SUPERSTAR PLAYERS: STOP MAKING SEPARATE COMPLAINTS. LET’S MAKE EA HEAR ONE.
Superstar players, at what point do we actually make EA listen?
Seriously, how many years are we going to keep doing this? We complain about the same problems or some variation of them, EA tells us what they’ve improved, we buy the next Madden and then we’re right back on these forums again.
The CFB community just proved with #CFBPlayDontPay that organized pressure can actually work. Maybe Superstar players need to start doing the same thing.
The frustrating part is Superstar actually has the bones of a really good career mode. The defense is good. Honestly, sometimes it’s TOO good, but I don’t want EA making defenders stupid. I want the guys on MY TEAM to have some of that same intelligence. I’m tired of watching receivers drop balls that hit them in the hands while defenders make ridiculous catches. I’m tired of DBs getting beat and magically recovering, suction tackles, ridiculous interceptions and having a playbook full of play-action early in your career while you don’t have enough control yet to get yourself out of bad plays.
Then you have these manufactured scenario games.
The snow game is a perfect example. Increased chance of fumbling in the snow? Cool. That actually makes sense. But when I’m coughing the ball up every other possession, sometimes right when I’m finally putting a scoring drive together, while the simulated CPU offense somehow goes on a 15-play scoring drive without fumbling, come on man. That’s not weather affecting the game. That’s the game affecting ME.
Same thing with the games where your TEs are suddenly unavailable or you’re dropped into some manufactured situation because Superstar decided this week needs to be extra difficult.
Why?
Just let us play football.
I’m not asking to win every game. Sometimes I should beat somebody 38-10 because I played my **bleep** off. Sometimes I should get smoked 31-7 because they did. Sometimes it should come down to the last possession. That’s what makes football fun.
And yes, I’m winning. That doesn’t mean I’m enjoying it. Winning while feeling like I’m guaranteed to throw one or two INTs every game or waiting to see what the game is going to do to me next isn’t fun. There’s a difference between winning and actually being able to dominate when you’re playing well.
If people like the scenario games, keep them. Just give the rest of us a toggle. Let me play my schedule, build my player and see what happens without Madden constantly trying to manufacture some storyline for me.
And if you’re dealing with this stuff too, stop making 50 different posts that EA can ignore one at a time. Like/Me Too this one. Add what you’re seeing in your Superstar career. Tag other people dealing with it. Put it all in one place.
Because we’ve been asking nicely for years.
At some point, maybe Madden players need to do what the CFB community just did and stop paying until EA starts listening.
#NoFixNoMadden
