Rex Dickson Leaves EA Tiburon and the Madden Team

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After 6 years, as the Creative Director for the Madden NFL franchise (12 years total with...

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[Brooke2011]

Re: Rex Dickson Leaves EA Tiburon and the Madden Team

One can only imagine why and what direction EA has for this game now.

[TecmoZack]

Rex Dickson Leaves EA Tiburon and the Madden Team

Crazy. I hope this means more of a Madden 10 direction? Seemed like a cool dude. I’m sure he will rock out whatever he does moving forward.

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[trekfan]

Re: Rex Dickson Leaves EA Tiburon and the Madden Team

I am unsure how to feel about this.

Was Rex part of the problem at Madden?

Was Rex pushing for the Madden team to address issues (*cough* Franchise *cough*) that EA was unwilling to address?

Whatever the case, best of luck to him. He was always solid with the community and at least listened.

[Brooke2011]

Re: Rex Dickson Leaves EA Tiburon and the Madden Team

With Rex leaving mid cycle, how will this effect Madden 19 . Will this be another madden 06 all over again ?

[Rocky]

Re: Rex Dickson Leaves EA Tiburon and the Madden Team

Best of luck to him.

Although I didn't always agree on his reliance of metrics and things like that, I do give him credit for giving the game a big jump into something resembling a NFL sim (even though it has a ways to go).

Always loved that he stayed pretty classy as well. The community can burn you out and he's handled it as well as you could have.

[jeebs9]

Re: Rex Dickson Leaves EA Tiburon and the Madden Team

I don't know how I feel about this. I need to review my feelings here

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[SpectreBugg]

Re: Rex Dickson Leaves EA Tiburon and the Madden Team

With Rex leaving mid cycle, how will this effect Madden 19 . Will this be another madden 06 all over again ?

It's unlikely, at this point, that it will effect a whole lot. With only a few months left before release, the game is most likely feature complete. This is probably why he's leaving at this point, because there isn't much left for him to do.

[WaddupCouzin]

Re: Rex Dickson Leaves EA Tiburon and the Madden Team

I wonder if this is due to Madden spiraling to the 3rd best selling sports franchise during his tenure, not sure.

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[kehlis]

Re: Rex Dickson Leaves EA Tiburon and the Madden Team

Very disappointing to hear but also very telling. Reminds me of Ian's departure. Two very passionate guys about the game.

I wish him nothing but the best of luck.

[UFCMPunk]

Re: Rex Dickson Leaves EA Tiburon and the Madden Team

It's unlikely, at this point, that it will effect a whole lot. With only a few months left before release, the game is most likely feature complete. This is probably why he's leaving at this point, because there isn't much left for him to do.

He still worked on Madden 19 so I expect them to talk about things that he added to this year's game, and what he wanted to be sure made the game so he could leave a lasting impression, etc. As far as Madden 20, that will be a different story when we get to it.

[SageInfinite]

Re: Rex Dickson Leaves EA Tiburon and the Madden Team

Not surprising. Same song and dance over there at EA/Tiburon. Best of luck to Rex, wasn't his biggest fan, but did appreciate some of the things he bought to the Madden dev team.

[Darth Aegis]

Re: Rex Dickson Leaves EA Tiburon and the Madden Team

I'm excited for the future of Madden and is going to be interesting how it all plays out. I welcome change with open arms. Best of luck to him.

[Sphinx]

Re: Rex Dickson Leaves EA Tiburon and the Madden Team

I'm a little torn on this, it's difficult to know when things went downhill with madden and who was truly to blame. Rex always came off like someone that cared about the game and wanted to see real improvements. However, I only play cfm and cfm has pretty much been garbage for the entire current gen.

Maybe with someone new we can get a better CFM but I always felt Rex was for a CFM revamp. So who knows.

[UFCMPunk]

Re: Rex Dickson Leaves EA Tiburon and the Madden Team

I know for a while we have heard the term "3 Year Plan", and I know with Rex he wanted to finally do away with that term and build upon things from previous years. What's not good for Madden is the constant revolving door of people coming in and out. Essentially one guy works on something, then he leaves and then another guy comes in and says we are doing something completely different instead of building on what was worked on in previous years.

It's much like the Cleveland Browns, you can't hire and fire coaches every 1-2 years without letting someone build a foundation to see what he has to offer. Instead of being the Patriots and when one guy leaves, Madden just chugs along and gets better. They are more like the Browns and start over every time someone new comes in.