VSN Discusses Madden 25 Connected Franchise with EA’s Josh Looman

[Aso]

Well I was talking about things actually in the game not what we won't be able to do.

[CCBrink]

These stood out to me.

The system is pretty simple…if you don’t meet any goals for the week you remain on the cold streak. If you make 2 of 3 the following week, you are on a hot streak and if you just make 1 you stay neutral.

Don't think we got this kind of insight on the logic behind the Hot/Cold Streaks. Seems a little simplistic IMO, but explains some things we have seen in the leagues here.

If you pay Tom Brady or Peyton Manning a $40M signing bonus, it is due that day. You have to think about every decision that you are making.

Very nice. **Looks at the TGT $eattle 7eahawks**

[j.hen]

Probably because your coach is your defacto play caller on both sides of the ball? The trainer angle works for injuries and the scout for the draft and free agency.

Trainer and scout makes sense, sure. But it's just silly not to have offensive/defensive/special teams coaches in the game at all by now. That means there are only 31 REAL coaches in the game meaning there are close to 100 real life coaches who are excluded entirely from the game again... If that's how it pans out then that's a bit of a downer.

As an owner it would be nice to try and pry other team's coordinators away from them to come be your head coach or even promote one of my coordinators to the head coaching gig. It gets old seeing Mike Tomlin coach 3 different teams in a span of 4 years.

[Argath]

So he wants to kill draft guides, but refuses to make draft classes random. It can't be that hard to have a pool of random names with set players and you randomly select 10-15 at every position every year or whatever. 2K has been doing this for NBA since PS2.

Sounds like a bunch of hype surrounding "owner mode" and relocation and pretty much just very minor changes everywhere else. Can't wait to see threads about how broken this mode is on release especially from you guys who are jizzing your pants over all the "new" features.

And someone please explain the big deal about editing ratings. It causes a bunch of bugs.. ok well fix the fucking bugs. Isn't that your job? Don't you get paid to do that? Are you saying that you are incompetent and can't complete your job? EA has plenty of money and is still making profit. They have over a billion dollars on hand not including they're monthly profit. Are you telling me you couldn't hire an extra coder or two to fix these "bugs?" I guarantee you that you could hire some coders right out of college for under $100,000 a year each and have this shit actually completed. Shit is ridiculous. What a fucking joke of a company and they wonder why everyone rates them as worst company of the year 2 years running.

[Glenbino]

So he wants to kill draft guides, but refuses to make draft classes random. It can't be that hard to have a pool of random names with set players and you randomly select 10-15 at every position every year or whatever. 2K has been doing this for NBA since PS2.

Sounds like a bunch of hype surrounding "owner mode" and relocation and pretty much just very minor changes everywhere else. Can't wait to see threads about how broken this mode is on release especially from you guys who are jizzing your pants over all the "new" features.

And someone please explain the big deal about editing ratings. It causes a bunch of bugs.. ok well fix the fucking bugs. Isn't that your job? Don't you get paid to do that? Are you saying that you are incompetent and can't complete your job? EA has plenty of money and is still making profit. They have over a billion dollars on hand not including they're monthly profit. Are you telling me you couldn't hire an extra coder or two to fix these "bugs?" I guarantee you that you could hire some coders right out of college for under $100,000 a year each and have this shit actually completed. Shit is ridiculous. What a fucking joke of a company and they wonder why everyone rates them as worst company of the year 2 years running.

Trainer and scout makes sense, sure. But it's just silly not to have offensive/defensive/special teams coaches in the game at all by now. That means there are only 31 REAL coaches in the game meaning there are close to 100 real life coaches who are excluded entirely from the game again... If that's how it pans out then that's a bit of a downer.

As an owner it would be nice to try and pry other team's coordinators away from them to come be your head coach or even promote one of my coordinators to the head coaching gig. It gets old seeing Mike Tomlin coach 3 different teams in a span of 4 years.

This basically sums it up. Owner mode and relocation are not "new features". I remember being able to do both on my PS2 ten years ago.

Those games also had randomized draft classes every year and REAL coordinators (even John Harbaugh when he was a ST coach was in the game).

Now we're being sold these same features as "new" ten years after the fact and also being told that they don't have the capabilities to accomplish features they did a decade before with inferior hardware.

It's a joke and this company deserves every bit of shit it gets from the gaming community. They purposely retard innovation and even outright cut features only to re-release them down the road in order to have "new" features to accompany their yearly roster update to justify the yearly release cycle.

How come FIFA can make a new game every year and build on the stuff from the year before but the Madden team can't even get back to where they were in 2003?

[Glenbino]

Trainer and scout makes sense, sure. But it's just silly not to have offensive/defensive/special teams coaches in the game at all by now. That means there are only 31 REAL coaches in the game meaning there are close to 100 real life coaches who are excluded entirely from the game again... If that's how it pans out then that's a bit of a downer.

As an owner it would be nice to try and pry other team's coordinators away from them to come be your head coach or even promote one of my coordinators to the head coaching gig. It gets old seeing Mike Tomlin coach 3 different teams in a span of 4 years.

My favorite is when the retired players would show up in the coaching pool.

I guess asking EA to hire an intern from DeVry to write that one line of code is asking too much.

[j.hen]

This basically sums it up. Owner mode and relocation are not "new features". I remember being able to do both on my PS2 ten years ago.

Those games also had randomized draft classes every year and REAL coordinators (even John Harbaugh when he was a ST coach was in the game).

Now we're being sold these same features as "new" ten years after the fact and also being told that they don't have the capabilities to accomplish features they did a decade before with inferior hardware.

It's a joke and this company deserves every bit of shit it gets from the gaming community. They purposely retard innovation and even outright cut features only to re-release them down the road in order to have "new" features to accompany their yearly roster update to justify the yearly release cycle.

How come FIFA can make a new game every year and build on the stuff from the year before but the Madden team can't even get back to where they were in 2003?

Exactly, don't hype up Owner Mode as being able to form a "regime" for the team you own when you aren't even allowed to assemble a coaching staff.

But I'm sure that would create many more bugs and glitches in the game.

[x0xHumblex0x]

oh well....
cant everything all at once. some nice things tho.

the Custom playbooks for online mode........
i wonder if plays can be changed throughout or it will be a one shot deal......similar to now.

[krulmichael]

Yea like being required to have more than man defense in your custom defensive playbook

I was talking more along the lines of offensively. Maybe if zone worked more than 10% of the time I would use it more often. I still play it quite a bit throughout the game though.

[Playmakers]

you should have asked him why are certain sliders always broken in the game like penalty sliders for example....

[MrBill]

you should have asked him why are certain sliders always broken in the game like penalty sliders for example....

That's going to be one for the gameplay interview that we are working on.

[Playmakers]

That's going to be one for the gameplay interview that we are working on.

ok cool....

it's good to see guys like yourself have access to speak to EA about some of these gameplay issues that we would like to see improved/fixed.

besides that i still enjoyed madden 13 and will play it right up til release date for madden 25.

good job on the interview you posted...i enjoyed reading it.

[Jclentzthadon]

Well done Mr Bill. Thank you!

[killgod]

Alot of "They brought back the modes I used to love and improved them! FUCK YOU EA" ...going on in here.

[Glenbino]

Alot of "They brought back the modes I used to love and improved them! FUCK YOU EA" ...going on in here.

More like it's been a decade and they still haven't fixed the ONE game mode I like that they broke once they made the jump to next gen.

Are your guys' memories that bad where you forgot about all these "new features" that were already on last gen Madden?

Not to mention the inherent flaws that come with every other "new" Madden feature.

Who cares if you can't swat down passes.. look at how cool MUT is!

But don't worry guys they're working hard to get all these "new features" rolled out for next year... maybe.