EA Sports Says: It's Madden Season!

[SmashMan]

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Lol I'm assuming every OS'er has a cynical side and I guarantee that side was shaking its head thinking. "They could have spent this money on the game!". Lmao mine was.

Honestly, this didn't even cross my mind until I read your post. I'm not cynical enough.

[fballturkey]

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Huh. So Dave Franco can't even get the lead in a commercial.

[Cowboy008]

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I thought it was funny.

[ODogg]

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Loved it...my favorite part is...let it burn.....LET IT BURN!!!

[TexasFan2005]

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Do fries come with that shake?

[loccdogg26]

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I guess I'm in the minority of saying this commercial was corny.

[friscob]

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I guess I'm in the minority of saying this commercial was corny.

Can I join your minority? Have no idea what I just watched, the rap part was pretty funny but Kaep looked awkward lol

[Armor and Sword]

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let it burn!!!!

Had to day that again and I found plenty of great humor in this video. Hillarious stuff.

[ODogg]

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I guess I'm in the minority of saying this commercial was corny.

It's supposed to be...guess you don't see the sense of irony in the commercial..

[loccdogg26]

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It's supposed to be...guess you don't see the sense of irony in the commercial..

I guess its just me getting old.

[Sausage]

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I have watched this too many times today. Gets funnier each time.

[Reejer]

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The question should be: Does the commercial itself make you want to go out and buy Madden 15, and to subsequently play it? Put yourself into a FPS gamers shoes, do you think that this spectacle would make you want to go out and try Madden?

To me, the commercial really had nothing to do with playing Madden, and I found it to be a waste of time, money, creativity, and effort that would have been better spent on game improvement. And I feel that a demo would have created a more positive buzz, and produced more new Maddenites than this commercial.

[Jerros]

This commercial is no different than all the celebrity driven CoD commercials over the years. Just more hype to push a product that has been the same broken mess for years. And to the dude that said something earlier about not understanding why someone would say they should spend that money on the game, well maybe it's because the game has yet to change in 9+ years. Still no WR/CB real interactions. Oline play is still the same hybrid generic nonsense as ever. Still the same EXACT animations and physics of that old broken engine that should have be ditched once next gen consoles hit. Makes no sense that they didn't spend the money to rebuild the game and fix that crap. Oh wait, they don't have to. There's no competition and people will buy the game anyway no matter how broken it is because its arcadey and fun! Yeah, same game, different year. But if you guys enjoy it, more power to you.

[mestevo]

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The question should be: Does the commercial itself make you want to go out and buy Madden 15, and to subsequently play it? Put yourself into a FPS gamers shoes, do you think that this spectacle would make you want to go out and try Madden?

To me, the commercial really had nothing to do with playing Madden, and I found it to be a waste of time, money, creativity, and effort that would have been better spent on game improvement. And I feel that a demo would have created a more positive buzz, and produced more new Maddenites than this commercial.

You can construct any context you want to slight it, but which madden commercials in the past have had several page threads about it here, been plastered and re-plastered all over social media and even covered by many of the major sports news sites? This goes along with past efforts like Lewis vs Rudd that are more about awareness rather than 'look, the new defensive controls...'

It's obvious it's designed to be an absurd spectacle of a spot, not a comprehensive Madden sales pitch.

#letitburn.

[Reejer]

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You can construct any context you want to slight it, but which madden commercials in the past have had several page threads about it here, been plastered and re-plastered all over social media and even covered by many of the major sports news sites? This goes along with past efforts like Lewis vs Rudd that are more about awareness rather than 'look, the new defensive controls...'

It's obvious it's designed to be an absurd spectacle of a spot, not a comprehensive Madden sales pitch.

#letitburn.

You are right that it has created a buzz, but what are the factors that you judge the buzzworthyness (threads or sales), and I might be wrong and sales could increase, possibly in part because of this commercial but only time will tell.

My point is that I feel that this commercial will do nothing to attract new customers, or bring back any of the old disenfranchised Maddenites. Because my son (who primarily plays strategy, and FPS games) won't be drawn in to buy Madden because of this commercial. And I guess I am just getting old, but I base my purchases off of what is in the game.