Burden33

Do what I did, quit playing this seasons sorry excuse for Madden Mobile...   You will be surprised at how freeing it is to walk away from Madden...   I played all four years and this year was terrabad and I wish I had walked away sooner.   Im sure I would of if not for running a 4 year league but I’m glad I did.    Dont miss anything about about this years MM...   Free at Last, Free at Last....

What did you really expect, revenue is way down so they have to make the previous best promos cash grabs...sadly it’s the way of most mobile games..   unless your dropping serious coin like top players, your not going to get a great team this year.   The old Madden mobile is gone and the new , spend your cash to feel good about your team, is here to stay sadly.   They only have to put in half the resources to still get paid when it’s pay to play...simple economics...free rides for the most part are gone.   So if your playing Madden get used to the P2W concept, at the end of they day they only care about making $$$.   Many of their mobile games have gone this way this year, proof that it’s here to stay fellas.

If you are excited that the main event driving the game is designed to let you win 50% of the games then go for it.   Its a blast building a team that no matter what you do ends up about 50/50 in wins and losses.   Game design at its best.   Been playing video games for over 40 years and if I would of only ever won 50% of what I played, I would of never gotten past year one of video games...Donkey Kong anyone? 3x3 football on Atari?    Gotta love progress......

Well from running a league for the past four yeArs I can tell you that in terms of numbers:   30% of my league from the last two years who spent quite a bit are completely gone from the game.   20% of my league who are still here and spent decent money the last two years hardly log on and play this year other than to do Lvl and survival.   20% of my league has never spent much and aren’t happy with OD.   10% don’t really care either way and just want to play a football game.   i haven’t recruited the other 20% that I have always had filled because this year more than any other, people join and then miss drives within the first few games ie the dedication isn’t there this year like it has been in the past.   I would bet that is a pretty good average of most leagues (top 100 is different I’m sure) but as you can see 50% of the people who spent big bucks are either gone or not spending...

I’ve run a league since the first Madden Mobile.   Same story, Intrest this year is way down...we have 6 losses - 4 to missed drives from mostly new guys...instaboot in my league but the losses suck when one limp*/-# can screw over 20 other guys but such is life.   Chat is wayyyyyyyyyyyyy down in my league because most guys log on for ten mins do their stuff then gone again, no reason to stay on for longer than that.   I have lost about ten solid players this year because they hate the OD version of Madden. No matter what BS EA spins OD is a complete failure of the Madden franchise.  OD won’t be back next year and that will prove how bad it is....    Be nice to see EA admit this version killed Madden Mobile which everyone on here knows.   I personally think lots of peeps going to be looking for new jobs when the final madden numbers come out for EA and they see just how bad they treated their Madden Mobile fans and the lack of money we choose to spend on this abortion of a version.

I’ve only been logging on and starting league tourney for about a week, not playing OD has been nice....not playing all the time has been more refreshing than I thought it would be....   Sad part is I’m the commish of a top 300 league....this version is just bad.....

Guy just whooped me only spamming quick slants, so my guess it’s still working fine....   So if they did try and fix it, they failed....If not then yes it can still be spammmed over and over.   Such fun strategic gameplay......

This is EA. After all.   remember two seasons ago they had the 3 guys that made YouTube videos that were at least informative and when EA caught wind if it the stopped them.   Don’t let the players know anything seems to be their status quo.

I would love to see them banned.   This is “supposed” to be a football game not a one play that exploits the AI game.

Quote from Dean >> EA has never made the game good for those who play with integrity  That’s not an EA problem, that’s every game makers problem. It’s about how they handle the people that exploit the game flaws. EA has never been great in that regard unfortunately.   I understand people will hack, cheat, exploit, use advantages to their gain over other people, that’s been going on since the beginning of games.   It Still doesn’t make it right to exploit game mechanics.....