This is a great post Robber! The MCS was nothing short of a joke. It has been for the past several years. Especially with Joke winning it all with a punter at QB. I think that was Madden 19. Then you got the poor community managers in here and on GMM catching all the heat, trying to put out fires by telling us the team is “monitoring it.” Well, do they not watch their events? Do they not monitor social media? Keep track of their game ratings? It just fathoms me to no end to how bad this game has gotten. Believe me, I’ve played a lot of Madden. Been playing since Madden 94 on Sega Genesis. It was nothing special back then. Tecmo Super Bowl was the best game back in that era. When PS and PS2 rolled out was when Madden took off. The best days of Madden were on the PS2 days and early PS3 (respective Xbox consoles as well). Yes, EA has the exclusive license. Roger Goodell has stated they have a great partnership. For 1.5 Billion dollars, EA and I would have a great partnership as well. Roger does hear the complaints, the petitions going in to allow another developer to make an NFL simulation game. He is on record saying they are discussing that issue. His hands are tied right now. There is another petition getting started soon. Real football fans doesn’t want this trash they’re putting in the market.
One thing I often wonder is why they don't just have a competitive arcade mode that plays like the MCS does currently, and then they could create a competitive sim mode where the game actually plays like real football? I don't have any doubts as to which one people would be more interested in watching if given an actual choice.
I mean, there's a reason the NFL is so popular and it's not because every play is a QB roll out for a 40 yard bomb. That's called the Arena Football League.
