Is EA sports starting to get bothered by MS and sony?

[Hooe]

Quote: Originally Posted by canes21

Can you provide the source for this?

Yeah seconding this. Definitely a case of Citation Needed™ here.

Madden 21 runs on Frostbite and presumably Madden 22 will as well. It's my understanding that Frostbite's file formats / data structures / etc. are pretty well-known in the modding scenes of EA games (the Battlefield series in particular). Have there been any stories recently about Battlefield games becoming harder to mod?

Beyond curtailing the efforts of cheaters in online head-to-head, it doesn't really behoove EA to make Madden mod-proof anyway.

[kehlis]

Quote: Originally Posted by TheButter

A fellow r/Madden moderator told me that they've changed the architecture of the files so it's not as simple as before, he's a knowledgeable guy as far as I know. Here's something from the main modder discord about 21 from a few months ago.Attachment 192562 Sent from my moto e5 cruise using Operation Sports mobile app

Unless I'm missing something, what you've shown us is blatantly wrong about M21 and there is absolutely no mention of M22?

I didn't even notice the dates at first, that's from over two months ago.

[zmonkey]

I feel like if there is anything for EA to be concerned about (there probably isn't, let's be honest) it's not the number of people who are buying the next gen consoles, but the type of people. The difficult hunt for consoles may be boxing out the more casual gamers in favor of the more hardcore gamers who are less likely to play sports games. We'll probably never know because EA will trumpet their numbers about how this is the best selling Madden to date because stores bought a lot of copies. Also, they're making a last gen version so why the hell would they care?

[Aestis]

We need to give EA a break due to how crazy the world has been the past 15 months.

Also I'd like to note in the very same post, on a completely unrelated note that absolutely has nothing to do with the events of the past 15 months whatsoever, MS and Sony are really dropping the ball on their manufacturing & supply chain and deserve a lot of criticism.