Cricket Captain is a decent cricket game, been playing it for many many years as many of u have, as early as the days of Aus cricket captain. This is my first post because after all these years i just felt the need to put this out there. The game is a great representation of the real ICC. It's slow in making progress, and even though u know things are inevitable(such as DRS), they still take their time in implementing them. It's always been ICCouncils problem and its also ICCaptains problem.
I understand the"time constraints" and "lack of resources/funding" but surely in as many years as it's been developing, the progress is rather inexcusable. For the most part, the game is as is, database updates have been the main feature as well as the Aus domestic circuit, but the reality of the matter is that statistically(which is what ICC is about) the game has hardly changed. In all the years, the only thing to be added is strike rates and a couple silly filtering options. I know IPL will not feature in ICC2011 and that in itself is another failure, especially considering how IPL is now approaching its end. Regardless of how anyone feels about IPL it is part of the game, and a major one, infact, it's abig part of crickets evolution, yet its something that's been put on the "to do later" list despite it being out for 4 YEARS now. 4 Years and ICC has yet to implement it into the game. 4 Years. Inexcusable. And now its fading, ratings were down 25% this year and will continue to drop. IPL was a come and go thing, and by the time ICC adds it, noone will care.
Statistically the game is lacking immensely. No player vs Player stats, no home and away stats, no historical records of international series (only the most recent) no player vs teams, no players at specific grounds, no palyer in certain countries, no team stats home and away, no team stats in different countries, no overall records for highest scores inns/match or most runs in series/year for international cricket, just one stat covers all, no history, nothing for most wtks in series/year/career in international. We dont even know who rhe opposite number is or where we're playing. Just series vs SA or vs Aus or vs Ind, what about the grounds and what they're famous for? Turners, pace, bounce, nothing. Infact in earlier editions u could at the very least have a historical reference of grounds in the countries but even that was removed. I'm not going to go on because the list will never end, but for a game so statistically based (hence excusing the poor graphics) it's very lacking.
I feel if anyone who knows how to develop games, made one similar to this but with far more in depth stats then ICC would lose all its fans to it. I myself would have if i could. It would certainly make more $ than this game. I get the reasons we get thrown at us every year (exactly the same, unchanged, like u have templates saying "time constraints" "lack of funding" "lack of resources") but after so many, it's just plain and simply sad. That's just the fact of the matter, no 2 ways about it. Maybe with more effort your "funds" would increase. I'm sorry if any1's offended by this, but in the real world, in business, ICC simply would not survive, it's just peoples passion for the real game that keeps it afloat. And it almost seems as if that passion is being abused
I understand the"time constraints" and "lack of resources/funding" but surely in as many years as it's been developing, the progress is rather inexcusable. For the most part, the game is as is, database updates have been the main feature as well as the Aus domestic circuit, but the reality of the matter is that statistically(which is what ICC is about) the game has hardly changed. In all the years, the only thing to be added is strike rates and a couple silly filtering options. I know IPL will not feature in ICC2011 and that in itself is another failure, especially considering how IPL is now approaching its end. Regardless of how anyone feels about IPL it is part of the game, and a major one, infact, it's abig part of crickets evolution, yet its something that's been put on the "to do later" list despite it being out for 4 YEARS now. 4 Years and ICC has yet to implement it into the game. 4 Years. Inexcusable. And now its fading, ratings were down 25% this year and will continue to drop. IPL was a come and go thing, and by the time ICC adds it, noone will care.
Statistically the game is lacking immensely. No player vs Player stats, no home and away stats, no historical records of international series (only the most recent) no player vs teams, no players at specific grounds, no palyer in certain countries, no team stats home and away, no team stats in different countries, no overall records for highest scores inns/match or most runs in series/year for international cricket, just one stat covers all, no history, nothing for most wtks in series/year/career in international. We dont even know who rhe opposite number is or where we're playing. Just series vs SA or vs Aus or vs Ind, what about the grounds and what they're famous for? Turners, pace, bounce, nothing. Infact in earlier editions u could at the very least have a historical reference of grounds in the countries but even that was removed. I'm not going to go on because the list will never end, but for a game so statistically based (hence excusing the poor graphics) it's very lacking.
I feel if anyone who knows how to develop games, made one similar to this but with far more in depth stats then ICC would lose all its fans to it. I myself would have if i could. It would certainly make more $ than this game. I get the reasons we get thrown at us every year (exactly the same, unchanged, like u have templates saying "time constraints" "lack of funding" "lack of resources") but after so many, it's just plain and simply sad. That's just the fact of the matter, no 2 ways about it. Maybe with more effort your "funds" would increase. I'm sorry if any1's offended by this, but in the real world, in business, ICC simply would not survive, it's just peoples passion for the real game that keeps it afloat. And it almost seems as if that passion is being abused
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