01:18 PM - July 8, 2011 by CRMosier_LM
Justin Dewiel, Community Manager of Madden NFL, has made a post on the EA Forums detailing the current status and future of Online Franchise in Madden NFL 12.
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Madden 12 News Post
01:18 PM - July 8, 2011 by CRMosier_LMJustin Dewiel, Community Manager of Madden NFL, has made a post on the EA Forums detailing the current status and future of Online Franchise in Madden NFL 12.
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I ran a OF for 5 seasons and it folded because people hated playing the cpu. Scores came in at 90-7 and the integrity of the league stats were ruined. As others have pointed out to not at least get sliders settings for another year is just inexcusable in my opinion.
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While Im glad that EA recognizes the work done by myleaguemanager -- I think they should be ashamed that their hardcore users have to go to a site run by 1 dude/fan instead of using the site of a gigantic corporation. The fact that one dude gets it and an entire team of developers doesnt is silly.
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TimsGiants @ 07/08/11 03:26 PM
Even though I didnt have my hopes up It still a sick feeling that they did nothing
Leaguemanager is awesome and definitely a league saver but one thing that concerns me is reading "LM exclusive rights to EA content"
My league last year used both LM content and XFN content. So does that mean XFN is useless for madden 12?
XFN had some features like being able to pull info onto our own website, build our look ect that LM didnt.
LM had features like GM managent, cap structures ect that XFN didnt.
Using both worked good Im just worried were losing options making online franchise even worse this year.
Will LM charge? Its gonna get alot more users if its exclusive.
I hope not, you would think EA could at least cover server costs considering all the work LM doing for their game.
Leaguemanager is awesome and definitely a league saver but one thing that concerns me is reading "LM exclusive rights to EA content"
My league last year used both LM content and XFN content. So does that mean XFN is useless for madden 12?
XFN had some features like being able to pull info onto our own website, build our look ect that LM didnt.
LM had features like GM managent, cap structures ect that XFN didnt.
Using both worked good Im just worried were losing options making online franchise even worse this year.
Will LM charge? Its gonna get alot more users if its exclusive.
I hope not, you would think EA could at least cover server costs considering all the work LM doing for their game.
That has to be a disappointment for online franchise guys. But take this for what it's worth:
Online franchise came around, and at the same time we offline franchise guys were told "hey, no new offline franchise stuff right now, but next year it'll rock." Here we are with Madden 12, and it's looking pretty darn good for offline franchise.
Many people here have complained that the developers should use multi-year development cycles. Looks like online franchise is going to get this treatment. I know this sucks, but give it some time. We had to wait for a good offline franchise, and we're finally getting it as promised. I think they'll deliver the same for online franchise.
Online franchise came around, and at the same time we offline franchise guys were told "hey, no new offline franchise stuff right now, but next year it'll rock." Here we are with Madden 12, and it's looking pretty darn good for offline franchise.
Many people here have complained that the developers should use multi-year development cycles. Looks like online franchise is going to get this treatment. I know this sucks, but give it some time. We had to wait for a good offline franchise, and we're finally getting it as promised. I think they'll deliver the same for online franchise.
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kjcheezhead @ 07/08/11 03:28 PM
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That said, I didn't expect EA to touch it. When EA stated how online franchise was the least played mode in the game, I knew then it wasn't getting any attention this year.
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The silver lining is LM, them getting exclusive access etc, and the features LM will be adding to make it all 'pop' even more. And I duly applauded/acknowledged that.
But getting back to discontent with EA from a lot of people. I think it's rooted in more than just the actual announcement that online franchise wasn't touched. But joins a laundry list of letdowns, and the devil they know now after 5+ years of NFL exclusive license.
Notice what the EA guy said in defense initially, talking up all the cosmetic stuff, the million cameras for cut-scenes that people will just skip thru anyway, 3D grass etc etc. If there's one thing I personally criticize EA the most for is their utter focus on cosmetics/graphics over game-play/features/engine. Game-play > graphics, always. I still can look at the graphics of Madden 04 on, or 2k5, or APF, or NFL Gameday, etc, and it's still "good enough". It would still be good enough if the actual Madden 12 game had a ton more features, innovations, a new engine, more dynamic unscripted-like, new pre-snap adjustment and passing mechanisms, create a play, revolutionizing/streamlining packages etc etc....all the great suggestions people on OS have been posting for months and years.
EA company policy re: Madden should be: "What do the people want, what are all their suggestions, let's rebuild from the ground up, tailoring the next madden with all the best suggestions that can work together".
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WDOgF0reL1fe @ 07/08/11 03:33 PM
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This is 2011.
People play games online now and a CPU will NEVER be able to replicate a human.
Oh well. Can't have everything.
Not enough to change my mind. Still waiting for Aug. 30th
Not enough to change my mind. Still waiting for Aug. 30th
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at23steelers @ 07/08/11 03:38 PM
Can we get an answer on why EA said it's easy to add things to OF server, yet now are saying it's so difficult??
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The Madden team saying "We didnt have time to build a site like LeagueManager" is complete BS as far as Im concerned. No way a company that large could not get a website updated and equal to the value of LeagueManager fairly quickly.
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TimsGiants @ 07/08/11 03:52 PM
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My suggestion to EA would be this...
With new consoles to release in late 2012 to early 2013. Don't make a Madden 13, especially not the typical annual development/release cycle, where they maintain and slap on more bandaids on a tired old engine, update rosters, take some features out, put some ones in, slap it with a new coat of paint.
Instead, come August 2012, just release a patch for M12, with updated rosters, tweak a few things, and let M12 continue to sale. Do this so as to spend the next two years devoted to developing a new Madden for August 2013 for the new consoles. Totally rebuild. Use a new next-gen engine, dynamic/unscripted, real-time physics, and glean every single good suggestion from these OS boards. Just totally re-invent Madden, re-invigorate/innovate. Take that two years time to devote for finally that truly "next-gen" standard game, that's jam-packed with features and game-play focused. Once you have foundation in place with the release of M14 for PS4/720/WiiU, then for M15 focus can be turned towards the leap in graphics/ram/direct-x.
Then EA will get that breakthru, selling 15 million to 20 million games in a year globally. Instead of the 5-6 million.
With new consoles to release in late 2012 to early 2013. Don't make a Madden 13, especially not the typical annual development/release cycle, where they maintain and slap on more bandaids on a tired old engine, update rosters, take some features out, put some ones in, slap it with a new coat of paint.
Instead, come August 2012, just release a patch for M12, with updated rosters, tweak a few things, and let M12 continue to sale. Do this so as to spend the next two years devoted to developing a new Madden for August 2013 for the new consoles. Totally rebuild. Use a new next-gen engine, dynamic/unscripted, real-time physics, and glean every single good suggestion from these OS boards. Just totally re-invent Madden, re-invigorate/innovate. Take that two years time to devote for finally that truly "next-gen" standard game, that's jam-packed with features and game-play focused. Once you have foundation in place with the release of M14 for PS4/720/WiiU, then for M15 focus can be turned towards the leap in graphics/ram/direct-x.
Then EA will get that breakthru, selling 15 million to 20 million games in a year globally. Instead of the 5-6 million.
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