Not to mention the fact that slow speed is mandatory. I think that is the main reason. No one, and I mean no one, that I know plays on slow speed. I know 10 people with Madden and they all play on
normal speed. When they go online, they get this slowed down game that they're not used to. It's very frustrating playing a slowed down game when you're used to the normal speed. That's why they stopped and that's why I stopped. I'm pretty sure that's why the majority stopped. This article explains it all.
http://www.mymaddenpad.com/madden/la...-speed-change/
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The hot topic last week was the speed change last week and EA asking for feedback from the community. There were multiple polls on Madden fan sites everywhere, from Operation Sports to VSN, and even on the EA forum itself. The polls showed that more people preferred the “Normal” speed mode but that didn’t stop EA from making the following statement:
Hey guys,
Online game speed has clearly been a hot topic not just here on our board, but across the community in the last week. The dev team has taken a lot of care in evaluating their recent test and have made a decision on how this will be addressed.
After running a test with the default game speed set to Slow and reviewing the thousands of messages we’ve received from our fans, we’ve decided to leave the default game speed online at Slow. This setting matches the default setting used in offline games and provides the ideal combination of fun gameplay and the most accurate simulation of NFL football.
We know there are different views about this and we encourage everyone to post their thoughts in this thread in a manner that is respectful to others’ opinions. We do reserve the right to remove comments that aren’t forum appropriate, so let’s use some care in replying to each other and we can have a constructive conversation about this.
Thanks,
raczilla
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which caused this:
Most people that play online know what to expect. They know they're gonna get some cheesers and they know they're going to see some cheaters. This is nothing new. It's been like that since the game went online. So I really doubt 350,000 people went online and was surprised by what they saw. What they may have been surprised, and ultimately turned off by, was a slow game that felt nothing like the game that they had been playing for 2 weeks online and off.
On OS, EA did a poll and it was about a 50/50 split for normal and slow online, but other sites were heavily in favor of normal over slow. In most threads that I saw, The slow supporters thought normal was ok, but thought slow was better. You hardly ever saw someone say thanks to the slow speed, I can play this game again. On the flip side though, the normal supporters hated slow speed. They didn't think it was ok at all. So what do you think is going to happen when EA makes it mandatory to play on slow speed? People are going to stop playing online. I played about 2 or 3 games after the switch to slow, then dropped out of the online franchise I was in and traded the game in. I had no use for the game if the only mode that I played extensively, had a game speed that I found horrible. I've since picked the game back up and play offline franchise on
normal or play head to head on
normal, but rarely will you ever see me play online. I'm sure I'm not the only one that feels this way. So, if EA is wondering about this, they need only look in the mirror and they will find the reason why so many people left online.