Only 2 1/2 Weeks to EA Access and No Gameplay... Concerned?

[goillini03]

Re: Only 2 1/2 Weeks to EA Access and No Gameplay... Concerned?

I'm expecting to be blown away with frostbite .

Tempering your expectations would be wise. If it does, you will be much happier than the opposite!

[m1ke_nyc]

Re: Only 2 1/2 Weeks to EA Access and No Gameplay... Concerned?

Ok, so a select few have seen the game but they can't talk about it and they can't show videos of it. Can't tell me that's not sketchy.

What your referring to are those closed door sessions which happen every year. What I'm saying is the game was made available to the public. Anyone who wanted to attend EA Play could have showed up, played the game and spoke about their experiences. Plenty of people have including OS own Millennium. There are plenty of impressions from EA Play out there. They just were not allowed to record which is nothing new.

[Gorilla Glass]

Re: Only 2 1/2 Weeks to EA Access and No Gameplay... Concerned?

Gameplay videos are currently scheduled to go out late next week, from community influencers. I promise they will be worth the wait.

Apologies to those of you who disagree with this strategy, but the team decided to try and different approach this year. We want first impressions to come from the community. Hence EA Play and why the gameplay videos were done this way.

I can assure you there is nothing wrong with the game that we are "hiding". The game came out great this year and we are excited to share it with you as soon as possible.

As always we appreciate your continued support and look forward to seeing you all on the field this August.

So assuming Thursday is late next week, we get to see actual footage a week before it's released to Access subscribers.

This is definitely not good news, but hey I guess it's something.

[ODogg]

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This is the problem, to be honest. Why should EA drop a bunch of videos to gamers they know will spend the next two weeks trashing the game. I know these overly enthusiastic fans think they are helping, but they really aren't.

It would be one thing if these early videos lead to good discussion, but too many use them to fill threads among many forums with negative posts. And it never has anything to do with how good or bad the video really is. You can predict the threads before even seeing the videos. It's just an excuse to bash the game.

At least by releasing the videos later, and closer when Early Access comes out, there can at least be reasonable discussion bye those playing the game to counter what is often a bunch BS that comes from the videos. When releasing early, it gives the bashers free reign for weeks to trash the game before anyone that actually likes the game can play it and realize things aren't so bad.

This sums up perfectly why it makes sense for EA to take this new approach.

[Big FN Deal]

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It's telling to me that anyone would defend the lack of footage as a good idea to avoid bashing, which is basically conceding that even they think it would warrant criticism. If the game is up to standard, then showing footage exposes bashing and unwarranted criticism. As far as trying to avoid criticism without hands on impressions to counter it, that's just absurd because that goes both ways, meaning hands on impressions also negates defenses of valid criticism like "you have to feel it" or "you can't judge X until you've played".

If I believed Madden was a good product, I couldn't care less what others stated about it, especially if it was unwarranted bashing and certainly wouldn't want to be denied footage because of what critics might say. On the other hand if I was insecure to the point where my hype and anticipation of a video game hinged on ignoring flaws that I'm concerned others would point out, I could see early footage being an issue but that would be a personal problem.

[DocHolliday]

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With the track record of Madden I really don't know how anyone can give them the benefit of the doubt on this.

I take this to be a very bad sign.


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[SmashMan]

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It's telling to me that anyone would defend the lack of footage as a good idea to avoid bashing, which is basically conceding that even they think it would warrant criticism.

How many people are actually defending this as a good idea, really? I want to say one, maybe two posts. I realize framing it that way is easier to argue against though, so do your thing. Most people seem to have just accepted that for better or worse, this is Madden's marketing strategy this year and are going about their lives until footage releases.

And your big 'gotcha' moment of "conceding that even they think it would warrant criticism" kind of falls flat when nobody is really saying that Madden doesn't warrant criticism either. Not sure where you were going with that one.



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[aholbert32]

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Ok, so a select few have seen the game but they can't talk about it and they can't show videos of it. Can't tell me that's not sketchy.

No one is restricted from talking about the Ea play videos.


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[Datninja619]

Re: Only 2 1/2 Weeks to EA Access and No Gameplay... Concerned?

there should be a more structured schedule going forward . It should be a template that they could follow every year and it would give consumers a time frame on info without any false hopes .

I think that would be nice, but Only issue with that is now they are held accountable to that exact time frame. If there's any hiccups with getting it out in the specified time frame, consumers are equally upset. "EA had X amount of time to write and stage the blog!"



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[Big FN Deal]

Re: Only 2 1/2 Weeks to EA Access and No Gameplay... Concerned?

How many people are actually defending this as a good idea, really? I want to say one, maybe two posts. I realize framing it that way is easier to argue against though, so do your thing. Most people seem to have just accepted that for better or worse, this is Madden's marketing strategy this year and are going about their lives until footage releases.

And your big 'gotcha' moment of "conceding that even they think it would warrant criticism" kind of falls flat when nobody is really saying that Madden doesn't warrant criticism either. Not sure where you were going with that one.



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Lol, two things, one it's been explained to me that is better, at least for me, to generalize than to come right at specific posts because history has shown that can get misunderstood as attacking the poster. So if only "one or two posts" expressed that idea, then that's the posts it refers to.

Secondly, nah I wasn't going for some gotcha moment or whatever, if you didn't get what I was trying to say in that post or if I didn't explain it well enough, no biggie, like you stated, we'll go on about our lives until footage is released.

[Allball76]

Only 2 1/2 Weeks to EA Access and No Gameplay... Concerned?

Gameplay videos are currently scheduled to go out late next week, from community influencers. I promise they will be worth the wait.



Apologies to those of you who disagree with this strategy, but the team decided to try and different approach this year. We want first impressions to come from the community. Hence EA Play and why the gameplay videos were done this way.



I can assure you there is nothing wrong with the game that we are "hiding". The game came out great this year and we are excited to share it with you as soon as possible.



As always we appreciate your continued support and look forward to seeing you all on the field this August.

We know you work hard and keep it 100. In the end if the gameplay is as good as game changers say .Then it was all worth the wait . PS get that Deuce Douglass Info in 19 and signature moves lol .
Thanks big dawg


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[RogerDodger]

Re: Only 2 1/2 Weeks to EA Access and No Gameplay... Concerned?

I'm expecting to be blown away with frostbite .

I don't think that will happen this year, at least not in terms of the sidelines that we saw in the leaked videos. Everything looked much the same, zombie characters staring straight ahead rather than following the action. FIFA is doing stuff both on the field and off that ideally would find its way to Madden but who knows.

[RogerDodger]

Re: Only 2 1/2 Weeks to EA Access and No Gameplay... Concerned?

This sums up perfectly why it makes sense for EA to take this new approach.

We'll see if it makes "sense" by whether they copy the same approach next year. My guess is they won't and will revert back to a normal marketing strategy for 2019.

[btvs]

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Rex and company are getting hammered on twitter. The idea of not showing any gameplay or talking about franchise mode, the two most important things until a week before the game is playable is beyond ridiculous. Seriously who does that? How is that a good marketing plan.... whatever.

[jbd345]

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I'm expecting to be blown away with frostbite .

The only thing that is "blown away" worthy maybe just the stadium shots/player intros and lighting. Too bad we've seen nothing on that though.