It's actually been butt cheeks since MUT released in what...2010? I blame MUT for ruining the integrity of the whole product in general, and '05-'09 I still believe produced the best Madden games. Not going to say I haven't found a way to have some fun with each game I've purchased, but yeah. They need to get on a different release cycle, or completely restructure the game at this point by making it a single release titled live service or something where we just pay for expansions and whatnot and stop with these yearly releases where they apparently have no time to do anything.