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Re: Official Madden 12 Online Communities Blog
To address Danimal's post - I understand what you are saying about "just playing with people you know" but I think the purpose of this feature is to allow us to broaden the people we know. Some of us have large Xbox/PS3 friends lists full of great, straight, sim-style gamers who play Madden and others don't. Some, like myself have some but not a lot. This feature should help immensely in finding gamers who play the way we like to play.
As for the work of keeping the community clean, if everyone helps one another then it's not such a huge chore. And for me the payoff of helping a community keep it's sim-style play is really worth the payoff of building my friends list and expanding the amount of straight, sim-style gamers that I can play Madden against.Streaming PC & PS5 games, join me most nights after 6:00pm ET on TwitchTV https://www.twitch.tv/shaunh20
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Re: Official Madden 12 Online Communities Blog
ODogg,
Let me just be perfectly clear and this will be my last post on the subject.
I'm not against communities. If people enjoy them then so be it. I just find it a very underwhelming feature. Even if they had improved Online Franchise in addition to this feature I would feel the same.
As you've stated I only play with people I know whether it be one off games, online franchise or even games like BFBC2. The ability to be in a community with 2000 people who "supposedly" play like I do holds no interest for me because I'm still essentially playing random people.
I understand your point about broadening your opponent pool and I sincerely hope it works but I've been around this whole scene long enough (original Live Beta tester baby!) to hear and see some incredible things online that just make me feel otherwise.
The only thing an Online community can give me I don't already have is a way for me and my friends to have leader boards / stat tracking and that's not something I really care about. Will I try it? Of course I will but it doesn't change the fact that it isn't really geared towards me. It's geared towards the thousands of people who play ranked games and giving them the ability to try and fine tune who they play.
I get it, I understand the logic behind why it was needed and who knows I may end up using it more then I think. However I don't think it is unreasonable for people to be "meh" on this since we've had excellent match making / stat tracking / party systems in other games as far back as Halo 2.
I won't speak for others but when I see quotes thrown around like "will change how you play online" I'm not expecting a clan system.
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Re: Official Madden 12 Online Communities Blog
I wish there was a way to set a community up for "Fair play". At least that would be somewhat cheese proof. Although, I'm not against this feature, I just think it's to much work to police your community. I want play and enjoy the game, not work when I'm suppose to be relaxing enjoying the game.I'm not the master of anything, but a student of everything.Comment
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Re: Official Madden 12 Online Communities Blog
Then join one someone else polices, from your nickname you'd be right at home in the grandpa gamers community!I wish there was a way to set a community up for "Fair play". At least that would be somewhat cheese proof. Although, I'm not against this feature, I just think it's to much work to police your community. I want play and enjoy the game, not work when I'm suppose to be relaxing enjoying the game.Streaming PC & PS5 games, join me most nights after 6:00pm ET on TwitchTV https://www.twitch.tv/shaunh20
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