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CraigSca
04-21-2009, 09:23 AM
Who cares.

I've never understood the fascination with this stuff. Who gives a flyin' who the cover athlete is for Madden, NCAA, etc.? Can someone explain this to me?
gstelmack
04-21-2009, 09:26 AM
Well, if they get on the cover of Madden they're going to have a crappy year, and fantasy owners everywhere would like to know this info before their draft...
Mizzou B-ball fan
04-21-2009, 09:28 AM
Who cares.

I've never understood the fascination with this stuff. Who gives a flyin' who the cover athlete is for Madden, NCAA, etc.? Can someone explain this to me?

When your product doesn't have any NEW features to announce, a cover athlete announcement is all you have for PR purposes.
Dr. Sak
04-21-2009, 09:29 AM
Who had 5 minutes in the pool?
Passacaglia
04-21-2009, 09:31 AM
So uh, who's on the cover?
Mizzou B-ball fan
04-21-2009, 09:32 AM
Who had 5 minutes in the pool?

For the record, I criticized the cynical nature of the posters in the "Improvements in Madden 2010" thread.

:lol:
CraigSca
04-21-2009, 09:57 AM
When your product doesn't have any NEW features to announce, a cover athlete announcement is all you have for PR purposes.

But the fact is - people are actually all over it. I check PastaPadre for updates on the latest sports games. He and the commenters trip all over themselves trying to predict who the cover athlete will be.

For me, it's like discussing (recent Operations Sports thread title), "Players who wear dark or smoke-colored visors." Who cares?!
CraigSca
04-21-2009, 09:57 AM
So uh, who's on the cover?

Some college players who were successful last year and are now heading into the draft.
CraigSca
04-21-2009, 09:58 AM
Well, if they get on the cover of Madden they're going to have a crappy year, and fantasy owners everywhere would like to know this info before their draft...

Pfft - a simple case of regressing to the mean. We both know that :)
Mizzou B-ball fan
04-21-2009, 11:03 AM
But the fact is - people are actually all over it. I check PastaPadre for updates on the latest sports games. He and the commenters trip all over themselves trying to predict who the cover athlete will be.

I think that occurs on sports video game blogs because the releases come in waves. There's long dry spells between the baseball releases in the spring, the football games in late summer, and the basketball/hockey games in the fall. There's a whole lot of down time in between where they really have to work hard to make enough stories to report on a daily basis during those lean months in regards to releases.
Pumpy Tudors
04-21-2009, 11:32 AM
What's next? Some thread saying "SOME FAMOUS PERSON DIED" and we have to go figure out who?
Butter
04-21-2009, 11:39 AM
PS3 - Utah's Brian Johnson

XBOX 360 - Texas Tech's Michael Crabtree

PS2 - Texas's Brian Orakpo

PSP - USC's Mark Sanchez<!-- / message -->
Mustang
04-21-2009, 11:41 AM
So uh, who's on the cover?

Not a Virginia Tech QB since they can't get one.
Grammaticus
04-21-2009, 08:12 PM
XBOX 360 - Texas Tech's Michael Crabtree



I rename him David Lobsterbush in my game.
Passacaglia
04-21-2009, 09:13 PM
What's next? Some thread saying "SOME FAMOUS PERSON DIED" and we have to go figure out who?

Why don't you just google yourself?
Raiders Army
04-21-2009, 09:14 PM
Man, remember that year Weinke was the cover athlete? Heh.