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Originally Posted by Big FN Deal |
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I go with this one, lol. Like I have stated before, something like CCM is obviously not a lack of vision or talent issue because its' architect, Josh Looman, also created HC09. Somebody or bodies have been encouraging or demanding that everyone at Tiburon look at the NFL for Madden, through some odd "fun" perspective, as if NFL football needs to be changed to be fun and marketable. It's surprising to me how many people seem to be drinking the kool-aid for adapting NFL football in Madden to market it to the masses, instead of adapting the marketing to get the masses interested in real NFL football in Madden. Not only does EA Tiburon not emulate NFL football in Madden, they don't even emulate the NFL's marketing strategy for the NFL.
I am no business mogul but it seems like common sense if I pay hundreds of millions of dollars for an established brand worth billions, like the NFL, the best ROI is to copy whatever they have done to be so successful, whenever possible. For all the smart business people I presume EA has making decisions for Madden, it boggles my mind that anyone would be surprised that securing an expensive NFL exclusive but proceeding to make Madden in its' own unique brand of football, didn't pan out as projected. The NFL has been thriving these last 8 years, even with a lockout, yet Madden hasn't enjoyed a modicum of that over the same period. It doesn't take an econ major to understand that Madden obviously wasn't structured close enough to the NFL during this time.
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I think the NFL has a clear and direct vision for how it wants to be perceived and how to make as much money as possible with that vision. EA/Tiburon on the other hand has been lost this whole gen since acquiring the license. They wanted to be arcade, fast and fun, and pretty at the beginning, so I think that's how they built the game. I mean just look at Madden 09, lol, which I think was the game they had all wanted to make from the beginning of the generation.
Something in the culture changed(probably the success of more realistic games and madden being the butt of alot of people's jokes, lol) and they wanted to be more sim, but with what they had built, it's been hard to reverse. I hope now they have the vision and leadership they need, but I personally still don't think they have what it takes to make the game that I personally want. I just see too many corners cut with gameplay, animations, and presentation(off the field I think EA has always "gotten" it but bugs and time constraints hurt them). Things that looked good one year are absent or changed the next. I think the biggest problem is we don't get an explanation as to why these things change or why things work the way they do, why these decisions were made. I just hope with Madden 25 and this next generation we see their true potential. If it isn't bright, all of us who haven't enjoyed Madden might as well retire from video game football for good.