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Old 06-03-2005, 10:21 AM   #1
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EA is and always will be a "hype machine"

The reason they have done so little to the game is that they KNOW that we will buy it no matter what they do to the game. In an interview with EA on the IGN web site or maybe it was Gamespot? The guys says we choose to work on the passing because it has been 10 years sine we last worked on the passing game! Why has it been 10 years? Maybe work on the cpu running game it's needed work for the last sixteen years. My point is this. Madden has been out for I think close to sixteen years, sixteen years. The game has progressed at a snells pace at best. I would have thought by now they would be much further alone then they are. If I was EA I would be laughing at us as I am sure they are. They know we will buy Madden why but much effort into it? I saw where Madden for the 360 is going to cost $59.95. I bet it will look better then anything we have ever seen in a football game. It will play just as poorly as the Madden game of the past. There are things we have asked EA to implement over the years but they always blame system resources or the "wait till next year"


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I dunno, they've worked on the mechanics of the passing off and on over the years. This is the first time that they've really tinkered on the process of passing in the game. The passing has been the least of Madden's woes over the years so there was no need to make any sweeping changes.

You have to give them props in trying to fix the defensive side of the Madden engine the last couple years. Yeah it wasn't much of a fix but at least they recognized it needed attention.

I think that the Madden engine needs an overhaul but we'll have to wait til the next gen systems to really see that happen.

Is EA a hype machine? yeah most of the time.

Do they try to fix things that need to be addressed? Sometimes, but not always. I find that the only time EA really addresses things is if the online community has a meltdown. That's not the greatest way to do Quality Testing but it's better then nothing.
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The reason they have done so little to the game is that they KNOW that we will buy it no matter what they do to the game. In an interview with EA on the IGN web site or maybe it was Gamespot? The guys says we choose to work on the passing because it has been 10 years sine we last worked on the passing game! Why has it been 10 years? Maybe work on the cpu running game it's needed work for the last sixteen years. My point is this. Madden has been out for I think close to sixteen years, sixteen years. The game has progressed at a snells pace at best. I would have thought by now they would be much further alone then they are. If I was EA I would be laughing at us as I am sure they are. They know we will buy Madden why but much effort into it? I saw where Madden for the 360 is going to cost $59.95. I bet it will look better then anything we have ever seen in a football game. It will play just as poorly as the Madden game of the past. There are things we have asked EA to implement over the years but they always blame system resources or the "wait till next year"


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EA IS YOUR FATHER. LISTEN TO YOUR FATHER. YOU WILL BUY EA SPORTS VIDEOGAMES. YOU ARE FORCED TO BUY EA SPORTS VIDEOGAMES. YOU HAVE TO LOVE EA SPORTS VIDEOGAMES. YOUR FATHER HAS SPOKEN.
then i want to up my allowance, dad, now that we're billionaires. woo hoo.
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then i want to up my allowance, dad, now that we're billionaires. woo hoo.
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EA IS YOUR FATHER. LISTEN TO YOUR FATHER. YOU WILL BUY EA SPORTS VIDEOGAMES. YOU ARE FORCED TO BUY EA SPORTS VIDEOGAMES. YOU HAVE TO LOVE EA SPORTS VIDEOGAMES. YOUR FATHER HAS SPOKEN.

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1,482,231.

That's the amount of times this point has been brought up. You can't change it, so it doesn't matter. Madden will always have a stronghold on the football market, and it only grew tighter with the NFL deal.
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