How is Madden 21 not as good as NFL 2k5?

@Sabreu1989 your question on the challenges: I've seen that the Superstar MVP Solos tab reappeared with the Jan. 7th update. since they were released at the very beginning, they are not active anymore. I'd guess that the empty tab reappeared due to an misspecification in the database in the background. so this is clearly a bug.

the TOTW Solo Challenges for weeks 16 and 17 have been reactivated because the announced deadline did not correspond to the actual deadline (when the were removed). since some players reported that they were short of TOTY tokens due to this shortened availability of the Solos, the MUT team decided to give players the opportunity to play them again. but for players who already completed these Solos, these Solos were locked (because they already completed these Solos).

I assume your question was about these two series of Solos. or is there something else you were thinking of?

@Sabreu1989 I like your posts today. 🙂 I appreciate it that you gave EA (in the person of @EA_Blueberry) the chance to react to your posts and that you picked it up constructively. I had a lot of these 'really?!?' moments (which I recognize in your postings too) over the last months (and years) but I learnt that the individuals involved are really trying their best to improve the game and to communicate with the community.

but I'd guess it is not an easy task for those who are responsible for informing the community, collecting feedback etc., in particular not in Madden 21. I assume it became a lot more difficult for the dev team (and all parts of EA who were involved in developing the game) to cooperate, coordinate each other, communicate internally and externally, etc. just due to covid. a lot has changed not only during hard lockdowns, but meetings, communication and everything had to be reorganised. at least I guess that it was the same with EA as it was for many other companies.

unfortunately, the game had some more issues to solve than e.g. last year (at least this is my personal impression). and this from day one on, i.e. at the time when the game was released. it would have been great, if the circumstances had allowed the dev team (incl. all related quality assessment processes) to proceed faster to solve some more of these issues pre-release. but since the game was less mature as it could have been, the feedback of the players was most likely more intense from the beginning (and therefore more difficult to handle).

but as I said already, the individuals really try their best. and therefore I appreciate your constructive approach to this discussion even more. that's the way to really contribute improving the game, even if it will take time to be implemented.

@Neo_Novalis ofcourse, im not stubborn in my beliefs, anyone can change my mind if they bring up good solid points as blueberry did. To be honest, this kind of thing is all the customer is looking for, some explanations and reasons for some of the games mechanics, educate us, talk to us, let us know what it looks like from your side. i believe blueberry and the other mods on this forum are genuinely trying to do that and that for sure makes me feel not all is lost and that there are people that are trying to listen to us and make the game better. I just wish people like clint would come out with some sort of "madden direct" where they explain some of this stuff instead of just brushing us off with snarky comments and unhelpful replies.