Analyst: Madden 12 to drop 50% in sales if lockout stands

[Twigg4075]

If anything I think the sales will be better just because NFL fans will be so starved for any NFL experience they can get.

But what the fuck do I know?

 

[JayDizzle]

Wii sales up 2 Billion %.

Way to go, Twigg.

 

[Garrett67]

Adem is a pretty good guy. I don't like bashing him personally.
It is a dream job, so it's understandable why he wouldn't want to piss them off in a public forum.
Sadly, I'm too stupid or stubborn to follow the same philosophy.

As for your background in programming or designing ... it's really not that necessary.
The designers simply explain their ideas to computer nerds who play them out.

I agree, he is a good guy. We used to talk a bit. I'm obviously jealous


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[leaffan]

I've been to two EA Sports community events, not sure how many you've been to, it's not that difficult - game designer tells nerd what he expects to see in the game, nerd executes the 1s and 0s.
I don't want a nerd whose never touched a football trying to build a football game - he needs some help.

Congrats you've been to two events that have nothing to do with the communication between the designer and the programmer.

Its not as easy as saying, we want gang tackling this year so put that it in. They have to be pretty specific and almost explain things on a code level or even break out the dreaded flow chart.

This is why hiring from a forum could work as guys like adem who I assumed worked hard in custom rosters and did a lot of critiquing (not out right bitching like us) could be the right fit. Sadly though hiring based on them having a big interst in your product doesn't always work. (in my expierence anyways)

As for madden another year where I don't rush out and buy it new the first day its released. This is year 6 of me doing this now. Feels so long ago that I actually cared about the game.

 

[SuperKevin]

With no NFLPA can Madden 12 even have player names in it?

 

[killgod]

They are licensed for this year I believe. I think more needs to be arranged for Madden 13 and beyond when it comes to players.

 

[Survivor]

How great would it be if Madden acknowledged this possible dip in sales and pulled an NBA Elite. If they decided right now to either a) not release a game or b) release a shitty game as usual but one they themselves know is shit then they could scrap everything in favor of creating a better Madden 13. :2thumbs:

 

[leaffan]

How great would it be if Madden acknowledged this possible dip in sales and pulled an NBA Elite. If they decided right now to either a) not release a game or b) release a shitty game as usual but one they themselves know is shit then they could scrap everything in favor of creating a better Madden 13. :2thumbs:

The biggest troll of all would be to scrap Madden 12, say they are just focusing on Madden 13, then release the same shit next year and watch the dollars roll in while all the madden drones pay to get their fix in.

 

[Survivor]

The biggest troll of all would be to scrap Madden 12, say they are just focusing on Madden 13, then release the same shit next year and watch the dollars roll in while all the madden drones pay to get their fix in.

I'm afraid we are going to have to wait for next-gen to get a quality madden, and that is still wishful thinking.

 

[Handleit_44]

I'm afraid we are going to have to wait for next-gen to get a quality madden, and that is still wishful thinking.

Please.

So they can feed us this type of bullshit again?

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[bucky]

I'm afraid we are going to have to wait for next-gen to get a quality madden, and that is still wishful thinking.

Why, so they can start all over again with another excuse why the game isn't what it should be?

They have been doing this since, well, forever.
They've always taken features out, waited a half a decade, just to reintroduce it as a new feature.

F-EA
F-Exclusive License
F-EA and NFL for Exclusive License

F- All the above for killing competition and destroying Video Football gaming for will be getting closer to an entire decade.

Oh, Kilgod is right. People are shit.:smug:

 

[Pills]

I enjoyed '10 - I played about 10 seasons in franchise. '11 was the exact same damn game; I think I got to three seasons and figured out that the only reason I was playing was to develop my rookies.

I have only missed one Madden since '96, and that was '06. Probably going to skip this year's, too.

 

[Herm]

ive veiled empty promises for 2 years that i wont buy Madden, the golden turducken sucked me in. I fully plan on not buying it this year for the first time since about 2000. I dont have much time to play online games anymore anyway so they should just help me along to quit buying this damn game anually.

 

[killgod]

there won't be a TGT to suck you in.

 

[Survivor]

I remember the last Madden that I legitimately enjoyed was on my xbox and there were mini-games for "training camp" and I abso-freaking-lutely loved that. I loved playing the games too, but running 60 seconds of rushing attack with my rookie HB was golden... I got so good at throwing the ball in those rings that it was almost unfair, but I loved it nonetheless.

 

[Twigg4075]

I remember the last Madden that I legitimately enjoyed was on my xbox and there were mini-games for "training camp" and I abso-freaking-lutely loved that. I loved playing the games too, but running 60 seconds of rushing attack with my rookie HB was golden... I got so good at throwing the ball in those rings that it was almost unfair, but I loved it nonetheless.

Don't worry, they will bring that back a s a "new" feature in 2015.

 

[killgod]

Bullshit they will. They'll offer it as $15 dollar DLC. EA doesn't give you much for $60 anymore.

 

[Twigg4075]

Bullshit they will. They'll offer it as $15 dollar DLC. EA doesn't give you much for $60 anymore.

Good point. I forgot what gaming era I was in.

 

[Survivor]

I say lets start an organization of Madden Suckage Awareness. We could have bonfires of madden disks and create clever youtube clips so that the casual fan knows what these conartists are doing to us. If we got a big enough following it might at least save a few high school kids $60 bucks.

 

[Twigg4075]

I say lets start an organization of Madden Suckage Awareness. We could have bonfires of madden disks and create clever youtube clips so that the casual fan knows what these conartists are doing to us. If we got a big enough following it might at least save a few high school kids $60 bucks.

That's actually pretty funny although I know there are plenty of YouTube videos already. Probably not as organized though.