[NinersFan49]

Quote: Originally Posted by CM Hooe

Given this perfectly reasonable statement, why then do so many people immediately and vehemently distrust and disagree with those who actually possess first-hand knowledge of the code (such as Rex Dickson or Clint Oldenberg) when they tell us, the Madden community, that the game is not scripted?

I don't immediately or inherently distrust them, far from it. My opinions were developed over 10 years and thousands of games played before Clint or Rex were even with EA. I also don't know how far Clint and Rex are on the org chart from the actual coders, plus it may be legacy code that's too foundational to be addressed.

I'm not trying to single out EA either, other games likely do similar things.The only other sports game I've spent a lot of time on is MLB2K and the same type of things happened there and were even more obvious.