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I was one of the biggest NCAA football fanboys out there, but even I can't stomach it anymore...I won't be buying this year, and the last 2 years, I only bought because I found it for $40 on presale.
These games don't improve enough year to year to warrant $60 cost (or even $40). Especially when they become irrelevant a year later. It's almost a $60/year subscription for a gamer dedicated to that title.
As opposed to a game like Mass Effect, Fallout 3, or Elder Scrolls, etc. You pay $60 for it, but one year later, or even further down the line, it's still a great game. With sports games, a year later, it's a throwaway that will go for $6 on ebay.
And the following is a little off topic, but sports games aren't as fun as they used to be. It's probably the only genre where increased realism has made the genre worse. The increased complexity and realism has shifted importance from hand-eye coordination (hard, depending on the game) to using your brain to defeat computer AI (very easy). And the franchise/dynasty modes are very fun, but get repetitive, resulting in an incomplete-feeling experience, as opposed to games like Fallout 3.
<--- ...watch out Mountain West?
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