pk500 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 04, 2020 12:56 pm
Guess I'm just not much of a football gamer anymore. Madden feels stale. I don't know if that's a compliment to EA because it is simply honing a very good game of football with every new edition or a criticism because there really isn't much innovation.
It's a mind to wallet thingy which you can relate to, having to pay $60 each year for a slightly improved and in some cases a more broken game. So if you are a Sports nut and want your yearly Hockey, NFL, MLB, Futbol, Basketball fix that's $300 every year for HOPEFULLY slightly improved games with HOPEFULLY fewer bugs and newer rosters.
Ironically Kat Bailey just posted an article on this very same subject and she picked Madden as an example. Her line of reasoning is that Madden should adopt a Fortnite model and release a newer and fleshed out product every few years because they make a ton of money on MUT and FUT. NBA2K is even worse as that game is essentially a "Freemium" game hiding in a $60 and $99 yearly release.
Here's her take whether one agrees with her or not. I personally think she makes a good argument for things to change. Let's see how it works for Konami's eFootball PES 2021 Season update.
https://www.usgamer.net/articles/madden ... g-time-ago
Here's how she starts off: "Madden NFL 21, one of EA Sports' tentpole franchises, is off to its worst start in more than a decade, scoring an abysmal 63 on Metacritic and drawing fan ire on Twitter. The complaints are familiar: It's too buggy, it's too similar to last year's installment, not enough has been done to fix the franchise mode.
There's been much speculation on what exactly ails Madden, most of it centering on the franchise's lack of competition and the ongoing money spigot that is Madden Ultimate Team. Whatever it is, it's clear that something is amiss at EA. No matter what the dev team does to shake up the experience, the fans remain frustrated."