I skipped last years because I was pissed that they took out the traditional franchise.

I will buy it this year. I have to be able to play with the Chiefs, Browns, and 49ers in offline stuff. Reimplementing the owners mode was cool.

I actually had forgot how you could adjust concession prices, and parking and stuff to get more revenue. I also like how you can rebuild a stadium in your own city. Instead of having to always move your team.....That bothered me a lot.....I didn't want to move, and if I did, I had to create new images and shit. if I wanted to make the Cleveland browns, the Toronto browns, I should be able to. Or LA. whatever.....

Pretty pumped about it.

Fair question to the chiefs fans. How fast are you going to trade alex smith when you get the game lol.....

Considering the game is horrific at trading, I can probably restructure Alex and trade a 4th for Geno.

Yeah the trading system is so broken it's not even funny.

I might buy the Legend edition and flip it just to get the NFL Sunday Ticket option on it.

I used to love trading one of my aging stars for a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd from 1-6 teams right before the trade deadline. Worked every time.

Or trade a 1st and a 3rd to the worst team in the league for their 1st. LMAO

Oh yeah, that too. Both worked.

It was always either too easy to get on the good side of a trade, or vice versa, never really any inbetween.

The "owner mode" stuff from years ago was just about the dumbest aspect of Madden ever. Why the hell do I care about concession stand prices or stadium upgrades, if I can't USE those features when I play the game.


To my mind, the single biggest thing they could do to make this game better would be to upgrade the sounds of the game. It should sound like really being there, down to the minute details.

I want to hear stadium specific EVERYTHING. The atmosphere of a real NFL game is incredible, and the game isn't even close to recreating that. Instead, they try to recreate the sound of a television broadcast (which even in real life is pretty dull) and the game sounds worse (much worse, actually) than television.

The second thing they could do is make the TIMING of the game more like a real NFL game. Now, nobody wants to sit through 3 hours of a single game. But lets face it... MLB The Show has nine full innings, with three outs per inning, and we still play that! No more "five minute quarters." where you play a full game, and your offense only runs 30 plays, but your QB has 3 TD passes, and your RB is over 100 yards. I'm sorry, that's silly. The game has been tweaked for years to make it so final game stats look realistic, and season stats are realistic, but the average yards per play has to be WAY over the top, in order to get to those numbers on 1/3rd the amount of play time. All games in Madden should have 15 minute quarters, with an accelerated clock feature. THEN, adjust the difficulty so that the results of each play are realistic. Not just the overall stats.

Starting in 2008 ish, I always played 15 min quarters with Accelerated clocks. I would usually use up just about all the play clock as well with motions, and things like that just to keep the score and stats down, and I played on all madden difficulty. I never understood the infatuation with people playing with 5 min quarters. I didn't need to get through a season in a week though. I was okay. I just wish there was more of a true Progression system in the game so that I could make players who make plays better.

I play with about 7 or 8 minute quarters. The stats I get in those games are pretty realistic.

Offseason is one of my favorite parts of the game (when it's done well, which I guess is rarely) so I'd rather not have seasons take forever. I like gradually building my own team with my own pieces.

I would usually try to trade away pieces at the very start that I had no interest in, and bring in guys that I could develop over the long term. And then lock them up. I enjoy offseason as well.

I had more fun with the offseason than the actual season itself. The ticket prices and shit was stupid though because it didn't have an effect on the game.

I remember trading away all the shitty overrated (on Madden anyway) Chiefs players I hated for as many draft picks as I could get. Very cathartic.