Why Did EA Get Rid of All These Features?

[tdogg097]

2002 Create-a-team

2003 Custom player formations

2004 Owner mode (that was actually cool, setting beer prices comes to mind)

2005 Player moods, Ability to assign team captains

2006 Qb vision control (I didn't really like it but you could turn it off. It was the only version of the game where P.Manning felt different than B.Gabbert)

2008 NFL Scouting System (Combine stats provided), player roles

2010 ProTak animation to include proper assisted tackles and half sacks!, Extra Point show

2012 Free Agent bidding system. The idea behind this was great the execution just needed some work.

2013 More adjustable slider system. Better, not great, sim engine.

[macbranson]

Re: Why Did EA Get Rid of All These Features?

Who knows? They keep adding nonsense features and removing others every time they come out with a new game. If they kept all the features they took out, this game would be so close to amazing. I don't understand why they can't just build on previous things instead of replacing them. I've never seen anyone operate like that. Come to think of it, what feature did they add for Madden 25? That Precision Modifier thing? What a joke.

[gr18]

Re: Why Did EA Get Rid of All These Features?

It's almost like when an NFL teams ownership changes.They pretty much clean house regardless and that seems to be what each Madden team does.While the new regime brought in some good things,others that they implemented in Head Coach '09 were inexplicably still left out.Ian Cummings had some good thing going as well.Some of the really old ideas were unfortunately never carried over from the previous Gen.

I'm still playing '12 and implement specific qb accuracy and int. sliders each game.I take each qb's accuracy in game and (-5) for the CPU and for me(-5 then divide by 2).For ints. I look at the qb's int. pct. for the season.For example,2.2% would by 22,3.5% would be 35.It actually works out very well to see more of a difference in qb's.

[macbranson]

Re: Why Did EA Get Rid of All These Features?

How about being able to save games ?

[soxfan98]

Re: Why Did EA Get Rid of All These Features?

Create-a-team was one of my favorite things back in Madden 07 along with the radio show in franchise mode.

[tdogg097]

Re: Why Did EA Get Rid of All These Features?

How about being able to save games ?

Yes! I don't remember what year had this feature but I know it existed along with restricted free agents.

[Herky]

Re: Why Did EA Get Rid of All These Features?

How about being able to save games ?

I miss the in game save feature more than anything else.

Add in not being able to hire coordinators (OC, DC, and ST) as well.

[josefrees]

Re: Why Did EA Get Rid of All These Features?

They had had the combine information for way longer than 08. Pretty much every PS2 gen madden had that.

The last good madden was 12 for PS2. It is extremely sad and I miss when I could have real fun playing madden. The lack of the assistants in this really upsets me. Absolutely no reason to change coaches

[LikeUntoGod]

Re: Why Did EA Get Rid of All These Features?

They had had the combine information for way longer than 08. Pretty much every PS2 gen madden had that.

The last good madden was 12 for PS2. It is extremely sad and I miss when I could have real fun playing madden. The lack of the assistants in this really upsets me. Absolutely no reason to change coaches

True. The ps3 madden "looked" better but was not as good. There are 37 reasons why the ps2 madden was better then the ps3. I was thinking about one last night. One thing being you could reset any button to any other button making your controller a custom one. Another, playing DL and defense. Now, you move the right stick and hope something happens. With the ps2 madden, L1 was swim left, L2 was spin left, R1 was swim right and R2 was spin right. To bull rush you pushed forward. So many little things and bigger ones like creating plays are gone. EA explained this that they were making Madden "simpler and easier".

[tdogg097]

Re: Why Did EA Get Rid of All These Features?

EA explained this that they were making Madden "simpler and easier".

...and geared towards making more money. See MUT.

I understand making things simpler, you have to appeal to the masses. But that is why you just need a separate Season and Franchise mode like there used to be. Leave all the complex features the die-hard fans want in the franchise mode and the plug-in-play features in the season mode.

I find it ironic also that "simpler and easier" was the motto because the menu system in M25 is a cluster f....If I want to look at my roster to see areas to improve upon it's in one menu but the screen to add free agents is in another menu.

[RonNewman75]

Re: Why Did EA Get Rid of All These Features?

2002 Create-A-team
No idea wish they'd put back in expansion teams.

2003 Custom player formations

Too easy to cheese with, though I most admit I did create the option on madden way before they put it in with this.

2004 Owner mode (that was actually cool, setting beer prices comes to mind)
It's in the game currently so I'm a little confused what you mean

2005 Player moods, Ability to assign team captains

Player moods are still in the game, I've had players refuse to sign with me because they didn't like me. Team captains really does need to comeback.

2006 Qb vision control (I didn't really like it but you could turn it off. It was the only version of the game where P.Manning felt different than B.Gabbert)
Too many people complained but it was the single best feature they ever had.

2008 NFL Scouting System (Combine stats provided), player roles

Still have version of this however I would like combine stats provided. Player Roles I don't remember ever getting to set a players role IE NBA2k

2010 ProTak animation to include proper assisted tackles and half sacks!, Extra Point show

The new tackle animations are WAY better, however assisted tackles need to be updated. Half sacks still happen. Extra Point show I did LOVE

2012 Free Agent bidding system. The idea behind this was great the execution just needed some work.

They still have free agent bidding system so I'm confused here, its just not split up into different stages this is so guys in an online franchise have a good chance to pick all their players.

2013 More adjustable slider system. Better, not great, sim engine.
Really confused on this, the game is pretty much the same as last year in these aspects.

Most of these are still in the game.

[tril]

Re: Why Did EA Get Rid of All These Features?

they also got rid of the fair play feature.
the advanced control scheme, where every pass had to be a user catch.

EA for the last 6-7 years has been geared towards the casual pick up and play crowd.
12, 13 and 25 I see elements of sim creeping in. but even those features are still casual heavy

[tdogg097]

Re: Why Did EA Get Rid of All These Features?

Most of these are still in the game.

This version of owner mode sucks. The older version had way more options and better interface, reports, etc.

The player moods in 2005 had to with in season type of things. Not enough playing time, etc. There is nothing in M25 to tell why a player is not interested in signing with you. Older versions of the game gave deciding factors for players.

2008 had the ability to assign player roles. I don't remember all the specifics but I do remember it.

I would have to see proof of a recorded half sack in M25 because I'm 7 years into my CFM and not one of my players has one recorded. They don't have the decimal in the category to calculate half sacks so I have no idea what you are talking about.

The free agent bidding system was like ebay. There was a countdown timer on each player. It's not even remotely close to the system now.

There were more sliders last year and the sim stats are totally different. Last year almost every qb had 20 or more passing td's. This year I've seen as low as 6 with over 550 pass attempts.

[sznzfyqing]

Re: Why Did EA Get Rid of All These Features?

How about being able to save games ?

[sznzfyqing]

Re: Why Did EA Get Rid of All These Features?

How about being able to save games ?