Idea to keep Madden fresh...

[drewst18]

So I dont know if this has been said before, but I had an idea for EA to solve the problem of the same product every year and minimal developments.

I don't know if it would work out great financially but if you look at what the Call of Duty Series does, it is now pretty much a yearly release, but they have two different studio's make the game.

Every other year Madden could be released by Tiburon and then whatever other studio picks up the odd years (EA Canada, new EA Texas, etc..)

what CoD does is they have WaW and BOps producer Treyarch and Infinity Ward produces MW. This allows for a yearly release, but almost a completely different game being made every year.

The studios would feel as if their is competition while EA really has none since they own both studios.

[SwsFoe]

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or they could stop buying the rights to the Players Association and let 2K get back into making NFL games. Competition would force both products to evolve each year.

[RaychelSnr]

Re: Idea to keep Madden fresh...

So I dont know if this has been said before, but I had an idea for EA to solve the problem of the same product every year and minimal developments.

I don't know if it would work out great financially but if you look at what the Call of Duty Series does, it is now pretty much a yearly release, but they have two different studio's make the game.

Every other year Madden could be released by Tiburon and then whatever other studio picks up the odd years (EA Canada, new EA Texas, etc..)

what CoD does is they have WaW and BOps producer Treyarch and Infinity Ward produces MW. This allows for a yearly release, but almost a completely different game being made every year.

The studios would feel as if their is competition while EA really has none since they own both studios.

Not to be too harsh, but this method worked out so well for the Call of Duty franchise that Activision shut it down last year

http://www.1up.com/news/activision-shut-infinity-ward-analyst

[bingo911]

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or they could stop buying the rights to the Players Association and let 2K get back into making NFL games. Competition would force both products to evolve each year.

why would they 'let' them do such a thing? theyre making a crap load of money, and letting take2 back into things would guarantee that they lose money. they bought the licence to make more money. i hate the thought of there never being a 2k NFL game ever again but... Ea will probably never let it go.

[Gritblitzer]

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Here goes, another 2k is so awesome thread. Let the fun begin!

[ryan36]

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Guys, leave 2k out of this.

This thread can exist without mention of 2k, the OP has an idea...discuss it please

[authentic]

Re: Idea to keep Madden fresh...

So I dont know if this has been said before, but I had an idea for EA to solve the problem of the same product every year and minimal developments.

I don't know if it would work out great financially but if you look at what the Call of Duty Series does, it is now pretty much a yearly release, but they have two different studio's make the game.

Every other year Madden could be released by Tiburon and then whatever other studio picks up the odd years (EA Canada, new EA Texas, etc..)

what CoD does is they have WaW and BOps producer Treyarch and Infinity Ward produces MW. This allows for a yearly release, but almost a completely different game being made every year.

The studios would feel as if their is competition while EA really has none since they own both studios.

Man EA Canada has made some sweet games. Don't they make the NHL series and used to make the NBA series? Both were pretty solid series, EA just hit the panic button on NBA Live for some reason. EA Canada also made the MVP Baseball series, which everyone who loves sim sports games remembers.

[fahrenheit]

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Not to mention Call of Duty has the advantage of being able to drastically change the game each version to "keep it fresh". All EA can do is try to improve what they have already built, they can't really change anything dramatically (except the U.I.) without losing NFL realism.

[Poptart23]

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what about every other year theyll just have a roster update, with patches and whatever they wanna add for maybe 29.99 or however many Microsoft points and just have it as a DLC

[stlstudios189]

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I have mentioned this as well that a DLC update every other year release schedule could be a huge $$ maker. Think about it sell about 3 million copies of 12 @ $59.99 then the next year you may sell another half million copies at $39.99 for those that skipped it before but, get another 2 million update downloads (rosters, uniforms, etc...) @ $19.99 thats in my mind a lot more profitable as you have less packaging etc..

[mjhyankees]

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I don't know about DLC's for past versions with updates but I'm sure they want to sell the full price new version each year. Many people would not buy the new game if the old one had roster updates. I myself updated rosters manually for a few years until M10......they don't want to give it to us.