Madden to Feature Uniform Fashion Critic in its Fake Twitter Feed

[Danimal]

Whats even funnier than the inclusion of this in the game is the people going off the rails on wasted resources.

The twitter feed is already in the game. This is the equivalent of some intern opening up Microsoft word and typing up 20-30 tweets.

Hell the deal could include the guy typing them up himself and just some intern entering them in some data tool.

The argument on resources being wasted on this might of made sense last year but that ship has long sailed people.

That said I still get a good chuckle when I think about why this is even news.

[Big FN Deal]

Quote: Originally Posted by Danimal

Whats even funnier than the inclusion of this in the game is the people going off the rails on wasted resources. The twitter feed is already in the game. This is the equivalent of some intern opening up Microsoft word and typing up 20-30 tweets. Hell the deal could include the guy typing them up himself and just some intern entering them in some data tool. The argument on resources being wasted on this might of made sense last year but that ship has long sailed people. That said I still get a good chuckle when I think about why this is even news.

Although that's a reasonable point in general, nothing I have learned about the way Tiburon implements things into Madden, leads me to think anything is as simple as it reasonably should be, lol.

Considering next-gen Madden's history, it's more likely new tweets have to be carefully added in some unheard of time consuming format, to avoid crashing the entire virtual Twitter.

[Hooe]

Quote: Originally Posted by ManiacMatt1782

It's been 10 years and Oline diline interactions are still behind the curve. Resources are being spent on programming this, and not focusing on giving us line play that works correctly and doesnt have false glitches to balance the offense like forcing blockers to willfully disengage once the speed burst button is pressed. Instead of having blockers just go out and find there man, or having a blocker get beat and pushed backward to blow up the play, Instead of just whiffing on a block to indicate failure. It is discouraging to people who want to see the gameplay move forward to see this kind of news. The news may not be directly from tiburon, but this is something they showed off to someone. this is what they deem important to show someone. To me it speaks volumes about where the franchise is headed.

Once more with feeling:

EA Austin is responsible for the entirety of Connected Careers Mode and does not have anything to do with football gameplay. EA Tiburon in Florida handles football gameplay for both Madden NFL and NCAA Football. There are no resources which could have gone to football gameplay "being wasted" on Twitter feeds or any other portion of Connected Careers mode.

Quote: Originally Posted by ManiacMatt1782

I see what you are saying, but I disagree. Using actual twitter to get feedback from fans, and customer base. Good use of resources. Spending more than 10 minutes making fake twitters for your game modes is wasting resources. I understand twitter is popular. And it's devlopers should use it as a tool. But putting Fake twitter in the game is a complete waste of time and energy. You aren't gonna sell an extra thousand copies this year because "they gonna tweet about your uni's" I don't see it. As I said complete waste of time and resources, on something that will have minimal effect on their bottom line.

You've missed the point. The purpose of the fake Twitter feed is for the delivery of in-game news events to the player and for immersion of the player into a virtual football world outside of a football gameplay context, which is absolutely not a waste of time. It's not there to just be Twitter. Without the feed, the player is completely uninformed as to the goings-on of the league, particularly since there's no transaction log (there should be). Even with a transaction log, the Twitter feed still serves to break news about draft prospects, players having big games, game results, and so on. Its use and utility in the game is readily apparent, even if it is a bit repetitive in is execution.

[Hooe]

Quote: Originally Posted by Danimal

Whats even funnier than the inclusion of this in the game is the people going off the rails on wasted resources. The twitter feed is already in the game. This is the equivalent of some intern opening up Microsoft word and typing up 20-30 tweets. Hell the deal could include the guy typing them up himself and just some intern entering them in some data tool. The argument on resources being wasted on this might of made sense last year but that ship has long sailed people. That said I still get a good chuckle when I think about why this is even news.

Pretty much this. The only thing that may have taken any substantial effort from an engineer is the addition of a few new scripted event triggers from which to fire tweets, if this new alias is to talk about, say, the use of alternate uniforms in a given game or on Thanksgiving Day games or something.

[kehlis]

Quote: Originally Posted by CM Hooe

Pretty much this. The only thing that may have taken any substantial effort from an engineer is the addition of a few new scripted event triggers from which to fire tweets, if this new alias is to talk about, say, the use of alternate uniforms in a given game or on Thanksgiving Day games or something.

To be fair, I think the biggest problem is that THIS is the news we are hearing right now.

We don't want to hear about this. I understand it has no negative effect on the other developments of the game but it would be nice to hear something about gameplay rather than something that adds nothing to it whatsoever.

[Hooe]

Quote: Originally Posted by kehlis

To be fair, I think the biggest problem is that THIS is the news we are hearing right now. We don't want to hear about this. I understand it has no negative effect on the other developments of the game but it would be nice to hear something about gameplay rather than something that adds nothing to it whatsoever.

I can understand this. Even if it's some small addition, like a new trick play or something, it'd be nice to hear something new or tweaked about the goings-on on the field. Based on last year's playbook series, I would guess that we start hearing more substantial news around draft time.

[pinksheets]

I don't really get the point. It's not like the uniform system is extremely expansive and dynamic, how will this guy's "tweets" not get somehow even more repetitive than the already existing tweeterers.=?

[OhioBuckeyes7]

this right here just proves why we need 2k for the NFL games. SMH. keep working on the gameplay and stop with this bs. EA Madden NFL how can you guys let the NCAAteam beat you every year? EA best sports Games NhL NCAA and fiffa.