ive been saying it over the last few days, anybody who is reading the tea-leaves can see that its clear that EA vision as a company going forward is all about the online gamer 1st and foremost. this philosphy started with ssx ( a snowboarding racing game with no local multi-player) and that pilosophy as move on to madden.
dont believe me i can prove it.
take a good list of all the features that were removed. now ask yourself, how any those features have a real impact on the way random, tourny, or online franchises are played.
- you might say CP, but the online crowd mostly feel its a feature that promotes too much cheese.
- not many OF are gonna use fantasy draft.
- can only control 1 team online.
- online you cant edit ratings
- you cant import draft classes online
basically what you have here for the first time in the history of sports games is a reversal of ports, meaning in most sports titles the online modes are a direct port of what you can do offline. for the 1st time ever the offline is now a port of whats important to online.
so because EA has now fused online and offline franchise into 1 mode, whatever is not good for online or relevent to online will never again be given to offline.
get used to it because it is the future, online gamers 1st, everyone else if they have the time after that.