Why did Madden get rid of play designing?
I thought the play design feature that was on madden 2004 or 2005 was a great thing. Why didn't it make it back.
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EA_Blueberry
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Community ManagerWas a fan as well! @MaddenUniversity made some very strong points on it's experimentation and we can't say it will never make a return, but for this time being we are not aware of any future plans of adding it.
Have you played Superstar KO yet? I love how the playbooks are shrunken down to only a certain amount of plays (Some coaches have more plays depending on their strengths). It would be pretty cool though if there was an option for every team to be able to improve a few custom plays. We all have our money plays we wish were included in that mode.
I LOVED create a play! It was one of my absolute favorite parts. From combining plays from similar formations to creating my own plays and formations.
I have bought madden every year for the last two decades and honestly I would happily pay twice as much each year if there was a create a play feature that could be used in franchise mode.
Every year I hope they will bring it back and let us truly act like coaches, seriously immerse ourselves as innovators of the game.
- EA_Blueberry
Create a play was fun to experiment with for sure. I think with today's version of Madden it gives you a very robust selection of audibles on the fly so you're able to quickly customize a play before the snap. Not 100% the same thing but it's the closest thing to it.
I know some players would likely develop some exploits to certain create-a-plays which would require the team to address and that could be an ongoing battle throughout the year. While it might be fun to play with, the downside is that it would also lead to a lot of frustration from opponents whom these plays are being used against.- @EA_Blueberry On the contrary... I think Create a Play would prevent exploits in virtual real time. And with online sharing of custom playbooks, we can literally counter and adjust to anything strategic (personnel, position, and tempo) more nimbly as a community of football gamers instead of waiting for title updates. That alone would free up developers to work on critical game items - instead of being focused on every minute complaint from the community's lowest common denominator...
Frankly, I was personally adjusting to what the online Madden community called glitches as early as Madden NFL 2003; two years before defensive hot routes. Since then, we've been given even more potential for adjustments while seeing the stock playbooks become more and more vanilla (where are Double X, Y, or Z in the Dime formations?), unless you use shotgun (I don't).
It's high time to bring back a play editor that works with custom playbooks - if for nothing more than to allow players to RELAX pre-snap instead of being rushed to make 100 adjustments to stock plays that don't work while lining up.
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