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phatbalz1's avatar
5 years ago

Madden mobile app

There has been a huge decline in the madden mobile product over the last few years. It seems like the apps developers aren’t concerned with glitches and errors that have been happening for years, or rolling out programs with major glitches. The game is becoming unreasonably expensive for the game quality and persistent technical issues. I’ve never seen as many long time players leave the game and myself have grown fatigued of it. The developers are focusing and introducing features that are not popular with the customer. It almost seems like the developers don’t understand football or the customer. Developers should really focus on the core modes, and focus on making those as perfect as possible. 

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  • phatbalz1's avatar
    phatbalz1
    5 years ago

    When my player walks out with no arms in arena, I run a play and it doesn’t count, I receive kickoff then suddenly I’m onside kicking it to other team losing the entire drive. My players randomly in slow motion, app crashing. Confusing promotions where you spend hours trying to figure out what’s needed to complete. Same promos with new name month after month. Just a few bud, those are fact not opinion. Some have been happening over the last two seasons. I’ve seen more longtime players leave this game the last couple years. Sad more care isn’t put on this game. 

  • EA_Blueberry's avatar
    EA_Blueberry
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    5 years ago

    @phatbalz1 

    Appreciate the feedback!

    Quick question about your device though. You said you're seeing the players run in slow motion and experience crashes. Do you have your graphical slider set to a high setting? If your device is on the older side I recommend going to a lower setting to help increase performance. If you play for a long amount of time on higher graphical settings you may result in performance issues because of the phone getting too hot. What type of device do you have?

    For promos, the Community Manager will go over details on Twitch and the Discord channel will discuss strategy too. Can you describe to us that is the confusing part? Is it the requirements for sets?

  • ElmoPeabody's avatar
    ElmoPeabody
    5 years ago
    @EA_Blueberry Thanks, you verified what I’ve experienced. I’m playing with low details on an older iPad and performance drops when the iPad gets hot. So I log out for a little while, clear the memory and things begin to work better. The issues are worst in Overdrive, the Arena and then LvL. The issues aren’t too bad elsewhere.
  • EA_Blueberry's avatar
    EA_Blueberry
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    5 years ago
    @ElmoPeabody

    The older models will require a lot more power to run the game with their current specifications which can result in that outcome, unfortunately.
  • phatbalz1's avatar
    phatbalz1
    5 years ago

    Device is a couple years old so I already have it set to low. It’s quite random, one play full speed next slow mo.  

    As far as promos go, the fact another forum is required to aid in figuring it out, is the issue. They used to be pretty straight forward and could look at it and figure it out. I’ve been playing mm for quite a number of years, so I’m not new to the game and confused by how it is set up. I’ll give you an example. The current pro bowl promo, I play the first of the string of 3 on afc, but for some reason it doesn’t unlock the 2nd one that says to unlock the 1st needs to be played? So now wth do I do? Is this a glitch or am I missing something. I play all the open events on the board and nothing unlocks. It shouldn’t be this difficult. 

    The CR set doesn’t give any way to get trenches tokens, so I can’t finish anymore of the trenches sets or work on masters. They pop up in CR points rewards, but by the time they pop up I can’t look at the CR promo to see what I need, so unless I get lucky and pick correct player my tokens will be a waste because I can’t trade them for other tokens. 

    Having multiple promos that run together gets confusing as well. It is just getting too complicated for what it needs to be. Guys just want to get on and grind out a promo and not need to do a bunch of thinking. There is more currency than I can keep up with. I need to play multiple modes search around in different sets to figure out what I need to do just to evo a player. I play this game to not have to think too much and have fun. 

    I’m not sure how well the yard has been for you, but for me and all my league, none play it, it’s not fun at all. I can’t even call my own plays and it’s not really football. Lvl, arena and overdrive should be the focus. 

    Draft is something you guys should focus on big time, for something new and fresh. I find myself drafting during the draft tourney and not playing the tourney because rewards not worth my time. Many others do this as well.  

    This game is losing its core focus and it’s affecting play. Hopefully next season it refocuses on the main gameplay features so it’s less glitchy, simplify promos and replaces yard with a draft mode of some sort, adds league divisions for lvl, so the top 150 don’t play the rest of the leagues. Playing the top 150 leagues isn’t fun for either of the leagues. Just give them their own division and allow the other leagues to play into that division if their record warrants it. 

    I may be way off base and this game is doing super well and everyone else is loving it, but based off the feedback from everyone I play with and my own experience, it’s way to glitchy, complicated and out of touch with what the core customer enjoys about the game. 

    Hope this helps give you an idea of what a normal customer thinks, thanks for your attention. Cheers

  • I’m with you @phatbalz1. There has been a lot less effort in this game by their developers year after year. The focus has really been on the not fun parts. While constantly changing the way LVL is presented. 

    Most of the guys on my league think EA is run by a couple cats on a computer. Lol

    I have seen the same stuff that you complain about. Guys losing interest as the days go by.

    we all just keep hanging on hoping that somebody will get it together at EA and make this game fun again.

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