Madden and the NFL Exclusive Deal Until 2025

[fitty76]

https://www.gameinformer.com/2020/05/28/report-the-nfl-and-electronic-arts-renew-exclusive-madden-deal

Get ready to pay $60 for roster updates and no innovation for the next 5 years.  

[CPF4LIFE]

Cot dammit

[USDepartmentOfSavagery]

Won’t buy another madden. Until 2K gets or shares the license I’m all the way out. 

[PantherPhann89]

Madden is the only game I play...

[onmyown]

Madden is the perfect example of a completely shitty product you get in a market with zero competition resulting in zero innovation and zero motivation to improve anything.

[Basbear]

[RumHam]

2k is doing nfl arcade games

[Carl Spackler]

6 hours ago, fitty76 said:

https://www.gameinformer.com/2020/05/28/report-the-nfl-and-electronic-arts-renew-exclusive-madden-deal

Get ready to pay $60 for roster updates and no innovation for the next 5 years.  

So you’re saying nothing has changed 

[Cam's New Arm]

With 2k having no current NFL backbone,  this allows 2k to take their time and come out of the gates running down the road

[Snake]

We have been doing the same most of my adult life. No new innovation just new rosters with shitty game play. 

[theinstrumental]

Phew. I thought I might have to start buying the new one every year. Now I can save my money knowing that there are only noticeable changes every two or three cycles.

[run-run-pass-punt]

It's hilarious when you think about it, but playing Tecmo Super Bowl (with updated rosters) is far more fun than Madden. And that came out 30 years ago.

I love causing havoc with Luuuuke! 

[KillerKat]

1 hour ago, run-run-pass-punt said:

It's hilarious when you think about it, but playing Tecmo Super Bowl (with updated rosters) is far more fun than Madden. And that came out 30 years ago.

I love causing havoc with Luuuuke! 

Madden is all about sliders. You are a slave to them. I hate it. It makes individual ratings almost useless. If you also happen to find a right set of sliders, they come up with an update then you have to go through weeks or months again trying to fix them. They need to go back to the basics and only have basic ratings for each players so that you're not relying on sliders to fix their shitty game.

[run-run-pass-punt]

1 hour ago, KillerKat said:

Madden is all about sliders. You are a slave to them. I hate it. It makes individual ratings almost useless. If you also happen to find a right set of sliders, they come up with an update then you have to go through weeks or months again trying to fix them. They need to go back to the basics and only have basic ratings for each players so that you're not relying on sliders to fix their shitty game.

Yeah, it's just a bloated mess of code that is beyond fixing imho. I think they'd have to start from scratch to make anything worth playing at this point.