[Celtic34]

Quote: Originally Posted by vernond

In all honesty Madden is never going to be what the hardcore sim crowd wants it to be. I don't think that they can make that game based on the framework they have to work in. In order to make that game EA would have to start all over from scratch and that will never happen as Madden is a cash cow. It's like that porn star chick that's addicted to plastic surgery (can't remember her name, maybe Tabitha something?) she keeps getting operation after operation and with each one gets further and further away from the "perfectness" she hopes to achieve. There's no possible way she can look good anymore, same goes for madden. The slate is too dirty to be cleaned.

This is probably true. I remember when Mike Wang from NBA 2k went to EA then came back and basically said he didn't see within their framework how it was possible to do what he wanted to do. I think this is just the way EA operates. It's their business model. They are a mindless machine.