Madden Ultimate Team First Look (Gamespot)

[kjcheezhead]

Re: Madden Ultimate Team First Look (Gamespot)

"Players have the opportunity to use real world money"

In other words, put this in for free and if they can get 1 out of 20 to spend some real cash--cha-ching.

I'm not knocking people for liking this but it is just a more subtle way to make a few more bucks imo. It doesn't require a lot of work and the money can add up quickly with people giving EA 50 cents here or a dollar there.

If you ever want to see another NFL game, do not give EA those additional funds.

[oregonelite]

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If you ever want to see another NFL game, do not give EA those additional funds.

I agree with this sentiment. I never pay in game "micocharges" because I believe that it will just encourage EA to put more of them in. But if Madden UT is like FIFA UT, you can enjoy and succeed in this game mode without paying for card packs.

[roadman]

Re: Madden 10 - Ultimate Team Mode (Gamespot)

Yes, it's been reported that they didn't take guys off Madden to work on this. But why couldn't they have added these guys to Madden to work on say...adding a second broadcast team, a la NCAA College Basketball? Which would you rather have...Madden cards, or separate Fox/CBS and ESPN broadcasts?

Who knows what experience the UT has? I'll take the Fox/CBS braodcast because I know Madden won't have ESPN.

Things that are out of my control or knowledge, I don't concern myself with.

[Dmacho]

Re: 'Ulitmate team mode for madden 10 'INSIDE

Not sure Im enjoying this read

I mean what is this about? What's the purpose?

Why couldn't they spend this time in FRANCHISE MODE?

This is why this game is in the state that it is. The ratings are meaningless, the flats are always wide open, IR in franchise mode is useless, the A.I. is faulty, the list goes on and on; yet EA is wasting time on another gimmick when core aspects of the game are broken.

I'm not suprised at all.

[Dmacho]

Re: 'Ulitmate team mode for madden 10 'INSIDE

Good question. They aren't doing it out of the goodness of their hearts, that's for sure. I almost wonder if it's a way to keep people interested in Madden in the hopes of reducing sales of BackBreaker?

Is that game even coming out ?

[Sausage]

Re: Madden Ultimate Team First Look (Gamespot)

To all of you saying things like spend more time on this and that, from Ian's C's twitter:

"To beat everyone to the questions -- Madden Ultimate Team is not taking resources from main Madden dev team, it's a separate team"

Hope this helps some of you guys.

[granddogg]

Re: Madden Ultimate Team First Look (Gamespot)

To all of you saying things like spend more time on this and that, from Ian's C's twitter:

"To beat everyone to the questions -- Madden Ultimate Team is not taking resources from main Madden dev team, it's a separate team"

Hope this helps some of you guys.

Thay want care alot of posters just hate on anything ! I t not the same team say it a hundred times they still want care....

[Pared]

Re: 'Ulitmate team mode for madden 10 'INSIDE

Is that game even coming out ?

Use the appropriate forum for that. Stop derailing threads in the Madden forum.

[kjcheezhead]

Re: Madden Ultimate Team First Look (Gamespot)

Thay want care alot of posters just hate on anything ! I t not the same team say it a hundred times they still want care....

It's not blind hating lol. What has been added to online franchise since the game released?

Meanwhile, Afl packs and Ultimate team come along because people can spend money on them. Profits come first, always will.

[Steeler99]

Re: 'Ulitmate team mode for madden 10 'INSIDE

Not sure Im enjoying this read

I mean what is this about? What's the purpose?

Why couldn't they spend this time in FRANCHISE MODE?

+1 .............

[SouthernBrick]

Re: Madden Ultimate Team First Look (Gamespot)

Doesn't look like something I'd be interested in even though it is free it seems lame.

[BlueNGold]

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+1 .............

Do you not read? It's already been posted a few times that Ian said a separate team worked on this, not the guys that made Madden 10.

[Icarus2k9]

Re: Madden Ultimate Team First Look (Gamespot)

As a massive fan of the concept of UT in Fifa 09, I enjoyed the final product without truly loving it. If they avoid the following banana skins, then the game will be a lot more compulsive than you think. But these are REAL banana skins, which led to the game being a "everyone has great teams on day 2" clustersuck.

1) The "cash shortcut". There is very little chance of EA not copying this from Fifa 09. The bronze, silver and gold packs could be bought with real money. We're not talking a huge amount of money though - enough for EA to make cash while allowing people to buy several gold packs for a paltry sum. Which brings me on to point 2...

2) Coin farming. If you were willing to buy a gold pack from the start, any rare players you had could be put on the ebay style auction market, where surprise surprise, people were paying astronomical amounts of coins for a card. E.g. Gold pack is 5000 coins, people were paying 60,000 coins for Cristiano Ronaldo. You could then purchase 12 gold packs, which you could just sell on through the Ebay setup for even more coins. By paying about a dollar, people would break the challenge of the game.

3) Then the online tournaments (which are reminiscent of soccer knockout cups) were too inclusive. There were varying levels of cups, with different experience entry requirements...but NO team level maximum. So if you hadn't coin farmed on day 1, you would have to beat four five star (90+) teams in a row with a two star team at best. For the first cup in the game. Out of 18. Most people didn't get past the bronze cups, because they didn't have the sense to say "Okay, bronze cups can only have x amount of non bronze cards used in them" or some other limiting factor.

3b) Couple that with the cheat cards, and you had no chance. Oh yes, those who coin farmed had gold class cheat cards. So they could reduce your entire team's stamina to paltry levels for an entire half. After beating three teams, having someone just cheat four times and beat you by default is rubbish. Especially with Madden length games.

4) The ultimate team concept works fantastically in Fifa because how small your squad was compared to how many footballers there were in the game. There were thousands upon thousands of players available, every kit and more besides, the works. But the smaller amount of teams in Madden will hurt the variety Fifa offered. Everyone will be one of five QBs, one of five RBs, etc etc.

5) Oh, and there are plenty of contract cards. Gold ones give players up to 20 games at a time. Remember coin farming? No worry about losing anyone to contract expiry.

The first day of UT was the best time I have ever had online, period. Then people got in the way and turned it into the equivalent of playing the Patriots with Adrian Peterson, Troy Polamalu and Patrick Willis. Every game. While they filmed you from the sidelines.

I hope they've avoided ruining the concept for the pursuit of a quick gain (the dollars that come in through purchasing packs the easy way), so fingers crossed.

[kjcheezhead]

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I hope they've avoided ruining the concept for the pursuit of a quick gain (the dollars that come in through purchasing packs the easy way), so fingers crossed.

I doubt very much they've avoided this at all. In fact, they've got to be counting on it. Purchasing them the easy way adds up to a lot of money for EA fast and it gets them off the hook. Technically it's free, but if u want to enjoy it, cough up the cash.

[Icarus2k9]

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It wasn't impossible to play without paying - I got to a three-four star team through offline cups. It's just...there's no real room for being a purist these days