The Masters

Does anyone else agree that EVERY Live Tournaments should only have one chance to post your score? Once you start the tournament you have to post THAT round. You shouldn't be able to keep playing the same round over and over until you get a score you want to post. That is completely unrealistic. If you quit the round, it's a DQ and you can't play in that tournament anymore. On the PGA Tour, you can't keep playing them same round multiple times. I'm so tired of seeing people posting 26 or 27 under par almost every round. That's great if you do it the first time you play the round. Please chime in and let EA hear it.

I totally disagree.

I bought this video game to have a bit of fun now and again. I didn't buy it to be told I can only play once. I can live with single try tournaments if there are an equal number of tournaments where you can retry as often as you want.

I disagree, but with one caveat....EA should host a practice round for you and those wanting multiple tries. Yes, I realize this is a "video game", but you do not see Madden, NHL, NBA Live, FIFA allowing users to restart an online game with no penalty. This game is supposed to mirror the PGA TOUR and anything less than single try tournaments is a farce, IMO.

A RESUME feature would address the issue of server or ISP disconnects.

MAIN.EAcom Golf Tim wrote:I disagree, but with one caveat....EA should host a practice round for you and those wanting multiple tries. Yes, I realize this is a "video game", but you do not see Madden, NHL, NBA Live, FIFA allowing users to restart an online game with no penalty. This game is supposed to mirror the PGA TOUR and anything less than single try tournaments is a farce, IMO.

A RESUME feature would address the issue of server or ISP disconnects.

I don't care about resume features or what they do in other video games. Up until now you have been able to restart tournaments if you want to. I see no reason why that should be taken that away.

I'm happy for there to be single try tournaments, just as long as there are also multi-try tournaments. Why do you want to prevent that? In many previous threads you, and a few others, have said time and again that you don't want to take anything away form the non-sim player, you just want a level in the game that is more realistic. Well there is no reason you can't have your realistic mode without ruining the fun I have when playing this game.

It seems to me that there has been too much tinkering with the program this time around. If half of the things being proposed in the brainstroming thread are implemented by EA, then TW10 will be the last version of the game that I will ever buy.

cem_ea_id.gsd9999 wrote:I don't care about resume features or what they do in other video games. Up until now you have been able to restart tournaments if you want to. I see no reason why that should be taken that away.

That is NOT what I am saying. Leave that in for those who want it, but not in TOUR Pro or the most challenging level. Allowing multiple restarts is simply NOT a part of the PGA TOUR. How about we give Madden users as many timeouts in the game that they want or give them a "mulligan" feature if they don't like the results of a particular play?

cem_ea_id.gsd9999 wrote:I'm happy for there to be single try tournaments, just as long as there are also multi-try tournaments. Why do you want to prevent that? In many previous threads you, and a few others, have said time and again that you don't want to take anything away form the non-sim player, you just want a level in the game that is more realistic. Well there is no reason you can't have your realistic mode without ruining the fun I have when playing this game.

I am not trying to prevent anything but giving the most challenging difficulty in the game the kind of rules that are used in the PGA TOUR. Every other EA Sports franchise is striving to more accurately mirror the game they have licensed to recreate. Not sure why you oppose giving users a straight up PGA TOUR mode....

cem_ea_id.gsd9999 wrote:It seems to me that there has been too much tinkering with the program this time around. If half of the things being proposed in the brainstroming thread are implemented by EA, then TW10 will be the last version of the game that I will ever buy.

So by your statement above, you have no interest in making TW accurately resemble the actual sport it is licensed to recreate? Fine, TW11 Arcade and TW11 PGA TOUR is what EA should be shooting for....sad part is, they can do this with the current game if they would simply do it.

MAIN.EAcom Golf Tim wrote:

cem_ea_id.gsd9999 wrote:I don't care about resume features or what they do in other video games. Up until now you have been able to restart tournaments if you want to. I see no reason why that should be taken that away.

That is NOT what I am saying. Leave that in for those who want it, but not in TOUR Pro or the most challenging level. Allowing multiple restarts is simply NOT a part of the PGA TOUR. How about we give Madden users as many timeouts in the game that they want or give them a "mulligan" feature if they don't like the results of a particular play?

cem_ea_id.gsd9999 wrote:I'm happy for there to be single try tournaments, just as long as there are also multi-try tournaments. Why do you want to prevent that? In many previous threads you, and a few others, have said time and again that you don't want to take anything away form the non-sim player, you just want a level in the game that is more realistic. Well there is no reason you can't have your realistic mode without ruining the fun I have when playing this game.

I am not trying to prevent anything but giving the most challenging difficulty in the game the kind of rules that are used in the PGA TOUR. Every other EA Sports franchise is striving to more accurately mirror the game they have licensed to recreate. Not sure why you oppose giving users a straight up PGA TOUR mode....

cem_ea_id.gsd9999 wrote:It seems to me that there has been too much tinkering with the program this time around. If half of the things being proposed in the brainstroming thread are implemented by EA, then TW10 will be the last version of the game that I will ever buy.

So by your statement above, you have no interest in making TW accurately resemble the actual sport it is licensed to recreate? Fine, TW11 Arcade and TW11 PGA TOUR is what EA should be shooting for....sad part is, they can do this with the current game if they would simply do it.

I prefer Tour Mode to any other mode, but I still want the option to retry tournaments. Why on earth should it matter to you as long as there was a tournament where you could have your authentic experience and I could have my retries. I have as much right to retry in tour mode as you have to demand a single try tour mode.

I do not oppose you having a "Straight Up Tour Mode" as you put it. I'm simply saying that tour mode is not the exclusive preserve of you and your hard core cronies. I want to play in tour mode too, but I am content with a few more concessions to having fun.

You are right, I have no interest in making the TW games accurately resemble real golf. If it did I would not play it - ever. I doubt there are many people who would relish playing a video game that was as hard as the game in real life. A video game to me is all about fun. I'll never be as good a golfer as anyone on the real PGA Tours in any part of the world.

I just want EA to remember that there are lots of people out here who are happy to treat the game as a bit of fun and don't get carried away with some impossible notion of reality. By all means, have a mode in the game that gives you everything your heart desires, but please don't be so presumptious as to try to stop me having my fun experience, which also includes tour mode.

Again, you want the ARCADE experience and myself and others want the PGA TOUR experience. NO REASON we can't have both....this existed in previous TW PC and console versions when the franchise enjoyed its highest userbase and sales numbers.....

OK, how about they have a few tournies w/ multiple tries but the majority would be single try? Keep the opinions coming guys.

MAIN.EAcom Golf Tim wrote:Again, you want the ARCADE experience and myself and others want the PGA TOUR experience. NO REASON we can't have both....this existed in previous TW PC and console versions when the franchise enjoyed its highest userbase and sales numbers.....

There is no reason we can't have both, but why do you want people like me not to have a tour pro level as it is now. Can't you be satisfied with a level which had all the things you want in it but still have my kind of game where the game play is much the same as what the current tour pro is.

The way you seem to be saying it is that I would only be able to play in amateur where spin, putt preview and power boost are still available. What's wrong with something like the current tour pro level for players like me? You could still have a level that would suit you without depriving me of the sort of game I want to play.

cem_ea_id.gsd9999 wrote:There is no reason we can't have both, but why do you want people like me not to have a tour pro level as it is now. Can't you be satisfied with a level which had all the things you want in it but still have my kind of game where the game play is much the same as what the current tour pro is.

I never stated that you should not have the kind of game you have now. Not once have I asked for anything currently in the game to be taken away.

cem_ea_id.gsd9999 wrote:The way you seem to be saying it is that I would only be able to play in amateur where spin, putt preview and power boost are still available. What's wrong with something like the current tour pro level for players like me? You could still have a level that would suit you without depriving me of the sort of game I want to play.

Which is exactly what I and others are asking for. There is no reason we both can't have the kind of experience we BOTH want....