Peter Moore Confirms on YouTube Stream That EA Still Exclusive With NFL

[roadman]

Quote: Originally Posted by SolidSquid

Any chance he left bc he was being handcuffed from the guys upstairs?

Nah, he left and worked for another small mobile company that was being run by a former developer at Madden, I think it was called Robamshoo or something similar to that.

[Cusefan]

Quote: Originally Posted by SageInfinite

Hey if it wasn't for gameday we'd still be playing a 2d madden!

NFL Gameday 98 was the first game I got for my PS1, it was a awesome Christmas for a 13 year old. I eventually went back to Madden as these were the days when you actually rented a game before buying it.


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[SageInfinite]

Quote: Originally Posted by Cusefan

NFL Gameday 98 was the first game I got for my PS1, it was a awesome Christmas for a 13 year old. I eventually went back to Madden as these were the days when you actually rented a game before buying it. Sent from my Motorola DynaTAC using Tapatalk

Yeah gameday 98 was awesome. I jumped between the two back then. Both provided a different experience. Good times.......

[mastershake88]

Quote: Originally Posted by Steel4Reel

You SHOULD care. Not so much that a game has it....but because thats the only way another football game will ever have yearly releases and compete with Madden. Otherwise, all you'll see is the occasional APF2K8 or Backbreaker type game that does a one off and doesnt bother to keep going because they know that no matter what they do, they wont compete with Madden.

"You Should Care"- over what a video game? The powers that be made it possible to have one game that is issued with the NFL license and not multiple. Sorry, those are the facts. I was around on 2k forums at this exact time 8 years ago when 2k was making a big deal about APF 2k8. Then come to find out, they were scared of EA, Madden and the NFL for not allowing these three things that did the game in. 1. FULL CUSTOMIZATION 2. Franchise mode and 3. longevity. They had zero marketing. I remember when we went from January to June and there was zero, ZERO news. It's kinda like the exact thing this game is doing right about now. Not to include a spotty show in E3. 2k had their chance and they blew it. that is why things are the way they are.

[RyanLR101]

This is all OperationSports fault

[Sheba2011]

Quote: Originally Posted by cowboy_kmoney

The NFL or better yet Roger Fakedell needs to get off this Greed trip and run this League the way its needs to b ran. At this point The Makers of Madden is just putting out anything and getting away with it. John Maddens Name is on this thing and its being dragged through the mud. Wow this really has gone to far.

I despise Roger Goodell but he is still in power because he makes the league and more importantly the owners so much money. Roger Goodell cares very little about what EA does with its video games so long as they keep making the NFL millions of dollars, which they have.

[Sheba2011]

Quote: Originally Posted by Steel4Reel

You SHOULD care. Not so much that a game has it....but because thats the only way another football game will ever have yearly releases and compete with Madden. Otherwise, all you'll see is the occasional APF2K8 or Backbreaker type game that does a one off and doesnt bother to keep going because they know that no matter what they do, they wont compete with Madden.

I can honestly say this is very very low on my list of things to care about. I have much more important things in my life to worry about than a video game. Madden isn't perfect but it provides me an escape from reality for a few hours a day, obviously it could be better but it's all we have and no amount of me caring will change that.

The debate that competition would instantly make it better always makes me laugh because I look at games like MLB 2k, NBA Live and NHL 2k which all got gradually worse as time went on, despite all of those competing against the best game in the category. Shouldn't they have been constantly improving due to the competition factor?

[Junior Moe]

That's ultimately how I feel about everything, too. I remember a few years ago a Madden dev stated that only about 5% (or some crazy low single digit number) of users used the NCAA import feature in Madden according to their data. As a "sim" player stuck on realism I was floored! I would have betted anything that at least 70% of the people who purchased both games did that. I was wrong in my thinking. Cant fault the company for that. They're looking at the data and respond accordingly. I don't necessarily like it, but it is what it is. The only thing one can do is accept that reality and hope that our needs are meet; move on from Madden; or just take it for what it is, enjoy what you can before moving on to other games.