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Quote: Originally Posted by Bodizzy

I want to say franchise is most important to me, but without solid, impressive gameplay, a franchise with even all the bells and whistles would be built on an unstable base. I know it was just a question asking folks to prioritize stuff, but features like gameplay and franchise shouldn't be mutually exclusive... ever. They go hand in hand. I realize for a lot of people Madden is still that game a lot of us played against our best friends when were 12. I had an old crappy TV that was set off to the side of the living room at my grandma's house and my pal and I would square off all time, me usually winning. I loved it. I didn't even think about franchise. That was 20 years ago! We should have the best of both worlds right now. 20 years of making a football game should have facilitated some sort of dreamlike phantasm of a football game. Instead, we are clamoring for major details like being able to trade for future draft picks and having an honest-to-goodness pocket to throw from. We should be making wishlists of nothing but gravy, but we can't even get the biscuits yet.

Ditto.
Good point.
Could not agree more.