Feature Requests for Madden 26

Hey EA,

love your game and I play it every year. 

That being said I think there is a lot that can be done to improve the game. Specifically with gameplay presentation and immersion. 

I think focusing on immersion that does not take time away from gameplay is what should be focused on. Some people love the pregame presentation for offline games, some hate it. Vice versa. But everybody would love what I write below…

For example, adding QB cadences that are specific to players like Dak Prescott was a great idea. It does not take time away from the game at all, but you really feel like you are playing with Dak. 

After you play 10 games in a row the game feels very stale in a way, not that the gameplay is not fun, but I do not feel like the environments aren’t any different, and the game is not alive. 

Ideas that would fix this, that would not take away from gameplay, and I assume would not be too hard to add:

- Reporters, security, and cameramen moving along the sidelines and in the endzone. It just feels like they are just there to be there, and adding movement in the background would add a lot to the game. Also have them move out of the way when players come near them. Similar to how defensive pre-snap movement this year was so noticeable. Small change, but a great add

-Adding more security, reporters, cameramen for bigger games

- Revamp the weather, there is only one type of snow for example. In old madden games, there used to be light, medium, and heavy snow. Made the game feel much more dynamic. also have the grass change with the weather in cold stadiums. If you take a look at Arrowhead on a 60 degree day vs  a 10 degree day the grass looks more dead. Details like this would be great.

- Make the scoreboards more dynamic. For example, you have bear down Chicago bears in the game when the bears score. But it’s not too noticeable. However, if you made it a little louder, and had the lyrics on the scoreboard while the song was going on it would be tough to miss. Just like a real bears game. Also de-fence chants and such less by the scoreboard would be great.

- Fans more dynamic. This has been improved, but they often react too late. Are not too noticeable and never move from their seats. They do sound a little better, but I would love to hear them react in negative ways too. If I take a sack at home or over throw an open reciever there is always an “ooo” sound that is taken the air out of the stadium almost. Also I know you guys put waving towels in the game, and you need to make those pop more. Take some credit.

These are just a few ideas for immersion that doesn’t take away anything from the game. I think those are easy ways to make all fans happy, and don’t focus on adding any new huge features or changes to the game. I would love to hear your feedback!

Custom scheduling.

But if we can’t get that, building in mandatory divisional opponent as last game of season is needed.

Just make it so we can modify the body types....chicken legs on lineman and fat calves on skinny skill position guys and defensive backs is irritating 

Add in league expansion to 40

Can you make it so the freaking depth charts don’t rest during preseason games? Game 1 - 1st quarter reset. 2nd game - 2nd quarter reset. 3rd game - shockingly 3rd quarter reset. Can we just decide who we want playing in the preseason? This is franchise mode, BTW

Revamp the Franchise be a coach to mirror CFB25.  Allow players to start as a coordinator on a subpar team, prove themselves, and then get offers in a coaching carousel.  Along those lines, eliminate automatic extensions.  You can incentivize coaches to stay (to make it true to the NFL, your new team would lose a certain round draft pick depending on how successful you were with the current team) but allow them to leave for better opportunities 

Also add 90 man offseason rosters in franchise mode.

Honestly. Instead of replace a team to add team builder. We need to feature back where we can just add a 33rd - 64th team. This will make the player feel like his/her team or teams is competing against the 32 teams. 

Like college football let us realign divisions and conferences.

new relocation teams and cities

some examples: Teams: A train theme team, Archers, Pirates, Sharks, Orcas, Cryptos, Stallions, Angels, Guardians, Vipers or Rattlers, Tornadoes, a UFO theme team

cities: Birmingham, Al, Salt Lake City, Edmington in Canada, more cities in Mexico, Oakland CA, a city in New Mexico, Oklahoma City, Louisville Kentucky 

It would be terrific if EA could make a game that wasn’t unplayable. I like to play an offline franchise. I haven’t bought Madden in several years because of this. The file corrupts after four and a half seasons. The game runs out of coaches. I hear this past year the players looked off, and the game would bench the starters. It’s too bad. If EA cared just a little, the game could be decent. I was looking forward to NCAA football returning, but I didn’t buy it because I knew it would mirror Madden in the glitch department. I’ll give you a nice request. EA should update the list of colleges to choose from when creating players. Several schools on the list no longer have football. Some schools are not on the list. And some schools have changed names.