Madden NFL 10 Announces AFL Legacy Pack, Screenshots and Video Available

[Segagendude]

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I hate the Raiders, but those throwbacks they're wearing tonite are pretty sharp!

[SportsTop]

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I was wondering the same thing. It's a cool idea, but if you can't turn it off it kind of defeats the purpose of playing throwback games in the year 2009 if the games look like they are happening in 1960.

Yes, you can turn it off. No need to read the 30 pages, just read the first post.

[Equinox831]

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This is obviously a money making ploy by ea. Madden in the past has included historic teams free of cost, infact there was several for each team as well as european football league teams. Now, shortly after release they are already asking for money for things that in the past were included in the game. Before a patch, to fix the problems, we have EA asking for moeney for things they purposly kept off the pressed game discs at the time of release.

I wouldn't go as far to say that.. This is actually pretty good DLC and the NFL Europe (I think that's what it was called) closed down maybe 2 years ago along with the AFL that folded this offseason.

[RaiderKtulu]

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For all those complaining about paying.... have you not noticed what the NFL is doing?

The entire AFL thing is a big sales gimmick.

They've made it a point to show as many commercials as they can during the games about the NFL Legacy line and all of the stuff you can buy with the old logos on them. Charging for AFL logos/content on Madden fits in quite nicely with all the other crap the NFL is selling.

They could have paid tribute to the AFL with nothing more than jersey patches and no one would have complained. Instead, they go out and stick old logos on everything they can think of to try to bring in even more money. For all we know, the NFL could have told EA to make the content separate after it had originally been planned to be on disc.

[Glenn33]

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The patch related to this DLC was not brought up by me but by someone else who asked how I knew they were working on this and not a patch. My response was "Due to the fact this is being released before a patch" proves to me that they were working on this before a patch that fixed the many gameplay problems in the game. A patch that adds superbowl and playoff art to the field in online franchise is not as important to me, or many many others here I'm sure, as fixing the flat patterns, franchise stats, pursuit angles, toe drag logic, challenges, etc. that are being fixed in a patch that is being worked on now.

Answer all your questions?

Not really. But let me clarify:
1) Thanks for the quote - but that's not what I was looking for. I was looking for where EA said it waould be free and/or included at no charge. Maybe that wasn't clear. The fact that they announced this in March doesn't connect with me as to why this should be free.
2) That's cool that you can do uniform edits on the PC and all - but again...until you can document what the console process is - it's not proof. Not to mention the color filter, presentation add ons, madden moments and extra achievements. You don't know long those take.
3) The DLC comes out on 9/22. The 1st patch was submitted weeks ago. One does not take away from the other. I still don't get your point. More to the fact - if the DLC content was announced in March - it REALLY doesn't take away from the patch even more so.

But we can argue that stuff all day. At the end of the day - it really is unimportant. The first patch has already been completed and it's beyond EA's control when it will be released. They confirmed on this site - and is usual practice - they wait on the second patch to see what the overwhelming concerns of the community are before deciding what goes into it. The DLC doesn't take away from that at all.

If you are unhappy with the game - so be it. But DLC such as this in NO way takes away and or prevents the improvements to the game.

[countryboy]

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Damn...after watching last night's games and seeing the jerseys, I cannot wait until the 24th, so that I can download these badboys.

Those Raider AFL jerseys, were sick! Unfortunately, we're still the Raiders underneath them.

[countryboy]

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I haven't been bashing or any kind of negative comments in my last few posts regarding this. I have simply been replying to replies to my messages or giving the correct information about this DLC.

Also my comments about the patch related to the DLC is in direct correlation to the post that was asked to me "How do I know this was being worked on before a patch?". It is pretty easy to realize that this was being worked on prior to the patch that will be fixing AI, flats passing, pursuit angles, and plenty of other game killing bugs that make the gameplay ridiculously unrealistic. I KNOW this because this is coming out prior to the patch.

Congratulations.

Now goodbye... and have a good one...

[SportsTop]

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For all those complaining about paying.... have you not noticed what the NFL is doing?

The entire AFL thing is a big sales gimmick.

They've made it a point to show as many commercials as they can during the games about the NFL Legacy line and all of the stuff you can buy with the old logos on them. Charging for AFL logos/content on Madden fits in quite nicely with all the other crap the NFL is selling.

They could have paid tribute to the AFL with nothing more than jersey patches and no one would have complained. Instead, they go out and stick old logos on everything they can think of to try to bring in even more money. For all we know, the NFL could have told EA to make the content separate after it had originally been planned to be on disc.

And there you have it.

Everything is about making money. That's the whole point of a business.

The sooner people realize it, the sooner threads like this will be cut in a third with much less complaining.

[Nature_Boy]

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Damn...after watching last night's games and seeing the jerseys, I cannot wait until the 24th, so that I can download these badboys.

Those Raider AFL jerseys, were sick! Unfortunately, we're still the Raiders underneath them.

Same here. As a Raiders fan, this is a must buy for me.

[kbmnm247]

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And there you have it.

Everything is about making money. That's the whole point of a business.

The sooner people realize it, the sooner threads like this will be cut in a third with much less complaining.

The whole point of a long running successful business is to make money and keep the customer coming back and feel appreciated.

Charging for something like this is cutting out the 2nd half of that.

The sooner you realize that "the whole point of a business" is not nickel and diming your repeated customers for products that were provided to them previously for free MANY times, the sooner we won't have to hear that cop out excuse.

[SportsTop]

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The whole point of a long running successful business is to make money and keep the customer coming back and feel appreciated.

Charging for something like this is cutting out the 2nd half of that.

The sooner you realize that "the whole point of a business" is not nickel and diming your repeated customers for products that were provided to them previously for free MANY times, the sooner we won't have to hear that cop out excuse.

Who says making the customer "feel appreciated" is part of EA's business plan regarding Madden? That has no bearing on the issue whatsoever.

As far as "coming back" is concered, I don't think that is a problem they've had to deal with in quite some time. Madden is one of EA's golden eggs with the long running success it's had.

You say it's nickel and diming and MS has set the precedence that that is the direction the gaming industry is headed. I find the eagerness to lay the blame at EA's feet almost comical.

I love how one person will post that this DLC is nothing but "overlays" and "just a topical change without adding new gameplay" all the while saying it's "nickel and diming". If it's just a topical change then why does it bother people so much? If it isn't that important or doesn't change gameplay then don't purchase it and move on.

It's just new overlays anyway, right?

[Afrikan]

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someone was wondering why this was not $5 but instead $7.

well, I think the idea is that the people who are comfortable spending an extra $7 or what ever for DLC on top of $60 for the game that just release less than a month ago.... well, EA probably feels that these gamers are willing to pay the $7 and that extra $2 per purchase will make up for the gamers who will not pay $5 or even $7 for DLC.

so basically..... 3 people in this thread who are excited to pay for this DLC will make them an extra $6, which would pay for my non purchase.....if it was sold for $5.


yeah, something like that.

I will say the vid looks nice....wish they had the throw back helmets and throw back fans.

[canes2008]

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I wonder if they plan on dropping the patch and the DLC on the same day?

[DickDalewood]

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Who says making the customer "feel appreciated" is part of EA's business plan regarding Madden? That has no bearing on the issue whatsoever.

As far as "coming back" is concered, I don't think that is a problem they've had to deal with in quite some time. Madden is one of EA's golden eggs with the long running success it's had.

You say it's nickel and diming and MS has set the precedence that that is the direction the gaming industry is headed. I find the eagerness to lay the blame at EA's feet almost comical.

I love how one person will post that this DLC is nothing but "overlays" and "just a topical change without adding new gameplay" all the while saying it's "nickel and diming". If it's just a topical change then why does it bother people so much? If it isn't that important or doesn't change gameplay then don't purchase it and move on.

It's just new overlays anyway, right?

Very well said.

[RedZoneD25]

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Same here. As a Raiders fan, this is a must buy for me.

Those were hot jerseys, great game vs SD.