EA Employee Gets Paid to Watch Football (Gamepro)

[Bulldogs78]

Re: EA Employee Gets Paid to Watch Football (Gamepro)

You guys are beating a dead horse.

[bkrich83]

Re: EA Employee Gets Paid to Watch Football (Gamepro)

You guys are beating a dead horse.

Irony.

[Bulldogs78]

Re: EA Employee Gets Paid to Watch Football (Gamepro)

Irony.

that's not an example of irony, smart guy

[bkrich83]

Re: EA Employee Gets Paid to Watch Football (Gamepro)

that's not an example of irony, smart guy

If you say so.

[SteelerSpartan]

Re: EA Employee Gets Paid to Watch Football (Gamepro)

Then why the hell do they keep giving Eli and Peyton the wrong damm facemasks every year. I swear thats just a cruel joke

And Flip the Steelers mid field logo and have them standing on the wrong side of the field

[The Chef]

Re: EA Employee Gets Paid to Watch Football (Gamepro)

Irony.

He clearly doesnt get what irony means, maybe you should explain to him that its awfully ironic that the guy talking about beating a dead horse has been the same guy running around crying about Madden at every chance he has gotten. Then there is the taking pot shots at me in PM only to turn off his PM's right after so I cant respond, unbelievable.

[bkrich83]

Re: EA Employee Gets Paid to Watch Football (Gamepro)

He clearly doesnt get what irony means, maybe you should explain to him that its awfully ironic that the guy talking about beating a dead horse has been the same guy running around crying about Madden at every chance he has gotten. Then there is the taking pot shots at me in PM only to turn off his PM's right after so I cant respond, unbelievable.

You got the PM's as well? Nice.

As you say, the use of the term Irony was clearly lost on him

[LAKE4742]

Re: EA Employee Gets Paid to Watch Football (Gamepro)

I would have felt better if there was a article stating that EA employees didn't watch football at all. At least Madden 09 would be justified...

It's good to see EA giving jobs to those with handicaps - in this case, a guy being blind.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Maybe they just forgot to tell him what he sees is suppose to be "in the game".

Great stuff! It's good to see there are still some who like quality in our videogames.

[SoxFan01605]

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Great stuff! It's good to see there are still some who like quality in our videogames.

lol...I fail to see aything in what you quoted that suggests liking quality over anyone else. calling a guy handicapped and other silly shots don't do any more for quality than people openly defending the game. Maybe I'm wrong though. Maybe all the repetative silliness is just part of the crusade to make a better Madden. March on

[kenlovin]

Re: EA Employee Gets Paid to Watch Football (Gamepro)

*Comic book guy voice* "Biggest oxymoron everrrrrr...."

[BezO]

Re: EA Employee Gets Paid to Watch Football (Gamepro)

Wow, the usual suspects came out on this one.

Yeah, I guess a certain number of us are more aware & consistent than others. What a shame.

To possibly get this back on track, Anthony is our playbook guru...and does this solely for playbooks. If you have complaints with playbooks, then please post them here.

The playbooks have little differentation from team to team, both offensively & defensively.

Philly runs a lot of screens, from many formations. Where are all of these screens?

Indy runs cover 2 about 75% of the time, with many variations(blitzes & stunts). Where are all of these defenses?

We still have to search through several formations to find certain play types. For example, we should be able to run screen plays from every formation, especially with Philly. We should be able to run zone plays from every formation with a RB in the backfield. And so on.

There are not enough goal line plays.

There are not enough special teams plays/formations.

The game desparately needs a tier playcalling system on defense so we are not stuck with EA's combinations of strategy. For example, if I want to blitz the WLB from a 4-3 front, I have maybe 2 options and I'm stuck with the coverage EA feels is appropriate. If I want man-free coverage from the 4-3, again thier are only a few options, and again we're stuck with blitzes & stunts EA feels are appropriate.

We can still only motion one player, and we still have to wait for him to get all the way acrosse the formation before we can motion him back.

And who's responsible for playcalling AI? They need to watch the games along with Anthony. Teams don't call plays like thier real life counterparts. They don't even have similar run/pass ratios. The teams have no identities. Than god for jerseys!

I'd write more, but as a usual suspect, I don't expect a response.

[salbowski]

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I want that guys job soooooo bad and i'm more than happy to admit that.
who knew jobs like that even existed?!?!?! That article only makes me hate my job even more .

In regard to all the people writing negative comments as a result of this article.... every single one of your responses were drenched in as much predictability as they were in envy. I might of found any one of them amusing if they had any originality about them whatsoever.

(sorry of this imflames responses from these idiots but i can't sit idly by while these people just sit on these forums waiting to jump on the next band wagon- ooopppsss i mean thread that gets created)

ps. in case any of the haters want to call me a madden kiss *** or whatever, you can check my post history and you'll see that at one stage i was as frustrated with the game freezing as the next guy...the only difference being that i only posted when i felt the thread pertained to my problem not just for the sake of it.

pps. by the way, that is irony!!! The only reason you didn't realize it was ironic is because the statement wasn't drenched in predictabilty so you had to actually figure out why it was ironic. That's humour, not the usual regurgitated passive aggressive pseudo-comedic one-liners attempted by the usual suspects on this forum.

[yamabushi]

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This thread got really uptight.

[tbbuccaneer87]

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This is just way too easy. No comment.

lmao, so true.

Wow, the usual suspects came out on this one. To possibly get this back on track, Anthony is our playbook guru...and does this solely for playbooks. If you have complaints with playbooks, then please post them here. Anthony doesn't really have much effect on AI and things of that nature currently (though it's something we're trying to get him more involved in).

And most of us all watch football all the time (even though obviously I'm not one to say that you can't have an opinion to think we don't). In fact, here's where I was Sunday:

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(P.S. going to a stadium with a bum calf...not the best idea)

hell yeah, go bucs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[arichzona]

Re: EA Employee Gets Paid to Watch Football (Gamepro)

Wow, the usual suspects came out on this one. To possibly get this back on track, Anthony is our playbook guru...and does this solely for playbooks. If you have complaints with playbooks, then please post them here. Anthony doesn't really have much effect on AI and things of that nature currently (though it's something we're trying to get him more involved in).

And most of us all watch football all the time (even though obviously I'm not one to say that you can't have an opinion to think we don't). In fact, here's where I was Sunday:

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(P.S. going to a stadium with a bum calf...not the best idea)

Since you obviously still hit the forums over here I have a question that you have probably been hit with dozens (at least) of times so if you are answering it again I apologize.

You stated, most of you watch football all the time - obviously then you have a good number of fans there. Exactly what type of game do you (or will you) strive for? closer to sim, or arcade? I know that probably no one here wants a single game to last for two+ hours so I know it almost must be a mix (unless the acc clock was put back in). There just seems to be so many big offensive plays which is more college football.