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  • carolinacrazy
    Rookie
    • Aug 2010
    • 32

    #1

    Madden 12 should include rookie salary cap

    I was very excited about Madden, but the fact that they aren't including any of the CBA changes seems just lazy to me.

    Most of the changes are understandably going to be omitted, but a rookie salary cap should be relatively easy to implement. It was a foregone conclusion that this would be included in the CBA so the fact that the crew at Madden isn't prepared to include it (with almost a month left in production at the time of the CBA agreement) is lazy.

    There are a lot of possible solutions to include this and I'm really disappointed that these franchise-changing features likely won't make it in (through patch or otherwise).
  • nonnel
    Rookie
    • Sep 2009
    • 321

    #2
    Re: Madden 12 should include rookie salary cap

    You a video game programmer in your spare time?

    No... implementing something like that is not "easy".

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    • carolinacrazy
      Rookie
      • Aug 2010
      • 32

      #3
      Re: Madden 12 should include rookie salary cap

      Originally posted by nonnel
      You a video game programmer in your spare time?

      No... implementing something like that is not "easy".
      Nothing is "easy" in programming or coding for sports games, but what I'm saying is that if there was another NFL game, they would both be working their butts off to get these rules in.

      If they aren't including them, we should at least receive a good explanation ratherthan the BS "its too late". They aren't rookies at this. If they thought it would hurt their sales, then they would get it in the game.

      What was the point of extending the release date if they weren't going to work hard in that extra time?

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      • Perfect Zero
        1B, OF
        • Jun 2005
        • 4012

        #4
        Re: Madden 12 should include rookie salary cap

        Originally posted by carolinacrazy
        Nothing is "easy" in programming or coding for sports games, but what I'm saying is that if there was another NFL game, they would both be working their butts off to get these rules in.

        If they aren't including them, we should at least receive a good explanation ratherthan the BS "its too late". They aren't rookies at this. If they thought it would hurt their sales, then they would get it in the game.

        What was the point of extending the release date if they weren't going to work hard in that extra time?
        Why don't you go get the new CBA, dissect it piece by piece, and implement all of that code in only a few weeks (really a week) time? The game is mostly done by now, and changing something so complex when they are already at the print shop is not going to happen. Furthermore, doing something so fast would include sloppy work, and there could be a major bug that results from the new line of text. It's not because of laziness on EA's part; it's because the NFL and NFLPA came to a conclusion too late for it to be put into the game. That goes for EA and any other competition.
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        • Simp
          Rookie
          • Dec 2003
          • 428

          #5
          It's WAY too late in the dev cycle to be adding new layers like this. This is the kind of thing that would need to be added in the first month of the cycle, not the last month. Look for it next year.

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          • iamgramps
            Rookie
            • Apr 2010
            • 176

            #6
            Re: Madden 12 should include rookie salary cap

            Originally posted by carolinacrazy
            I was very excited about Madden, but the fact that they aren't including any of the CBA changes seems just lazy to me.

            Most of the changes are understandably going to be omitted, but a rookie salary cap should be relatively easy to implement. It was a foregone conclusion that this would be included in the CBA so the fact that the crew at Madden isn't prepared to include it (with almost a month left in production at the time of the CBA agreement) is lazy.

            There are a lot of possible solutions to include this and I'm really disappointed that these franchise-changing features likely won't make it in (through patch or otherwise).

            The Madden Dev team is pretty good, IMO, but not that good where they could have predicted the new CBA agreement. I'm sure if an agreement would have been met during the cycle the rules would have been implemented. Give them a break, there is only so much time within a cycle.
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            • kingcrf
              Pro
              • Jul 2011
              • 620

              #7
              Re: Madden 12 should include rookie salary cap

              hes a surprise for you the game is basically already finished they would have to push it back again
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              • Wildcats302
                MVP
                • May 2011
                • 1046

                #8
                Re: Madden 12 should include rookie salary cap

                I'm not sure if the OP is being serious or not, but if so...he knows little to nothing about making a video game. The game was around a month from release when this news came out about the new cap...no time to work on it, much less implement it for this year's game.

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                • prime21time37
                  Rookie
                  • Aug 2008
                  • 338

                  #9
                  Re: Madden 12 should include rookie salary cap

                  im fine with it not being in this year as long as its not one of the BIG features for madden 13

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                  • CRMosier_LM
                    Banned
                    • Jul 2009
                    • 2061

                    #10
                    Re: Madden 12 should include rookie salary cap

                    Seriously?!? The game is already done and going to press... How does that make them lazy? Really man, c'mon

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                    • TheBleedingRed21
                      Game Dev
                      • Oct 2010
                      • 5071

                      #11
                      Re: Madden 12 should include rookie salary cap

                      Wheres Berman when you need him..

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                      • carolinacrazy
                        Rookie
                        • Aug 2010
                        • 32

                        #12
                        Re: Madden 12 should include rookie salary cap

                        I don't believe Putting a limitation on rookie salaries would take that long. You guys act like i want every rule, but the only one I am asking for is the rookie salary cap. It shouldn't require more than two weeks or so if they worked hard at it. That would have given them plenty of time had they gotten to work immediately and worked collectively.

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                        • hendeeze
                          Rookie
                          • Jun 2003
                          • 43

                          #13
                          Re: Madden 12 should include rookie salary cap

                          Lets be realistic here. If its one thing EA has a legitimate excuse for not including this year, it would be things associated with the CBA. They already have enough on their plate that gets "unfinished" and pushed to next year as is. This just gets tacked on to that ever expanding list

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                          • phillysouljah
                            Rookie
                            • Jul 2010
                            • 346

                            #14
                            Re: Madden 12 should include rookie salary cap

                            Dude, the game is completed about a month prior to release, if I recall correctly. This was the final week for the developers to put the final touches.

                            Anything as drastic as the new CBA would have taken weeks that the developers don't have to implement.

                            Trying to hastily throw it in will probably completely demolish all the fine-tuning the team did for the new improved franchise mode. Think about it, with a new CBA, that means you need to work on the franchise AI because they've developed that on the basis of the old CBA. The old AI would not manage their teams properly if set up on the basis of the old CBA but in the context of the new CBA.

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                            • carolinacrazy
                              Rookie
                              • Aug 2010
                              • 32

                              #15
                              Re: Madden 12 should include rookie salary cap

                              Originally posted by phillysouljah
                              Dude, the game is completed about a month prior to release, if I recall correctly. This was the final week for the developers to put the final touches.

                              Anything as drastic as the new CBA would have taken weeks that the developers don't have to implement.

                              Trying to hastily throw it in will probably completely demolish all the fine-tuning the team did for the new improved franchise mode. Think about it, with a new CBA, that means you need to work on the franchise AI because they've developed that on the basis of the old CBA. The old AI would not manage their teams properly if set up on the basis of the old CBA but in the context of the new CBA.


                              Great point. I never thought of it that way.

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