Denard LOSING EA Sports vote

Submitted by dmoo4u on

Here is what TAM is doing..

going to https://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php and creating a phony Community page.

Then go to https://www.facebook.com/easportsncaafootball?fref=ts and go to the settings icon in the top right and switch to the new account and vote. You could vote 100s of times from one single fbook account. When creating the community page you dont even need to put any of the info in or click skip.. just type in a name and create the page..

Quail2theVict0r

March 8th, 2013 at 7:16 AM ^

Except when you factor in this video game gets put in hundreds of thousands of kids hands throughout the country. It's free advertising for the University and football program. It's not "just a video game". This really has little to do with the actual video game and everything to do with the winged helmet being on the cover of something that's on store shelves throughout the country.

bronxblue

March 8th, 2013 at 7:19 AM ^

This always struck me as a non-issue.  EA can obviously do what they want with the cover, and that includes ignoring whomever the "voting public" (and by voting public I mean anonymous internet tallies) chooses for the figure most likely to grab people's eyes.

I suspect that Robinson will be on the cover of the two listed.

For the record, though, there are some people at the EA page who insinuated that UM fans weren't "smart enough" to know about doing this while TAM fans did, so why should we complain just because someone beat them to it.  This is a common claim by people who don't quite get that knowing how to be a d*ck and actually being a d*ck are two completely diferent things, and that not everyone makes that leap because they understand it isn't fair to others.  I mean, UM's engineering and CS programs are some of the best in the country; if they wanted to screw around with Facebook's voting calculus, you better believe they would.

1464

March 8th, 2013 at 8:22 AM ^

We were able to hack the test election thing a few years ago... EA Games would be a small potato.  However, I don't think EA can create a contest and then just say, "Screw it, we're picking the winner".  I mean, they could... but it wouldn't be very smart.

bronxblue

March 8th, 2013 at 10:38 AM ^

That's my point.  UM could have done it had they wanted.

EA started the contest to see who won fairly, but if a bunch of bots basically generated a false winner, I doubt EA will follow through on it.  They want to sell copies of a video game; some anonymous WR from A&M isn't going to move the needle much.  That's why they'll pick the best cover.

Doc Brown

March 8th, 2013 at 8:05 AM ^

 

first Download Firefox, then add iMacros

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/imacros-for-firefox/

Once its installed Press F8 to bring up the program.

Then load this macro


VERSION BUILD=7601105 RECORDER=FX
TAB T=1
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:RADIO FORM=ID:question_poll10151454940472280 ATTR=ID:u_0_12
REFRESH

Sinsemillaplease

March 8th, 2013 at 9:34 AM ^

Could not get code to work. Ended up recording the macro myself. Maybe everyone has to do this.

Also from what I can tell from my limited memory of this syntax, this macro just clicks denards bubble repeatedly.... but votes don't count more than once from the same user, at least according to EA. Edit: I've now read in a few places that the macro can vote more than once.

MJ14

March 8th, 2013 at 10:26 AM ^

How do you update it for yourself? This is what I get when I try to run it:

RuntimeError: element INPUT specified by ID:u_0_12 was not found, line: 4 (Error code: -921)

I'm going to be at work today, so if someone can tell me how to get it to work for me, I will let this go on my laptop all today.

tblasius

March 8th, 2013 at 10:42 AM ^

I was getting that error too.  I tried to fix it by recording the macro myself.  This seemed to help but it would only execute once or twice before it would fail and give me that error.  I figured I was just moving too fast for my computer.  I put in a pause command into the macro and now it will vote 100's of times before failing.

Use the macro script given above.  Then, after the url command use the command

WAIT SECONDS=0.6

Sinsemillaplease

March 8th, 2013 at 10:48 AM ^

Navigate to the question link manually. Click Rec. Click Record. Click Denard's bubble. Click Stop. Click Edit. Edit the macro you just created. The cursor should already be at the end. Hit enter. Type REFRESH. Save & close this macro. Click Play. Type in a Max number of repetitions. Click Play(Loop). I'm still getting errors every once in a while... probably because my computer isn't running smoothly as a result of a nearly failed hard drive and limited RAM. Just restart it periodically.

jaylee714

March 8th, 2013 at 8:13 AM ^

All day today. I wouldn't be able to stand starting up the game and looking at some douche that I've never heard of when it could be my 7 year olds idol. My son hates devin Gardner (working on converting him) because he's taking Denard's spot. Win by any means necessary !

Kermits Blue Key

March 8th, 2013 at 8:19 AM ^

This same kind of nonsense happened with the ESPN top uniforms tournament a couple years back. The Denver Bronco's fanbase was bot voting and took out the Red Wings and eventually made it to the finals against Michigan. ESPN engineers discoverd illegitimate votes during the finals and DQ'd Denver and declared Michigan the winner. That decision didn't even have financial ramifications. Hopefully EA does the same.

http://espn.go.com/page2/s/hruby/031021.html

Wolverine Devotee

March 8th, 2013 at 8:25 AM ^

EA should let the people decide the content that they want and EA's marketing department can make the cover. 

Regardless, Denard will be on my cover. I design them. I design them covers all the back to the Bill Walsh on the Genesis. If anyone wants a custom cover for 14 or an older game, shoot me a tweet or DM.

Last year I made Hemingway for 13 and he loved. it. 

Wolverine Devotee

March 8th, 2013 at 8:35 AM ^

Fun fact: Michigan has the most NCAA cover athletes. Most people know about the two they have with Woodson & Howard, but they forgot about Walter Smith on College Football USA 96. 

Space Coyote

March 8th, 2013 at 9:05 AM ^

Whatever happened to companies just making a decision on something. Everytime there is some sort of nation wide vote on something, it always ends like this, so they are never legit. I just don't understand why someone at EA can't make a decision (even if that decision isn't Denard) without this stupid 18 week vote.

EA should either pick a player because he was really good in college (what they have typically done) or pick a player based on a new feature or significant change they made (Heisman thing = D. Howard; fixing QB running: put Denard; putting in a feature to being able to play as a lock down corner (or fixing the DBs in general), put Dee Milliner on it). I'm probably just a bitter, cranky, old man or something, but I'm tired of all these stupid vote things instead of companies just having some balls and making a decision.

Ernis

March 8th, 2013 at 9:53 AM ^

What fascinates me is companies' obsessions with clicks and page views --ostensible proxies for revenue generation-- yet whence their certainty that moar clicks = moar games sold?

I've been using the internet for 15 years and I have probably spent a total of $40 on things I became aware of through an internet ad or promotion, while visiting countless pages and clicking on countless things.

Ali G Bomaye

March 8th, 2013 at 12:11 PM ^

There are analysts who have studied how clicks correlate to revenue.  It really varies by industry.  I don't remember where I read this, but I do remember that ads for porn had a return on investment much higher than any other category.

Soulfire21

March 8th, 2013 at 9:24 AM ^

TAMU wins by cheating, so what?  It's the SEC way, let's be real.  Denard tweeted about voting legitimately and doing things the "Michigan" way, mentioned character and integrity, and that made everything okay for me.

Time for NCAA investigations?  I think so. (/s, just in case)