[JAYMO76]

Quote: Originally Posted by OMT

And as a dev team we'd rather do formation subs than mascot mode. However, mascot mode was such a minute change that it had no real impact on our schedule. It was less than a day worth of work. Formation subs on the other hand is something like 300-500 hours of dev time. A significant impact. Trust me, we wanted to do formation subs... but one of the most difficult parts of our job is making hard cuts to our task list for the year.

The issue isn't that mascot mode is in the game... the real issue is that FORMATION SUBS are STILL missing from the game as of year FOUR on next gen. How does that happen? We are talking about the most basic aspect of football here. Why can't the Madden 09 formation screen be adopted? I suspect it would cut that 300 hour range down to 50-100... surely less than season showdown???