yeah you have to preorder ... from Gamestop. Fuck that noise. I'd rather jam my dick in a pencil sharpener. IMO this day and age there's no reason to preorder from anywhere. Gamestop only does that because they know a small percentage of the people will never return to pick the game up, so its free money. Why preorder when I can waltz into Best Buy the same day and they've got a stack of 100 of them just chilling on a table, with a hot chick in shorts working behind the table?
You are most certainly entitled to your own opinion. However, since I did pre-order from GS, I will have early access to the Creation Center. Now, I understand that for someone who isn't interested in the Creation Center, its a moot point. Conversely, to someone who is - which it appears you are - I would think this is one game title you would want to pre-order from GS, no?
Seems like a draft for teams is in order if it is with real teams, except in the case of Liverpool. The guy running the show should get his pick of the lot, so I certainly wouldn't fight Bly on it. From there, I think a draft is fair. My $0.02.
Custom League? I mentioned this before, and now that a real player, real team league with transfers probably isn't feasible I thought I'd throw this out there. The idea would be to have 8 to 10 custom teams and have a draft of some randomly generated custom players. This is just a quick version of a spreadsheet to create the guys - if we do this before starting i'd do some research to figure out what the range should be for different positions (based on the default roster) and then also break guys into different calibers (stars, starters, reserves, scrubs, etc.). We'd then have a draft for the random players, create them and put them on our teams. Players would have contracts and transfers possible. Each year we'd also release a handful of recruits into the league with transfers for them. And also allow players to have certain stats increased based on performance - so there'll be progression. So let me know if you're interested. IMO this is the only way to have a real 'league' in the game this year - other than just having default teams and playing a series of games (which IMO blows).
Is this possible? Is this what the creation centre is all about? It just sucks that we can't have real players. I just want to be a part of a league that has finances, promotions/relagations, cups and such.. I would give this a try but it just doesn't seem there is enough interest. I could probably get a couple of guys to join but most of my fifa buddies are from across the pond and as I have found out, the time difference sucks when your trying to play league games.
yeah the creation center is a little ... bleh. not being able to use real players and create all-star teams in essence is a big hole in the feature set. really i'm either going to do something like the above, or just concentrate on the club games. just playing with a stock team in essentially a round robin tournament doesn't interest me at all. and you'll always have guys who just stop playing because they're in last and have nothing to be fighting for. can you shoot me a link to that league you were talking about? i'd like to see how they were doing all that stuff you mentioned in the other thread.
