Purchase a maxed out Tiger Woods today!
by Dustin Burg 
{ Sep 1st 2007 at 11:00AM }
Ever play a game of Tiger Woods 08 and say to yourself, "self, I've put in three weeks of my life into this game and I still haven't maxed out my player's skills. Self, I want my player's abilities maxed out ... if only there were a way to bypass actually playing the game do so". If that sounds familiar, then EA is quick to answer with a 200 Microsoft point Maxed Out Player download for Tiger Woods 08. When purchased, The Maxed Out player download instantly upgrades your player's skills to 110% making you not only the best golfer in the Tiger Woods 08 universe, but also allowing you to bypass the hard work of actually playing the game to increase such skills. Really, a maxed out player download kind of defeats the purpose of advancing through the game and even if that doesn't bother you, then a cheat code like this shouldn't be 200 points. This kind of thing should be on one of those cheats gaming websites. Oh so very low EA ... so very low.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Little Lee @ Sep 1st 2007 11:06AM
I agree this is low, but like Major says, you don't have to buy it. Its just there as an option.
Cameron Adams @ Sep 1st 2007 12:42PM
This is very low.
And yes, your right it is just an option but if it means you unlock achievments from max stats then alot of people will buy it.
And it's far too cheap at 200 points meaning people will be more willing to part their points for some easy achievments.
Manatee @ Sep 1st 2007 12:17PM
Sounds like something I'd use. If I had TW, I'd want to be able to have a decent game in the green, and not spend three weeks playing blue tiger.
malren @ Sep 1st 2007 12:38PM
I'm the kind of person that bouht it for TW07. It made the game *fun* right away. You don't have to use it...you can apply it to one character and not another. I found it made the game more fun, so I use it.
flash2000 @ Sep 1st 2007 1:16PM
Also what sucks is it flows over into multiplayer. I was wondering how on release day I was already playing online with guys kicking my but having 115 stats. Way to go EA. Why don't game publishers just start offering purchasable saved games and if you want you can just play the last level of any game??? Why? BECAUSE THEN IT'S NOT A GAME! Also, EA... hire some better web hosts. It's inexcusable that such a large company can't keep a web-site online. Peter Moore has his work cut out for him.
KC @ Sep 1st 2007 2:22PM
This purchase should come with a capital "L" that gets affixed to your forehead.
Another example of our instant gratification society.
Edgar N, @ Sep 1st 2007 2:28PM
Well well theyre at it again. Why are they allowed to do this?
MDJ2010 @ Sep 1st 2007 3:07PM
Oh my this seems so wrong, but at the end of the day you dont have to buy it. Personally Id always rather work at a game to get my full moneys worth. I mean imagine if you could have got your Dead Rising character maxed out with 200 points, how much would that have ruined the journey and learning curb of that game??
Swampfox23 @ Sep 1st 2007 3:37PM
Won't this make achievements feel a little less like an ahievement? Whats the point in working hard for achievements when others are just getting it at the drop of some points?
Tony @ Sep 1st 2007 4:32PM
In most situations in other games that have cheats, they're set up so you can't get achievements or play online with them. I would have hoped EA would have done the same here, although the comments here so far seem to say otherwise...
Mordeux @ Sep 1st 2007 4:55PM
Lame. Ass.
M. Dizzy @ Sep 1st 2007 5:25PM
Why are people acting like they didn't do the exact same thing last year? And here's the thing...if it wasn't profitable for them last year then they wouldn't do it again this year.
Just shows how boring golf is that it's the only game in EA Sports roster that they offer a purchasable cheat for.
MDJ2010 @ Sep 1st 2007 6:34PM
@ Dizzy, I dont think anyone is questioning it on the grounds that its good for EA and is profitable for them, just that its a lame way of making money. Ive never actually played the TW games but i'm sure youre right in saying that its down to Golf being boring. I bet getting you player to that quality on your own is not the most fun.
Mogaar @ Sep 1st 2007 8:43PM
Hey KC,
I'm really glad that your the type of guy who can sit in his dank shitty apartment playing games for 18+ hours, only taking the occasional break to snort lines of dries Mountain Dew from the acne-encrusted buttocks of your myopic roommate.
I however have a wife, a toddler and a rather demanding job doing computer forensics, so forgive me for not adhering to your hardcore gaming lifestyle...
On second thought, don't forgive me; just go fuck yourself.
ssantos11 @ Sep 1st 2007 8:46PM
I have not played online yet. But so long as you can playe with golfers that are in your stat range then I don't see the problem. I personally want to try and achieve it on my own.
I just dont want to go online and only play guys that paid to max thier stats.
Scott @ Sep 1st 2007 8:57PM
I don't get why anyone would buy this, even people like Mogaar: King of the Dicks who think they don't have time to actually play.
I played last year's Tiger Woods 30 minutes at a time at the most, and still managed to build up my golfer within a few weeks. Once the stats are maxed out it doesn't stay fun for much longer.
a.j. @ Sep 2nd 2007 12:42AM
@14...boooooooo.....for a "forensic" computer scientist, you sure do have a grown up way of expressing yourself. go play with your 110% golfer and go "fuck" your ugly wife. how's that big man?
MDJ2010 @ Sep 2nd 2007 3:53AM
@Mogaar - Wow your kid is gonna grow up to be one hell of a person having such a great Dad like you, hope youre teaching him that elegant use of language aswell!
Believe it or not a lot of people, myself included, have such responsibilities in our lives (as people) but still enjoy to challenge ourselves in play, rather than take the quick shortcut - I think that is a much more valuable lesson to teach your kid than 'just take the short cut'!
Zapper @ Sep 2nd 2007 2:32PM
I think this is pretty cool.
EA is letting those people who have more money than time to "cheat" while making some extra money.
If you think this is the only way that people are cheating you are nutty..go to any of the achievement sites, and you will see messages for boosting parties...it actually is better to let people boost easily, then let them spoil an online game boosting instead of helping the team(Shadowrun).
BUT...these stats should NOT carry over into "Ranked" online games...if you want to use them on MP with friends, they should have a "friends/social" MP setting.
Mogaar @ Sep 2nd 2007 3:50PM
@ MDJ2010:
Every day I get up at 5:30 in the morning, spend a little time with my wife before she goes to work, and then for the next three hours I read to my daughter, feed her breakfast and get her ready for daycare. I get home around 6:30, have dinner with my family, and hang out with my daughter for another three hours so my wife can decompress from her day (she picks up our kid at 2:30). That leaves me about two hours to play games or whatever (if I’m not too tired and go to bed when everyone else does). So if I obtain a cheat to max out my Tiger Woods player I fail to see how that makes me some sort of villain. Since I don’t play videogames in front of my daughter (the fact that she occasionally watches television is bad enough), my "just taking a short cut” has no relevance to her. In fact, the day she actually learns any life lesson from me playing videogames is the day I become a bad parent.
That I used profanity in my last post is also irrelevant to my parenting skills. My daughter isn’t here at the keyboard watching me type the word “fuck”, nor in fact does she ever hear me utter the word.
My point was simply this: don’t denigrate someone for using a cheat code in a videogame. It’s a hobby to me, not a lifestyle choice. I don’t skip to the ends of classic novels or movies, but Tiger Woods 08 hardly scales such lofty heights, does it? It’s a golf game, not Faulkner’s “The Sound and The Fury”.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to listen to the Ramones and jump around on the bed with my daughter. Maybe if she takes a nap I’ll play Tiger Woods, and I promise I’ll think of you all every time I obtain an ill-gotten achievement.
PS - @ a.j.: It’s computer forensics; it has nothing to do with C.S.I. style forensic science (meaning it’s not nearly as glamorous). But more to the point, at least my original post, while obscene, has a few snappy turns of phrase; yours was just vulgar. But I did like Scott’s “Mogaar: King of the Dicks” – it’s like I’m a sort of jerk royalty (maybe with a crown of dildoes wobbling gently in the breeze)…
ysdarkfact @ Sep 2nd 2007 6:40PM
It doesn't matter if you have the time or not, charging for cheat codes is a sleazy move. So instead of putting in up, up, down, down, ect... to unlock, or max something, EA wants a few more dollars for it. I'm sure this code is free on the PS2.
Antagonist @ Oct 4th 2007 2:26PM
Anybody ever thought of this scenerio...
I have my guy that I made maxed out to 110%. My friend wants to come over and play, and he doesn't own the game. You could then make a matching player, who looks like your friend who's maxed out.
That's worth it. As I am not going to spend the time beating the game two and three times so my friends can have their own avatar's in the game.