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

[wangtangkiki]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pacman83

Thanks Val...lol, good luck w/ that.... EA has lost a ton of respect on the Madden front, but also in the trust/believe area dealing with majority of their games. While the Madden devs are at least appearing to try, the EA leadership has blown it too many times with the terrible quality of several released games, the patty cake approach to "developing" games, and the approach to selling these "games" (so don't even qualify or warrant $60, but advertising will sell almost anything). This is actually a good sign from the Tiburon team, at least to me...though people have a right to be upset, they really shouldn't be, high quality games don't happen overnight, patience guys, remember what this gen started with?? We gotta get out of the hole first, and now it seems they have the right guys in the right places. btw...What do you mean, "You people"???

I don't know if they have the "right guys in the right places." They don't seem passionate at all about their jobs. They seem like they just want to hurry and get those developer series interviews over.. It's like they are asleep and talking to the presenter. The PRESENTER is more excited than the developers.. and the PRESENTER is apart of game development with it too..

Quote: Originally Posted by Joeyland

clearly EA has run out of ideas on how to sell this tired series.

Yep.. and the stupid thing is that they are working on gimmicks and flashy things that don't actually help the gameplay.. By gameplay, I don't mean playcalling or hand towels that your players don't even use.. When I say gameplay, I mean when I hike the ball.. That.. Not the cut scenes in between gameplay. They have yet to realize that this game would be much better if it followed the laws of physics.

I know that there wouldn't be 350,000 people that get online once then never get on again if they patched disconnection glitches. I know of several disconnect glitches that aren't fixed. I know exactly what causes people to disconnect when they have their field goal blocked, but it's not fixed yet. They need to fix the experience we have online while also fixing the basic gameplay that is very much lacking in Madden.

I really wish I could get an enjoyable football game with real physics. I want to have my WR/DB interactions to be REAL. If I'm on All-Madden skill level, I want my WRs to actually be able to get off the press. If I'm using the All-Madden skill level, I want ratings to work. They don't in certain situations.. like the press rating has no effect on All-Madden. No matter the ratings, they have 99 press.. WR Release ratings are 12.. They will not get off the press until the 3 second animation ends..

Quote: Originally Posted by jdr4693

why do they keep focusing on online??? I dont do online franchise our any other online stuff and yet that seems to be their focus every year.. When will the offline gamers get respect?? I want more depth in offline franchise I hate all this new online dynasty, franchise crap....

Online mode gets them extra customers. They want to take advantage of the consumer. Ask Peter Moore. He's said it himself. He wants to get as many purchases from us as possible. Madden Ultimate Team was a cash grab.. It's in other games too. I think it's in FIFA.. FIFA Ultimate Team.. They will probably have UFC Ultimate Team [which is a funny name for a solo sport.. UFC Ultimate Fighter? Already taken.. omg.. whats next?].. Just a Ultimate Team for all of their games.

Quote: Originally Posted by Gosens6

This is why I have a certain resentment toward online and tournament players. I don't dislike them, but I do resent them because they're the reason this is all happening. More or less.

Trust me.. Tournament players do not enjoy these ****ty new features they add online.. Online Co-op? No tournament player enjoyed that POS.. 3v3 will fail like CoOp has..

Quote: Originally Posted by jdr4693

I'm really getting sick of having to take a back seat (as an offline gamer) to all this online dynasty, franchise etc. crap... The reason everyone loved ESPN NFL 2k5 was because it had such a deep and fun offline franchise..heck it didnt even have any of this new online crap and people still prefer it over all the new online stuff. Why? because offline franchise (done well) is more addictive than a stupid online dynasty and online league that is boring after like a couple weeks!!!

You don't provide them with extra profit. EA is trying to make as much money as they can.. If they can get a little extra profit by selling you MUT Coins then they will.. If you haven't heard, they added a new scouting system for online.. You use Madden Coins to scout your opponent.. You can of course buy Madden Coins with real money. They are trying to expand the game for profit. Sorry How can you play against a CPU? Especially with Madden's poor AI.. I would hate it.

Quote: Originally Posted by Sheamazin

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

ROFL I KNOW RIGHT!!??! I CAN'T WAIT!

[grunt]

I haven't played franchise in over a decade in any sport games. I haven't seen much progress in franchise since FPS. EA and most game companies are focusing more on online play than off line play. At least EA is being more honest than other developers.

I complain about LOS play for the last 5 years and if that get fixed I am a happy camper. Now with all that being said the sport gaming will die a slow death if they can't improve offline play. I should be able to have a deep and realistic franchise mode without doing an online franchise.

[marktg30]

NCAA 11 it is!

UNF*##$@!%$-BELIEVEABLE!

Every optimistic "EA will save it for E3" guy needs to get off the EA (Madden) wagon RIGHT NOW.

[Exonerated]

Quote: Originally Posted by marktg30

NCAA 11 it is! UNF*##$@!%$-BELIEVEABLE! Every optimistic "EA will save it for E3" guy needs to get off the EA (Madden) wagon RIGHT NOW.

NCAA 11 is looking awesome.

[marktg30]

Quote: Originally Posted by TheCreep

This whole thread is hilarious. The haters been lurking waiting for something to bite on, lol. Running around talking about "the whole world plays offline franchise", this that and the third, and there's all of about 7 of yall in here, lol. Everybody you know plays franchise? What about, everybody I know doesn't touch it at all. Open up your minds, the world doesn't revolve around what YOU like. This community is very small compared to the general madden population I'm sure. Not buying 11 because of no additions to franchise correct? I bet ya'll lump lumps bought 10 didnt you? So I know for a fact you're lying with the "no buy for me" bullcrap, for the simple fact that if franchise is so important to you, and you played madden 10, there's absolutely no reason NOT to buy 11 because it does have SOME improvements to franchise. Read the article again if you missed it. Every year is going to be an improvement over the last year in pretty much all categories somehow someway. So if you dealt with 10s franchise mode, you'll most definitely deal with 11s because its GOING to be better. Oh and by the way I'm a heavy sim style franchise player myself, just a little more real than most of ya'll, lol. See you in the madden impressions thread after release.

Over 30 pages of replies since around midnight says that people are VERY angry. You are simply trying to stir the pot.

[aTTckr]

Does anybody know what happened to that footage Ian recorded and wanted to release friday?

[prime21time37]

already knowing nothing in the world is perfect, all i can say is i hope the gameplay is MUCH improved. we have been saying they need to fix the core problems instead of adding on to the game, and it seems thats what they are shooting at. if the franchise stats are fixed and they made some draft adjustments then the mode should hopefully get us by if the gameplay is what i hope it to be. broken stats was one of the most griped about problems in '10. so any improvement should make the game better. im not an online player but face it guys, its 2010, not 1985. thats where the improvements are gonna be seen in practically every game. i just hope '12 will blow us away and that they fix the gameplay issues this year. i dont think it will be as bad as we think. plus if they wouldve announced an all new franchise mode this year, there would be 30 pages of posts that gameplay shouldve been fixed first. we all know that. so take it for what it is and enjoy it as best as you can. because we are all buying it no matter what.

[Step2001]

Was not happy when I heard the news last night. After 12 hrs. I have chilled........

I'm keeping my pre-order!

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