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Quote: Originally Posted by Ian_Cummings_EA

IMHO Madden is always a work in progress. You can call these 'incomplete' if you like but as a team we have to make the call to either build for the future or cram stuff in that people haven't asked for. To me, Madden 10 is still the deepest feature set and most fun version we have ever made. If your focus is only on what's missing, that's really an endless argument as no game in history has everything right? Do people complain that you can't fly the chopper in COD? Expectations are so different for every person but at some level it would be nice if folks realized that we aren't shipping an 'incomplete' game...we are shipping a game that will ALWAYS be improved upon. Would you prefer no refs or refs that don't throw flags? No recap show or a recap show that can be built on? No co-op or 2 player co-op? No online franchise or a server-based online franchise that can be updated? I'm not really posing these questions to you guys...these are the decisions we had to make.

By no means should it be taken as a slight to call them incomplete, because by your own post, building for the future implies a sort of incompleteness. it's a step, and it's okay, but what I'm referring to is the overwhelming feeling that some of these things will be fully done in 11, which leads to excitement for the new edition before the current one is even out. Can you see where that might be problematic for those who haven't even played Madden 10 yet?

It's like being told that on Wednesday we're getting cookies, but when we get there, there's just the dough and we're told to wait until next Wednesday where they'll be baked. Only to get there next Wednesday and we can see the cookies and they look really good, but they're a bit smaller than we expected, but we've been told that we can expect bigger and better cookies next Wednesday...