350,000 Played Madden NFL 10 Online Once, Then Never Went Online Again

[MaddenFranchise10]

Re: 350,000 Played Madden NFL 10 Online Once, Then Never Went Online Again

Screen pass spam. Never played again.

This. Plus lag.

[briax87]

Re: 350,000 Played Madden NFL 10 Online Once, Then Never Went Online Again

I was one of them, main reason was lag. Can't understand how a game can be that laggy these days, it's as if they're using the same networking code from the first madden that had online (whichever one it was) and decided not to improve on it :/

[Exonerated]

Re: 350,000 Played Madden NFL 10 Online Once, Then Never Went Online Again

LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAG

Up 21-3 with 2 minutes to go in the First half and the opponent DISCONNECTS.

Now i've wasted 30 minutes of my life.

[Valdarez]

Re: 350,000 Played Madden NFL 10 Online Once, Then Never Went Online Again

They don't have their own servers, it's all point to point connections when you play a game, with one of your consoles acting as the server. If there's lag, then it means their not doing a good job matching players before launching the game launches.

[ryan36]

Re: 350,000 Played Madden NFL 10 Online Once, Then Never Went Online Again

I played some dude online once. All he did was throw in the flat to percy harvin, and then move his right defensive end out to a spot on the left side of the LOLB.

All this could probably be countered, somehow. But I'm not like a lot of people on OS, I don't feel like googling all the counters to cheese.

So I said **** this. It wasn't fun.

I didn't want to play a "ranked " game in my first ever game online, so I was left picking random idiots to play.

[ODogg]

Re: 350,000 Played Madden NFL 10 Online Once, Then Never Went Online Again

Exonerated - sorry but that's not lag, that's someone who just can't handle losing, which is 95% of the online football players.

[slickdtc]

Re: 350,000 Played Madden NFL 10 Online Once, Then Never Went Online Again

I'm one of those 350,000+ as well. But my reason is because I did not want to download the patch. I felt the statistics were more realistic without the final patch, and I didn't want to go back to Madden 06's stats engine where there would be 2-3 2000 yard rushers a season. I just upgraded from that game, I don't want to go back to it! I do have the itch to try out the patch because of the gameplay tweaks they made, but it's not worth sacrificing some franchise realism. I think the game played decently enough for my liking without screwing up the rushing yardage leaders.

[mavfan21]

Re: 350,000 Played Madden NFL 10 Online Once, Then Never Went Online Again

Maybe this would be a sign to concentrate on offline franchise?

AMEN, HERE, HERE, AGREED, YES, WHAT HE SAID, and LIKE!!!

BTW- Get your guns up!

[grunt]

Re: 350,000 Played Madden NFL 10 Online Once, Then Never Went Online Again

I am in the monority because I enjoyed my online experience both online franchise and random opponents. I love beating cheese with sim solutions.

[will12203]

Re: 350,000 Played Madden NFL 10 Online Once, Then Never Went Online Again

Fair play needs a comeback.

Either that or there needs to be a percentage statistic for things like "goes for it on forth down" so that people can search for users to play with based on the percentage they go for it on fourth down. Would just make it easier to find games with people that play fair when your friends on your friends list aren't on...

I totally agree go Bills man!!!!!

[will12203]

Re: 350,000 Played Madden NFL 10 Online Once, Then Never Went Online Again

I am in the monority because I enjoyed my online experience both online franchise and random opponents. I love beating cheese with sim solutions.

true I enjoy that too but losing to cheese is the worse

[ODogg]

Re: 350,000 Played Madden NFL 10 Online Once, Then Never Went Online Again

You know I have as much issues as anyone with online Madden but this stat isn't that shocking, I'll bet almost every other online game, Modern Warfare, NHL, whatever, is going to have a stat like this. The simple fact is a lot of people get a game, go online just to see how it's different and then that's it, they just go back to playing online. This number is not a damning indictment of Madden by any means IMO.

[ODogg]

go back to offline i meant..

[Rocky]

Re: 350,000 Played Madden NFL 10 Online Once, Then Never Went Online Again

I am in the monority because I enjoyed my online experience both online franchise and random opponents. I love beating cheese with sim solutions.

I did at one point, but after awhile, I'm just like "Why am I wasting my time?"

The fact of the matter is that online has limited replay value....especially when you play ranked opponent. At least in a franchise mode, you can build new teams, draft players, trade players, etc. Plus you don't have to deal with cheese, play on your own time, etc.

[ODogg]

Re: 350,000 Played Madden NFL 10 Online Once, Then Never Went Online Again

I completely disagree, online has unlimited replay value because everyone plays the game much differently unlike playing vs. the CPU AI which is mostly the same experience every game.