Madden NFL 12 Blog - No Additions This Year For Online Franchise Mode

[DUDERMAN]

Re: Madden NFL 12 Blog - No Additions This Year For Online Franchise Mode

The "EA NFL football team" should have at least brought back the EA Locker from the PS2 days. Online Franchises were fully functional then by uploading games, spawning games, and then merging the results back to the 'chise. You could do everything offline and share the Franchise file through the EA Locker as well. It worked pretty well.

That was great and just shoved the will some people had to play it that way. My buddy and I (who lives a couple states away) had to stay up most of the night the first time we did it because we did a fantasy draft. So I picked first, saved, uploaded. Then he downloaded it, picked 2 players, saved, uploaded it. Then I would download.... rinse, repeat. Needless to say it took awhile but we had a blast regardless.

It baffles me how they can continue to produce such a stale product yet people keep buying the game.

Because there is no alternative and for NFL fanatics, like me, you need their fix every year. I get bored with these Madden's usually by November or December now (not counting Madden 10/Madden 06 last gen). Go figure, the two times I have played nearly year round is when I could play franchise online ('11 doesn't count, nobody wanted to play the broken system anymore).

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This is a shame, because all sports games should get more gameplay hours than this. The amount of time/fun I get from other $60 titles greatly trumps Madden in every way. It's a sad world when games like Halo/Fallout/Red Dead Redemption/Call of Duty/God of War/Bioshock/Oblivion/Gears of War are all the same price as Madden 11. Every one of those games beat Madden in every department. Yet they survive on a $60 price point, despite not putting out a new game every year, or relying on "micro-transactions", or having an online pass.

This is why I get annoyed when people argue for EA and their money hungry ways. You just don't see this type of robbery in other franchises. If we had to pay a fraction of a dollar for our games by number of hours played on it (which most likely is in our future), I would be paying upwards of $100 for those said games above and still be satisfied because of the entertainment returned. Madden... I'd pay $30 at most at this point.
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[43M]

Re: Madden NFL 12 Blog - No Additions This Year For Online Franchise Mode

That was great and just shoved the will some people had to play it that way. My buddy and I (who lives a couple states away) had to stay up most of the night the first time we did it because we did a fantasy draft. So I picked first, saved, uploaded. Then he downloaded it, picked 2 players, saved, uploaded it. Then I would download.... rinse, repeat. Needless to say it took awhile but we had a blast regardless.


Because there is no alternative and for NFL fanatics, like me, you need their fix every year. I get bored with these Madden's usually by November or December now (not counting Madden 10/Madden 06 last gen). Go figure, the two times I have played nearly year round is when I could play franchise online ('11 doesn't count, nobody wanted to play the broken system anymore).

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This is a shame, because all sports games should get more gameplay hours than this. The amount of time/fun I get from other $60 titles greatly trumps Madden in every way. It's a sad world when games like Halo/Fallout/Red Dead Redemption/Call of Duty/God of War/Bioshock/Oblivion/Gears of War are all the same price as Madden 11. Every one of those games beat Madden in every department. Yet they survive on a $60 price point, despite not putting out a new game every year, or relying on "micro-transactions", or having an online pass.

This is why I get annoyed when people argue for EA and their money hungry ways. You just don't see this type of robbery in other franchises. If we had to pay a fraction of a dollar for our games by number of hours played on it (which most likely is in our future), I would be paying upwards of $100 for those said games above and still be satisfied because of the entertainment returned. Madden... I'd pay $30 at most at this point.
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No offense, but you cant blame EA for being money hungry considering youre one of those people giving them money for a game you admittedly dont even really like.

I am as big of a football fanatic as anyone and love videogame football, but I still dont give Madden my money when I know I wont get what I want out of the game. Thats a terrible excuse unless you have absolutely positively nothing better to do with that time and money.

If people dont like the game...fair enough. But I can only laugh at people who spend $60 on ANYTHING they KNOW they dont really like, and they whine about the companies "money hungry ways". Its not "robbery" when you willingly give them your money, especially when you have a good idea what the end result is going to be.

Ridiculous in every sense of the word. More "stupidty" than "robbery".

[SageWonder]

No offense, but you cant blame EA for being money hungry considering youre one of those people giving them money for a game you admittedly dont even really like.

I am as big of a football fanatic as anyone and love videogame football, but I still dont give Madden my money when I know I wont get what I want out of the game. Thats a terrible excuse unless you have absolutely positively nothing better to do with that time and money.

If people dont like the game...fair enough. But I can only laugh at people who spend $60 on ANYTHING they KNOW they dont really like, and they whine about the companies "money hungry ways". Its not "robbery" when you willingly give them your money, especially when you have a good idea what the end result is going to be.

Ridiculous in every sense of the word. More "stupidty" than "robbery".

Buy used from GameFly and they send you the Online Pass codes. Win/Win.

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[leo4444]

Re: Madden NFL 12 Blog - No Additions This Year For Online Franchise Mode

No offense, but you cant blame EA for being money hungry considering youre one of those people giving them money for a game you admittedly dont even really like.

I am as big of a football fanatic as anyone and love videogame football, but I still dont give Madden my money when I know I wont get what I want out of the game. Thats a terrible excuse unless you have absolutely positively nothing better to do with that time and money.

If people dont like the game...fair enough. But I can only laugh at people who spend $60 on ANYTHING they KNOW they dont really like, and they whine about the companies "money hungry ways". Its not "robbery" when you willingly give them your money, especially when you have a good idea what the end result is going to be.

Ridiculous in every sense of the word. More "stupidty" than "robbery".

Alot of people like myself just like football and Madden is the ONLY option for a long time now. Even though I expect Madden 12 to be better than 11 was, the game could be so much better. EA just simply refuses to fix all the issues because of their money hungry ways and bs excuses. EA is a billion dollar company they obviously have the resources to make the best football game they can. I also think if the role was revered and 2k got the deal with the nfl then 2k would be doing the same thing. Its all just about money which is why the deal with the nfl should of been illegal but I can only hope their exclusive deal with the nfl will be over in my lifetime. If their is a nfl season I will probably end up getting madden because there isnt any other nfl game.

[DUDERMAN]

Re: Madden NFL 12 Blog - No Additions This Year For Online Franchise Mode

No offense, but you cant blame EA for being money hungry considering youre one of those people giving them money for a game you admittedly dont even really like.

I am as big of a football fanatic as anyone and love videogame football, but I still dont give Madden my money when I know I wont get what I want out of the game. Thats a terrible excuse unless you have absolutely positively nothing better to do with that time and money.

If people dont like the game...fair enough. But I can only laugh at people who spend $60 on ANYTHING they KNOW they dont really like, and they whine about the companies "money hungry ways". Its not "robbery" when you willingly give them your money, especially when you have a good idea what the end result is going to be.

Ridiculous in every sense of the word. More "stupidty" than "robbery".

The "money-hungry" and "robbery" reference is for the online pass and micro-transactions, which I do not give them money for. I listed many games that do not take it to the level as EA Sports does.

It's not that I hate the game, the problem is that it currently doesn't have much reason to keep going back for more. Maybe the new offline franchise will fix that but I know I would have played more with an updated online franchise.

I don't see how you can call it stupidity when I don't have a choice. Yea I can choose to not play, but I like football and am too old to play it for real, so I get the next best thing. I'm just disappointed with the return on my money spent every year.

Also, don't get me confused with a 2k lover (I know you didn't mention it, but just saying...). I tried 2k and yea, they had more options and better presentation but I liked the oldschool madden gameplay better. I've been a Madden gamer since '98. I've owned them all since then. I have a right to criticize when I have given them money for a product I am not fully satisfied with.

Finally, I play in my spare time. That's what spare time is for, otherwise I'd be out or working on something. During the football season I'm all about football. I watch all the games (not just my team), I go to as many home games as I can get tickets to, I play in 2 fantasy football leagues. I love NFL football. So during my spare time during the football year I want to play Madden, and not with previous rosters, that's not fun to me. I don't see what's unreasonable about that.

I would think a lot of people feel the same way.