Ding, ding, ding! This right here.
EA is quick to accept praise (although it doesn’t happen often) but love to sweep criticism under the rug. You won’t hear a peep out of them about this. Guaranteed!
There was such an uproar over maddens franchise mode being so terrible that they finally had to say “we hear you”. And the stuff they wound up adding to franchise doesn’t even work properly.
I would have been totally fine if they had added nothing to this game, preparing to go fully over to the next generation consoles. But to remove things we have always had. That’s straight up grand larceny.
Even if they come out and say, “hey guys, we scaled presentation back this yearso that we could implement some things next year that weren’t quite ready for ‘23. We know this sucks but bear with us”. But no. Instead they told us how great their “new” presentation was, and instead gave us something completely underwhelming. It’s slimy, it’s sleazy, and it’s absolutely disgusting disregard for consumer transparency.
I used to sing this teams praises for years when people would bash them for all of things (as broken as they are) they tried adding to franchise mode, and that they were at least trying to innovate.
it will be a long time before this team earns my trust back again, but I doubt they ever will. Any good will they have built up was raised to the ground when they decided to be clever with their marketing wording and trick everybody.
