Looks Like Head Coaches Will Get a Visual Upgrade in Madden NFL 25

[bucky60]

Quote: Originally Posted by CM Hooe

Be your opinion as it may, the topic isn't about the design or implementation of CCM. I referenced CCM as a specific example in response to the poster's assertion which equated unlocking player editing in Madden NFL 13 to adding a Twitter alias. This discussion organically evolved from the talk about "wasting of resources", which previously evolved from the face scanning of players and coaches into the next Madden game. My point: this thread is not for the discussion of design and implementation of CCM. Any further discussion about this is considered off-topic to this thread, which will now go back to its discussion of the face scanning, its implications, and whether its a good use of Tiburon's resources. Please find a CCM-related thread in which to voice and discuss this opinion. End of discussion.

You were the one that brought up "engineering" and "code architecture"

I just followed. But OK, back on topic.

[rahulp959]

It seems you all understand what a budget is, but completely fail to acknowledge who is in charge... Not developers, not physics guys, not photographers, managers. Managers hold the budget, and I promise you, EA set a budget for each part of the game, based on predicted revenue and other factors, remember that the senior managers are all being chased by every department who will market their change as "game altering", "the next big thing", and I promise you that they are not taking away $$$ from development to put into aesthetics. Each major area will have a budget, which they control how they want. I can bet CCM took a large part of the development budget last year.

As someone who has worked with EA in the past, and other development studios, teams, companies, there is always a set budget for development.

The other part is that the dev team is always quiet, you hear about all the aesthetic changes quickly, because they're easier to controllably leak, you can't leak physics easily, probably because it takes a long time to restructure large chunks of code.

Cheers
RP

[Stroehms]

I bet they have Coach - Referee interaction scenes with the Real life ref likenesses in the game.

[JaymeeAwesome]

Quote: Originally Posted by tfctillidie

WTF Why is the cameraman taking these stupid photos rather than developing better OL blocking?! Better yet, what are you doing with Andy Reid's time letting him sit there, he should be coding a new footplant physics system instead! WASTE OF RESOURCES AS PER USUAL EA! couldn't help myself.

For a second there I thought this post was real. Good laugh.