[Discussion] your personal assessment of Madden 22

I know alot of the people on here are very angry. I am dissappointed as well but i’m gonna try to word it in a more polite fashion. The game needs a patch desperately, i’m sure you guys are aware of it and are working on it. We want a more expanded franchise, i’m sure you guys are aware of that as well just by reading this forum. It’s great you guys brought staff contract back, tho some would say you just ported it from NHL series but thats okay cause it’s here. So lets just go down the list. 
1. The players need balancing, the fact that many people are saying they’re taking a WR with 99 speed and puting him at linebacker and getting multiple sacks a game is obviously a balancing issue.

2. The reaction from the AI is either slow or non existent, that’s a problem. 
3. Maybe tone down the auto-animations in the game, it makes the players think they’re playing an entirely scripted game and don’t enjoy it.

4. The criticisms of this game are mostly not comparing it to your competitors but literally to your older games. Madden 06, 08 and NCAA 14 are YOUR IPs, you made them so people are just frustrated you can’t bring the features of games you already made. 
5. This may all be a issue with the game engine itself but you need to tell us that or it’s just gonna be constant attacks from your community to the developers. 

hope you respond, would really like to hear your perspective and feedback. Thank you.

@Veronie2012, greatly put and I commend you on your post. I like you would like for them to focus more on bringing back features from their previous Madden games, it is frustrating that they have not given enough focus on giving the Franchise community a great experience. They really should come out and be honest and say the issue is their game engine, any honest feedback would be great. Would be great for them to have and take pride in what they do back when they had competition from other gaming companies.

I genuinely want to know why swapping players is so much worse this year than the past few. Pressing B, i swap to someone not even in the play, let alone the player closest to the ball like it should and always has been. Why is every tackle animation an additional 3-5 yard gain? why is the only defense that works one where you have to make 10 manual adjustments pre-snap? Why do you not have FULL CONTROL over the player you are selected on? i press X, i want to dive, i dont give a flying rats * if its not a good idea, i press the button, i want the player im controlling to perform that action. its mind blowing how horrific this game has become over the past few years, and you guys at EA dont seem to give 2 yhits about it.

@Veronie2012 

Constructive feedback is appreciated, thank you.

Not certain about anyone else but man do I ever feel informed and updated about your post @Veronie2012, it is as if a huge spotlight has been shinned down upon us about your awesome constructive questions.

EA, when will you do something about the never ending helping out a child? Nothing is more annoying than playing a child online who just runs around 24/7, throws across his body, throws with his eyes close, always throwing off balance, etc etc and he gets bailed out. This would never happen in real life. They would throw an int every time or get sacked every play. 

You all need to stop helping the un skilled morons. There needs to be a penalty in game to stop this. Maybe if you stopped bailing these no skilled morons out and you penalized them instead. Maybe just maybe they would actually learn to play the game. 

I'm 99.9% positive there is a built in A.I that automatically helps out the less skilled player. I even performed experiments and acted like a * and I magically got bailed out every time. Only problem is, when I play like a * it gets on my nerves and I have to stop lol. 

Fix this dumb crap EA. Thank you. 

Lol Buddy that sounds just like playing against the AI 

Are you sure you weren't playing offline 

The AI decision making and playmaking is SO. MUCH. BETTER.

Lineman are more responsive to blocking assignments, backs hit the correct gaps more consistently, and flat receivers seem to turn and go instead of drifting aimlessly out of bounds.

No crashes or freezes so far after several games in offline franchise.

Momentum Factor is definitely more effective and doesn't swing back to the losing team as easily.

There are still some problems:

I'm not being rewarded for completing preseason QB objectives in Franchise.

Crossing receivers are still a bit slow moving through traffic.

Receivers still don't separate consistently from defenders in man coverage, and they run their routes into zone coverage defenders instead of sitting down in soft spots and giving the QB a better window to throw.

Receiver movement during QB scrambles is virtually non-existent, which is getting me killed.

Also, I'm still getting DC'ed from the servers, and it's stalling my progress.

Bottom line, the game is at least playable, which is still not a great endorsement for a product that costs as much as a monthly utility bill.