It begins: next Madden demo scrapped, only playable early with EA access

[BillyBong]

LudicrousSpeed said:

You're making a way bigger deal about it than it is, especially with posts like this.

I mean, so you're saying people will religously buy yearly iterations of sports titles, to the point that it is the sole reason they own a console, and yet because they do not have a little demo which is always using outdated rosters in a controlled setting, they won't buy? Please. A vast majority of people will buy the games with or without demos. You don't get a feel for changes in these games from the demos.

so i assume you're not much of a madden player correct?  correct.. it's less about the roster and more about the new nuances.  otherwise, if it's a rehash of the same game the previous year or new mechanics are broken, all you bought a new game for was the updated roster or for new broken mechanics.. which isn't worth the $60.. hence the reason Madden sales go up and down yearly depending on if the new changes or not makes any difference to the overall gameplay.  that's what a demo tells you.. just for this year the concerns for some are: the new preplay mechanics, how will this affect fluidity of game planning? max protection blocking.. how different is this to the slide protection of maddens previous?  coverage adjustments?  levelled coverages and will it finally work in this iteration?  improved adaptive AI?  QB cadence, how will this affect hot routes pre LOS lineup?  etc.. etc..  this ultimately can influence whether a new madden is worth a pick up, pick up at bargain, or skip out altogether.  same thing with games like Fifa, PES, etc.  new iterations make or break a game.. small changes can change the overall gameplay.. but I wouldn't expect you to understand if you personally can't feel/test the changes for through a demo.. hence, you are probably not much of a sports gamer.  that's no knock on you.. just saying.. throwing blanket statements like "a demo wouldn't matter for a game like this" and that people will buy the game regardless, just means you don't understand the core sports gamer audience.  for the casuals?  sure.. go ahead buy ill-informed and no one cares.. but for those competitive gamers that make up those communities.. hell no.. just look at the last Live and tell me that's a $60 buy just to test if the mechanics work or not.. thus the reason it sold less than 250k worldwide and as a multiplat.