Madden Sales Down Significantly This Year

[ghettogeeksta]

Quote: Originally Posted by friscob

It's funny seeing brand new sealed copies of this game not being bid on when priced at $40 and free shipping on ebay. Demand just doesn't seem to be there and I'm starting to feel l will be the like a sucker for not waiting to pick it up later on

Yeah I can't seem to sell Ncaa football 14 on Craigslist for $40. If I don't sell it by 10/16 I'll just cave and trade it in at Game Stop for GTA V. In fact I'm trading all my games, GTA V will be the last game I buy this gen.

[spacedog]

Quote: Originally Posted by Wizard Boy

Whatever, they can do whatever they want. They literally cannot make this game any worse or any less sim. So my words to them would be "go ahead, try me"

If they turned it into NFL Blitz or something then it wouldn't be less sim?

[ghettogeeksta]

Quote: Originally Posted by bkrich83

My biggest fear with a decline in Madden sale is that EA makes the game even more accesible to casual fans, and cater to the lowest common denominator. I think the unfortunate reality is a large majority of Madden gamers don't want an exact replication of the NFL. I think we even see that here. We see people who clamor for more sim and more "realism" and on the odd occasions EA delivers that realism, those people still complain.

Nobody wants an exact replica of any sports game because they would be boring. But we do want a game way more realistic NFL game than Madden. The problem is, every realistic thing they tried to implement was implemented bad felt rushed, gimmicky, and undone that's why people complained. NBA 2K and The Show are much more sim for their respective sport and those games are doing well.
If Madden can do sim right then people won't be complaining as much, Run Free, the new blocking, and IE seems to be well done sim elements in the game that they can build on. Now they need to focus on defense and build on what they have now maybe theirs hope for this franchise.

[KGkaos]

Quote: Originally Posted by ghettogeeksta

Nobody wants an exact replica of any sports game because they would be boring. But we do want a game way more realistic NFL game than Madden. The problem is, every realistic thing they tried to implement was implemented bad felt rushed, gimmicky, and undone that's why people complained. NBA 2K and The Show are much more sim for their respective sport and those games are doing well. If Madden can do sim right then people won't be complaining as much, Run Free, the new blocking, and IE seems to be well done sim elements in the game that they can build on. Now they need to focus on defense and build on what they have now maybe theirs hope for this franchise.

While I generally agree with the things you've said on the boards, I have to disagree here. I think more sim would not be boring. The fact is, a lot of people watch football and don't call it boring. If we can watch a game, playing the game should be less boring. They should stick with sim.

The big thing here is obvious. These guys are making a video game, not a football simulation. Whether its the big wigs, lack of talent to develop a good game, or whatever reason, it needs to go. Madden us trash and likely beyond repair. This is why we need EA to fail.

Yes, if EA goes away, we may not get a football game in the next 3 years that's awesome, however, over the long run, it would be beneficial than to just keep hoping Madden will get its act together.

So yeah, this game needs to have horrible sales, and we can only hope they lose exclusivity, or they realize the direction they are going in is off....

Nonetheless, something is said about a company that IGNORES ANYONE who says there are problems. I haven't seen EA acknowledge anything others than online freezing. Terrible company, I hope they go bankrupt, we need justice in this world more than we need another sub-par madden to please the "casual gamers" that only care about video games and not FOOTBALL.


P.S. I believe we could achieve both casual and sim satisfaction with proper gameplay and sliders. I'm not saying only sim should be happy, I'm saying we can all be happy if they cared.

[billsmetalbooze]

excellent news!

i have bought every Madden from 2005 onwards.

till now.

frustrated by legacy problems and reviews that basically said changes were mere tinkering, i held out.

i'm glad many other one-time Madden fans are doing the same: vote with your dollar. until EA suffers financially, they have no reason to change it up.

if you do feel the need to get the new game, buy it used. don't support an organization that refuses to make major changes to a significantly flawed product.

[Iceman87GT]

Quote: Originally Posted by jdizzle45

Im waiting to see what next gen madden actually plays like. Because there's no way I'm gonna use their trade in deal. Cause if I understand it right, you get to trade in this gen madden for next gen madden and ony pay $10. So you basically your paying $70 for a $60 game

You are paying $10 to rent the game for more than 2 months, you can't beat that kind of deal.

It's not for those who can wait it out until November 15/22, its for those who want to play the game now. How people don't understand this concept is beyond me.

[24]

Can't say I'm surprised. Madden used to be one of the most well produced games out there and now it's less then stellar. We all remember the Golden age of Madden during the 2004-2008 Period. The games back then were seriously great. Then Madden just started to slowly regress and now it has come down to this.

[SECElit3]

I hate this company with a passion. I hate everything about them. The simple fact they locked up an exclusive license on football games, and then produced such buggy products, just has me steamed. The game play of their football product, while fun at times, simply has not come far enough in my opinion. I have a hard time believing that in this same 10 years, another company wouldn't have made a much more superior product. What scares me is that Tiburon, the same development company, is taking this game into the new generation.

How many more years of this piss-poor development cycle do we have to go through?