Just trying to see how many people in this online community wanted team play. Whats your reasoning behind liking team play?
Heres why Im into team play -
Im 27 and Im obsessed with football. Die hard Eagles fan and football season Sundays are 1 of the only rare events in life that still gets me excited like a little kid on Xmas morning. With that being said, I love Madden.. or used to. Im a competitive person and have been purchasing Madden since '96 on Super Nintendo.
Playing 1v1 alllll the time gets old and then you get to a point where your competition takes the game way too seriously and just makes it overall unenjoyable. Finding little glitches or broken AI assignments within a play. This Madden is going to essentially be just like all the others. Nerds will religiously be in practice mode trying to find ways to abuse AI. Whether it be a certain play, audible, or alignment. Team play helped mask the faults in the game. If you got a route combination thats virtually impossible to stop, because you can only control 1 guy is now voided in team play. "Ill get this and you watch that". Not only does team play help cover up flaws in the game, it also lets you play alongside friends. I mean after all this IS football... you know...the ultimate TEAM sport. If you're like "Well, if you dont like 1v1 ranked games you could play Connected Franchise or MUT". Ok thats fair, but here is the problem with Connected Franchise and MUT. In Connected Franchise, 1 of 2 things will happen. 1) The owner/commish of the league will lose or suck and then just leave. 2) Theres always going to be idiots in your league. Making trades that dont make any sense. Then once they get beat down 3 or 4 times they leave the league and nobody is going to replace them, because the previous owner made such ignorant trades. Madden Ultimate Team (MUT) is fun at first, but only at first. Once everyone starts paying actual money for packs (You'd be surprised) the MUT world gets overpopulated and watered down. Soon everyone will have legends, player of the week cards, player of the month cards, and all the other categorized cards that EA produces to entice people to spend more money. If team play was still in the game, I probably wouldnt have even played 1 game of ranked 1v1 or 1 game of MUT. I found team play THAT fun. If it wasnt clear before on why EA would take a part of the game out, it certainly is clean now. EA is all about that revenue and not much else. There is no revenue to be had from team play. If somehow you couldnt buy packs with actual money on MUT, but in team play you could spend actual money then you'd see team play getting promoted and MUT would die off.
I guess team play had to get the axe to free up more memory and game space, so EA could put tats on Colin Kap. you know making the game more "fun".
This will be the first copy of Madden I havent purchased on release in 17 years. Wow ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrWWAjOa21o
^ TEAM PLAY HIGHLIGHTS ^
Tell me that doesnt look way more fun than 1v1