Re: Madden 26 Superstar mode Broken

Agreed. Although, counterpoint- **bleep** getting another Madden game. Free or not. EA isn't worth their salt anymore. They promise to fix **bleep** and over half a year later, nothing is solved. They only care about making money from MUF

It amazes me that a company like EA Sports could act in the way they have.  I'm 62 years old.  So, I have seen how EA operates over many decades.  My first purchase of Madden NFL Football dated from 1984 with the Sega Genesis console.  The noteworthy point being that the games worked as advertised.  They were straightforward offline games and they did exactly what they promised.

Today, EA Sports has grown from the era where Trip Hawkins founded it, but along with the growth came a serious change.  This is why I avoided purchasing their games for many years.  The games became unreliable.  I decided to go with Madden NFL 26 because being retired I had the free time and the financial resources to purchase a video game on a lark.  Truth is, it started with the NCAA College  Football 26 game and ironically I have found that this game seems rock solid.

I purchased Madden NFL 26 because it said you could export your avatar player and continue the role playing game.  Seemed like fun, so I made the purchase.  Well, this is now my second negative experience where the game suddenly goes from  quite advanced in graphics and function to totally unplayable due to a mind-numbing server issue that apparently corrupts the core data for start up to the point where Superstar won't load.

So yes, given this, getting a free future title seems a bit pointless.  When a company shows it doesn't care about the quality of its product, one is best served to avoid the company entirely.  Free junk piled on top of junk you paid for isn't a smart move.  The saddest part of this is that when the Madden NFL 26 game worked, it was very well designed and functional.  But, if a needless and ultimately poorly designed server connection corrupts the data to the point of disfunction, then it no longer matters how well the game engine itself was designed.  If I was part of the coder team who designed the basic game, I would be quite infuriated that a needless server corruption ruined my hard work.

EA Sports should be ashamed of themselves.  I predict legal action on this issue.  EA cannot ignore their way out of this one.

You are lucky you got to play it this long! I haven’t been able to play since October and on a weekly basis an EA tech support person tells me it’s top priority and will be fixed asap. Same lines every week same result nothing happens and I can’t play superstar mode.

Two sons can both play on their systems in the same house but I can’t join them for a reason no one has been able to figure out for months. It’s a joke