Sounds awesome and super unique , just praying there will be enough people playing online for this to work
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Seems to be lots of offline modes which is great, if it is good the fanbase will be there. I think anyone who buys afl games is fairly passionate
Quick question @JNT_BA is it at all possible that Proteam could drop literally any moment even over the weekend or is it purely Monday-Friday hours? 
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@Pink_Panters did you get to play any games? Has the gameplay changed? If so what?
Proteam looks elite, canāt wait.
Season mode is so close to being a realistic experience from start to finish.
I am really hoping for:
Injuries where clubs have 5-10 injuries at any time.
Brownlow votes that exclude factoring hitouts, as rucks are OP.
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Surprised we donāt have a management mode thread 
. Iāve got a few goodies (screenshots) from my Brizzy career
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Will be cool if it was free for PSN users but a PSN subscription will most likely be needed if playing the offline modes
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@JNT_BA will players ratings be updated on next patch?
@JNT_BA I think its time to just release the platforms that are ready. Tough luck to the one that isnt ready, but its nearly 3 weeks over and IIRC it was submitted 2 weeks before that. So maybe let 2/3rds enjoy and see what you guys have done and that 1/3 can wait a tiny bit longer 
Given thereās ranking systems (from the explanation of Premiership Challenge), then releasing one platform late is pretty unfair.
Also, there may be more than one platform thatās delayedā¦
I donāt think weāve directly heard if more or not.
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I would tend to agree, however it was meant to be a āshort delayā and would release any minute.
This has been nothing but false, 3 weeks is not a short delay.
If they are confident in themselves that its a short delay, then a couple of days for the remaining platform(s) is not going to make a difference in terms of rankings. Alternatively release what they have and then reset rankings upon release of the last platform(s).
Something isnt adding up, i find it very hard to believe its just been sitting there pending for nearly 5 weeks now. Has it been denied and resubmitted during this time - we will never know i guess.
Ive been a project manager before, and if a project of mine was held up this long there is no way i wouldnt have answers and be sitting around saying āany minute nowā.
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I reckon your guess of a resubmission is likely.
The thing is, itās relying on the availability and approval of third partiesā¦ so probably hard to get a realistic timeline when itās external like that.
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I get that, and i have no experience dealing with sony and microsoft, however surely there would be someone they can liase with and or put pressure on to try and get things happening.
Because 5 weeks is past their own timeframes, IF it has been resubmitted it would be nice to hear that from BA. (Well not nice, but the honest communication would be appreciated).
After all, this mode was advertised pre launch and here we are.
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You may have been a project manager before but clearly not in the gaming industry with a ton of legal stuff involved here too.
They simply cannot release a mode with micro transactions to 2 out of 3 platforms because of fair game reasoning.
it would be a massive advantage for the platforms who have it getting a head start on card collecting which would then make the matchups for online game unbalanced because the platform holders who get the game last could be playing against gamers who have had a head start, that is not allowed to happen.
I understand the frustration with it not coming through yet, but you gotta think logically about these things, what youāre suggesting simply cannot and will not happen.
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you donāt reckon BA are putting pressure on to get the approval? and the AFL for that matter? Cmon my man, the mode is sitting there ready to go. they want this in our hands ASAP.
Microsoft / Sony are global beasts that have their own processes that need to be gone through that no one else can control. Sadly they (Microsoft and Sony) donāt really care too much about how much we jump up and down about wanting the approval, they just do things at their pace.
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I hadnt thought about the legal side of a heastart, so thats a very good point.
But 5 weeks of approval time just doesnt add up in my eyes, and it could still very well be 2,4, 8, 52 weeks before we get it.
I get that me venting frustrations isnt helping, however given the lack of transparency and communication about a launch feature well over a year past launch one might be naive about whats actually going on.
We shouldnt be at the point of being this far into AFL23 and waiting on it being out of BAās control.
Simply put it was mishandled yet somehow its always someone elses fault.
I want to support devs from niche markets I really do but its becoming very difficult to back them given their history.
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Side note, i love your content and we would be in a worse spot without you and your support for the game. So kudos for that.
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Just one thing to add on the transparency front when it comes to this particular subject, you will find that developers are under very strict NDAās from the likes of Microsoft and Sony so they canāt actually talk about the delays or they risk huge sanctions and possible loss of future games being accepted on that platform.
I know it isnāt what people want to hear and we would love to know the exact Inās and outs on this piece, but sometimes there are things in this particular space that canāt be spoken about.
As I have said on stream, if a resubmission was done it was because they were making improvments on the game and doing continual works on it, which I think we would all rather than no extra work being done on it at all.
The resubmission is probably a good thing based on that, means we will be getting something better than what they had initially completed.
Correct me if Iām wrong, but my understanding was a resubmission would reset the progress of a submission already in place?
We all want to see continual works and improvement on the game, however IF it were to reset the progress I for one would rather they let this update get through before adding more if it meant less delays.
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I dunno whether or not thatās how it works.
Again, probably up to Sony/Microsoft on their own processesā¦ They may allow multiple submissions for one game at any one timeā¦ not sure.