Great post, but here is my beef with it.
Theyve been working with this same code since they started making Madden 06 in late 2004. They then carried it into a new generation. Some of the things we complain about being missing were in other Maddens over that time to now but got taken out, then put back in, then taken out again.
I want o-line play to be straight too, thats my #1 thing, but thats been broken for the same amount of time that all of these other problems have been a problem. They made big claims during the Madden 25 campaign that o-line blocking was fixed so advanced (cant forget the commercials), even Clint Oldenburg proclaimed o-line blocking in Madden to be the best ever on Twitter. We all know that none of that is the case after playing the game, we all know o-line blocking is broken, but the bigger point here player is that if they addressed it to the degree they claim they have and its still messed up then prolly they cant fix it. So why not just address this mountain of little details instead? I find it hard to believe that this would be harder to do than somethin as complex as offensive line AI. If you cant fix the big things then address the little ones. But player, theyre not doing either and thats not my opinion just look at the game, the o-line AI is still as broken as its been for years, and we still dont have that big mountain of small details. So what in the blue hell is going on?
I think all of us are tired out about mentioning 2K, but THEY Tiburon have to put the talk to rest by producing, not promising, producing. All I ever see are excuses and spin about why this mountain of things never gets fixed. I stopped buying the spin a long time ago. I feel for sure now that its not getting addressed because of the priorities THEY decided on, not because they cant do it. Nobody asked for Draft Champions, nobody asked for Skills Trainer, nobody asked for the Gauntlet, nobody asked for MUT, but we got all of that junk and still no Equipment updates and no work at all on this big mountain of small details thats now piled high. You tell'in me that if they didnt do any of this junk nobody asked for that they couldnt have gotten Equipment and all this other stuff done? Nah, they couldve its just not a priority to them.
Its obvious, but if we say it we are terrible people instead of just consumers who want a football product that actually fits being in the 8th gen like the rest of the AAA sports gaming industry that already HAS all of the things we complain about not being in Madden, things those other games had in Gen 6 and 7 for that matter.