My list of issues.

Hey all!

Pretty sure this is my first time posting anything since usually I can just put my head down and play and not worry. I never played enough Madden/Football games in the past to experience true custom teams so CFB 25 and Madden 25 are my first experiences with anything like Team Builder. For a customization/amateur graphics guy like myself, it's a fantastic thought - after so many frustrations over the years with Relocation teams sometimes changing their looks between games, color issues here and there, etc - and one I was supremely excited by.

CFB rolls along and I put out what I think is a pretty decent team that is fairly representative - whilst adding some extra looks for options/creativity - of a local community college team. It looks pretty darn good, it works well. It took a little bit to find the ins and outs of CFB Team Builder but I'm pretty pleased with it overall. I can work with it. I can be happy with the results because of the options available to me.

Madden 25 Team Builder? I fired it up the other day and was rather surprised to see it so... lackluster. Which makes no sense to me. It's the *SAME* system as CFB but almost like it's an unfinished build. So here's some of my frustrations and that's with barely scratching the surface.

Helmets. Why do they look so ugly and lower quality, and why do the helmets only offer Matte and Glossy, where CFB had Satin and Chrome as well?

There are far less options for everything. I understand if the NFL has certain agreements with certain brands versus CFB, but for the love of Manning can we get some more options within the brand we have access for? What if you just went and looked at all the relocation teams from yesteryear and added some of those design choices as options? Like fully colored shoulders, or all the different shoulder designs? I'll include some pictures of what I mean. Things that already existed in Madden games. Different shoulders, different collars, etc.

But you know what, that isn't what truly, truly bothers me. It does sour the higher expectations I had for the Madden Team Builder over CFB. I thought "Hey you've got a little more time, can see what people like or don't like about the system in CFB and improve it for Madden! Right? Right??"

It isn't the fact that - like it was early on in CFB - accessory colors are woefully mismatched with the chosen colors. When my dark forest green is fine on pants but on shoes and gloves and sleeves it becomes lime sherbet. No, that I imagine will be fixed in time. Frustrating that it shipped that way, but whatever.

My main qualm. Besides some things with the gameplay (the sound of tackles and impacts sounds like they are hitting eachother with empty plastic bins, but I digress).

What bothers me more than anything so far...

Why. Why... WHY!?

Why only **5** slots for uploaded graphics, instead of CFB's *10*? That one feels intentional, and utterly asinine. We're already behind CFB in options in jersey styles and such, so now you hamstring our overall ability to make the teams we want to make? 🤒

Please, please, PLEASE. Give us that. At least. Please.

Please.