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

[TheWatcher]

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Ok, this is what I wanted to say the last time you brought this up, How do they know it's not a big money maker? They don't track franchise play. They can't.

Because they told me so, and I'm not about to call them liars as they wouldn't even have a reason to lie in that situation. Offline features don't have to be connected to online to be tracked. That's what they use focus groups and demographic tendency data for, just like they have before the use of net data. Just going by the people you know and some websites that attract mostly hardcore players, is not even hardly a good enough measure to challenge it, but I guess this won't stop people from doing it even when they can see the circumstance unfolding right in front of their eyes, so I digress...

But anyway, I don't wanna get into this again though so I won't even speak on it in this thread any further, because it's a done deal now with nothing for people to make a case against. You now see a 6th straight year of what I said, and for a 6th straight year there are no major overhauls/upgrades. There really isn't anything to else to say, it's right in front of you now in print, straight from the developer.

[kjcheezhead]

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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.

I agree taking two years and fixing franchise is a good thing, but why should I buy Madden 11 if the fixes are in Madden 12? Just to show support to the co.?

I've only heard rough audio commentary, not how it is in game. Locomotion hasn't looked improved in the vids, I've only been told about a catch debugging tool and have yet to see it working. The blocking was demonstrated on rookie so what I've seen is useless for judging it in game. Gameflow and Gameplan are the only definite additions to Madden 11 and I have no interest in using them as I like the play calling part of football.

[cowboykmoney]

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They also worked with NCAA on fixing the imported draft classes so that alone with injuries and superbowl presention all we need is superbowl wins to go in players award history and it is recorded in each players stats when they win the big game.

[Netherscourge]

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Wait - Madden 12?

12???

Is that a typo?


Why the hell would they be pushing Madden 12 when Madden 11 isn't even out yet?

What kind of idiots they got running the show over there?



(Sorry - this is just insanity at it's worst)

[slick589]

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so sick of this "maybe next year" stuff. If gameplay is not drastically improved i wonder what EA has been doing since 10 released. damn this sucks

[splff3000]

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Because they told me so, and I'm not about to call them liars as they wouldn't even have a reason to lie in that situation. Offline features don't have to be connected to online to be tracked. That's what they use focus groups and demographic tendency data for, just like they have before the use of net data. Just going by the people you know and some websites that attract mostly hardcore players, is not even hardly a good enough measure to challenge it, but I guess this won't stop people from doing it even when they can see the circumstance unfolding right in front of their eyes, so I digress...

But anyway, I don't wanna get into this again though so I won't even speak on it in this thread any further, because it's a done deal now with nothing for people to make a case against. You now see a 6th straight year of what I said, and for a 6th straight year there are no major overhauls/upgrades. There really isn't anything to else to say, it's right in front of you now in print, straight from the developer.

I understand about not wanting to get into it and I will not go any further as well. I do have some burning comments for what you just posted, but I will keep them to myself lol. One day though, one day, a thread will come up that will be perfect for us to continue this "debate" in.

[TDKing]

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.....
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.
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I knew this was going to happen. Online franchise didn't do well because it wasn't done right from the beginning!!!! They set it up to fail !!! How's online dynasty working for NCAA??? If they don't have a fully functional online franchise in 11 I doubt I'll get it and they won't sucker me this year with that SERVER SIDE PATCHING CRAPOLA!!! wow

[chibears77]

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you know I just thought of something. if they are rebuilding a whole new code for franchise mode in m12. are they going give us everything we want from the previous OF or are they going to trickling in parts of OF and say since its a new code we couldnt add everything previous version OF?

[Netherscourge]

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Oh well - looks like I'm using updated rosters in ESPN NFL2K5 AGAIN.



BTW - why even bother making Madden 11? Why not just keep updating the Madden 10 rosters until Madden 12 comes out and stop ripping everyone off for $59.99 every year?

[splff3000]

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so sick of this "maybe next year" stuff. If gameplay is not drastically improved i wonder what EA has been doing since 10 released. damn this sucks

It's not "maybe next year" anymore. It's "maybe the year after next" now lol

Wait a minute, aren't they announcing some new online mode tonight on spike TV. So, let me get this straight, they have enough time and resources to create a new mode, but they don't have enough time to work on franchise? WTF?

[jethrobag]

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Yeah, but if there is a lockout next year, which is a very good possibility, that stuff still won't be in place, so all the stuff about waiting for the CBA is BS. If they were really were waiting for the CBA, they should've said that franchise will be update for 2013 because that is the year that everything will be finally settled as far as Madden goes.

Good point, although I think everyone is still optimistic about getting an agreement in place. I think the deadline is March 2011 which would still give the devs enough time to tweak salary caps, a rookie cap, etc.

[djordan]

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LOL ....DAMN!

[Flamehead]

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I may have to amend my earlier comments about giving props to EA for being honest. After further thought, I don't think their motive is as pure as they would have us believe.

Think about it, it's actually a pretty smart move on their part. They know it's a big deal to the gaming community at large, and they know they'd get absolutely fried at E3 when it came out. So what do they do?

They admit it up front and take the heat now so that once E3 finally does arrive, they steer the conversation towards their marketing/talking points that THEY want to focus on, instead of franchise. Cause hey, "we've already made an announcement about that", right?

Pretty clever.

I don't think we need to create an ideas list for Phil though. Good grief, people have been creating these lists for years now.

[Netherscourge]

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Doesn't matter if there's a player lock-out in 2011.

EA has a contract with the NFL to make a Madden game every year, no matter how crappy it is.

It's not contingent on anything the NFLPA does with the CBA.

In fact, the NFL would push for the game to keep coming out to keep interest in the game alive minus an actual NFL season.

[Flamehead]

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Wait a minute, aren't they announcing some new online mode tonight on spike TV. So, let me get this straight, they have enough time and resources to create a new mode, but they don't have enough time to work on franchise? WTF?

Yep, that about sums it up.