A Question To EA Sports Regarding 360 Madden 10 Create-A-Team Design

[Art01]

Seems like I have touched an issue which has bothered a number of people.

It really is curious that the EA team released the game with the issues noted in the Create-A-Team discussion and did not address them with patches.

EA knows how to make Create-A-Team work properly. Madden 09 for the Original XBOX provides a fully functional Create-A-Team feature, including the ability to edit Player Ratings in Created Teams. Created Teams can be accessed under the Historic Teams game option for full Roster edit capability.

Speaking as a retired technical business executive from the electronics manufacturing services business, it seems to me that these issues do not occur by chance. I vey much doubt that EA does not know of these issues, since they are so obvious. There is a long history of issues being released within these games each year, then either being patched or, more likely, improved upon in the next year's game.

It appears to me that EA believes that implemeting fixes and improvements enhances sales for next year's game. That approach may work for EA, since so many people continue to buy the game year over year.

It does not work for me.

Art

[Azcardinal32]

Quote: Originally Posted by Art01

Seems like I have touched an issue which has bothered a number of people. It really is curious that the EA team released the game with the issues noted in the Create-A-Team discussion and did not address them with patches. EA knows how to make Create-A-Team work properly. Madden 09 for the Original XBOX provides a fully functional Create-A-Team feature, including the ability to edit Player Ratings in Created Teams. Created Teams can be accessed under the Historic Teams game option for full Roster edit capability. Speaking as a retired technical business executive from the electronics manufacturing services business, it seems to me that these issues do not occur by chance. I vey much doubt that EA does not know of these issues, since they are so obvious. There is a long history of issues being released within these games each year, then either being patched or, more likely, improved upon in the next year's game. It appears to me that EA believes that implemeting fixes and improvements enhances sales for next year's game. That approach may work for EA, since so many people continue to buy the game year over year. It does not work for me. Art

They are not addressing these issues with patches because i believe they are just going to use teambuilder from NCAA for M11. So it would be a waste to fix something in this game just to replace it in a few months. I remember hearing that ian wanted to get Teambuilder into M10 but there wasnt enough time.

[pointNumberOne]

Quote: Originally Posted by Azcardinal32

They are not addressing these issues with patches because i believe they are just going to use teambuilder from NCAA for M11. So it would be a waste to fix something in this game just to replace it in a few months. I remember hearing that ian wanted to get Teambuilder into M10 but there wasnt enough time.

This would be AMAZING

*fingers crossed*

[Victor Fox]

It would essentially solve every problem ever. No joke.

[CM Hooe]

Quote: Originally Posted by Art01

Speaking as a retired technical business executive from the electronics manufacturing services business, it seems to me that these issues do not occur by chance. I vey much doubt that EA does not know of these issues, since they are so obvious. There is a long history of issues being released within these games each year, then either being patched or, more likely, improved upon in the next year's game.

EA probably does know about these issues with the next-gen Create A Team function. That said, given that you are a retired technical business executive, you probably also know that EA has to prioritize features, bug fixes, etc. and only has so many man-hours to make Madden each year.

I'm going to guess that, compared to revamped presentation, streamlined franchise mode, Pro-Tak and other gameplay improvements, online franchise, etc., that create-a-team was very very low on the priority list and as such was cut from being addressed significantly in this past year's development cycle. Would you rather that Pro-Tak completely not exist and/or have some huge unaddressed bug in it that murders the game's guise of realism in exchange of having create-a-team working? Would you rather have Madden 09's dull-as-dirt presentation back, thus giving each game a rather "meh" feel?

People act like EA just has infinite resources and time to make these games and to make them perfectly in every way ever. Quite simply, they don't and thus they can't.

Don't get me wrong, I think that Create-A-Team has been underwhelming in Madden for years, but I understand why EA hasn't made any significant changes to it in a while, as well; compared to the rest of the game, it's not very important for the vast majority of their customer base.