Madden Challenge 2009: Crowning the World's Best Madden Player

[LL-Cool-P]

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You gotta remember that we (sim players) are the minority.

And $50,000 for playing video games is ridiculous.

[Sundropjunkie]

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You gotta remember that we (sim players) are the minority.

And $50,000 for playing video games is ridiculous.

Amen!

[matt8204]

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You gotta remember that we (sim players) are the minority.

And $50,000 for playing video games is ridiculous.

Hey, EA and Best Buy lay out the cash and prizes. Blame them, not the players. If you look at it, it's probably well worth it for them with all the publicity they get for sponsoring this tournament.

That said, it is a shame that someone is walking away with so much by exploiting bugs and glitches that can't be stopped 99 times out of 100. Thankfully, I think it's an all-or-nothing type tournament. If you're not the last man standing, I don't think you win anything. We can take some solace in that.

[-DaVe-]

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I find it interesting that IAN has yet to reply in this thread.
But anywho ,it should be a crime to get paid 25,000 for cheating . That's what these clowns are doing . THEY ARE CHEATING. How come EA doesn't see that?
Sickens me that the Superbowl is coming up and there's no good current NFL Game to play...
Thank God for All-Pro Football though. :-)

[representative]

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Andddd this is why i refuse to play online...

[kcarr]

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I just find it amazing that EA can get so much positive publicity over the bugs in their progamming and nothing negative coming from it. I need to find a way to set up a deal like this with my computer science professors, it would remove any need to debug my projects.

[Segagendude]

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Ian, concentrate on the OFFLINE FRANCHISE, please!
This article is why I NEVER play online. Bunch of gangsta wannabes thinking they can be a real NFL Head Coach.Pathetic.
And they get paid more in one day than most of us real American workers.
And real athletes actually seem proud they're represented by these idiots.
And on and on.....

[Tyrant8RDFL]

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Very sad

[Guillotine 1]

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I dont want to be negative, or attack the devs. I don't mean to insult them, or to belittle them in away way. By posting these comments my only goal is to bring about a postive change, with constructive criticism.

THIS HAS TO STOP!

This is not football. Not even close guys. When the FS jumps into the air to deflect the pass and is able to mysteriously go the opposite direction (in mid-air) and lay the biggest hit on my WR in football history-causing the ball to be dropped is...is..just worng.

When I throw the football and my WR jumps to catch the ball perfectly no matter how off my timing was when I hit the catch botton is just unreal. I have hit the catch button and my WR refused to even attempt to catch the football.

I just, can't understand how playing this way is anything but totally upsetting.

[arichzona]

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This type of publicity is exactly why we do not have a more sim-style game.

I would think that a developer would think of things like this as a challenge (maybe it is just me), a challenge to keep guys who have an extra 10 hours in their day (employment optional) from punching holes in what you worked to put together... I would be pissed.

What is really bad is that this write-up makes Madden seem more like 11 on 11 NFL Street.

[arichzona]

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What DON'T we likeabout this game? The following paragraphs list point by point what is wrong (for starters). Please fix. Thx.





"Everyone pretty much plays the same way," explains Madden vet Ryan "RG" Glick. "Run the ball with your fullback, throw the curl route to the big receiver, throw the screen. Offense is real basic. The key is who is going to play the best defense. The winner is the guy who is going to make that one stop when the game is on the line."





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"I rely on the running game," Captain says. "If I need to pass, I'll pass, but I don't think anyone can stop my run. I run Twin Tight End with Marion Barber as my fullback and Felix Jones as my halfback. I run my tight end in motion, then I lead block with him and try to crush block for a big hole after I pitch the ball to Jones. Then I switch to the fullback dive and try to do the same thing by pounding it with Barber. You add a pass out of that same formation and it's pretty unstoppable.


"The Cowboys are just unstoppable overall. I hate the Cowboys in real life, but they have everything you need in the game. They have the big defenders who can stop the rocket catch and knock the ball loose, and for your offense you have a mobile quarterback, Terrell Owens who is one of the best receivers in the game, Witten who is just a beast, and Martellus Bennett who is just like a glitch in the game because when you use him for a rocket catch, that guy can jump out of the world."

[Exonerated]

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Ok. I'm not a cheeser.

But i'm frustrated because my receiver won't go up and get the ball even though he's 6'9 99 jump.

So , how do I rocket catch?

I strictly play franchise and would rather have an unstopabble catch than my receiver running and having the ball land on his shoe.

[youALREADYknow]

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Andddd this is why i refuse to play online...

^^^^

and... Reading that just made me sick. It's amazing how honest they are about what we know to be true.... no shame whatsoever.

[raidersbball20]

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it is cheezer vs cheezer, but you can't stop it, it is in every game

[Ram209]

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Ian

You have to be reading all this. Can you please comment on it one way or another? I hope you feel the same way the rest of us do and think that this is a joke. Also why does EA chose to glorify this type of gameplay? This is the one of the many reasons Madden is the way it is now. Ian any comments?