Madden NFL 25 to Include Actual NFL Referees?

[TMJOHNS18]

The real question is, Can I fantasy draft Ed Hochuli on my team?

This seems real silly since the penalty system isn't close to being properly implemented. And if Hochuli's only has his face, without his undersized shirt and guns blazing, I really don't care if it's a real face on a generic madden body. Heck, ref's don't even face the right way as of now, have nearly 0 impact on games (other than instant holding flags every once and a while) and are hardly noticeable, they don't even spot the ball during the no huddle.

I'd rather have Ref's actually have a present before they resemble real one's on Sunday.

[Find_the_Door]

I was under the impression that Ed Hochuli was already in this years game lol. The head ref that's on Madden 13 looks a whole lot like him.

[llcmac]

This goes in the same idea pile as fight for the fumble and QB vision cone.

[justtxyank]

I don't see why they would spend a dime implementing improved visuals for referees when referees are a total non-factor gameplay wise.

[seanwilson160]

Quote: Originally Posted by brandon27

This is rather useless to me. Id rather see them continue to implement the infinity engine like NHL has over the last few years with their physics engine and Id rather see them enhance CCM even further to get it back to what Franchise was rather than putting refs faces and voices into the game.

You say that like it's an either/or. Yes, development time spent on this means time not spent elsewhere, but you act like this means they won't work on any of the other problems you have. They can do more than one thing. This seems like a harmless (at worst) feature that will add a bit more realism to the broadcast presentation (which is a consistent complaint from players).

The same goes for crpav suggesting that this means they've moved on from trying to patch the outstanding issues in this game. You do know that John Madden doesn't code the game all by himself, right? They have a development team and can work on both. In fact, if they weren't already working on 14, you'd be complaining next year when they released a disappointing product.

[bobtrain]

OK, if there are going to be real referees I'd hope that we'd actually see a realistic amount of penalties for once. As some are saying. Don't put a feature in like Real Referees or Physics while the fundamentals of the sport are still lacking.

[Lieutenant Dan]

If the Madden team will overhaul the actual penalty system to work in a more correct/realistic way, add all penalties to the game, and implement the real refs as a presentation aspect, I'm for it.

If the Madden team implements refs as a presentation aspect and doesn't fix the penalty system, you'll never see the refs anyway, so what was the point?

[footballfan41]

Adding more ref to the game sound great,...But guys wanting to add more calls from refs have got to be Crazy,...why would u want have a ton of calls,..or just PIF calls only,..I just disagree on having more calls,...