cem_ea_id.11080907 wrote:HEY PLEASE FIX THE WILCAR ISSUE !!! THE FORMATION IS ONE OF THE BEST IN MADDEN 10 BUT AFTER THE 2 TITLE UPDATE IT DOESENT WORK AS IT USE TO BE THE RUNNINGBACK WILL HANDOFF TWICE AND DONT HAND THE BALL OFF ON AN ARROUND PLAY PLEASE FIX IT THIS IS THE 3RD TIME IM WRITING THIS PLEASE FIX IT !!!!!

Dear capitalizing fool. THEY WON'T FIX IT!!!!! THERE WILL BE NO MORE PATCHES!!! JUST BUY THE NEXT MADDEN AND LIKE IT! EA DOESN'T CARE TO MAKE IT BETTER!!! THEY JUST MAKE IT AND YOU BUY IT!

Im new to Madden 10 is this update supposed to take place automatically once you start the game for the first time? Because when I played for the first time yesterday it said there was an update available, which I downloaded. However the player attribute changes do not match what was supposed to take place on the update.

For instance the first thing I noticed on the week 14 roster update was Monty Beisel at LB was added to the Arizona roster. He is not anywhere in my roster. Also none of the attributes match the link below.

http://maddennfl.easports.com/news.action?newsId=1211RosterUpdate

Is it supposed to be this way?

You have to go online to get a roster update. Go online and create a session, it will say your roster is out of date. Download it. then you can exit the session and play offline.

Seahawks blindingly ugly jerseys and now Browns ugly pants. THOSE are the main concerns of way too many people here. Frankly I feel ripped off by EA in regards to many other issues in Madden 10 that take precedence over player ratings and jerseys. Pick your battles people. You should be voicing your concerns over core aspects of the game that EA messed up this year, not freakin' helmet stickers and the like.

Now when (more like IF) I play this shambles of a game I have to wonder if every sideline catch (or any catch for that matter) will be called incomplete thanks to patch #2. I'd almost snap the disc in half and mail it back to EA if the postage wouldn't cost me so much. Sixty bucks for this mess of a game is more than enough money wasted. Do the people at EA even TEST things before they release them? For more than 10 minutes I mean? Try playing a season or two before you release things just for the fun of it once and see what you learn. You'd be amazed!

Meh, I'm wasting my time. Maybe I'll try a new Madden again four years from now and see if they fixed anything yet. Maybe...

The AI holds the ball way too long and throws to a guy that is out of bounds at least half the time. Guys will be wide open right in fron of thier face and they will hold onto the ball. The CPU is still throwing out of sacks. I'm getting no more than i was before. the problem before wasn't that the AI wasn't holding onto the ball long enough. It was that when you hit the quarterback, he would throw it away even though he was halfway down to the ground.
When the AI throws it away it doesn't go out of bounds and he is still in the pocket and the ball lands where there isn't an eligible receiver within 15 yards. this is intentional grounding by the way, but the commentator will say "Moss was the intended receiver," while Randy moss is 20 yards .maway from where the ball landed.

cem_ea_id.CISCOCT19 wrote:People are really expecting way too much with video games these days! There are always going to be problems! Just deal with it! If you dont like what you get with the game then dont buy it. Its simple.

the point is to make a realistic game that isnt full of dumb glitches and gameplay. EA says "if its in the game its in the game" so if their gonna say that then do the damn thing. i've never seen a line back constantly have a super vert and swat passes out the air. or qbs only throw line passes. or deep passes constaly broken up, or D players warping to another lineman when about to make a sack, or 5'8" corners out jumping a 6'4" receiver, or lineman running to a defender on a screen and not blocking at all, or peyton manning throwing passing 20 yards the wrong direction to an open reciever like jamarcus russell, or top recievers dropping wide open and passes that hit them right in the hands(i can do this all day). have you? we want a realistic game. all pro-too easy
all madden- constant BS and terrible gameplay
they need to step up and make it right if their gonna make it. how can everybody else get it right and MAdden just cant seem to get on that level

ps3.C_Schultz wrote:Seahawks blindingly ugly jerseys and now Browns ugly pants. THOSE are the main concerns of way too many people here. Frankly I feel ripped off by EA in regards to many other issues in Madden 10 that take precedence over player ratings and jerseys. Pick your battles people. You should be voicing your concerns over core aspects of the game that EA messed up this year, not freakin' helmet stickers and the like.

Now when (more like IF) I play this shambles of a game I have to wonder if every sideline catch (or any catch for that matter) will be called incomplete thanks to patch #2. I'd almost snap the disc in half and mail it back to EA if the postage wouldn't cost me so much. Sixty bucks for this mess of a game is more than enough money wasted. Do the people at EA even TEST things before they release them? For more than 10 minutes I mean? Try playing a season or two before you release things just for the fun of it once and see what you learn. You'd be amazed!

Meh, I'm wasting my time. Maybe I'll try a new Madden again four years from now and see if they fixed anything yet. Maybe...

you hit the nail right on the head. im down to my last days of madden if it doesnt get better. DEFINATLEY RENTING 2011 before i buy it

I have been very supportive of the team at EA sports. I always thought that EA would improve the gameplay with the 2nd patch. All they did was fix some things that I don't really care about. I was getting plenty of sacks before the 2nd patch, and I could cover the flats just fine, now the Linebackers jump the flats and the middle is even more open then it was before. The cornerbacks can not cover any receiver in man coverage. Even a cornerback with superior speed, man coverage and a 94 or better rating gets burned over the middle all the time.

Last night I was playing against the cpu with the Packers in a new franchise that I started. I was winning 28 to nothing at half time against the Bears. After the half, Cutler just started to hike the ball so fast that I could not even make any adjustments to the ball. Then he would just wing the ball out there and every throw was caught. Now I know that QBs get hot, but when the game goes in to this cheating mode, no matter waht you do you can not make the QB miss. Now it gets even more screwed up when I noticed that the CPU decided to cheat me by putting in Gregg Jennings, Donald Driver at the cornerbacks position, These are wide receivers, this is why Cutler is making all of his throws. I checked the depth chart and neither are even close to being on the depth chart. The CPU is cheating all of the time.
In addition even though the starting safeties were not fatigued the CPU substituted the worst back ups that I have. Later on in the 3rd quarter, the normal starters were back in, this is after the bears pulled to with in 10 points. This game cheats more than any other madden then I have played.

This game is frustrating and almost no fun to play anymore. I like a good challenge, but I do not like to play when the cpu just cheats. I mean how many times does a defensive player just go in the wrong direction when you switch to it and try to control it. Also trying to switch to another player that does not always work.

Why is it that the cpu always covers your receivers when you try to run a play where the receivers run hook routes. Its all of the time, you can not run these plays. Yet, your defense can not ever cover the same type of plays. Also, what is really frustrating is how the cpu cheats everytime you try to run wide by lining up their outside linebackers outside of the defensive ends. Ok, maybe in a 3 4 defense this can happen, but not a 4 3 defense. Everytime this happens when you try a running play outside. Also, why is it that almost every cpu team runs it base defense even when you are running a play with 4 and 5 receivers in it, further, the linbackers almost always cover the receivers and if run a running play out of the spread formation the cpu always has the base 3-4 or 4-3 defense in it playing the run.

Why is it that when the cpu blitzes they always get by the offensive linemen very quickly, but when you try to blitz your players are sluggish and almost always get blocked by the CPU offensive linemen, even when your players are superior.

There are many more ways that the cpu just cheats, it almost feels like sometimes you have no control over your players when you switch to them. Where is the wide receiver user catch, why is it that for every improvement to the game EA takes something else out of the game.

Why is it that the cpu defense never jumps offsides, where did the Quarterback hard count go that we had in 2009. Why is it that everytime you try put a little air under a deeper throw the QB just throws it hard and flat, allowing the the defender to just break up the pass. Why is it that the receivers give up on their routes when the QB is scrambling and trying to find an open receiver. If its in the game does not work here, because in the NFL receivers make adjustments based on what the QB does. If there is a blitz then the receivers will make adjustments to their routes, if the QB is being pressured and scrambles, the receivers make adjustments to thier routes and try to find soft spots in the defense so that the QB can get the ball to them. No, this does not happen in this game. I would not expect this to happen with every wide receiver, but great wide receivers do this all of the time.

This game feels more scripted than any other madden that I have played. The one thing that I would purchase for this game would be more draft classes. That is about the only thing I would purchase in addition to the intitial purchase price of the game.

The game is already boring. I have jsut started my 3rd franchise. Why start a new franchise when you already know what the draft class will be and then you end up with virtually the same team everytime. I do like picking some of the players that resemble some of the great players from the past however, like Boar Jackson being like Bo jackson. That is cool.

Well, should end it, I have many more issues with this game.

Just wanted to throw this issue out there as well because I haven't seen it and it has been in the game since Madden 2000. I'm playing a season, get into the playoffs, and notice one of the CPU's linemen is very small. Well because they have a few guys injured and can't sign any more players the kicker or punter is playing offensive tackle. The worst part? They are no worse than the normal starters.

Wildcat is pretty useless now that they disabled a few plays with the new patch. Not to mention that if you run the play where the WR is in motion it defies the rules of the NFL because you need to cover the tackle. Pretty surprising the NFL would let a blatant penalty just get thrown into the their only game.

I could go on about how useless the defensive AI is. I can't control all 11 guys on defense, not that it would matter anyway because on the higher difficulty it's near impossible to make a play on the ball. The best part of it is when the top 2 QB's are hurt and the third sting bum comes in with his 30 ovr rating and can ring it up like Brady.

Franchise is terrible as well.

Going to try to go back to one of the older PC games. I think the one before Tony Bruno? Anybody know of any mod/roster update sites?

I just started to play madden08 on my pc again. The game play was much better, if EA would have just improved the graphics for the PC version then the game would have been even better, but no they had to go in a different direction. I had to buy an Xbox 360, the graphics are very good, but the game play is not as smooth as the pc versions from past Madden games. The players on the next generation consoles look and act like robots, stiff, skating while running and very mechanical.

You can get updates and mods from football-freaks.com And you can also edit draft classes and teams by downloading one of the madden editors from the same site. Some of the draft classes are better then others.

cem_ea_id.jodub232 wrote:Is anybody playing Franchise mode? How are the tackle stats, rushing TDs, etc? I know someone knows by now. I am stuck at work. Please post.

jodub

franchise mode got worse. rushing tds are about normal, but every runningback has an average of more than five yards and also about 3 to 4 backs end up with 2000 yards rushing. before the update, i broke the single season rushing record with felix jones with 2194 yards, then after the update someone broke with 2300, it made me pretty upset.

yeah the 2nd patch didn't help anything. The QB still throws the ball as he is being sacked. sideline catches are being called the wrong way and then can't be challenged. Rushing stats are crazy 4 backs had over 2000 rushing yards. Sack stats are way too high had several guys break the strahan record. Jamal Anderson got 7 sacks in one game merriman got 6. passing number are more realistic. But hey the cool jerseys are in the game now- who needs the jersey junk that is a terrible waste of time for a patch where gameplay,not graphics, need to be updated. Revamp the whole franchise mode it needs to be more entertaining- and bring back training camps those were so much fun. Madden is just frustrating now

please take out the glitch movement of a player as he accelerate or catches a ball etc.... and plz plz make field goals a lot harder. i no all madden fans would rather have strong leg kickers. kick accuracy isnt barely a factor... it should take some effort especially at 50 yards out.... field goals are waaaay to easy.

I was so cheesed off at NCAA 10, which I've warmed up to a little since, that I wasn't going to buy this guy. In fact, I didn't buy it. I got it for a xmas present, and I'm glad I did. It's pretty good. I won't elaborate on what EA got right. Even on their worst efforts, they get more right than wrong. These forums should be about helping them correct what they got wrong, and that's what I'm going to focus on.

1. The main area where EA always screws up is here: They seem to spend a lot of time and energy trying to reinvent the game every year and come up with a buncha of new features and side crap which generally aren't very good. In NCAA, they tossed out the game plan thing which anybody who's played that game knows is a waste of time. It hurts you way more than it helps so why use it? I don't and don't know anyone who does. In Madden, they got the fight for the fumble thing. I haven't won one of those things yet. Worse the coaches challenge doesn't even work. I haven't won a challenge yet, despite obvious blatant miscalls that you can see on replay after the fact (knee down, guy rolling on his back when the ball comes loose, but it was looked at and ruled a fumble anyway). Features like that which don't work, why bother? I say fix the challenge and cut the rest of the fat which includes these ridiculous side games like these fool mascot things that nobody plays. You just waste man hours and money on those things and short change you customers, most of which are hardcore sports fanatics, on the kind of things we really want to see in the game.

2. Forget what the critics say. Sometimes I think the whole idea of reinventing the game every year is driven by game critics who like to whine about sports games being nothing more than roster updates. Well, what do they think real sports are? Do you the NFL sets out to completely make it's self over from year to year by implementing a bunch of side games to appease some pansy critics who go to the games to see the half time show rather than to watch football? Forget those idiots and focus on what is important to the fans of this franchise and that is the actual football it's self. Want to reinvent the game? Start with better ever more realistic graphics. Try deeper richer playbooks and give us more control over them. Give us more control over substitutions like we used to have in the old days. I don't want your quick packages. If I want a HB at WR I'll put him there myself and I'll decide what HB I want out there. The uniform options have gotten better in both the NCAA and Madden games (at least if I don't want black cleats I don't have to suffer them anymore), however, the uniform editor for the create a team on Madden is weak and without enough choices. Perhaps an online team builder is needed for Madden. Also, if some player were to decide to move the Jacksonville Jaguars to LA or something, it'd be nice to be able to keep the same uniform and logos if that's what they wanted to do. I personally generally play with the Browns or Texans. It'd be nice to whip up some orange pants for the Brownies like they used wear back in the day, but currently I'm not able to do that. Tearing down some of these fences is the right why to reinvent the game from year to year as opposed to coming up with a bunch of crap that we, as players, don't ever use. Work at making the Franchise and Dynasty modes on both Madden and the NCAA series deeper, richer experiences. Give me something I can use like the ability to set up a legit WR or DE rotation, etc., or the ability to decide who plays in what sets. The ability to choose what sets I want and what plays I want in my playbook. All that stuff means more to me than some side game where I'm playing Tic Tac Toe with football players or worse, with a duck or gopher. In short, more mud and blood and less crud, that's what's called for. Wanna get it right EA, then look at Call of Duty. That franchise is a shooter. Every year, it's still a shooter. They may change eras, weapons and maps, but it's still a shooter and it stays good because they know that and they work to be the best at that part of it. You don't see them firing out a bunch of mascots or rolling out some grenade bowling or something. Your job on Madden and NCAA is football and all the little things that surround it. Until I can pop in an EA football game, turn on the console and literally smell the sweat and liniment, you're not doing your job. As I said, more mud, more blood, less crud.

xbox.umars wrote:I was so cheesed off at NCAA 10, which I've warmed up to a little since, that I wasn't going to buy this guy. In fact, I didn't buy it. I got it for a xmas present, and I'm glad I did. It's pretty good. I won't elaborate on what EA got right. Even on their worst efforts, they get more right than wrong. These forums should be about helping them correct what they got wrong, and that's what I'm going to focus on.

1. The main area where EA always screws up is here: They seem to spend a lot of time and energy trying to reinvent the game every year and come up with a buncha of new features and side crap which generally aren't very good. In NCAA, they tossed out the game plan thing which anybody who's played that game knows is a waste of time. It hurts you way more than it helps so why use it? I don't and don't know anyone who does. In Madden, they got the fight for the fumble thing. I haven't won one of those things yet. Worse the coaches challenge doesn't even work. I haven't won a challenge yet, despite obvious blatant miscalls that you can see on replay after the fact (knee down, guy rolling on his back when the ball comes loose, but it was looked at and ruled a fumble anyway). Features like that which don't work, why bother? I say fix the challenge and cut the rest of the fat which includes these ridiculous side games like these fool mascot things that nobody plays. You just waste man hours and money on those things and short change you customers, most of which are hardcore sports fanatics, on the kind of things we really want to see in the game.

2. Forget what the critics say. Sometimes I think the whole idea of reinventing the game every year is driven by game critics who like to whine about sports games being nothing more than roster updates. Well, what do they think real sports are? Do you the NFL sets out to completely make it's self over from year to year by implementing a bunch of side games to appease some pansy critics who go to the games to see the half time show rather than to watch football? Forget those idiots and focus on what is important to the fans of this franchise and that is the actual football it's self. Want to reinvent the game? Start with better ever more realistic graphics. Try deeper richer playbooks and give us more control over them. Give us more control over substitutions like we used to have in the old days. I don't want your quick packages. If I want a HB at WR I'll put him there myself and I'll decide what HB I want out there. The uniform options have gotten better in both the NCAA and Madden games (at least if I don't want black cleats I don't have to suffer them anymore), however, the uniform editor for the create a team on Madden is weak and without enough choices. Perhaps an online team builder is needed for Madden. Also, if some player were to decide to move the Jacksonville Jaguars to LA or something, it'd be nice to be able to keep the same uniform and logos if that's what they wanted to do. I personally generally play with the Browns or Texans. It'd be nice to whip up some orange pants for the Brownies like they used wear back in the day, but currently I'm not able to do that. Tearing down some of these fences is the right why to reinvent the game from year to year as opposed to coming up with a bunch of crap that we, as players, don't ever use. Work at making the Franchise and Dynasty modes on both Madden and the NCAA series deeper, richer experiences. Give me something I can use like the ability to set up a legit WR or DE rotation, etc., or the ability to decide who plays in what sets. The ability to choose what sets I want and what plays I want in my playbook. All that stuff means more to me than some side game where I'm playing Tic Tac Toe with football players or worse, with a duck or gopher. In short, more mud and blood and less crud, that's what's called for. Wanna get it right EA, then look at Call of Duty. That franchise is a shooter. Every year, it's still a shooter. They may change eras, weapons and maps, but it's still a shooter and it stays good because they know that and they work to be the best at that part of it. You don't see them firing out a bunch of mascots or rolling out some grenade bowling or something. Your job on Madden and NCAA is football and all the little things that surround it. Until I can pop in an EA football game, turn on the console and literally smell the sweat and liniment, you're not doing your job. As I said, more mud, more blood, less crud.

+1 and a physics engine.