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  • Flabbergast
    Rookie
    • Aug 2011
    • 37

    #31
    Re: Madden to Feature Uniform Fashion Critic in its Fake Twitter Feed

    Why are people upset about this? EA just added a guy to the twitter feed. I'm sure that this didn't take anything away from all the other new features. Nothing really to get mad about.

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    • LowerWolf
      Hall Of Fame
      • Jun 2006
      • 12272

      #32
      Re: Madden to Feature Uniform Fashion Critic in its Fake Twitter Feed

      I wonder what uniforms they'll intentionally mess up, just to have something to put in the Twitter feed.

      I kid, sort of.

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      • Big FN Deal
        Banned
        • Aug 2011
        • 5993

        #33
        Re: Madden to Feature Uniform Fashion Critic in its Fake Twitter Feed

        Originally posted by Flabbergast
        Why are people upset about this? EA just added a guy to the twitter feed. I'm sure that this didn't take anything away from all the other new features. Nothing really to get mad about.
        It's like that old joke about good news and bad news which goes;

        Prison Guard: I got some good news and bad news, the bad news is all we got for supper is horse dung.

        Prisoners: Well what's the good news?

        Prison Guard: That there is tons of it!

        With Tiburon concerning Madden any perceived good news just seems to make the bad news worse.

        Tiburon: We got some good news and bad news, the bad news is we didn't have time to correct uniforms.

        Community: Well what's the good news?

        Tiburon: That we added Paul Lukas, aka @Uniwatch to the virtual Twitter feed to tweet about how bad they look.

        Last edited by Big FN Deal; 03-18-2013, 09:55 PM.

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        • tril
          MVP
          • Nov 2004
          • 2914

          #34
          @BIG FN DEAL !!!!^^LOL!!!!

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          • ManiacMatt1782
            Who? Giroux!
            • Jul 2006
            • 3982

            #35
            I really wish certain game play elements like O-line and D-line deficiencies were being given this attention instead. Upgrades to fake twitter can't be what the casual gamer wants? Is it, It sure as heck isn't what the hardcore football fan wants.
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            • mestevo
              Gooney Goo Goo
              • Apr 2010
              • 19556

              #36
              Originally posted by ManiacMatt1782
              I really wish certain game play elements like O-line and D-line deficiencies were being given this attention instead. Upgrades to fake twitter can't be what the casual gamer wants? Is it, It sure as heck isn't what the hardcore football fan wants.
              Why does it have to be one or the other?

              You realize this news is coming from the blogger, not Tiburon, right?

              Sent from my SCH-I605 using Tapatalk 2

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              • cuttingteeth
                Pro
                • Feb 2010
                • 627

                #37
                Re: Madden to Feature Uniform Fashion Critic in its Fake Twitter Feed

                1. I do hope this foreshadows an amazing, new uniform editor or create-a-team revamping. I'll give them a pass, if this is the case.

                2. In real life, we are to expect the new logo changes for Jaguars and Vikings and the soon-to-come unveiling of the revamped Miami Dolphins logo and uniforms completely.

                3. I had a nightmare about the money they have to pay Lukas for his name and likeness in the game on top of how much time it takes to code the scripting for his tweets, as well as the fact that they must spend/waste more time making sure his tweets are under 140 characters...because, hey, you know that there's no better way to get your news about details compared to heavily short-hand-scripted opinions.

                4. Later in the dream, George Takei kept singing "Rob Gronkowski Style" with the Gangnam Style music and hot chicks dancing behind him.

                5. I'm now awake, and sadly the worst part of my dream is likely the truth.
                Last edited by cuttingteeth; 03-19-2013, 09:30 AM.
                I'm still playing NCAA 14 and Madden 25...and you know, it's alright.

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                • misterkrabz
                  Banned
                  • Feb 2011
                  • 610

                  #38
                  Madden development has devolved to the point where they're wasting time on fake twitter feeds of uniform fashion critics? Did I really read that right? I think they have officially jumped the shark.

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                  • JerseySuave4
                    Banned
                    • Mar 2006
                    • 5152

                    #39
                    Originally posted by CM Hooe
                    I can't speak for everyone, but I've been on top of the free agency period this NFL offseason (last season as well) primarily through Twitter. I don't have cable television (ergo I don't have ESPN) but I don't need it because I can find out through Twitter what's happening the very instant Adam Schefter / Chris Mortensen / Ed Werder / Jay Glazer / etc. tweets a new story, rather than having to wait for any one of them to produce a dedicated TV spot, ESPN BottomLine update, or a blog post. Internet media outlets such as ProFootballTalk even name-check the Twitter accounts of NFL media personalities when citing sources.

                    Twitter is indeed a legitimate news source if one knows how to use it, and its inclusion in Madden as a news feed feature is by no means superfluous or extraneous. That's not to say that the Twitter feed alone is satisfactory - CCM needs a transaction log in the worst way - but I think it's a legitimate starting point.
                    IMO Twitter is much better than Facebook. Most people i'm friends with don't really waste their time with Facebook anymore so nobody I give a s*** about post anything on Facebook. With Twitter you communicate with athletes, writers, celebs, etc. I've had back & forth conversations with Bomani Jones on different things, i've had Scott Hall reply to my stuff, Tatanka and I had a back & forth about old school wrestling stuff. Where else would I have the chance to interact with these people? And then on top of that you get the news before you get it anywhere else. As soon as something breaking happens it's on twitter. You find out who is meeting with who, who signed where before the story comes out on ESPN or somewhere else.

                    I'd have no problem with the twitter aspect of Mort of Schefter breaking injury or free agency news. But uniwatch is pointless unless you can edit the uniforms throughout a franchise or whatever they're calling that game mode.

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                    • mestevo
                      Gooney Goo Goo
                      • Apr 2010
                      • 19556

                      #40
                      Re: Madden to Feature Uniform Fashion Critic in its Fake Twitter Feed

                      Originally posted by JerseySuave4
                      IMO Twitter is much better than Facebook. Most people i'm friends with don't really waste their time with Facebook anymore so nobody I give a s*** about post anything on Facebook. With Twitter you communicate with athletes, writers, celebs, etc. I've had back & forth conversations with Bomani Jones on different things, i've had Scott Hall reply to my stuff, Tatanka and I had a back & forth about old school wrestling stuff. Where else would I have the chance to interact with these people? And then on top of that you get the news before you get it anywhere else. As soon as something breaking happens it's on twitter. You find out who is meeting with who, who signed where before the story comes out on ESPN or somewhere else.

                      I'd have no problem with the twitter aspect of Mort of Schefter breaking injury or free agency news. But uniwatch is pointless unless you can edit the uniforms throughout a franchise or whatever they're calling that game mode.
                      Facebook is by it's own nature exclusive, so unless you are friends with people actively using it then it's fairly useless aside from fan pages and their games. For parents, people with families on it, friends and family out of state, Facebook is nearly priceless - and that's just one of a few use cases.

                      Like the comments about Twitter though, couldn't agree more. The key with additions like this as well as real twitter is saturation. Put too much in and give us options. Beat writers for all 32 teams with their own spin on the team you're currently controlling/playing for, as well as the national pundits and stuff like this uniwatch guy. Want more or less? Need the ability to opt into my favorite teams - or all of them - and the same ability to trim the fat, only follow my local team reporter and Schefter for example. Default to a specific setup, provide options for more for those that want it.

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                      • tfctillidie
                        Pro
                        • Aug 2011
                        • 530

                        #41
                        Re: Madden to Feature Uniform Fashion Critic in its Fake Twitter Feed

                        How much value does anyone really find in the Twitter?

                        They are canned responses. Quite often repeated over time, even multiple times in the same draft.

                        They aren't real responses to the game events, at all. Just generic auto replies when certain parameters are met...and because they aren't real, they sometimes don't make sense.


                        The feature really only provides "real time updates" to anyone following the base account for your league, but that could have been accomplished in other manners, likely more effective manners.

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                        • juggalotusx
                          Pro
                          • Apr 2009
                          • 730

                          #42
                          Get your head out of your ars EA, Fix the friggin gameplay issues before adding more junk to the madden games......
                          NINERS FAN SINCE 96

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                          • cuttingteeth
                            Pro
                            • Feb 2010
                            • 627

                            #43
                            Re: Madden to Feature Uniform Fashion Critic in its Fake Twitter Feed

                            You like twitter? Great. You like facebook or myspace or tumblr instead? Awesome. Not a single thing about them makes football gameplay any better, though.

                            As for who you talk to online...that's amazing, too...but I hope you don't find out they're related to Manti Te'o's dead girlfriend.
                            I'm still playing NCAA 14 and Madden 25...and you know, it's alright.

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                            • Hooe
                              Hall Of Fame
                              • Aug 2002
                              • 21555

                              #44
                              Re: Madden to Feature Uniform Fashion Critic in its Fake Twitter Feed

                              Originally posted by cuttingteeth
                              You like twitter? Great. You like facebook or myspace or tumblr instead? Awesome. Not a single thing about them makes football gameplay any better, though.
                              Who said this feature had anything to do with football gameplay? It's a minor addition to completely separate minor feature in a separate major gameplay mode developed and managed by an entirely different and separate development studio (CCM is developed at EA Austin, football gameplay is developed at EA Tiburon) .

                              The extreme backlash to this, and the Twitter feature in general, is dumbfounding to me. It has no bearing as to whether the game gets better on the field.

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                              • CPRoark
                                Staff Writer
                                • Feb 2003
                                • 117

                                #45
                                For you guys (understandably) laughing at the idea of a "uniform fashion critic," you really should check out Paul's blog, at uni-watch.com. It's really more than that...he breaks down history of sports equipment, often breaks uniform changes, and features fan and pro redesigns of uniforms/logos. I'm a daily reader, and usually his stuff is fantastic.

                                If you are interested in graphic design or sports history, I'd easily recommend it.

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