Madden NFL 11 Blog: E3 Feature Announcement and Career Modes Update

[crenk]

This is a very bitter sweet announcement. It obviously sucks for this year. It sucks that I wont be playing madden until the summer of 2011 earliest. But if they truly are building up franchise from the ground and are gonna do it right this time then ultimately we will all be happier for it. Some minor bull sh*% add ons this year and next year etc would not have made us happy either, so swallow the pill this year and hopefully rejoice 14 months from now.

Now who is gonna start a clean franchise ideas thread for the devs?

[Sheamazin]

Well atleast the Meadowlands will host the Superbowl in 2014 in the game.

[Rocky]

If this 'Gameflow' gimmick took precedent over rehauling a long lasting playing mode, then that's just a slap in the face. I hate to say it, but that's what it is.

[TDKing]

For the guys that are saying they respect them for being up front... They are only telling us this now to eliminate as much negativity as they can before E3. They want us to get it all out now that way there will be a more positivie atmosophere around E3. So they are only being honest and upfront to serve there own purpose. IMO.

[Valdarez]

Quote: Originally Posted by TheWatcher

Well, like I said before and was of course attacked and called a liar for stating this fact (what's new?)... franchise is not one of their top market targets (money-makers) and hasn't been all generation, if not longer. I was told what their top money-makers are by an EA official, and franchise is not one of them. They're not basing their decisions to make franchise upgrades just on some website polls from sites that would attract hardcore franchise players. It doesn't work that way. They have structured systems and procedures in place to collect data from a number of sources offline and on, and they determine what's going to get the top and/or back-of-the-box heavily marketed feature attention, based on that data the same as any other game franchise would. After 5 years, really, none of this should come as a shock. If anything, online franchise in Madden 10 was more than likely a big reach for them, they looked at the data from that, and probably decided against doing any major moves there either, hence the message they've put out. Thing is, this is not going to phase them a bit. Madden 11 will outsell Madden 10 and not miss a beat in the sales department, you can bet on that.

You have to question some of the statistic though, especially when it comes to data mining. If you don't look at the data right, or even ask the right question, then many times you'll get answer that can lead you astray more than point you in the right direction. I find it hard to believe that Franchise mode isn't the #1 mode. My guess is 'play now' is probably the #1 mode if you look at how many time's some initiates it. Play now is a single game, played once. where as Franchise can be started, and someone may play 4 to 6 games in one sitting (hypothetically of course). If they look at it and say that's 1 play now and 1 franchise, then franchise will never matchup to the Play Now mode. Just an example of where the data, if not diagnosed properly, can be misleading.

As for money maker, I'm not quite sure what you mean by that, as it can have several meanings. Are you able to share the top money makers with us, or is that confidential info?

[Valdarez]

Quote: Originally Posted by ThaShark28_316

Instead of crying about it, pitch them your ideas.

Agreed!

[sois]

Quote: Originally Posted by Valdarez

Agrred!

They've had our ideas for years and ignored them. I'm not hanging my hat on this vaporware promise. I'll believe it when i see it.

[K_GUN]

kids

it is what it is

there's no crying in baseball & there's certainly no crying in video game football