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Madden NFL 10 Blog: The Importance of an Early Community Day (New Screenshot Included

05:59 PM - April 13, 2009 by Ian_Cummings

Check out the new Madden NFL 10 blog. This one features the importance of an early community day.

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	"On April 10, we flew in 8 of the most hardcore Madden fans for a marathon testing day to get an extremely early look at our Alpha build and provide feedback based on where the game is thus far. You may ask, �What is new about this? Haven�t you had community events in the past?� Yes, we have done these before, but there are some key differences."

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# 641 TheWatcher @ 04/15/09 08:07 AM

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Originally Posted by adembroski


	You know, the more I think about it, the more I understand it. It's not hate, it's utter confusion. I think everyone expects Madden 10 to be several strides ahead of Madden 09, but I don't think anybody is expecting to see what we saw. Let me put it this way... we've spent 18 hours with the game. We watched a power point presentation in which damn near every jaw in the room hit the floor. We've seen it, it's a hell of a lot easier for us to believe it's actually come that far. We've all tempered our views, we've all pointed out the flaws, but we've always said "hey, this might get fixed, this is so close" etc.. And to have you, LBzrule, and BezO come back praising it like you have... I can imagine it smells fishy to some... how does Madden, who was hard pressed to figure out how to get defensive hot routes back into the game 3 frickin' years later, ever make this much progress in one year? Hell, I was asking them that when I was there.

Great post.

And you're right. But at least two guys are definitely hating, lol. The one guy who just won't give it a rest in this thread attacking our IQ's, and then the guy who made the dartboard thread naming us specifically because he was mad for not being chosen. That was hate personified. I love the hate though.

But for the rest of the guys, you're right about the disbelief. I'm not gonna lie, I'm still surprised by some of the things I saw, so I can understand why people would be skeptical of some of our praises.

But I don't think they realize how often we were critical while at the office, lol. A few times I thought one of us were going to piss them off, lol. But they stayed cool... although I'm surprised they didn't hit Kane once or twice

# 642 KANE699 @ 04/15/09 08:13 AM

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Originally Posted by TheWatcher


	Great post. And you're right. But at least two guys are definitely hating, lol. The one guy who just won't give it a rest in this thread attacking our IQ's, and then the guy who made the dartboard thread naming us specifically because he was mad for not being chosen. That was hate personified. I love the hate though. But for the rest of the guys, you're right about the disbelief. I'm not gonna lie, I'm still surprised by some of the things I saw, so I can understand why people would be skeptical of some of our praises. But I don't think they realize how often we were critical while at the office, lol. A few times I thought one of us were going to piss them off, lol. But they stayed cool... although I'm surprised they didn't hit Kane once or twice

I try to keep my critisizm fun and jokingly enough to avoid the hitting, its worked so far over the years.

# 643 TheWatcher @ 04/15/09 08:30 AM

About the animations... everything Ian has told us in the blogs is the truth and believe me I was REALLY checking for that.

# 644 Rocky @ 04/15/09 08:36 AM

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Originally Posted by dave374


	Like I wrote, I'm only seeing this for the first time today/tonight. My eyes hurt reading most of the posts. Answer to two points raised in this thread: 1. You guys are only being positive because you got an early look at the game. There isn't one guy who went to that event who didn't appreciate the opportunity. To say otherwise would be an outright lie. That said, if the game sucked or was Madden 09 service pack 2 ... you'd know it by now in this thread. And I am insulted that you think some of the guys at the event are such fanboys that they can't be objective. I have never kissed Ian's behind on these boards and don't intend to start now. If something about the game ticks me off, Ian will be the first guy to know (and did ... at this event).

I think the general gist of people just think it's hard to dictate the quality of the game after a community day.

I remember after the Madden '08 community day vividly. How this was a "whole new game". The responsiveness was unprecedented and how it would blow the doors off anything we've ever seen. We all know how that turned out. I do think by sending quality guys (The Watcher, BezO, LBz), this community day was less about hype and more about feedback. Nonetheless, you can't blame anybody for taking this blog with a grain of salt.

# 645 countryboy @ 04/15/09 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by dave374


	We are not "the Elite 8" Anyone who believes that is on crack. We were the 8 chosen. There's no doubt in my mind that many OS guys deserved the spot ahead of me.

I hung that on you guys. No hard feelings intended, just a name I hung on you guys.

# 646 green94 @ 04/15/09 08:49 AM

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Originally Posted by TheWatcher


	I'm not gonna lie, I'm still surprised by some of the things I saw

This, alone, is exciting. I can't believe how quickly Ian and his crew have turned this thing around.

# 647 TJdaSportsGuy @ 04/15/09 09:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Vikes1


	Great to hear that Rgiles. When the first video of M10 is released, as we all know, it will be analyzed frame by frame. And a 150 post thread will follow.

150? Hell, a thread about a BLOG POST has 700+ posts!

# 648 Bgamer90 @ 04/15/09 09:06 AM

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Originally Posted by TJdaSportsGuy


	150? Hell, a thread about a BLOG POST has 700+ posts!

Exactly lol. The thread is going to be crazy.

# 649 Golden28 @ 04/15/09 09:22 AM

Glad to see this thread has returned to normality.

And with it my anticipation has now almost peaked thanks to all the guys who attended the comm day having finally been able to start teasing, ahem, I mean talking.

Adembroski has got me especially pumped for Madden 10.

Some of the things he's been saying seem too good to be true but I know he's no bulls****er.

Really going to be an interesting few months ahead with all the videos, screens, blogs and feature sets yet to be shown.

Draft day should be the start of some really good times.

The most encouraging thing about Madden now is that we have hope. Before we had nothing, just the same, slightly tweaked game over and over with no idea what the team behind it thought of us or the direction of their game. It seemed like a rudderless ship.

Now, with Ian, Phil, Josh, Donny and Michael we know exactly what we have; A game that is moving forward (expotentially according to the 8) in a direction that we all wanted. A true NFL simulator.

Come August I hope that the optimistic posters on OS are proved right and we finally have a next gen football game we can be proud of.

I really don't want to see Coach_Ruckus on here in August saying "I told you so" (That's if he's still not banned

)

# 650 Exonerated @ 04/15/09 09:26 AM

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Originally Posted by TJdaSportsGuy


	150? Hell, a thread about a BLOG POST has 700+ posts!

I think he meant 150 pages!

# 651 Bgamer90 @ 04/15/09 09:28 AM

^Yeah this is going to be the most I've ever been excited for any Madden game. There has been so much interaction, and hearing the news from the testers makes me feel that a lot of people will be very very pleased with it especially if you enjoyed Madden 09 for the most part (like I did).

But yeah I just hope that with Madden 10, everything will take a 180 turn in terms of how Madden is viewed on many game forums.

It's time to get Madden back to the awe inspiring greatness that it had.

# 652 viewtifuljoe71 @ 04/15/09 09:32 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEueYzW1zcM
Check out the video at the :35 second mark. The LB or DB actually puts his hands on TO as he crosses his zone!!! That is just sick!!!!!

# 653 ScoobySnax @ 04/15/09 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Bgamer90


	^Yeah this is going to be the most I've ever been excited for any Madden game. There has been so much interaction, and hearing the news from the testers makes me feel that a lot of people will be very very pleased with it especially if you enjoyed Madden 09 for the most part (like I did). But yeah I just hope that with Madden 10, everything will take a 180 turn in terms of how Madden is viewed on many game forums. It's time to get Madden back to the awe inspiring greatness that it had.

Man, this is so true. Growing up, Madden WAS video games!! It's time to reign once again.

# 654 Bgamer90 @ 04/15/09 09:39 AM

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Originally Posted by xxplosive1984


	Man, this is so true. Growing up, Madden WAS video games!! It's time to reign once again.

Yeah man. Like no madden so far this gen has had the replayability that like Madden 2004/2005 had during their time. Like while Madden 09 is a fun game to play imo, the newness wore off after about a month. In Madden 2004/2005 the games still felt new months after they came out.

I truly feel that that will be the case with Madden 10.

# 655 coogrfan @ 04/15/09 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by dave374


	We are not "the Elite 8" Anyone who believes that is on crack. We were the 8 chosen. There's no doubt in my mind that many OS guys deserved the spot ahead of me.

How about this: "The Chosen Few"?

# 656 roadman @ 04/15/09 10:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Rocky


	I think the general gist of people just think it's hard to dictate the quality of the game after a community day. I remember after the Madden '08 community day vividly. How this was a "whole new game". The responsiveness was unprecedented and how it would blow the doors off anything we've ever seen. We all know how that turned out. I do think by sending quality guys (The Watcher, BezO, LBz), this community day was less about hype and more about feedback. Nonetheless, you can't blame anybody for taking this blog with a grain of salt.

I remember that as well.

However, what I did, was tell myself this is a new team in charge with new CD people going in. Nothing against the past CD people that went in, but sometimes a different fresh approach is needed.

That is how I separated this years CD vs the years past.

# 657 TheWatcher @ 04/15/09 10:13 AM

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Originally Posted by green94


	This, alone, is exciting. I can't believe how quickly Ian and his crew have turned this thing around.

Don't get me wrong though, I did catch and communicate some issues. But I can honestly say that I didn't get nearly as many as I do when I sit down and play 09.

# 658 Sav23 @ 04/15/09 11:07 AM

Very nice keep the good news coming

# 659 cedwebb @ 04/15/09 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by KyGamerLT


	I hope they get the cleats like the cloves that would be great.

In no way, shape, or form do I have any inside info or knowledge but here is my opinion. Honestly at this point with all the upgrades and work that is being put into Madden this year, do you think they would not add this? They thought enought to put in towels, handwarmers, and team colored gloves...I am betting we get the team colored shoes! Again just my opinion but if you take a step back and look at this little feature compared to everything else that has been done, I think we will see it.

Hope your right!

# 660 coach_ruckus @ 04/15/09 12:30 PM

are you guys kidding

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