Ian Cummings Game informer(October Edition) interview

[michapop9]

I wish I could find it online for you guys, sorry. Anyways if you have a subscription to game informer there is a new interview with Ian Cummings where he supposedly answers "burning" questions from the community, some of them might be burning but he actually answered very few, and others he gave answers that honestly show how out of touch he is with the community, here are a few examples of things covered:

1.apparently Ian Cummings has a "nice, close" relationship with the community via twitter, facebook and forums where he can immediately hear feedback and react in a "quick and nimble manner"

2.totally dodged a question about using features that are popular in NCAA 11 in Madden in the future.

3.He wants the default pick up and play experience to be more accessible and the "slow" game speed helps with that. (which is fine) but he believes the online audience is a naturally more hardcore audience (maybe true to a point) but if thats the case, thanks for the customization options: sliders, quarter length etc. that hardcore players would naturally want to use online.

4.stated, he wants to make sure they "innovate" every year instead of just fixing bugs from previous games. (wonder if he knows what innovate means?) maybe it means finally after 20 years giving us a close to accurate actual running game? I guess that could be innovation.

5. completely dodged another question about the possibility of making madden a "two year title." He stated he enjoys the challenge of making a yearly title, but does he know how we enjoy his challenge of making a yearly title? For a guy that gives such political answers maybe he should look at the polls and see just how we think hes meeting those challenges.

6. Flat out stated the hope for the default skill level was to make games more high scoring. Also stated he didnt want the better defenses to be ineffective on All pro or higher, theres one of the challenges he obviously failed to meet.

sorry more later gotta go.

[kehlis]

Not that posting the link will change things but without it this is nothing but a "let's bash Ian thread".

Either way it isn't going to happen.