Where Are The Madden NFL 12 Tuner Sets and Online Franchise Roster Updates?

[LambertandHam]

While I find myself playing Madden 12 more than past Madden's, I'm a little miffed about the tuner sets, and other things talked up before release.

Tuner sets are in house, and shouldn't be that hard.

[DGuinta1]

I hope with the two former OS employees now working for Tiburon will have a positive input on future iterations of both games. Shake things up a little. =}

[Isura]

Quote: Originally Posted by havokeff

What were the tuning sets actually supposed to do?

There were 4 tuners in NCAA 11 iirc. They fixed and tweaked issues like player progression in dynasty. How I understand it is patches fix fundamental bugs, tuners adjust gameplay variables. From EA's perspective there's really no "need" to release tuners since they believe the game already works how football is supposed to.

[rudyjuly2]

It's amazing to me how the EA football teams have implemented tuner sets and then never really used them. The NCAA team only updates a tuner set with a patch so what's the point? Just put it in the patch then! Tuner sets were designed as a quick mini-patch that didn't cost EA any money to fix obvious things and they don't use it. They need to go ask the NHL team how to do this right.

[adfletch71]

Well I hope after 7 years on next-gen consoles, these new developers at EA get there butts in gear. I'm still amazed at the lack of realism of this franchise on next-gen. Not saying that all sports games have there bull#£?* moments. Being the most popular sport in America, more emphasis should be in development of this game. Just now we are so called getting doubled the team on development. 7 years on next gen...pathetic. So what will EA say next year on there marketing campaign, Ohhhh we added real penalties this time or the interactions of the OL/DL is on point. No game is perfect, but EA has stroke a cord with me with there arcade style of gameplay this gen.

Presentation is no better, considering past games. We all are not kids EA, there are some that have been around since the atari days. Really, u have your BLITZ game now, u can concentrate on MADDEN being a simulation and true representation of the NFL, not just logos and players. It's gotten better over the years, but way way past due for this gen.

[steelernation28]

This crap will go on and on until we as consumers stop buying their product. They don't care, haven't for a while now. Yet we buy because we need some football! EA's bottom line must suffer, and we are the only ones capable of inflicting the kind of financial damage it takes for companys like EA to open their eyes. Skip a year and wright this listing ship that is EA football, 'cause I will not be buying next year anyway.

[wheelman990]

Quote: Originally Posted by steelernation28

This crap will go on and on until we as consumers stop buying their product. They don't care, haven't for a while now. Yet we buy because we need some football! EA's bottom line must suffer, and we are the only ones capable of inflicting the kind of financial damage it takes for companys like EA to open their eyes. Skip a year and wright this listing ship that is EA football, 'cause I will not be buying next year anyway.

There is a lot of truth to this. If we hadn't bought Madden 06-09 (those were aweful games) on 360/ps3 we would have a much better product now, and possibly a non exclusive license deal to go with it. If Madden knows one thing though, it is how to market and get people to believe the game has improved and to invest. While I don't agree with that tactic, it sells them copies while spending very very little to improve their game.

[BlackJackRabbit]

So they basically lied, at least thus far, about M12 having tuner sets. It's one thing to implement a feature and not have it work as advertised, which Tiburon has done more often than not, but to not have the feature at all ,when tuner sets was one of the first two features announced, is inexcusable; it's also shows that EA just doesn't care.

Quote: Originally Posted by bigsmallwood

This is really poor and the reason why people don't respect Madden or the Dev team. Anybody who tries to defend their actions at this point is just delusional....smh

Yeah, I'd like to see the apologists come the EA's aid on this one. This is a blatant lie; it's not subject to anyone's interpretation. It's a bold face lie !