ugh), then how long do you expect that I’m going to play this game, especially if I’m not a fan of what will obviously be just a handful of loaded teams full of stars / star ratings?
7. (the same above, but) how long before any of the online players / streamers get tired of playing as only one of the handful of loaded teams – maybe never getting to play as their true favorites?
8. If I can’t change ratings or player edits to teams that are suddenly way better than the ratings only EA devs were able to decide, then how long do you think it’ll be before people are fed up waiting on EA devs to fix ratings, and instead, folks just stop playing the game?
9. If this game is going to have MUT, isn’t that changing ratings and abilities to players?
10. If this game is going to have MUT, how long before the sim / dynasty community gets fed up, as EA devs have a long track record of revising those ratings and such, quite speedily compared to ever changing rosters / ratings / abilities for the sim crowd – how long do you expect it’ll take before the sim crowd quits playing the game?
11. If I can’t change ratings or player edits, doesn’t that directly go against the primary thing that all game developers desire – replay ability?
12. If you are blocking the editing ability of NIL players and/or the mock up CAP of said players, does that mean that we will never for the cycle of that player ever get to have a player on the opposite side of the ball wearing that jersey number?
13. If I can completely create every player, any team, etc. using the Teambuilder option – what’s the difference?
14. If the protecting of NIL players is such a big deal, no editing can be made, then are the star bulk of them going to have scripted goings on? I’m absolutely going to be paying attention to rather a coded type of favoritism.
15. If I can’t edit ratings or abilities, and if this new Wear / Tear system is glitched like crazy – even if just the injury/toughness/stamina ratings are horrible – not allowing any of us to tune things to fix whatever issues, then how long before folks just quit playing the game?
16. If we can switch teams to any conference, said teams start to really stink and lose a lot, and if these games are streamed online for all to see, how is that not also considered an edit and giving whatever NIL kids a bad look?
17. If at any time the game decides that some NIL star kids transfer to different colleges (prestigious or horrible ones, either way), and if these games are streamed online for all to see, how is that not also considered an edit and giving said NIL kids a bad look?

I honestly don't know what to say about all of this lol. The fact that you were able to come up with 17 concerns and the game isn't even out yet is flat out amazing...

If we can't edit the ratings, EA should have set it up where we can't even see the ratings. Everything under the hood.

We live in a great time don't we? Where we have to invent potential problems to have something to stress over, at least until some real problems arrive..

Sure, because people wouldn't complain about that.