Madden 10 Demos Dated

by pastapadre
Posted July 8th, 2009 at 8:08 am

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Yesterday Gamestop sent out an email detailing the plans for the Madden 10 demo. The exclusive five minute quarters demo featuring the Cardinals vs Steelers will be available to download using the code obtained from Gamestop on Thursday July 23rd. Those codes will apparently be available in the stores on July 15th. They will be in limited supply so it would be a good idea to call the stores on that day and head in to get it before they’re all gone.

What wasn’t clear from the email was when the standard demo would be released. The two minute quarters demo with the Cowboys vs Giants will be available to everyone. I have confirmed this demo will go out on Thursday July 30th.

This is unfortunate news given that until now it had not been indicated that Gamestop preorders would be getting the demo early in addition to getting an extended version. As with Fight Night Round 4 this is an unfortunate turn of events for consumers and actually takes some steam out of the buzz created from the demo. NCAA Football 10 did not go this route and released the demo to everyone at the same time and reaction was generally positive with more concentrated discussion. The Gamestop incentive with that game is the additional 13 slots to hold Teambuilder created teams.

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P!KE

yo anybody intrested in joining my PS3 online franchise mgs me at psn-redbull7 with what team you want. I want 32 active members hit me up

GNR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naNJHTQC-Gc&fe...

USER SKILL MEANS NOTHING--MADDEN PLAYS ARE PREDETERMINED--LEARN UP PEOPLE

thatguy

again people, this is just a DEMO.

thatotherguy

+1

Big Al

I cant' wait for NCAA and Madden 10, looking forward to both, booking off both days, telling the office I'm camping! I have lots of vacation time...

xpmar91x

http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?tsn=1&am...;
online franchise for 360.

teams that are available:

Indianapolis Colts
Jacksonville Jaguars
Buffalo Bills
Miami Dolphins
New York Jets
Cincinnati Bengals
Cleveland Browns
Oakland Raiders
Washington Redskins
Detroit Lions
Minnesota Vikings
Carolina Panthers
St. Louis Rams
Seattle Seahawks

Mastajedi1

If the upcoming demos included a practice mode...I would be excited about it. Because the thing I would want to work on is how to defense the "Wildcat" offense. Now, if you can play online against someone, oh yeah, I'll stand in line 4 a code, but I'm not gonna waste my time or gas to get a code to play an early build of Madden...I'll pass.

Mr. Prof

don't get your hopes up

Scott

most of you people make my head hurt

the truth

"NCAA Football 10 did not go this route and released the demo to everyone at the same time and reaction was generally positive with more concentrated discussion."

I don't know what demo you guys played but the ncaa 10 I played was trash.

SwiFt4

Everyone here is so intelligent . . . . . . Yeah right.

noob

Go away fanboy

MATT

DA BEARS

heisman988

lol DA BEARS

nycPack

Bears at Packers SUNDAY NIGHT BABY! It'll be just like last time you stepped inside our house!

WhenBearsAttack

nah, it'll be like every time in Lovie's tenure before that fluke of a game. I guarantee it.

Most likely closer to the 2006 opener

you know, Favre's only home career shut-out? ;)

BCOS

Ian's Expose-Premiering June 30th..the game is in our hands now fraud, no more excuses about old builds, commercials, etc.

kcxiv

haha, yep. Same shit different year, but with 11 man tackling! Ya, lets have 11 man tackling instead of putting in the new animation engine which the lead animator wanted to do this year.

Good job EA. haha I am going to have my pop corn read T.O style and enjoy Operation Sports meltdown. lol

Joe

It's just a game, can't EA release one demo to everyone and stop being such A-Holes?!

MastaJedi1

You're right Joe...EA had good momentum going, game looks like, 4 me anyway, a back 2 back jack...I'm still playing 09 online, fan confidence is up, they've got everything going their way...and then someone releases "Stupid Gas" in the AC ducts ..."EA Sports, we just gotta keep s%#t in the game"!

Treiop19

On July 30th, shit hits the fan.

Pharrell1

yup

EAROCKS

EA should hand out lube as well.

Radie

just bite hard on a pillow

Hawkeye4077

Seems like EA is doing a CYA job with the demo. Lets face it, they didn't put all this effort and money into building Madden 10 because they all of a sudden found their football purity. I think that they were anticipating a huge drop in sales unless they made huge adjustments to their game. The true Madden community has been extremely frustrated with the game on the next gen now current gen consoles, and I think had they not made the type of progress that they've apparently made Madden 10 would have taken a hit in sales. I wouldn't go as far to say it would have been a flop, but I for one would not have even thought about buying it. I think that when it's all said and done NCAA 10 will be a testiment to what I'm saying because I predict less sales for NCAA this year than last.

Basically, the demo is a way for them to assure themselves a return on investment because they've created enough hype via weekly blogs and E3, come on, have you guys read the Madden forums, people are frantic about this game (for the most part). I said last year that I wouldn't preorder Madden again and I'm sticking to it.

quiknick

this is so lame and very infortuante for the people buying the game. what really pisses me off is the limited supply if there going to do something like that they should have a day long thing for that day only go get the code not a limited supply of codes. but once again its just ea screwing the consumer. HEY EA if it wasnt for us buying the game you wouldnt have jobs!! and i hate to say that cause i really never have problems with EA titles

Chris

Any idea when someone will have the NCAA roster file with names? Will we be able to use the EA Locker function again this year? Also, any idea when the roster update will be out?

Skihawks

Roster files won't be available until launch and, yes, the EA Locker is back this year. I have no idea what you mean in regards to roster updates since NCAA Football has never had developer-released roster updates....

Josh

Pasta, why on earth is there a limited supply of demo codes? Doesn't EA want people to preorder the game? It doesn't make any sense to limit the supply. Typical EA move.

pastapadre

Plus they still have those preorders regardless of whether the people ended up getting a code or not. I don't know if they purposefully put out less than they should but its clear that they want people to get excited about getting them.

Jonah Falcon

Isn't it obvious? Limit supply = higher demand. And people still get to play a demo, just a 8 minute demo instead of a full 20 minutes.

Skihawks

What really sucks is if you pre-ordered the game two months ago, you could be left in the cold when it comes to the demo code. Very weak, in my opinion.

heisman988

not necessarily......if the employees do their job by calling and notifying the customers when the codes come in to pick them up then its no empty feeling at all.....after all that should be done by how early you have preordered the game

Jonah Falcon

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WWOFTBBNR

You are an idiot. Plain and simple.

Koach_Vonner

First of all to the guy who said that last years Super Bowl was a snooze. I don't know what game you were watching, but that was a great game. Next, I don't think its that bad what gamestop is doing either. I think that they are trying to figure out a way to get some guranteed money up front. Now people could still pull their pre-order away, but its still smart thinking on the fore front. The one thing I do disagree with is that Pre-orders get the demo early. They should release the standard version and the extended version demos on the dame date.

WhenBearsAttack

I would like to know WHY having a preorder bonus demo is bad for consumers, from Gamestop's standpoint, it helps sales, and from our standpoint, it'd be nice to have a little bonus for just popping $5 down. If we don't like it, we could always take the $5 back or put it on a different game. I'm all for extended demos like that, now I don't have to depend on 2 minute quarter demo that's FREE (you get what you pay for) to make my decision.

As far as limited supply, it's probably limited to the people who preordered it already. I remember when GS got the Fight Night demo cards in, they had a STACK (HUGE one too) of them and I doubt they had that many preorders for it.

Limited supply sucks

True with the fight night,but they did run out of the ufc ones.

WhenBearsAttack

I didn't even try to get ahold of the UFC ones until a good week after they were gone, so I don't know how supplied they were, but I'm sure I would have gotten one if I had popped a bit down on before the fact.

like I said though, I really don't see a problem with this, people act like they're entitled to way too much, and it's nice to have a bonus incentive to preorder a game imo. If I don't like the demo, I can switch it to something else (I did that with Resistance PSP and saved myself $40 after not liking the demo), it's not like you're giving them $5 just FOR the demo, it goes towards the purchase of the game.

Could you clarify why this is such a bad thing, Pasta?

pastapadre

You're forcing people to go to a particular store and put money down on a game. And for those who don't they're being treated like second class citizens.

I understand "incentives" but those should be something extra. Like I was ok with the extra long demo. But penalizing people who don't preorder is different (making them wait).

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