Patch downloading process

[sportsgamingguy2023]

Is it true that for the consoles, patches from Madden are delivered based on your console preferences of whether you set auto-downloading on or not? If you turn this setting off, you will be notified that a patch exists and then can choose to download or not?

Regardless of this setting, to say that patches get downloaded and installed without any notice to the user is incorrect. A user will always know when a patch change has been made, and it will either download and install immediately or not based on console settings, or when you start the game.

I just want to possibly clear up some misinformation that is posted in another thread. So, there is no way the latest patch could have been installed yesterday, or a day early, without notification to the user.

EA does not "sneak" updates into the code and install without the user knowing about it and you can track updates based on patch naming and release notes ie: 1.008 etc)

[Funkycorm]

Re: Patch downloading process

I don't know about the stuff referencing another thread.

But in terms of the downloads: If you have auto download on, it will download then it is available. If auto download is off, the only way to get it to download is to start it manually. You do not receive notification on your console (PS5 in my case) about it being available. Meaning you have to select the check for update option on each game individually. But starting the game up will also tell you there is an update if auto update is disabled.

NBA 2k is different because they will also update in the game itself. NHL has their tuner updates as well. But in terms of Madden and a majority of games, the above applies.