Madden NFL 11 Blog: E3 Feature Announcement and Career Modes Update

[myownsun]

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This place cracks me up over and over people have said if EA was just straight up with us and said something isn't going to be in the game just say it well they did. also everything that seemed to bother us also has been fixed from 10 so they are saying 12 is going to be what a franchise should be. I can live with that, but that just me

Agreed, but the gameplay had better be sublime if so then i can wait another year for a franchise blowout, hell i haven't (really)played an EA football since madden 05 last gen so m11's chise mode should be enough keep me going.

[TheWatcher]

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Well, like I said before and was of course attacked and called a liar for stating this fact (what's new?)... franchise is not one of their top market targets (money-makers) and hasn't been all generation, if not longer. I was told what their top money-makers are by an EA official, and franchise is not one of them. They're not basing their decisions to make franchise upgrades just on some website polls from sites that would attract hardcore franchise players. It doesn't work that way. They have structured systems and procedures in place to collect data from a number of sources offline and on, and they determine what's going to get the top and/or back-of-the-box heavily marketed feature attention, based on that data the same as any other game franchise would.

After 5 years, really, none of this should come as a shock. If anything, online franchise in Madden 10 was more than likely a big reach for them, they looked at the data from that, and probably decided against doing any major moves there either, hence the message they've put out.

Thing is, this is not going to phase them a bit. Madden 11 will outsell Madden 10 and not miss a beat in the sales department, you can bet on that.

[rangerrick012]

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The even MORE ridiculous part of this is, I've seen NUMEROUS people whine and cry that they should make this game every 2 years so that it has more features and everything is fixed...um...so they got their wishes, and yet there is still all the bitching. I am perfectly fine with this game....upgraded audio, commentary, graphics, controls, stats, injuries, presentation...all of the things that makes football...football has been fixed. I think this year's game is gonna rock.

Umm...they're still putting out Madden 11, aren't they?

[aTTckr]

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So this is EA's big announcement? They will improve Franchise in Madden 12? WOW... Don't get me wrong I like that they're being honest with us and if the gameplay is greatly improved I'd be more than happy with that. But I expected something a little better. I hope that gameplay footage from Ian is going to blow me away or I'll be disappointed and I have to ask myself what were they doing this whole year.
I hope M12 will be truely awesome, it's a little sad to say that before M11 even came out.

[rangerrick012]

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Gotta love EA. Never too early to get that Madden 12 hype train started.

[Hova57]

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Umm...they're still putting out Madden 11, aren't they?

he's not saying that the game should be made every two years. He's saying that other posters have said this.

[Matt Diesel]

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To re-write Franchise mode to take full advantage of the PS3 and Xbox 360 would take well over a year to do.

I don't know but there's something about this sentence that just bothers me. Makes me feel taken advantage of. It's like what have you been doing since Madden 06?

Maybe "well over a year" means 7 years.

[tef]

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I think this is great news personally. Maybe now we can get some Head Coach features added to Madden. Franchise has sucked for years and now we are getting a commitment to fix the problems we have been complaining about.

[ch46647]

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I guess this is what Adembroski meant when he said that he was dissapointed until he realized what was going on. (They are re-building things from the ground up piece by piece)

My problem is they had an entire year to focus mainly on presentation and gameplay. So far we have heard about locomotion, Gus johnson, catch de-bugging tool, crowd chants, and run blocking as the main re-writes for this year. I am very happy they fixed those things but if they had ALL year to focus on gameplay and presentation shouldnt they have MUCH more stuff?

We should have a full broadcast presentation (like NCAA), full half-time and postgame shows, PROGRESSIVE LIGHTING, WR/DB interaction, true pocket forming, ratings that matter, upgraded tackling and pro-tak, etc etc.

Maybe a lot of these things will come out at E3 but so far it just seems like they havent been doing much at all considering they put almost all their focus on presentation and gameplay....

[rangerrick012]

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he's not saying that the game should be made every two years. He's saying that other posters have said this.

Well doesn't that sort of validate that? They're saying they need over a year to add/improve a major part of the game.

[RedZoneD25]

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FAIL.

[PocketRocket]

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Didn't they start from scratch with Madden 06 ?

[ThaShark28_316]

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Instead of crying about it, pitch them your ideas.

[rangerrick012]

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Instead of crying about it, pitch them your ideas.

What do you think all of these wishlist forums/threads are for? They didn't listen the past 5 years.

[cowboykmoney]

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This place cracks me up over and over people have said if EA was just straight up with us and said something isn't going to be in the game just say it well they did. also everything that seemed to bother us also has been fixed from 10 so they are saying 12 is going to be what a franchise should be. I can live with that, but that just me

This is my feelings as well bro because the stuff that needed to be fixed are now doing whaT 2 PATCHES didnt do, So Im greatful of that.Plus they fixed the injuries and are giving us a better superbowl, I just hope they add in superbowl wins in players award history this is very much needed..PLEASE add this one little thing EA and then all you would have to do is bring on the game, Because I can wait for next years fran-mode