I score over 40 points every single game and unless I’m trying not to reach an unrealistic score (lowest I can do is 42) , I will reach somewhere between 60-80 points. I break every rushing and passing record accidentally. The CPU stats are all incredibly similar. Nobody ever has a great season (4800-5000+ Yards) and most QBs throw over 12 interceptions which isn’t like super unrealistic , but it’s often QBs who don’t throw many picks or extremely talented QBs throwing 17-22 picks. They also ALWAYS throw over 20 passing TDs , and no matter the play the QB is never benched. For example , last year Cam Newton threw 8 TDs to 10 picks. That’ll never happen on the video game. The most annoying part relating to that section of this complaint is that it is SUPER difficult to get interceptions IN GAME. No matter how bad the QB or receivers are or how good of a catching rating my corner has. Also , the play of the players doesn’t affect their price much if at all in resigning or free agency , super annoying. Trades involving players almost never happen , I’m on my 58th franchise , I’ve played at least 2 to completion (you also don’t let us play enough season , 30 is short) , I have seen less than 10 trades involving players. Trades in general are extremely rare unless it’s the user. The draft is extremely unrealistic , I’ve never seen a CPU generated rookie over an 80 enter the league. Players develop and regress at an infuriating rate. By the 5th season , EVERY TIME (not an exaggeration) there will be no new linemen over a 90 unless I edited them , linebackers will have 4 elite 2 really good 3 average and the rest are just decent to garbage & same with RBs TEs Safeties and punters and kickers MIGHT have 1 over an 80. I have tried to play with the XP sliders , they don’t do much and I don’t feel like I should be responsible for that in the first place , having to determine the rate they progress. Meaning , it’s not offensive that I CAN edit it , but I feel that you have not made any effort to correct this problem. Also , WAY too many players regress every year. Sometimes at only 29 , 30 year old. Take a game like NBA 2k for example. Each player has a prime beginning age , before this age the player will progress relatively rapidly , a maximum rating , a cap on each players rating during their progression (you guys have the problem that I can’t adjust the sliders too much because I don’t want EVERY player to be great I just want them to do something other than come in at a 65 , max out at 72 & regress at age 29 , but not necessarily have them all at 90+) , and a prime ending age , after this age players will regress relatively rapidly , more rapidly than if they had a bad season. The commentary is SUPER repetitive , which I understand it’s a video game , but it seems they only have about 5-10 phrases for big runs or passes , which is annoying when the hardest difficulty has me breaking big plays every couple drives , a compound issue. Also , you have a HoF that doesn’t show MOST hall of famers , which I guess isn’t a big deal at all , I just notice it all the time. Also your catching is extremely unrealistic and unreliable. Players can only catch in animations. For example , instead of having catching ACTUALLY BASED ON THE RATINGS (like if your a good catcher , on a defended catch you might grab it and bring it to your chest or a GREAT catcher might turn their entire body away from a defender that is sensed in the area) you only have them based on animations. I may be explaining this wrong but let me try to clarify by bringing up your poor defense mechanics , defenders NEVER actually interact with the player their defending when user controlled unless you press the Chuck button or something. Like they don’t put a hand on the receiver when running with them , they don’t look back at the QB to see if the ball , also press coverage is only animation based , so a highly skilled route runner may get clamped up by a poor defender just because the animation was triggered. It isn’t skill based. It’s only animation based. I didn’t pay $60 just to watch animations play out. SOMETIMES (a Pat on the back) a player may trip over another one if they’re too close while running. But other than that , the players don’t seem to realize anyone else is in their vicinity unless an animation has triggered. Zone coverage is horrible , man coverage is useless. Zone doesn’t work 80% of the time because defenders don’t react to the players entering and exiting their zones and man doesn’t work because the animations say so.
These issues , ALL OF THEM , have been prevalent since AT LEAST Madden 17. I feel incredibly disrespected now due to the fact that I’m beginning to feel that you just
