Madden Ultimate Team Fact Sheet, Release Date and "How To" Video

[bcruise]

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So you pretty much have to buy coins to compete online right now, huh? If you buys players they will eventually lose their contract and leave your team as well, right?

Yeah, but the players contracts that are bought with real money will run out the same way. They'll have to keep paying if they want to keep those players. The game will always be dominated by those who choose to throw money at it, but I don't see building your team up for free as a totally impossible task. I'm pulling in 200-300 coins a game playing on Pro with a team of total scrubs (and actually having some enjoyable games), and if you're any good unlike me you'll get much more playing on All-Pro or All-Madden.

For me, I think it'll serve as a pretty good time-waster while I wait for the off-season in my Madden Franchise. I'm just playing it for fun - I have no stake in the leaderboard race.

[distauma]

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If you have in game money though you can buy gold and legendary contract extention cards to extend the ones you got. But then again 1 legendary contract extention card is auctioning off for between 1,500 and 3,000, yet 1 gold card pack costs 3,000 so it's more worth it to just buy a new gold card pack when you run out of players. But it is nice to extend a really sick legendary card for 12 games with the legendary contract extension.

I got lucky. I bought 1 legendary pack with real world money and got a peyton manning card that then sold in the auction for more than i paid for the pack of cards. Now my team is ridiculous and i still have money left over.

[RedZoneD25]

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Deleting and redownloading should work.

It's dumb that you can't just change it on the spot, but then again, so were most of the development decisions for this game.

Amen. That didn't work, but I tweeted Ian about it.

[JMD]

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Hello all,

I did not realize that quitting a game mid way lost a game to my players contracts, so therefore, I am royally screwed. I tried to delete and redownload, but no luck. Anyone have any other ideas?

Instead of quitting the game just return to dashboard (xbox 360) and it will not count. My very first game against the CPU was against the colts , I was getting killed so I returned to dashboard and changed the difficulty to Pro until I won a few games and improved my team.

I'm guessing on the PS3 you can just press the PS button and quit the game for the same result.

[JMD]

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I'm surprised at all the moaning and groaning over starting teams and buyng card packs. My starting team like all others was horrible. I decided to take a look at the card packs and prices. 80 MS points for a Gold pack is not bad at all, what is that in cash $1.00? , hell I could buy 3 0r 4 Gold packs just by cashing in my empty beer cans after a weekend of partying.

Anyway I bought two Gold packs at 80 points each and decided to try out a platinum pack at 240 points. Once I set my depth chart with my new players my team went from an overall rating of a 62 to a 92. So it doesn't cost a fortune to get a killer team, also I bough those 3 packs and in each pack there was a contract extension card. So that helps.

As much as I have bitched about Madden 10, I actually really like this feature.

PS: Ty Law from the Platinum pack is a beast, 94 over all, wicked ball hawk, just got 3 picks in one game. Sure beats playing with the regular Chiefs roster lol. I'm frikkin 12-26 with them.

[jvaccaro]

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I have a couple questions I was hoping somebody could answer:

When a player's contract expires, does he stay on your team until you can renew it or just disapear after the game?

Does a player use a game of his contract if he's benched and never plays in the game?

[poilbrun]

Well, I guess people are bitching because they thought it would be possible for free to have a kind of franchise where you would build your team little by little, by upgrading your team card by card. In reality, due to the limited number of games for each card. In a way, it's good that you can't, otherwise after a given number of games, you'd have teams full of 99's. The problem is that if your ready to spend money on the game, you're actually able to get that team full of 99's and just pay to get contract extension cards and keep it.

I've already shelled out 60 bucks to get the game, I don't mind paying some more to get a DLC that really adds to the game, but I have no interest in spending money just to be able to keep up with the players I meet online.

I'm not really complaining, though, I just have no interest in the mode. I just wish it could have been more than it is...

[distauma]

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Here's what I'm not getting... if you want to be one of the players that legitimately build up your team then you can wait till you are matched up against a similarly ranked team at the matchmaking screen before playing.

If you want to pay to have a good team then you can just play whoever is willing to play against you. I see a ton of variety in the rankings of teams as it is so it's not like it's unfair for the people who choose not to pay for card packs.

And the gold and silver packs are relatively cheap in real world money terms so it's not like it's ridiculous to invest a couple dollars into the mode either if you want to enjoy it more.

[JMD]

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Just played a game vs the CPU All pro mode. I got 410 coins for the win. Score was 49-0. It seemd you get bonus coins for achieving certain things like rushing over 100 yards, passing TD's Rushing TD's and so on.

[bcruise]

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Just played a game vs the CPU All pro mode. I got 410 coins for the win. Score was 49-0. It seemd you get bonus coins for achieving certain things like rushing over 100 yards, passing TD's Rushing TD's and so on.

Yep, and also for holding the CPU to low numbers. All-Pro is the "base" level, and anything lower you lose a percentage of the coins you earn. I just finished a fun game on Pro vs. Dallas (loss by 11, but it was closer than that score shows) and earned 230 coins - after 40 of them were subtracted for that reason.

Still a fun game, and that's the way I intend to play this mode - against different teams. There doesn't appear to be any bonus for beating a better team (I beat SF by 20 just before), but I don't really care. Just as long as I pull enough coins to keep my team going, I can enjoy playing it like this.

It was actually pretty entertaining watching a bunch of 50-60's try to bring down MBIII...

[suthrnthug]

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Has anybody been able to invite friends to play online? It's not working for me.

[LingeringRegime]

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This mode is actually very addicting. I played Madden into the wee hours of the morning. I haven't done that since the game was first released. I love the challenge of making my team a winner.

The best way is take your scrubs online. You can quickly tell if your opponent has a stacked team, or a team of scrubs. If the overall is similar to yours you are good to go. Even if you lose the game you still get around 300 coins. You get a Head to Head Bonus when playing online so that is a plus. I had a great game go to OT last night. I had a chance to win it but I missed a FG in the dying seconds.

Use the Auction feature. I have put several "Injury" cards and "Contract" cards up for auction, because people are always looking for those. Hopefully, I will get some good coin for them. I really need it.

Something else I found interesting. If you have several players from one real NFL team together your team chemistry goes up. Or if the head coach is from let's say the, Panthers, and if you have several Panthers on your squad the chemistry goes up even more. They borrowed that from FIFA, but it is a nice addition for this game. It adds a layer of strategy, and it prevents people from just putting all 99's together. Because their chemistry wouldn't be as high.

I have a couple questions I was hoping somebody could answer:

When a player's contract expires, does he stay on your team until you can renew it or just disapear after the game?

Does a player use a game of his contract if he's benched and never plays in the game?

When a player's contract expires he is gone.

If a player is benched he doesn't use a game off his contract.

Example: I was starting J.T. O' Sullivan at QB, I didn't feel like renewing his contract. Jamarcus Russell was on the bench the whole time and didn't get any PT up to that point. He still has 10 games on his contract.

[LionsFanNJ]

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I'll admit, I'm addicted to this mode. Had a dollar sitting in my PS3 wallet and bought a gold pack, plus earned enough to buy a silver pack with coins. Got a decent 72 OVR team now. Marion the Barbarian as my HB, Gararrd at QB and DRC at corner so far. Also got a good contract card to keep barber another 4 games.

I also have three stadiums, 4 uniforms and the steelers super bowl playbook. Not sure how different that is from their standard playbook though.

Sold of a Trent Edwards card for a good 150 coins. Played a guy online and got crushed though, we had a similar skill team, but Sidney Rice and Pat white killed me.

[ProStylez]

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I guess I will add my name to the bucket of people that like this mode so far.
I am upset I got challenge my brother, I thought it would be fun to see his team against mine. If I read correctly you can't play your friends so that is a minus to me.
Also I had no clue on the contracts, I played this around 11 last night and just concentrated on building a team. I did have to but some packs using my MS points, my time looked horrible and yes that's half the fun of building your team up but if I'm going to lose my players after a few games I'm going to need to rebuild so I may as well start strong.
The packs granted you pay for them are very cheap which I did like, I have 1000 MS points and spent maybe a little over 100 for a sold team.
I can't remember everyone on my team but off the top of my head
QB- BIG BEN / SCHAUB
RB- JEROME HARRISON
CB- AL HARRIS
FS- BOB SANDERS

I also have 49ers /redskins/ Bills defense
I have Tampa Bay offense
I have Ford Field / Raiders Stadium (whatever that is called now) and this years Super Bowl stadium
I have Vikings away uni / chiefs Home and Ravens 90's Home Uni's

[Bash]

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If you have in game money though you can buy gold and legendary contract extention cards to extend the ones you got. But then again 1 legendary contract extention card is auctioning off for between 1,500 and 3,000, yet 1 gold card pack costs 3,000 so it's more worth it to just buy a new gold card pack when you run out of players. But it is nice to extend a really sick legendary card for 12 games with the legendary contract extension.

I got lucky. I bought 1 legendary pack with real world money and got a peyton manning card that then sold in the auction for more than i paid for the pack of cards. Now my team is ridiculous and i still have money left over.

No you don't. If you go to Weekly deals and press R1 there are other categories and keep pressing it until you get to constant deals and you can buy a super contract for 750 coins which adds 12 to legendary and 21 to bronze and inbetween that for silver and gold and the normal contract adds 3 for legendary and I can't remember the rest it costs 250 coins.

QB- 2007 Brady
Rest of the team is all the players from the starter pack around 65 overall.