Ugh. Hope this doesn't hold it up. I'll go ahead and disagree on EA Sports making average games, I'm sure many are, but IMO NCAA Football has always been a great game, much smoother and more fluid gameplay than Madden, not even close.
Yeah, but that was 10+ years ago, the people that made it are almost certainly gone or in different positions. How many great games has EA Sports made recently?
It could be good, I'm not saying it can't, but their track record of ignoring the single player career modes and focusing on multiplayer, pay to win modes that make them more money is very clear.
This. If the actual gameplay is like Madden that is fine with me. What makes NCAA great is the dynasty mode.
The game was an annual release based on those original rosters, the team playbooks and how well those players could execute those first few seasons. The only way EA could avoid potential litigation would be to make each school opposite of what they are: Iowa State for example could be a 5 WR Air Raid Offense with a 5-2 defense in order to avoid any NIL. Yes, you like could change that but now instead of changing player names you would likely need to change attribute ratings and do that for each team whereas EA did all that work (except for names) before.
Just for the sake of argument, it's estimated that the Madden franchise earns EA about $600 million per year, and EA had a net revenue of somewhere north of $7 billion last year.
Agree. There was something out not long ago where EA specifically said this one wasn't going to be a Madden reskin. But dynasty mode, creating your own school/program, and being able to play against buddies in different parts of the country is what makes it great.
100% agree. I bought Madden for the first time in maybe a decade this past winter out of boredom, couldn't believe they still haven't improved the gameplay.
It's so blatantly like just a mechanism to sell lootbox type ****.
