It's not at the point of giving up. But it's at the point of being close to convinced there's flaws in this game that are insurmountable. Specifically the run blocking.
I've tried my own sliders. I did that first. I've actually tried it with everything running at the max, everything passing at the minimum. Amazingly running was still poor, and passing was still too good. That shouldn't be remotely possible if the sliders worked.
I've had years of history with Madden where the Sliders do not have a wide enough range to correct a problem. Like setting Penalty sliders to 100, and there's still not enough. I think I've had 2 false starts in 7 games, with sliders at 100. Which is just lolbad.
I'd love to get these (you've been Coaching, and not just CPU'ing though?). Post them if you would please. Even with the passing too hard. I'd actually like to see it work that way for a change.
If the sliders work correctly, yes. I haven't played Madden for 3-4 years. And I know back then they didn't work enough.
My last game was the same old story. Forte low 2.x YPC. Opposition similar.
Cutler passed for 360 yards, no picks. Olsen has 150 yards.
For them Culpepper had almost 200 yards, no picks.
After 5 weeks Olsen leads the league in receptions. And we've had a bye. The game seems incredibly TE heavy in the passing game. Burress has hardly had a sniff.