Madden 10: Did EA Press Reset? (Joystiq)

[Brnto4life]

Joystiq has posted another Madden NFL 10 article, this one titled Madden 10: Did EA press reset?

"Frazier, Cummings and the rest of the staff are frustrated by the repetitive criticisms lobbed at Madden. Frazier vehemently defended the integrity of this team, if not the integrity of EA Sports' exclusive right to use NFL licenses. "We found out about it the same day everyone else did," Frazier said of the deal. "I get that concern." But Frazier was quick to point out that EA has invested more money in Madden this year than any previous year, suggesting that at no level in the company is there a push to ease back on development initiative in the wake of diminished competition. "EA isn't trying to get lazy with this franchise," Frazier insisted. EA isn't trying to get overly ambitious either."

[Bgamer90]

New Joystiq Article

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/05/28/madden-10-did-ea-press-reset/

Despite its massive following, Joystiq has largely treated the series as uninteresting. Year in, year out, the process has grown mechanical: the annual announcement, followed by details of game enhancements, and then, of course, a look at those supposedly cursed cover athletes. Then, silence. The game's released. A few months later, news of its sales dominance. Rinse. Repeat. Reset.

Told you guys they were never really that interested in the game...

[Smoke316]

Re: Wow, Joystiq rights a "wrong"...

Nice article by joystiq in my opinion. Its an article from the outsider looking into the Madden franchise. Sure you can argue that every yr is just a roster update with a few improvements here and there. There is nothing wrong with "constructive skepticism" on the part of joystiq and those alike. However i think this year , with the renewed focus of the dev team , things will be different going forward. Im also looking forward to after the game is released to see how the dev team continues to interact with us as a community.

[Derrville]

Re: Wow, Joystiq rights a "wrong"...

Hmmm

[Derrville]

Re: New Joystiq Article

too late

[Bgamer90]

Re: New Joystiq Article

Seems like someone beat me to the punch in posting this.

Mods can lock this if they want...

[N@X_WiZaRD]

Re: Wow, Joystiq rights a "wrong"...

This guy's major beef is that the EA dev crew isn't working on a team-play feature called Madden Online?

WTF?

This guy is ********. 99.9% of Madden fans are PRIMARILY interested in the presentation and gameplay upgrades - the very upgrades that he so non-chalantly trivialized as "non-intuitive" branches for development.

[kwas676]

Re: Wow, Joystiq rights a "wrong"...

The whole article was like a kid crying but you don't know what there crying about.

[kwas676]

Re: Wow, Joystiq rights a "wrong"...

This guy's major beef is that the EA dev crew isn't working on a team-play feature called Madden Online?

WTF?

This guy is ********. 99.9% of Madden fans are PRIMARILY interested in the presentation and gameplay upgrades - the very upgrades that he so non-chalantly trivialized as "non-intuitive" branches for development.

Yeah lets not foucse on gang tackling, presentations, sig styles lets focuse on TEAM PLAY, TEAM PLAY. Cause thats what madden really missing TEAM PLAY.

[PantherBeast_OS]

Re: Wow, Joystiq rights a "wrong"...

Oh well some people cry about different things. But I am glad EA took a step forward this year to make madden even better.

[Derrville]

Re: Wow, Joystiq rights a "wrong"...

I dont see any wrong with this article. Joystiq just isnt gonna go "PRAISE EA, PRAISE IAN" like a bunch of yall do.

They're hesitant, like they should be. Sounds more like EA whined about the way they took it and pressured them to write this.

[Bgamer90]

Re: Wow, Joystiq rights a "wrong"...

The whole article was like a kid crying but you don'y know what there crying about.

I know exactly what you mean.

It's like even though everything that they talked about in the previous article was addressed by Ian/Phil and noted in this article, in this article they still tried to find ways to try and say to readers why they shouldn't be interested in the game (and also why they themselves never were).

The fact that they said that "The Emotions of the NFL" was a new game mode in the previous article kind of shows that they didn't care nothing much of the game (since EA corrected them saying that it wasn't; man all that time speculating about what the mode could be about here at OS has been wasted lol).

Yeah... I would be surprised if EA Sports would still let these guys preview any other games in the future...

[lgxjames]

Re: Wow, Joystiq rights a "wrong"...

I couldnt tell if the article was suppose to be a apology for half-****** the preview or to better justify the reason he was bashing the game

[Jamin23]

Re: Madden 10: Did EA press reset? (Joystiq)

I'm sure you all know that song I *****... I hate her!! Haters. Very inaccurate preview.

[Bgamer90]

Re: Wow, Joystiq rights a "wrong"...

. Sounds more like EA whined about the way they took it and pressured them to write this.

Not really...

joystiq's previous article had false information (i.e. "Emotion of the NFL" mode; what Pro-Tak does to the game, etc.) and that's why they made this one.