EA Pushes Back Connected Franchise Playbook to May 20th

[tfctillidie]

Quote: Originally Posted by XtremeDunkz

If that is in fact true and gets announced it would make this delay more understandable. EDIT: and there you go. EA wasn't going to allow one of these reveals to get buried under the other. Now we know the reason for the delay. Put the cover back on the panic button.

They also announced Sims 4 too.

[ghettogeeksta]

Quote: Originally Posted by XtremeDunkz

If that is in fact true and gets announced it would make this delay more understandable. EDIT: and there you go. EA wasn't going to allow one of these reveals to get buried under the other. Now we know the reason for the delay. Put the cover back on the panic button.

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Originally Posted by cuttingteeth

EA has bigger news to unleash this afternoon, as it turns out. A friend with Disney just tipped me to them all but locked to take over the new Star Wars game.

If that is in fact true and gets announced it would make this delay more understandable.

EDIT: and there you go. EA wasn't going to allow one of these reveals to get buried under the other. Now we know the reason for the delay. Put the cover back on the panic button.

I don't really care about Star Wars games but this maybe true, Disney cancelled their Star Wars games development and cut the staff some weeks ago. And it's been rumored that they were shopping the license around to other developers.

I wouldn't let them off the hook though, this announcement is way bigger than just a Madden blog and the two crowds are probably different for the most part.

[SeahawkNMD]

If they would have announced this push back any time before today my disappointment level would be no higher then a 1. But when you go to bed expecting to get the info and wake up and get indications you'll be getting info that night and the CFM head is going to do a podcast interview AND THEN get the info it has been pushed back two weeks to do it all at once feels like a slap in the face. It's not real painful but it's stunning and makes me feel stupid for getting excited for Madden info.

When I first saw the schedule where CFM was separated into two blog releases I thought it was pretty dumb because everybody would only be asking about the stuff that's going to get released on the 2nd blog where I assumed the meat of it would be. But they, EA sports, decided to release this schedule and you know they put more into marketing then anything else so there's no excuse to waiting the day of to delay it 2 weeks.

[ghettogeeksta]

I hope they take their own advice and delay the next-gen Madden til 2014, but they probably won't because they can't miss out of a few next-gen sales, anyway

I really don't care that they pushed it back, I wasn't going to buy Madden on the current gen consoles anyway because I can tell by the trailers that the game-play is still very unrealistic and all the legacy issues still exist, and I can't get excited about Connected Career or Franchise or anything else if the game-play ain't right. What I am really looking forward to is news about the next-gen Madden.

As far as why they pushed Connected Franchise part 1 back I don't know but I am thinking a feature didn't make the cut. Them not wanting to trump the Star Wars announcement doesn't make sense because its apples and oranges most of my friends don't even know EA releases blogs.

Just because a EA public relations person get's on here and says they are not cutting features doesn't hold to much weight because we don't know what they had planned in the first place, PR is just doing their job. So to me only two possible reasons make sense.... 1. They just wanted to release all the news at once and changed their mind at the last second for some reason.
2. A feature or two didn't make the cut and they need time to revise the blog presentation.

[Big FN Deal]

Just read another post in another thread so wanted to ask this ITT. Does the embargo still lift after 9pm for other sources or do they have to wait until May 20th too?

[bcruise]

Quote: Originally Posted by Big FN Deal

Just read another post in another thread so wanted to ask this ITT. Does the embargo still lift after 9pm for other sources or do they have to wait until May 20th too?

I'd imagine that it's tied to the date EA actually reveals the features and not just a specific day on the calendar. But who knows, maybe one of the news outlets wasn't paying close enough attention today and lets it slip.

[moneal2001]

this almost saddens me(the EA getting SW Games). Look what they did to SWTOR.

[roadman]

Quote: Originally Posted by Big FN Deal

Just read another post in another thread so wanted to ask this ITT. Does the embargo still lift after 9pm for other sources or do they have to wait until May 20th too?

I read a whole twiter conversation between EACGers and the word is no articles until EA releases information. Everyone is holding onto their articles.

In reference to why the delay, not going to loose sleep over the decision, it is what it is.