boxcar31

Not true....that deal was signed in May of 2020. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29236554/nfl-ea-agree-extend-madden-video-game-2026 The 3 Twitter hash tags were within the past 2 months. Trust me that the NFL has outs in any business relationship that if the business engages in any practices that may tarnish the shield they will have escape clauses. Now do I believe we are even remotely near that? No not even close. But any threat towards that direction and a potential threat of Billions of dollars in income will get their attention. And certainly if continued bad publicity over how EA manages the game will get the NFL's attention and EA's attention. That's when some changes may occur.

No I think I'm going to do what I want here. If I choose to still call them out when they screw us over, that's what I'm going to do. I'm not going to throw my hands up, accept it and shill for them when they don't deserve it. You fail to mention the national trends on Twitter this year. 3 of them so far that ended up trending nationally on Twitter. That got their attention. You know what they do fear? When there is any threat to their relationship with the NFL. You think the NFL wants the negative publicity with a video game bearing their seal? No. Because in the end if their relationship with the NFL was ever in question, that affects their bottom line. You can sit there and accept it and think there is nothing that can be done and just spend your money ripping packs.....but I'm going to continue to voice my displeasure (when they rightfully deserve it) and if the discontent continues to grow, we'll see where that gets them.

I gave up on this year and didn't get the game...I just had enough of how they run this game.....obviously lingering around monitoring how things are going and hoping they get their act together. I think a lot of people got hooked on the game and loved it at some point. Or at least loved something about it. I loved the team building aspect. I think what gets me, and I think we all know this, is that the game could be run so much better. If it wasn't for their goddamn greed, lack of communication, taking you for granted and overall incompetence this could be a great game....doesn't have to be perfect, I'd put up with a lot, but it is within their power to make this game fun. They don't...because they know they have an addicted customer base that will keep lining up to buy packs. So long as they break profit records they skate on being greedy, crappy communicators who take you for granted because they know enough of you will be back to buy packs. I'd come back in an instant if they got their act together......so I guess I'm not that much different.

I'd be for them. Two great talents cut down due to injuries. You should be able have them play out as they would have projected. I think it would be a shame to be deprived of any good player cards in any year due to injuries.

I think back to M19 and M20 and I remember the comments being positive when the game initially launched.....they got progressively worse once the patches were installed to the point where they respectively got termed the worst versions of Madden. I personally think they are putting a band aide on a year by year tweaking of their copy and paste game. Once they get in season they try to make adjustments and it keeps getting worse. They need to hire a separate team or developer and give them 3 years to develop a new engine/new game and transition in 3 years to the new version. Make sure it's done right.

At this rate they should be paying me to play this game......

They really seem to be in a spiral pattern with the game launching and everyone seems to be okay with it, and then it goes downhill with the patches. My son tells me that COD uses 3 different studios that take turns launching a COD game every 3 years. It sounds like they have 3 years to work on building a game as opposed to patching what may be a broken game year to year. I'm wondering if they should just look at 3 years out and either create a new team or subcontract another studio to build another engine to break out of this pattern. It's not like they don't have the financial resources to do this.

Hold on! I might have to go back and forth between Twitter and here...this site is now on fire....way to go EA!!!! You really know how to ignite passion in your customer base.

Well there was no training camp...factoring in rust?

As bad as the fall forward glitch a couple of years ago? They literally had linemen sacking a QB and throwing them back towards the line of scrimmage.......