Madden 12 should include rookie salary cap

[carolinacrazy]

I was very excited about Madden, but the fact that they aren't including any of the CBA changes seems just lazy to me.

Most of the changes are understandably going to be omitted, but a rookie salary cap should be relatively easy to implement. It was a foregone conclusion that this would be included in the CBA so the fact that the crew at Madden isn't prepared to include it (with almost a month left in production at the time of the CBA agreement) is lazy.

There are a lot of possible solutions to include this and I'm really disappointed that these franchise-changing features likely won't make it in (through patch or otherwise).

[nonnel]

You a video game programmer in your spare time?

No... implementing something like that is not "easy".

[carolinacrazy]

Quote: Originally Posted by nonnel

You a video game programmer in your spare time? No... implementing something like that is not "easy".

Nothing is "easy" in programming or coding for sports games, but what I'm saying is that if there was another NFL game, they would both be working their butts off to get these rules in.

If they aren't including them, we should at least receive a good explanation ratherthan the BS "its too late". They aren't rookies at this. If they thought it would hurt their sales, then they would get it in the game.

What was the point of extending the release date if they weren't going to work hard in that extra time?

[Perfect Zero]

Quote: Originally Posted by carolinacrazy

Nothing is "easy" in programming or coding for sports games, but what I'm saying is that if there was another NFL game, they would both be working their butts off to get these rules in. If they aren't including them, we should at least receive a good explanation ratherthan the BS "its too late". They aren't rookies at this. If they thought it would hurt their sales, then they would get it in the game. What was the point of extending the release date if they weren't going to work hard in that extra time?

Why don't you go get the new CBA, dissect it piece by piece, and implement all of that code in only a few weeks (really a week) time? The game is mostly done by now, and changing something so complex when they are already at the print shop is not going to happen. Furthermore, doing something so fast would include sloppy work, and there could be a major bug that results from the new line of text. It's not because of laziness on EA's part; it's because the NFL and NFLPA came to a conclusion too late for it to be put into the game. That goes for EA and any other competition.

[Simp]

It's WAY too late in the dev cycle to be adding new layers like this. This is the kind of thing that would need to be added in the first month of the cycle, not the last month. Look for it next year.

[iamgramps]

Quote: Originally Posted by carolinacrazy

I was very excited about Madden, but the fact that they aren't including any of the CBA changes seems just lazy to me. Most of the changes are understandably going to be omitted, but a rookie salary cap should be relatively easy to implement. It was a foregone conclusion that this would be included in the CBA so the fact that the crew at Madden isn't prepared to include it (with almost a month left in production at the time of the CBA agreement) is lazy. There are a lot of possible solutions to include this and I'm really disappointed that these franchise-changing features likely won't make it in (through patch or otherwise).

The Madden Dev team is pretty good, IMO, but not that good where they could have predicted the new CBA agreement. I'm sure if an agreement would have been met during the cycle the rules would have been implemented. Give them a break, there is only so much time within a cycle.

[kingcrf]

hes a surprise for you the game is basically already finished they would have to push it back again

[Wildcats302]

I'm not sure if the OP is being serious or not, but if so...he knows little to nothing about making a video game. The game was around a month from release when this news came out about the new cap...no time to work on it, much less implement it for this year's game.