4 min quarters for online ranked games!!!!!!!!!!

[Mintsa]

Damn this sucks!!!!!!!!!!

You can't play a game with 4 min quarters....people will milk the clock like crazy!!!

It was reported on maddenmania.com.

go there online ps2 forum.

Sorry for the bad news guys!!

[GnarlyKing]

Is that the only option?

[Mintsa]

For ranked games yes....if you wanna play 5 min quarters...you gotta play unranked games.

[GnarlyKing]

That's ridiculous. There's no logical reason for that. If they weren't going to do that with NCAA, with all the extra clock stoppages and shorter play clocks, why do it for Madden. Oh well, I wasn't planning on playing online much anyway, but that still sucks.

[Buckaholic]

Wow. This really runs along the lines of idiotic.

[Brandwin]

LOL Wtf? At least make it the normal 5 instead of 4.

[fredsmooth21]

I've had two convos with Nathan from EA about it. First he said

Straight from EA's MOuth about Online play:

fredsmooth21: quick question. Is it true that ranked games can only be played on 4 min quarters? If so what was the reasoning behind it? A lot of people are upset by this post Marcus over at MM made.
fredsmooth21: i'd like to post the reasoning if possible
Nathan: 4 Min? I thought it was 5?
fredsmooth21: marcus said he went online and it was ranked for 4 mins quarters.
Nathan: weird...I will check
Nathan: nope...five
Nathan: he must have been smopking something
fredsmooth21: hahaha ok, i'll let the fellas know


Then he replied:
Some clarification. Looks Like marcus was right, but there is hope. EA says they can change the quarters. I'm speaking for the masses here:

Nathan: guess what
fredsmooth21: what?
Nathan: they are 4 min games
Nathan: we can change them if needed
Nathan: I cjust asked tiburon
fredsmooth21: yes, you might want to do that before release
fredsmooth21: people are asking for your head
fredsmooth21: not you specifically
fredsmooth21: but EA
Nathan: if thye are not popular than we can change
fredsmooth21: saying they wont play on ranked games
Nathan: send me the link to the thread
fredsmooth21: ok
fredsmooth21: http://www.maddennation.com/forums/...ead.php?t=15915
fredsmooth21: they talk about it in there
fredsmooth21: also, i'll give you the one on MaddenMania
Nathan: k...brb
fredsmooth21: http://www.maddenmania.com/forums/s...ead.php?t=57572
fredsmooth21: i'm telling you right off the bat change that while you have time. Make it AT LEAST 5 mins. or you are goign to have a lot of dissatisfied gamers online.


So at least there's hope that they will change it. I think they'll change it to 5 min by the official release date in Aug.

[Sidewindersca]

Yeah 4 is too little, i can milk a 5 min quater clock and pretty much run down the entire half with 5 min quaters.