Thoughts on Madden Ultimate Team
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Recently there has been building discussion regarding the release of Madden Ultimate Team due out sometime in January. The free download will add a brand new game mode to Madden 10. TeamXbox, IGN, and Operation Sports have detailed previews of the mode. This has been a very popular addition to FIFA the past two years and as such the idea behind it has been expanded to Madden.
While the ability to build teams strategically (through the various avenues provided) is appealing it seems like a ton of effort is going to be required to do so. Unfortunately paying for for cards appears to be the way to really put together a great team. Playing online with these teams may be unbalanced because of that. I just can’t imagine investing so many hours with the purpose of just trying to earn credits and buy cards and with some players expiring after being used a certain number of times.
I’d like to know if additional credits are earned by playing longer games because it seems as though it is tailored to five minute quarters. I have no interest in playing five minute quarter games. If you end up getting penalized because of this, such as less likely to earn credits based on defensive performance, that would be pretty discouraging and I probably would never get into it. However if bonuses are provided based on length of games and as long as coins are earned through normal play including Franchise and Online Franchise than this mode would really intrigue me.
Vote in the poll on how you feel about Madden Ultimate Team and leave your thoughts in the comments!
December 22, 2009 at 12:18 am
This doesn't really interest me cause I just like to play franchise, but I may give it a try but doubt I will use it on a regular basis.
December 22, 2009 at 2:07 am
I cannot wait for this to come out its going to be a great compliment for madden 10 and they are relasing it at a perfect time. Hey Pasta do you know if any more 2k football games will ever come out. because i was thinking how good one might be but ea might have just blown them out of the water by now.
December 22, 2009 at 2:47 am
who else thinks the dolphins titans game was fixed
December 22, 2009 at 2:49 am
why do you say that?
December 22, 2009 at 3:27 am
just watch the game and youll se what i mean manny very bad calls agnst the dolphins im suprised it didnt get that much attention
December 22, 2009 at 7:12 am
suck it
December 22, 2009 at 6:03 pm
i hear a baby crying…..
December 23, 2009 at 12:56 am
you can say im a cry baby or you can go watch the game and see the game changing penaltys was greg camarillo realy using unecisary roghness or was he just toching him so hes down and i belive jason taylor strip chris johnson at the end of the game and it should of been a td going the other way so suck that and ur team got lucky
December 22, 2009 at 2:57 am
They still havent fired they staff for making the worst madden in history its dark days for sports games i think i will watch baseball more this year since i will be playing that till death
December 22, 2009 at 11:34 am
Worst Madden in history??? You think 06, 08 and 09 were better?
To me, this is the best Madden since they put the Owner mode in (04 I think). Still not perfect, far from it, but a very good one this year.
Back on topic, I'm not really sure I understand what this stuff is about, so I might take a look and go back to my offline franchise.
December 22, 2009 at 2:16 pm
all next gen been terrible 06 was nice on the ps2 not the 360 yea this the best one on next gen but what is it being compaired to past next gen maddens lmao
December 22, 2009 at 6:06 pm
It's not "NEXT-GEN" anymore… it's CURRENT-GEN. Sheesh… it's been out for 4 years now. Update your terminology.
December 22, 2009 at 3:01 am
Pasta, I've got a question for you. I'm about to start an online franchise with my friends for the first time, and when I checked the players (we're going to do a Fantasy Draft) I found out the ratings were way out of date…Is there any way we can get updated rosters for the franchise? Or is a roster update coming for online franchise soon? Thanks a lot.
December 22, 2009 at 3:43 am
Cash grab! Gotta pay for that exclusive license somehow, since the sales of regular Madden aren't getting it done.
Let's call it like it is.
December 22, 2009 at 5:11 am
you're stupid if you think madden sales arent getting it done.
December 22, 2009 at 5:10 am
id rather have a better online franchise.. atleast the ability to import ncaa draft class.. the fake players is fucking stupid, tim tribow?? i mean come on.. lame
December 22, 2009 at 5:18 am
All this is is a different form of madden cards people are yall that blind this is nothing new they just changed it thats all and yall think its new they took madden cards out like dummys now they know they shouldnt of did it now they what to bring back madden cards and all i have to say E A grow up worry bout game play just gameplay get your game right please all yall doing is just trying to make sales i took your cramp and traded it in for batman
December 22, 2009 at 9:20 am
For the past 5 years all the "additions" and "new features" are just things that used to be in Madden that they took out.
December 22, 2009 at 1:54 pm
So if we play 5 minute games, do the stats represent 15 minute games for the CPU. Come on EA! get this stuff fixed and allow stats to represent the minutes the human plays for CPU games.
December 22, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Actually pretty excited about the mode – I like the APF2K kinda "build a team" vibe, along with the GM aspect of managing contracts and the like. Only concern is how difficult earning cards will be – will it be reasonable to build a team through playing games, or is the reality that you'll need to pony up cash to buy yourself a good club?
December 22, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Too late
Way to hard to get points for super team
Online Leagues
Online Play
User vs. User
Franchise
Alot to do already
Work on Franchise and Gameplay then gimicks!
December 22, 2009 at 6:09 pm
why does EA waste time giving us these useless "features"????? this is as dumb as NCAA's Season Showdown…it's worthless!!!! spend more working on things that matter like GAMEPLAY,ONLINE/OFFLINE FRANCHISE and things that FRICKIN' MATTER!
December 22, 2009 at 7:56 pm
It seems like a great new feature for people who like collecting things.
From what I've read, it'll be pretty easy to build a decent team without having to pay tons of money.
I'm looking forward to it.
December 22, 2009 at 7:59 pm
They need to fix Create-A-Team. They need to come up with all new logos, and more realistic helmet stripe designs. Allowing numbers to be used as helmet decals would be nice (like Alabama's helmets).
December 23, 2009 at 1:26 am
I'm certainly not interested in it at all if the only way to get good cards is buy purchasing them. If the amount of playtime required to acquire the tokens needed to get good cards is too unrealistic I simply won't even bother with this. If it turns out to be reasonable though, I could see myself getting caught up in the whole collectible aspect. By the way, wasn't it just 3 or so years ago when Madden Cards were in the game annually as an included feature that didn't require the purchase of any cards?
December 23, 2009 at 4:38 am
Useless , and Boring !!
December 23, 2009 at 4:44 am
USELESS !!
December 23, 2009 at 3:39 pm
old saying comes to ming. You can ploish a piece of shit all you want but at the end of the day its still a piece of shit.
December 24, 2009 at 7:30 am
This kinda interests me a little bit. It sounds like the old Madden cards, doubt I play games just to earn credits for it, but if I happen to earn something just for playing a game of Madden, then thats alright.
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January 8, 2010 at 8:09 pm
The biggest problem I find is they don't give you enough coins to keep building the team. It seems that you are just able to get to a certain level of greatness and you just hold there. The only way to get a decent amount of coins is to buy them with microsoft points.