if you could ask ea one question, it would be...?

[Sotendo]

Can you give up the license? PLEASE? It would do wonders for all of us

• Madden supporters won't get annoyed by people who constructively criticize
• EA people won't get pissed and say "how much in one cycle do you want us to do" and "and we can't appeal to everyone
• Everybody can play the games they enjoy. The casual, the realistic, etc.

[Kaiser Wilhelm]

I would ask them why does the Madden NFL Football series still has the generic 4 difficulty settings instead of having difficulty spread out into the multiple aspects of the game?

Example is having the All-Pro AI difficulty and the All-Madden playcalling. These hardcoded features of difficulty allow for for little customization which means certain problems (like bad playcalling on All-Pro, but uncompetitive Gameplay on All-Madden).

[jpinard]

Why have penalty sliders never fully worked in your games since the beginning of time?

[Thinger]

Why is your marketing budget 3 times that of your development budget? Why do you charge $60 for content that would amount to what other companies provide for free in a patch?

[Thinger]

Why do you have such little respect for the people that buy your games (your customers)?
When is the $.3B you make in revenue off this game every year going to be invested back into the product?
When is a product 8+ years old, on old technology, developed by a team a 3rd your size, going to stop embarrassing you?
When is enough enough with the milking and shrewd monetization strategies? I understand every company needs to make a profit, and yes, we know you can do whatever you want when you pay almost a half billion dollars to monopolize an entire genre for close to 10 years now, but when is enough enough?
When do you say "ok, we've milked and nickeled and dimed our customers to death, lets switch our focus to making a respectable product that we as a gaming publisher can take some pride in"?

[roadman]

Try not to turn this into a bashing

A request by the OP is becoming ignored.

Oh well, it is what it is.

[Thinger]

Why is your company the epitome of everything that's wrong with 21st century corporations in America?
Why is your company voted the worst company in America by consumers? Why doesn't this motivate you to make drastic changes to the way you do business?
Why do you pay people to go on message boards and derail/deflect criticism about your company/IPs? Wouldn't that money simply be better spent towards actually making a great product people want to say positive things about?
Why have you bought up dozens of great franchises/development studios only to shut them down and kill great games & series people were deeply passionate about?

[kjcheezhead]

I need about 3 questions depending on how EA answers.

Do you intend to extend the exclusive license again?
If yes, do you intend to port current Madden onto the next systems?
If yes, can you release a Classic Madden game next year which would be ps2 Madden with HD graphics and updated rosters and online capability?