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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I could bump this for years. I'm still eagerly awaiting the day when I can take these formations and use the hot routes to create the plays I adjust on the fly.
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NEVER SHOTGUN. Alas, shotgun formations get all the attention. I haven't run shotgun on offense in almost 20 years and the defenses are way too vanilla... There aren't enough rotating cover 3 coverage in multiple formations.
Failing to add a Play Editor isn't about stopping glitches, it's about protecting players that can't scheme their way out of a wet paper bag, at least that was the stance I took in 2003. I still kinda believe it.
So, I'll use Custom Playbooks combined with Hot Routes to create custom plays until I get a play editor that will save the adjustments for me.
The thing about play creator, if you are smart enough, patient enough, and thorough enough in your testing, was that you could design plays with 5 routes being run, each designed to take advantage of a specific type of defensive coverage/blitz, and so long as you made the correct read of the defense either presnap or within one second of snapping it, you knew exactly who was going to be open on the play, and exactly when you would be throwing them the ball. I spent countless hours setting up plays like that way back when, and it was just unstoppable by the ai at the time. It isn't even a matter of how the defensive plays are designed, at that point, but how well the ai can adjust on the fly to see a weakness about to be exploited, and act to stop it. If play creator comes back, and I can make my own whole playbook, and use it as my coach's playbook in franchise mode, they can have all my money, lol
I still think it’d be fine to have in the game with it either only usable in single player or both with the ability to turn it off in multiplayer.
The only reason I can think of (besides just being mean) not to do it that way would be if they were concerned it could cause the game to glitch up if the code wasn’t able to recognize and react to every possible user created play/scenario. I’m no programmer though, so I can’t say if that’s a legitimate reason or not.
