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Originally Posted by cuttingteeth |
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Ah, I see...you can't read between the lines of what I'm trying to convey. Have you ever used Teambuilder for the NCAA football games? It allows you to use any picture logo (so long as you resize it accordingly - easy to do) and upload it, and it becomes your helmet and/or jersey/pants logo and even your field/stadium logo. It works. I've created the Houston Oilers among many other NFL teams before. The only one I can't create accurately is how the Bengals are done, but I'm sure that's a short tweaking of code to allow for. I've created XFL, CFL, etc. teams. You can then put whatever names anywhere you want, too - your players size, weight, skin color, attributes, etc. exactly as you want...create a stadium close to exact or use established ones (when allowed). It's soooo close to the real thing.
The only other thing you are really making me understand is that you think the majority of folks are too lazy to do any of the work. I'll go with that...but it still wouldn't ruin the game selling any because all of you lazy mofo's would do the same thing you do now by downloading and uploading the changed files someone like me already did for you. Everything would cross-reference so well that it would still be a game the majority would purchase. If you wanted to customize it, it's for you. If you just want to DL what everyone else customized and/or tweak it a little when you choose, you could do that, too.
With all the combined (even little) things that you HAVE to do to Madden as is already, I don't see it being any different...even for the laziest, casual gamer that absolutely loved Madden 13.
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I am with you sir and I think sometimes people can get stuck in a status quo group think and only see things that way. For instance this thread, there are people that seem to think this write up somehow confirms an extension of the exclusive, which it doesn't, it's just the writer's opinion. Same thing with opinions about what casuals will or will not buy based on what past non-licensed football game sales were. APF and BB each had issues that prevented me from getting either one but had they been fully fleshed out football games, minus a NFL/NFLPA license, with community modding capability/sharing, I would've purchased both. Granted I am not a casual football gamer but I think people underestimate the power of word of mouth through social networking and media these days.
It's all about trends with casuals and if Take Two were to create a fully customizable complete non-licensed football game, that the hardcore football modding community could "fill in the NFL blanks" for, word of mouth and popularity would quickly spread through YouTube, Facebook, Twitchtv, etc. That's another reason I feel that the exclusive is ending because, imo, the prospect of some company creating a fully customizable football game is likely even greater on the new consoles, considering development is supposed to be better.
It's funny how people can say "it won't happen non-licensed football games don't sell" but that didn't stop APF from trying or BB after that, so another company or either of these, trying it again on the new consoles, IF the exclusive is renewed, is feasible.