Why did they spend time?

[:1]Why did they spend so much time on the pregame intros. Everyone just presses start to skip them. Waste of time and money. Next year hopefully they focus on mechanics more. Like the LBs jumping 20 ft into the air. Also players running through objects. Dbs reaching through recievers to make picks. Little issues that keep going on year after year. PPl dont want drastic changes just core mechanics tweaked year to year and ofcourse graphics.|||lol I'm not doggin on your post because i agree the LBs are a problem but it's just funny to hear how high people have them jumping. So far I've heard:

6 feet
20 feet
30 feet
I think I even heard someone say 100 ft|||um, a little known fact is that there is a "art and design" team that specifically focuses on presentation. They have no bearing on the core gameplay design and development|||Stanimal032
lol I'm not doggin on your post because i agree the LBs are a problem but it's just funny to hear how high people have them jumping. So far I've heard:

6 feet
20 feet
30 feet
I think I even heard someone say 100 ft
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haha true dat, if I see another freak LB's and roster update topic im gonna go nuts haha.|||Ok madden geek I didnt know that. Sorry its not my life. Im not a board moderator.|||

Ok madden geek I didnt know that. Sorry its not my life. Im not a board moderator.

Im not a Madden Geek, but I have been at EA before (this May) and I understand the different teams that work on seperate parts of the game. Most issues that need to be addressed need a new coding system or due to the engine arent able to be 100% fixed.

Im just hear to make sure people who dont know what goes on in the development process understand that the team working on Madden is fully aware of everything posted on these forums as well as other sites and are constantly trying to find ways to fix it for the better of the game.|||

Ok madden geek I didnt know that. Sorry its not my life. Im not a board moderator.

Im not a Madden Geek, but I have been at EA before (this May) and I understand the different teams that work on seperate parts of the game. Most issues that need to be addressed need a new coding system or due to the engine arent able to be 100% fixed.

Im just hear to make sure people who dont know what goes on in the development process understand that the team working on Madden is fully aware of everything posted on these forums as well as other sites and are constantly trying to find ways to fix it for the better of the game.

Sometimes it dosent seem like there aware when ppl complain about the seame thing 3to 4 yrs straight and it never ever gets addressed and ppl wonder they complain. Its a video game it will never be perfect yeah I get that but some of the flaws are fixable but just seems like EA ignores them... JUS SAYING|||

lol I'm not doggin on your post because i agree the LBs are a problem but it's just funny to hear how high people have them jumping. So far I've heard:

6 feet
20 feet
30 feet
I think I even heard someone say 100 ft

this sounds like the lil wayn song from the soundtracck of madden it makes me think he is raping about the madden super lbs everytime i hear it lmao|||Maybe some stuff is harder to fix then we think or cost alot more money, im not a dev but that does make sense or else I feel like most of this would be fixed already. Even though it doesnt look like it sometimes but im sure these guys know what there doing.

Audibles on Xbox360

[:1]What am I doing wrong? I am trying to call audibles on offense while playing a Franchise and pressing the "BLUE X" button does not work. However, I can call audibles on defense. Is there something that I need to turn on?

I have tried with a wired and wireless controller and I can't call audibles with the "BLUE X" button. Anybody else having this issue?|||Ok. I just exit out of the Franchise mode and went to play an Exhibition match and now it works. What's up with that?

The franchise saved game that was giving me issues is a franchise with 5 selected teams. I am unable to call audibles with that franchise file.

I also created a new franchise using only one controlled team and I am able to call audibles. Not sure if anybody has tried this before but it will be a good test.

"This One is Easy" achievement glitch?

[:1]i got the hall of fame edition of madden nfl 12 and when i got it i redeemed the codes for it then went on ultimate team. after that i was looking through the achievements for that game and noticed one called "this one is easy" and its description is to create a mut team and i didnt get that achievement when i went on ultimate team so if anybody knows why or how to get this achievement without modding send me a message on xbl GT: SeanieT228|||If you played last year you don't get it...It's 5 points btw...not really a big thing.|||I feel you Seanie, I have a PS3 and didn't get the trophy because I already had a MUT so now I can't platinum Madden 12 which really dissapoints me |||i hear a violin playing somewhere. i cant platinum... im missing a 5 point acheive for making a team... boooo fricken hooo.

Madden 12 ONLINE Win/Loss

[:1]Been playing the game for a few days now, nothing but offline to check out the offline franchine. Just played my first game today maybe only 30 minutes ago and im whooping this dudes * 28-6 in the 3rd Quarter, and then all of the sudden i get "Kicked Out" of the game close to the middle of the 3rd QT. Then now im seeing in the online menu that my Win/Loss record is now 0-1.... WTF I just want to know if there is some way someone at EA can fix this bogus *.....|||@TomLischke Really.... you stupid little *, grow the * up...

Im just trying to let the Ea boards know what the * happened becauseI dont understand it, and its something that should be fixed. It's just something that bothered the hell out of me when it happened, I was the falcons, he was the bills I was winning and I deserve a win on my record. I shouldn't recieve a loss just because 98% of the other people that play madden quit when the are losing by a score or two, get picked off and disconnect their inthernet. Why should my record suffer for * that my stupid * conection did...|||Nah I aint mad... im just wondering why you have a dic* so far up your as* you dont know weather to jack off to porn of talk some sh*t on random people in the EA forums|||how many times in a row did you use the same play?|||Im acctually a sim player... you did read my first post right?... I was using the Falcons, he was using the Bills. And I ussually dont even play online because of all the cheesy mutherfu*kers on there... i ussually just play friends that I know play sim, the same way I do. And there was not one play the entire game I used twice...

Some people like to acctually play real football rather than see who can defeat the system and win the game as most madden players online, including maybe 99 out of the top 100 players in the leaderboards.

Server hi load volume caused two losses and DNF%

[:1]I don't know if their is anything i can do but this has happened twice and cause my DNF to sky rocket after 5 games. I played 3 online games without problem last night, just logged in to play again, first game froze during the kick off and back on the main online screen it said some error about the servers experience a hi volume and I have been disconnect. I reconnect and same thing happens 3 plays into the game with the same erro. Thats fine its day two there will be glitches but to give me two losses and negatively impact my DNF. It makes me not even want to play online again with a crap disconnect %.|||Don't know if there's much we can do about this other than wait it out until things quiet down a bit.

BTW there is like 8,000 threads on this topic.|||Sorry, can I delete this one. Got caught up in the heat of being pissed.|||I would be interested in the hidden comment. I will go into detail of my experience tonight.

I do a ton of online gaming and tonight at home I had 5 disconnects, 3 of which threw me an EA high server load error still resulting in a DNF and a loss. The other two said connection error with the same error DNF hit and loss. Im not going to toss out my credentials as a network admin, but it's not my network. Today my buddy his PS3 into work were we pull and easy 100mb down 30 up and had the same happen.

With the games I have finished the same glitches and cheats occur, the QB spy cheat is still their, play action is broken in online play, and its the same game over and over, players find three plays and work them over and over, even if I can even if I can destroy them, its not fun.

The other situation that is crap is the online pass. I understand it's ea's servers...but, I have friends who exclusively use gamefly and would be more than willing to purchase the online pass, but not when the online experience is as flawed as madden's.

Currently their is no simple way to view your roster stats and on the H2H screen you don't even get to see your opponents record. On the H2H screen I should be able to see my opponents record, disconnects with reason, PF, PA, etc. instead I get a huge picture of the teams star player. EA needs to adopt some online elements from the FPS genre. Hell maybe even take some from their own FIFA titles where the online actually works.|||I feel you man, i played my first game online today, was beating the guy 28-6. got dissconected and received a loss, my DNF% is now 100%....

CPU cutting key players.

[:1]After re-signing my players i sim the rest of of it. But then, i have key players missing. None of which were up for a new contract. At point i signed Anquan boldin to a 2 year contract and the next year he was no longer on the team. Is this supposed to be happening and if so is there anyway i can avoid it?

Connection Problems.

[:1]I Get the message "The EA Servers are not available at this time. Please try again later"

Playstation 3. Directly connected via wired router. Doesn't work either if i go directly into the modem.|||

I Get the message "The EA Servers are not available at this time. Please try again later"

Playstation 3. Directly connected via wired router. Doesn't work either if i go directly into the modem.

no help =\|||It's not just you, it's many EA customers.|||

It's not just you, it's many EA customers.

I was able to fix this by going through and testing somethings. It only occured when I was trying to create an ea account or link my current one. So i went online, found where i could log into EA with my PSN ID, used my PSN ID info then it asked me for my EA info to link them. Linked them, then turned on my PS3 fired up madden, it worked gave me the AFC/NFC all star teams for preordering at Gamestop and connected me to Online. So if your having trouble creating the account thats what i found to fix it.

ticker options.

[:1]So I see that there are ticker options so you can have scores around the world of sports. I have what I want on but I never see anything besides EA online ads come across. Anyone else come across this?|||I haven't come across that but I have seen them pimping XBOX Live.....ON PS3 Network. That is hilarious!|||http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5r15vwQVw0 you mean this? |||yeah ive seen that big oops haha. But yeah back to the original post. Is that something that they accidentally put in thinking it was NCAA 12?|||I guess it would depend on what you select. Ive had the scores all week from this past weekend preseason's games|||hmm alright I have it all selected ill have to play around. Atleast I know its something that should happen and not a mistake.|||I also should mention that I am on ps3 and yet to see the scores instead I see the stupid madden ads!

How do you edit player in franchise mode

[:1]I cant figure out how to edit a player on my offline franchise mode. Is it possible to do if I already started my franchise?

fix the audio issues!

[:1]Ok on ps2 I am tired of hearing a loud pop! I hope this can be fixed and I hope the crowd can be fixed too.|||

Ok on ps2 I am tired of hearing a loud pop! I hope this can be fixed and I hope the crowd can be fixed too.

There was a thread earlier about this. A mod said he informed a higher authority and they could inform ea. Since ea doesn't roam these forums that's about all we can do but yes it is annoying.|||alright and when i said ps2 i mean ps3 lol. That's a sign that its getting late.

All-Madden, and a couple other things..

[:1]Is it just me, or do you think that All-Madden difficulty should be the most realistic, rather than insanely hard? Maybe I'm stating the obvious, I don't spend much time on these boards but I figured I'd give my opinion and get some feedback.

Some obvious examples on All-Madden, to name a few:

- LB's jumping out of nowhere to pick or swat a pass
- Human players break no tackles, especially compared to CPU
- The most accurate QB's throw some of the worst passes
- Human pass defense is often garbage

Is it just me that feels like this? I don't want a ridiculously hard game if it's not realistic at least. Mark Ingram shouldn't be getting dropped like a bad habit while someone like Ben Tate tears your D apart. All-Madden on PS2 was perfect, I don't know why next-gen called for All-Madden to make the CPU superhuman.


That being said, another thing I think should be changed is the broken tackles, as far as the human. I have no problem with the rush being more intense as long as my HB can break some tackles. Joique Bell, granted while playing a 2nd and 3rd team, was needing 2 and more guys to take him down at a time tonight. I feel that broken tackles are one of the most exciting parts of the game, and I don't see but maybe one out of a good human HB but maybe every other play, and that's being generous. What's fun about seeing a 70 OVR HB run through your pretty highly rated defense, and then you come on offense to get dropped on the first hit?

I'm also really not fond of the fact that the Super Bowl winning team from the previous year has to unfairly outmatch whoever they play, and I don't mean the player ratings, I'm talking about the tendencies and bad plays your D will make that wouldn't happen in a game with another team. Even last year, as I'm a die-hard Saints fan, didn't like it, because it really takes the fun out of playing against that team.

Oh, and one last thing I've been noticing is this sack "glitch". I must have gotten sacked ten times last game because the QB is either taking forever to throw the ball, and out of nowhere I'm getting pummeled into the ground. This was never a problem last year, and I don't know exactly how to explain what exactly is making it happen, whether it is a delay or what.

While Madden still has a very long way to go, I do like the improvements, minus the scouting in Franchise mode. I think this is a big improvement from M11 and I have no doubt some of these issues can be fixed with the tuner sets throughout the season. Please feel free to comment on if you agree/disagree and why.
|||nothing at all?

Madden Game Freezing

[:1]So I play NCAA Football 2012 and just about every game it freezes as I am awaiting the patch. I picked up Madden and the first preseason game I played it froze as well. None of my other games freeze or have a problem. Is anyone else experiencing this? I dont want to invest my time in the game if its going to freeze?

Ive been with EA support twice and they didn't fix anything regarding the freezing issues for NCAA so I wont bother wasting my time for Madden.

Could it be my system? I have the original Xbox 360|||I have the new 4gb xbox and my madden 12 freezes all the time, its quite annoying especially when it freezes nearly every hour.|||Anything gonna be done about it?|||Hopefully some kind of patch will be released, its very very frustrating!! Have to reset my xbox sooo much its rediculous!|||It is just EA games I think. I have Fight Night Champion, NCAA 11, Madden 11, Madden 12- all have freezing issues. Usually the game doesn't crash, just freezes for a second or two and stutters and then back to normal. However, no other games I have do that. Mass Effect, Oblivion, Red Dead Redemption,COD, just to name a few, all work fine with no freezing issues.

Why can't EA make games that don't freeze?|||the servers are down so i decided to try the stupid mini games. Too bad the game freezes in the loading screen every time i have tried to play it.

Seems like EA Sports releasing games that don't work is becoming a regular occurrence.|||Ya, so I have only had 1 game not freeze. I have tried to play the same game in franchise mode 3 times. This and Madden 09 are the only games that have ever made my Xbox freeze.

When I contacted EA they told me to delete my saved game info for madden, then empty my cache. Yet I still have the same issues. If this keeps up, I am just going to return it for another game.

c0lt4ty5's sliders

[:1]these are the sliders i randomly messed with tonight, starting on all pro difficulty:

PLAYER SKILL

PASSING
40
37
53

RUSHING
47
40
36

PASS D
33
70
39

RUSH D
30
27
40


CPU SKILL

PASSING
64
35
55

RUSHING
52
68
34

PASS D
45
68
71

RUSH D
62
64
49

penalties at personal preference (i have mine pretty low cuz i don't like penalties getting in anyone's way)
speed threshhold: 0

fatigue at personal preference

the main idea behind these was to have realism, as in no stupid BS plays. i played 2 games with them and didn't see any so that's a good sign, and the games were fairly close. i'm really proud of the run game i had, as sometimes i'd get bottled up in the backfield, but if i set it up and call an outside run against an inside blitz, i made them pay. passing is also fairly challenging though i found outside streak routes open quite a bit, so to combat that i started playing with the zoomed camera (i recommend giving it a try)

just wanted to post this up here so anyone else can give them a try and give some feedback. thanks!|||Will have to check this out! Only problem i have is stat tuning needs to be done on EA's part. WR's with over 1500 yds, usually around 4 or 5 after each season. And then the amount of sacks that CPU's seem to accumulate in a season is crazy. So many with over 13.|||

Will have to check this out! Only problem i have is stat tuning needs to be done on EA's part. WR's with over 1500 yds, usually around 4 or 5 after each season. And then the amount of sacks that CPU's seem to accumulate in a season is crazy. So many with over 13.

yeah so i'm just trying to do the best with what we have to work with haha|||I am about to try them. So far, my own sliders, still seem to give me an edge. odd. But IM running yours Texans/colts in a moment |||interceptions for player need to be turned down haha.|||

interceptions for player need to be turned down haha.

well for me the qb wasnt making any stupid throws, but if i switched to a corner and got position and got 2 hands on the ball, i could pick it off. i wish there was just a db catching slider but there isn't and if i put that too low i just see like 10 dropped picks a game which isn't the most fun thing in the world|||Oh i know. Im playing Peyton though. He really shouldnt make some of the throws. But i dont expect my dbs to catch every over the shoulder pass lol

Please fix bills player chris kelsay age.

[:1]As a Bills fan I notice something wrong on the roster. Player "Chris Kelsay 8 yrs experience and he 21 years old??" He should be 31 years old. After finding that error, I'm starting to think what if EA Sport made some mistake on some players age?? hopefully Chris Kelsay is the only one.


another notice

Damn Keslay been in the league since 13 yrs old? and he still sucks on madden? |||hes not there is a couple old guys with beards in thier pictures for 21 year old guys i think they r people that made the game cause the kid is 21 wr and its a huge fat guy
|||Chris Kelsay has been playing in the NFL since he was 13, I guess. I saw that when I started up a Bills franchise. That is horrible, absolutely no excuse.|||You prob should talk them on twitter because I doubt anyone from ea reads this forum.|||lol that guy had to be a beast!|||what is ea sport twitter account?

where is the ultimate forum at its not working

[:1]any one know which forum are they using to deals at|||there is a sticky with the new link on the old page

PLAYER MANAGEMENT

[:1]For those of us that like to add a little stats in the EDIT PLAYER screen (bc we think Madden underrates the heck outta of them lol), it kinda sucks when you have to go back and forth up and down to the top of the screen to make sure not making a super player with an overall rating of 99.. so i suggest that the creators somehow make an update so that instead of the overall rating being at the top of the screen it should be located at the bottom alongside the "accept, cancel, and save" buttons or somewhere where it is always visible....who is with me? Vote below

Unlock the ultimate NFL celebration

[:1]I know compared to other issues people have this may not be important, I find the game to be fine so far other than the popping sounds coming from the speakers ps3 users seem to have, but I was just wondering if anyone knew how this was actually unlocked.
I noticed it in the top of the menu and all it showed was a video explaining the Gatorade tradition.

If you put speed to 30 it makes the game amazing

[:1]I think that they should patch the game and make the speed more realistic. This game plays so much better when you adjust the speed to 30.|||I found just turning it down to 40 was enough. I'll have to try 30, but I'm leery of making the game too slow.|||I really enjoy playing with the threshold at 30. Most fun in years.|||i only see the option of very slow-slow-normal ect
i dont see where it has 40-30- ect.?
?|||Sliders are great for single player or offline, But what good is it to those of us that play for online competition?
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i only see the option of very slow-slow-normal ect
i dont see where it has 40-30- ect.?
?

I think he is refering to the player speed threshold, not the actual speed setting.

QB Spy-Normal- and Man Press Coverages are in the Game.

[:1]I found them in the Multiple D playbook for those who are interested....

More of a nitpicky critique...

[:1]This is something that I just find annoying, it isn't major, but it does take a little bit of excitement out of the last 5 minutes of the game. When your team is winning close game, and you're just running the clock down, the opponent will not call a timeout until it's past the two minute warning. I mean, there is no playclock logic whatsoever by the computer. This needs to be fixed because, personally, I like the challenge of stopping the computer as it tries to make a comeback, and that excitement just dies when it seem's like the computer doesn't give a s..hit. Just my personal opinion.|||Agreed completely! The end-of-game AI logic has been lacking for years.

I had a game where the AI used hurry up offense, which was good... kudos. But then when he gets to the line, he calls audibles, which is taking a lot of time.

Doesn't even make you feel like you've earned a victory.

This is not nitpicky at all... you can click on a random thread to find a nitpicky complaint ("wah, wah, wah... I don't like my favorite player's shoulder pads!") This is every valid.