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Quote: Originally Posted by Dmacho

What distinguishes the the casual and online/tourney style players from sim gamers is knowlegde. Sim gamers are more knowledgeable about the game of football. So when they see that something that's unrealistic, is effective, it bothers them. The casual gamers don't care, because they don't notice. Popularity is a huge part of a sports game's appeal. It's the reason that companies pay for licenses. Having a sports game play more realistically will never hurt a game's sales. The popularity of the sports leagues is what sells sports games. Gameplay comes into play when there is compeitition and the consumer has a choice. People play Madden because of the popularity of the NFL, period. The casual gamers won't go anywhere if the game gets more sim. The developement team obviously tried to make the game more sim this year, unfourtunately, there were a myriad of hiccups. If making the game more "sim" would drive people away, I doubt EA would try to go in that direction.

If it gets more "realistic" in the manner it did this year, adding more accesories and slowing down the game a little and making other such small changes, then yeah it won't drive people off.

However, casual gamers tend to want to be able to win with their favorite team regardless of what that team is. most online gamers and tourney gamers and anyone else who doesn't fit into that real "sim" group wants their stick skills to overpower ratings. Really, pretty much every other than franchise players and a few others would rather not have ratings be the major distinguishing factor. Even on this site with such a high concentration of sim gamers as we have there have still been arguements on here as to whether or not ratings should overpower stick skills. While I agree that ratings need to matter more how often do you see someone on here say that their quarterback should never randomly make a bad throw just because of ratings when they "used their stick skills to make a perfect pass" which apparently takes way more than just pushing some button.