Madden NFL 17 Patch #9 Available Now, Full Details Here

[roadman]

Quote: Originally Posted by Nza

To me it's not so much about what the focus was, but how little the update does - it seems barely worth announcing?

We live in a age of instant social media.

If they didn't announce what the update was about, people would be climbing all over EA on Twitter and FB what does the update entail.

CleveClubby, I'm not saying there is a title update in February for the sake of saying it. I'm giving direct quotes on Twitter from Rex Dickson.

If you don't want me to relay that kind of info to OS, I'll gladly back off and not waste my time and let people find out the info on their own.

[howboutdat]

Quote: Originally Posted by fballturkey

It also might be true only because they've made some really bad design choices with CFM since getting rid of Franchise. If "not as many people play it" is the reason to not put more resources into an actual Franchise mode then it's just going to keep spiraling down.

Funny you should mention that. Because for the longest time thats been the "reason" they dont put much as far as resources into CFM. Now since thats been the reason, i wonder what the reason will be next year. I recall an interview Rex did recently, and because he was wanting to make a point to "prove" CFM is much improved this year, he bragged about how much more activity they are seeing in CFM this year. I wish i could recall the % but i feel like it was an 80% increase of something.....So being it was a point to use to show how much they improved CFM..... shouldnt alot more resources go into CFM for 18 , since as stated before the reason they didnt was not enough were playing it ..... well now thats increased alot accroding to him so time to increase them funds......

[jfsolo]

Quote: Originally Posted by Armor and Sword

With you man. Madden 17 is a really good game, and the best football game made to date IMO. I am playing the crap out of it. It needs some more work no doubt, and we all want improvements. But the game is really, really solid, and franchise mode has been a lot of fun for the second straight year for me. I loved the improvements they made to franchise and game play and look forward to seeing it continue to evolve. There are a lot of us who are singing the games praises and playing the hell out of it and at the same time giving good constructive feedback to the development team for further tuning and improvements.

I obviously wasn't the only one saying it, but to hear Rex in an interview repeat almost verbatim something that I said to him in a Tweet, reaffirms my belief that despite his having to serve very diverse gameplay styles, and sometimes making tuning choices that are antithetical to what many of us here want, he is still our staunches ally with this game.

Quote: Originally Posted by roadman

We live in a age of instant social media. If they didn't announce what the update was about, people would be climbing all over EA on Twitter and FB what does the update entail. CleveClubby, I'm not saying there is a title update in February for the sake of saying it. I'm giving direct quotes on Twitter from Rex Dickson. If you don't want me to relay that kind of info to OS, I'll gladly back off and not waste my time and let people find out the info on their own.

Disseminating information is always better, regardless of the fact that some people will use whatever is shared as another opportunity to reiterate the things that they are angry about.

[timhere1970]

Quote: Originally Posted by jfsolo

I obviously wasn't the only one saying it, but to hear Rex in an interview repeat almost verbatim something that I said to him in a Tweet, reaffirms my belief that despite his having to serve very diverse gameplay styles, and sometimes making tuning choices that are antithetical to what many of us here want, he is still our staunches ally with this game. Disseminating information is always better, regardless of the fact that some people will use whatever is shared as another opportunity to reiterate the things that they are angry about.

It would be so much easier to live with tuning updates if they gave us the ability to tune the game to our liking. Sliders that work and a slider for everything they tune. In fact, I would like to be able to download out of the box or any other tune they do within franchise.

[howboutdat]

Quote: Originally Posted by timhere1970

It would be so much easier to live with tuning updates if they gave us the ability to tune the game to our liking. Sliders that work and a slider for everything they tune. In fact, I would like to be able to download out of the box or any other tune they do within franchise.

Exactly, the bold above is exactly what we need.Along with , as you stated, a slider for everything.However first they would have to make the current ones actually work. Not only should they work, there should be some type of % number or some kinda of detail along the top bar of each on , to show you by moving the slider here or there, what it will effect , increase amount of , etc. But thats hard to do when you dont even know yourself what they do that well.Working sliders and sliders for everything would help alot.

[IlliniOne82]

Quote: Originally Posted by Armor and Sword

With you man. Madden 17 is a really good game, and the best football game made to date IMO. I am playing the crap out of it. It needs some more work no doubt, and we all want improvements. But the game is really, really solid, and franchise mode has been a lot of fun for the second straight year for me. I loved the improvements they made to franchise and game play and look forward to seeing it continue to evolve. There are a lot of us who are singing the games praises and playing the hell out of it and at the same time giving good constructive feedback to the development team for further tuning and improvements.

I feel the same way. I hadn't played a Madden game since last gen but I am still enjoying this game - strictly an online CFM player. I'm into season 7 having played (no sim) every game other than preseason with 15 minute quarters/20 second run off so games take about an hour and 20 minutes to play. Needless to say I've put some time into this. I feel like the presentation and immersion is really pretty good. I think they did a great job with the salary structure so that it really makes you think about where you spend your money. I'm using the Bears and I got a number of guys with quick/superstar development in my first couple drafts...all good at the time but after 3-4 seasons when those rookie contracts were coming up I really had to think about where to spend that money.

It might help that I'm a decent but not great player and I found a slider set that was challenging for me so I'm still not dominating (far from it). In 6 seasons I've only made the playoffs twice and went out in the first game both times.

[underdog13]

Quote: Originally Posted by cable guy

So is anyone seeing any differences to gameplay after the patch? Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

Nope, same old same.

[cable guy]

Quote: Originally Posted by roadman

We live in a age of instant social media. If they didn't announce what the update was about, people would be climbing all over EA on Twitter and FB what does the update entail. CleveClubby, I'm not saying there is a title update in February for the sake of saying it. I'm giving direct quotes on Twitter from Rex Dickson. If you don't want me to relay that kind of info to OS, I'll gladly back off and not waste my time and let people find out the info on their own.

No, I think everyone appreciates the info you relay through tweets and so on. I would hope so.

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