Alex Bueno

Let me start by saying this, DO NOT BUY THIS GAME. Far too long have gamers been manipulated, and their wallets abused by EA. This game is the epitome of corporate greed in gaming. There is not a single aspect of this game that doesn’t involve maximizing profits while minimizing quality for consumers. I will begin to elaborate as to why this game is so horrendous, why you should boycott EA, and why EA should face criminal charges. Let’s start with the games mechanics, there are well known glitches and bugs that first became evident in madden 17, that people are still experiencing. These bugs are game breaking, and for a game that is supposed to be “SIMULATION” football, there are a remarkably numerous amount of issues that completely destroy and shatter any chance of immersive gameplay. I.e. fumbles, players ragdolling, players colliding, etc. this leads me to my second point, boycotting. As consumers we carry an extraordinary amount of power, but we lose that power when people just buy these sports games because they got nothing else to play or do and those buyers don’t understand how badly they are ruining their own games. if 10 million people stopped buying madden games, that’s 600 million in lost revenue for just the base game, not to mention the loss of all the real money making tactics, like gambling in game, Micro transactions, etc. boycotting EA sports games would deny EA the justification of profit vs. quality to investors and the like. This leads me to my third point, I serious believe EA should be sued if not by consumer agencies, by the government. This game literally reuses various player character, NPC, and item textures that further the immersion breaking mentioned earlier in my review. This is theft as far as I’m concerned. I don’t pay a mechanic to do an oil change just to reuse the old oil filter because it looked okay and isnt seen that much, so why does EA get the slip to openly lie to customers in ads and various other media, saying that this years madden is new? It’s ridiculous, why are EA execs getting payed million, when a semi decent QC team could have prevented this. It’s almost like no one even beta tests the madden games every year for small mishaps like reused assets and bugs. We are being betrayed by a company that monopolizes the madden franchise while providing ZERO benefits to players. Boycott EA, sue them, do what you can. At the end of the day for a game series that makes billions every year, we the consumers deserve a football game that has the same amount of passion put into development, as we feel watching real life football.