It’s a new year and Madden NFL 23 is always in shambles. One of the crown jewels of Electronic Arts’ sports game monopoly, the latest entry continues to find new ways to annoy some of the series’ most diehard gamers. Lost holiday gifts in-game? Game modes locked? Franchise backups erased? Bad communication? Make your choice.
It was a perfect storm of live service failures over the recent holiday break that once again left fans dreaming of a better way forward for the only professional soccer video game in town. The surrounding tumult mad 23 was Slow rollout since release in August. And while things have been steadily improving When it comes to core gameplay, the heavily monetized live service still catches fire.
The last fire started on Christmas Day. Players had earned annual Zero Chill giveaways with special players and packs throughout the month that couldn’t be opened until December 25. Some had even spent $50 on bundles hoping to nab highly rated players to participate in EA’s lucrative program. mad Ultimate team mode. Then the bugs, exploits, and updates happened.
Some of the giveaways were supposed to include Tom Brady and Harold Carmichael and did. However, many of the freebies were mislabeled, with images and names pointing to existing Legends packs rather than Zero Chill’s. In an attempt to fix the issue, EA released an update that accidentally changed the contents of freebies, screwing some players out of high rank maps, but also mistakenly giving others tons of extra map packs in what some YouTubers called it. the biggest bug in the history of MUT. Another update was released towards the end of Christmas Day, but by the time the dust had settled, some players had behaved like bandits while others were still waiting for makeup gifts.
“This resulted in some packs giving a significantly higher value and some packs giving a significantly lower value,” said the mad team post on the EA forum a few days later. While they promised to fix the freebies and give all players an “extra big freebie” for the issue, many players were still frustrated with the multiple confusions, especially those who had spent a lot of money on it. hoarding the Zero Chill gift in advance. . . To top it off, some players claim to have been kicked out of MUT completely.
But what if I told you it wasn’t even the worst thing that ever happened to mad Last week? The worst thing that happened was that players lost months of data in franchise connected mode after trying to connect while the servers were down between December 28 and 29. Franchise mode allows groups of friends to simulate multiple seasons together, and losing it can mean wasting months of a collective football campaign.
“First of all, we’re sorry this happened,” the development team post on New Year’s Eve. “We know how important your franchises are to you and are actively working on a fix to restore some files via backup as soon as possible. However, not all affected leagues can be restored. team currently expects around 40% of leagues to be recovered.
It is not known how many people in total will be affected. “Has anyone had this screen before?” » bed one of many recent posts on the mad Subreddit, each accompanied by blue error screens of death. “How can we tell the poor boy?” a commenter replied. Adding insult to injury was the fact that EA initially seemed to downplay the extent of the save game corruption issues. When Franchise Mode came back online, the publisher hinted that everything would be back to normal. Three days later, he announced to the players that around 60% of the people concerned had definitively lost their data.
Tuesday, the successes were linked. EA has canceled its regularly scheduled Good Morning mad twitch drop flow, add in a tweet that “updates regarding packs present + players unable to access MUT will be posted on Direct as soon as possible”. Fan reaction has been less than stellar, both because the publisher seemed to be dodge questions but also because he didn’t even mention the corrupted data issue.
Some fans are wondering why the NFL continues to license EA exclusively. The current contract was renewed in 2020 for six more years, and the game has been on a clear downward trajectory ever since. 2K Games is supposedly working on its own potential NFL 2K revival, and after being burned by Crazy 23a growing number of fans are finally talking about taking the leap if the EA series doesn’t start to take shape.
EA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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