Madden NFL 25 Hype Machine

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PLAYBOOKS

04/25 - Run Free (link)
Unlock the power, precision and creativity of an NFL ball carrier.
Surprise Playbook - 04/25 - Infinity Engine 2 (link)

05/06 delayed to 05/20 - Connected Franchise Part 1 (link) (link)
Cement your legacy as one of the all-time great NFL players or coaches in the new and improved Connected Franchise.

05/20 - Connected Franchise Part 2
Take ultimate control of your franchise. Not sure how the delay backs things up.

06/24 - Madden Share
The best content from around the Madden NFL universe, right at your fingertips.

07/01 - Madden Ultimate Team
Enjoy new ways to play and build your team in this year’s edition of Ultimate Team.

Pre-Orders (link)

• GameStop - San Francisco 49ers Franchise Pack
  Eddie DeBartolo Jr. -- Connected Franchise only
  Bill Walsh -- Connected Franchise; Madden Ultimate Team
  Joe Montana -- Connected Franchise; Madden Ultimate Team
  
• Amazon - Pittsburgh Steelers Franchise Pack
  Art Rooney Sr. -- Connected Franchise only
  Rod Woodson -- Connected Franchise; Madden Ultimate Team
  Franco Harris -- Connected Franchise; Madden Ultimate Team
  
• Best Buy - Dallas Cowboys Franchise Pack
  Jimmy Johnson -- Connected Franchise; Madden Ultimate Team
  Troy Aikman -- Connected Franchise; Madden Ultimate Team
  
• Wal-Mart - Oakland Raiders Franchise Pack
  John Madden -- Connected Franchise; Madden Ultimate Team
  Tom Flores -- Connected Franchise; Madden Ultimate Team
  Fred Biletnikoff -- Connected Franchise; Madden Ultimate Team
  
• Origin -
  Warren Moon -- Connected Franchise; Madden Ultimate Team
  Kurt Warner -- Connected Franchise; Madden Ultimate Team
  
• Target - Chicago Bears Franchise Pack*In Store Only
  Mike Ditka -- Connected Franchise; Madden Ultimate Team
  William Perry -- Connected Franchise; Madden Ultimate Team
  

RUMORS

• Some rumors have been floating around that Microsoft and EA (Sports) may have stricken a next generation exclusivity agreement.
  
• PastaPadre speculates that the month long break in Playbooks in June may allow EA to announce a next-gen version of Madden for release this year.
  
• A "Game Changer" called Shopmaster has been credited in saying that Custom Playbooks are usable in Connected Franchises.
  
• Speculators say that the NCAA no huddle style would be implemented in the new game.
  

I loved Madden 06 with the vision cone. More than making the entire game more difficult to play, to me it really separated the elite QB's from the rest of the guys in a way that no other football game ever has. On Madden 13, guys like Peyton and Brees might be way better than guys like Stanzi or Brandstater (aka bums) but are they way better than guys like Cutler, Ponder, Alex Smith, or other average or less than elite guys? Not imho. Thanks to the vision cone in Madden 06, they were. You had elite QB's, good QB's, average guys, and bums. Ever since they took it off it seems every QB can make every throw, some just do it a little more consistently and with a little more zip on the passes.

I don't remember a thing about Madden 07, but IIRC Madden 08 was when they introduced Weapons and Javon Walker was virtually unstoppable in the game (among other WR's) thanks to the ridiculous catches he could make. Madden 10 and 11 were ok imho, flawed but good. Madden 13 is easily the best game on this gen imho, and Madden 25 plays like 13.5 judging by the demo.

I really hope EA hits the next gen floor running with Madden and we don't have to wait 3-4 years for a real next gen Madden like we seemed to have to this gen.

AAAAAAHHH Madden 08 had one of my favorite soundtracks out of any Madden game.

I played the hell out of '07. Remember the radio guy in franchise that would talk about league news while you were in the menus? Loved that.

'08 on PS2 actually had my favorite game mode in any Madden ever, narrowly beating out the mini-camp drills from back in the day. I think it was called Fantasy Challenge mode or something like that. Kind of a precursor to Ultimate Team in a lot of ways, but you played with a stripped down roster, and played tournament-style matches to level your team up and buy new cards. Really a shame that didn't make the jump to next gen. Would've been fun online.

Man.. now I just remembered the Madden cards from back in 2001-2003-ish. Those were pretty fun to collect, although I never really used them.

Ahhhhhhhhh Madden 07. Good times. I was a complete beast back then (I am probably overreacting lol). And it had one of my favorite songs on any Madden: Ex's and Oh's.

Entire Madden Ratings Released: http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/story/2013-08-22/madden-25-player-ratings-rosters-release-date-complete-offense-defense?eadid=SOC/Twi/SNMain

What do you guys think? Are some guys rated too high, any rated too low, who do you think deserves to be thrown under the bus in other words lol.

Animosity1oAK wrote:Entire Madden Ratings Released: http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/story/2013-08-22/madden-25-player-ratings-rosters-release-date-complete-offense-defense?eadid=SOC/Twi/SNMain

What do you guys think? Are some guys rated too high, any rated too low, who do you think deserves to be thrown under the bus in other words lol.

Beat me to it. haha

Peanut FINALLY gets some more respect. 95 OVR CB  
I know the rookies are out of whack, but it's weird to see a 4th rd pick rated higher than a 2nd rounder in Bears LBs Greene and Bostic. Of course these ratings will alter greatly with the season opening roster updates. Peppers seemed low, but I think they're trying to limit the "elite" players some.

Madden 2005 was the best evvvvvvvvvvvvvvvver.

Animosity1oAK wrote:Entire Madden Ratings Released: http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/story/2013-08-22/madden-25-player-ratings-rosters-release-date-complete-offense-defense?eadid=SOC/Twi/SNMain

What do you guys think? Are some guys rated too high, any rated too low, who do you think deserves to be thrown under the bus in other words lol.

The Steelers ratings seemed ok.  I didn't anything that jumped out at me as being too far in either direction.  I was very unimpressed with the team speed at the RB position.  I guess the trade for Felix Jones will help somewhat.

Awesome news guys. Online Connected Franchise has the imported draft class feature!

Animosity1oAK wrote:Awesome news guys. Online Connected Franchise has the imported draft class feature!

Ohh that is pretty cool.  I like what Madden has done with the generated prospects but it would add to the experience to have a connection and recognition to the draftees.  The ability to draft Clowney or Manzell or watch EDJ draft Taylor Martinez in the first round would be cool, lol.

Steel Pitt wrote:

Animosity1oAK wrote:Awesome news guys. Online Connected Franchise has the imported draft class feature!

Ohh that is pretty cool.  I like what Madden has done with the generated prospects but it would add to the experience to have a connection and recognition to the draftees.  The ability to draft Clowney or Manzell or watch EDJ draft Taylor Martinez in the first round would be cool, lol.

I agree. Gonna be freaking awesome!

Steel Pitt wrote:

Animosity1oAK wrote:Awesome news guys. Online Connected Franchise has the imported draft class feature!

Ohh that is pretty cool.  I like what Madden has done with the generated prospects but it would add to the experience to have a connection and recognition to the draftees.  The ability to draft Clowney or Manzell or watch EDJ draft Taylor Martinez in the first round would be cool, lol.

Would folks be OK with exporting our NCAA league draft classes every year for Madden? I would LOVE it if we did that. Would sidestep all the stupid draft class cheat sheets that come out every year, too. I would think we'd be finishing year 1 in NCAA pretty close to when we start Madden. I assume that like in years past, you'd have to import the draft class at the beginning of the season.

MeanMrMustard wrote:

Steel Pitt wrote:

Animosity1oAK wrote:Awesome news guys. Online Connected Franchise has the imported draft class feature!

Ohh that is pretty cool.  I like what Madden has done with the generated prospects but it would add to the experience to have a connection and recognition to the draftees.  The ability to draft Clowney or Manzell or watch EDJ draft Taylor Martinez in the first round would be cool, lol.

Would folks be OK with exporting our NCAA league draft classes every year for Madden? I would LOVE it if we did that. Would sidestep all the stupid draft class cheat sheets that come out every year, too. I would think we'd be finishing year 1 in NCAA pretty close to when we start Madden. I assume that like in years past, you'd have to import the draft class at the beginning of the season.

Already been thinking about it. A.) It would be awesome for the immersion factor, but those of us in the NCAA league would have a stronger knowledge of the prospects based on how they did. B.) I was thinking of just simulating a CPU franchise to export rosters so that it's completely unbiased.
I also don't know how I would get the save file from Pitt to upload the rosters into Madden.

the_EDJ wrote:Already been thinking about it. A.) It would be awesome for the immersion factor, but those of us in the NCAA league would have a stronger knowledge of the prospects based on how they did. B.) I was thinking of just simulating a CPU franchise to export rosters so that it's completely unbiased.
I also don't know how I would get the save file from Pitt to upload the rosters into Madden.

He'd probably have to save it to a thumb drive, then email it to you, if we really wanted to go that route. Or maybe you could give him commish duties for the import process, and then switch back.

I read on OS that Madden readjusts and somewhat randomizes ratings when it imports the class, so it could be that past performance wouldn't make a huge difference. I get where you're coming from, though. One way or the other, as long as we have real NCAA players, I'm happy.

Madden has the Madden file sharing stuff back this year, maybe they can incorporate sharing NCAA draft files since they can be uploaded into online leagues. Weren't these things always loaded with really high rated players though? Wonder how/if they will balance it.

the_EDJ wrote:

MeanMrMustard wrote:

Steel Pitt wrote:

Animosity1oAK wrote:Awesome news guys. Online Connected Franchise has the imported draft class feature!

Ohh that is pretty cool.  I like what Madden has done with the generated prospects but it would add to the experience to have a connection and recognition to the draftees.  The ability to draft Clowney or Manzell or watch EDJ draft Taylor Martinez in the first round would be cool, lol.

Would folks be OK with exporting our NCAA league draft classes every year for Madden? I would LOVE it if we did that. Would sidestep all the stupid draft class cheat sheets that come out every year, too. I would think we'd be finishing year 1 in NCAA pretty close to when we start Madden. I assume that like in years past, you'd have to import the draft class at the beginning of the season.

Already been thinking about it. A.) It would be awesome for the immersion factor, but those of us in the NCAA league would have a stronger knowledge of the prospects based on how they did. B.) I was thinking of just simulating a CPU franchise to export rosters so that it's completely unbiased.
I also don't know how I would get the save file from Pitt to upload the rosters into Madden.

Yeah it would be nice to use the file from our league but like you said I'm not sure how you would get the file from me or if file sharing is possible.  Either way, you could just sim a season for the purposes of the draft class.  In the end I think we just want the real college players instead of the generated prospects.

just export the draft class file onto a thumb drive and e-mail it

I'm in for the league too btw don't give away my team

Just read pastapadres review. It has me a little worried. He usually says good things about madden

WHat's the targeted start date on the league?