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Quote: Originally Posted by metallicatz

Or maybe you just flat out suck at Madden? The Steelers came back against the Packers yesterday and the Saints almost came back against Dallas....I guess the "comeback logic" was running rampant huh? Hate to break it to you, but teams come back late in games all the time in real life. Ratchet up the difficulty and you won't have scores in the "50's and 60's". I've played something like 10 franchise seasons on All-Madden......never seen a "blocked kickoff". But hey, keep over-stating the glitches and ruining the games for yourself with your bias. You're only cheating yourself. The sales argument is weak in a down economy.....especially regarding a yearly sports game. You see any sports games putting up COD-like sales numbers? Nope. You see any sports games breaking sales records of any kind? Nope. I believe quality games are a result of a sound company philosophy and a talented development team. Competition didn't save the Tony Hawk series. Competition didn't save the Medal of Honor series. Competition couldn't even generate a half decent product in Prizefighter. Competition didn't stop the NHL2K series from moving backward this year. Competition won't save MLB2K.....which is getting its clock cleaned by The Show in a huge way on every level. If you have companies that want to make great games, then you will get great games. It's not an accident that the quality of EA Sports games started doing a 180 once Peter Moore took over. And let's not try an act like the concept of competition is exclusive to sports games. All games in all genres are competing for a shrinking pool of disposable income dollars. It's EA's job to get you to buy NHL10 instead of Assassin's Creed II. It's Take Two's job to get you to buy DLC for GTAIV instead of Braid or Shadow Complex on XBLA. The industry is shrinking, not booming. That's where the real incentive is coming from.

Always the excuse - because people are happy with mediocrity they have to bash anyone who slates their fave game. And as far as overstating? Well, seeing a D-Lineman suction blocked from 4-5 yards away is definetely not an exaggeration. I've had a pass picked off when the CPU CB put his hands THROUGH my WR. Blocked kickoffs do happen online, Its not happened to me but I have heard about it and seen videos. The best one has to be a vid I saw, where someone subbed an entire O-Line for Kickers, punters and QB's to test something (he also changed the rosters slightly, hence why players may seem out of place) - I saw Haynesworth PANCAKED by one of these guys, and they held off Peppers with ease. And you are telling me this game is good? Seriously, take off the rose tinted glasses.

And as far as my playing standard goes, I have gone all the way up to the max skills allowed, the hardest possible gameplay, and I still walked most of the games. There is a difference between having a tough game, and having BS like the above affecting the outcome

It wouldn't be so big a deal if this was the first attempt, but they've been making this game for 20 years - it just isn't good enough. Whatever the reason, EA have beeen shortchanging the fans with a sub-standard product. Like you said, its EA's job to get you to buy games - so why buy a game that isn't what its supposed to be? Your arguement with regards to the poor economy is weak - FPS games will appeal to a wider audience all over the world. NFL, NHL are only big in certain areas, so they will never put up sales like COD. Games like FIFA, Pro Evolution Soccer will sell more because soccer is a world renouned game.

It still baffles me how people can be happy with products like Madden - if we presented something like that in our workplace, we would get an earful from our bosses