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Madden NFL 15 Is Free On Xbox One For Limited Time


Limited trials and demos of already released games seems a little redundant, but if it can help a game sell then sometimes it's better to arrive later than to never arrive at all. In the case of Madden NFL 15, EA is most certainly in the camp of better late than never. 

IGN managed to get confirmation that the demo for Madden NFL 15 is available worldwide to gamers looking to get in some virtual pigskin action leading up to the Super Bowl this year. 

As revealed on the official Twitter account for EA's Madden NFL... 


Over the course of the weekend you can get in some free game time with Madden NFL 15... but only six hours worth of game time. 

That's right, the demo is not only limited in its availability but also limited in play time. 

And yes, as mentioned near the top of the article, IGN did confirm that even those of you outside of North America will be able to get your hands on the limited, timed-trial for the game, writing... 
“A representative with EA Sports confirmed with IGN that the free trial of Madden NFL 15 was available worldwide.”

One thing that really boggles my mind is why are there limited, timed-demos being made available for games already out on the market? 

It makes sense to have a limited trial for a game before it releases so that people get amped up for the experience and can't wait to buy the full game when release day rolls around. But it makes very little sense, in my opinion, to make a limited, timed-trial available of a game that's been on the market for more than six months already. I mean, if people didn't know about it six months ago and didn't think to buy it then, would making a limited demo – that most people would likely miss over a single weekend – make them change their minds? 

Of course, this could be part of the conjoined efforts between Electronic Arts and Microsoft to further help bolster the appeal of the Xbox One. Microsoft has been pulling out every trick in the book lately to win over the market share in North America, and I can't blame them given how poorly the Xbox One was perceived in many of the hardcore markets back in 2013 (my how time flies). 

Microsoft and EA also teamed up for the EA Access, a digital download service that provides gamers with exclusive access and discounts to titles published under the Electronic Arts label. In fact, members of EA Access were given privileges to play the limited demo of Madden NFL 15 way back when it was relevant in mid-August. So it's more like the rest of Xbox One owners being tossed a few of the demo scraps of EA Access members. 

You can grab hold of the demo right now up until Monday, January 26th. 



       

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Agreed, terrible piece of news.

MGS needs more studios, oh well... They should just buy a few.



Such a waste of resources, all working on the same tech.

MS needs more third party exclusives imo, not enough first party studios yet. Shenmue comes to mind lol



Yeah that is unfortunate really. Though Phil Spencer said there is unannounced studios working on projects so i would have assumed LXP and sister studios would have been them. Guess not




       

Damn The Witcher 3 looks good. I know there's been a lot of good things said about the series before (that's the next plan after Mass Effect!) but everything else I see just gets better and better.

Can't be the only one who thinks that, right?



 

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.

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With all the hype and good press the witcher 3 is getting, I do hope that Microsoft has some sort of aggressive marketing planned with the game for xbox one. A witcher 3-branded xbox one would definitely do nicely. Or tout the xbox one-to-pc/windows 10 streaming, etc.
I just don't want their marketing deal to go to waste like the dragon age deal.

 

So far, the Witcher 3 and Ori are my must-haves for the first half of 2015 for my xbox one. 



Ka-pi96 said:
roborad said:

With all the hype and good press the witcher 3 is getting, I do hope that Microsoft has some sort of aggressive marketing planned with the game for xbox one. A witcher 3-branded xbox one would definitely do nicely. Or tout the xbox one-to-pc/windows 10 streaming, etc.
I just don't want their marketing deal to go to waste like the dragon age deal.

 

So far, the Witcher 3 and Ori are my must-haves for the first half of 2015 for my xbox one. 

Microsoft had a marketing deal for Dragon Age? :o

Yup. 



Why is those studios working on hololens a bad thing? Remember this is supposed to come to Xbox too. So I rather have them make some really awsome games for it that show how it's supposed to be done instead of just releasing it without software



TiagoCosta said:
Such a waste of resources, all working on the same tech.

MS needs more third party exclusives imo, not enough first party studios yet. Shenmue comes to mind lol

Why is it a waste of resources? Just because they aren't Xbox teams (which would be btw even more teams working on the same tech ) doesn't mean that the work of these people in these teams is a waste of resources. people should really have more respect for the work of others...

I would also like to see many more Xbox teams but that doesn't make the work of other people useless^^



So, I just beat Halo 4. Before getting on the good points, there's a few things I'd like to point out:

 

- Haven't touched the multiplayer, probably won't do it since it's not my kind of things.

- "QTE"s (if we can call it that, because it felt like Slow Timed Events) are the devil here. I don't know why just not allow full control of MC.

- Spanish translation, which is actually enforced on the Spanish copies of the game, is horrible and they should be ashamed of themselves. I honestly don't know if there is not a quality control, but what the fuck. (They translated things as "Mind if I join in?" such as "Can I follow you?")

- It felt a bit too short.

 

That being said:

- The story was pretty nice, and there was some epic scale added to it in the overal scheme of things. Master Chief gets pretty fucked up, but hey. Also, they added the best things of Reach into it: the space/flying sections.

- Gameplay was solid, as always. The controls could use a bit of work though!

- The OST is awesome.