Companion App

Any updates?

Nope none as today team is still working on it though per GMM this morning

"Working on it" as least means that it's in our future. Was worried it was killed off

How hard can it be?  It’s the app just different version of madden…uh oh, did I stumble across a pattern?  Kinda like the game itself is the same except updates. Hmmmm

The app has been pretty bad for me this year. Keeps shutting down. As of right now mine is broken but idk why

OBIDOBI said:

How hard can it be?  It’s the app just different version of madden…uh oh, did I stumble across a pattern?  Kinda like the game itself is the same except updates. Hmmmm

How is a game based on an actual sport going to change lol. Also the markets changed a fair amount so the companion app has to be adjusted to account for that

Well, Im not asking them to change the sport, duh, I’m asking for IMPROVEMENTS to their representation of the game.  If they are going to keep sole control of the “simulation” tag I expect progress.  More penalties. More realism, less animations, get the NFL to add injuries because they ARE in the game Whether it’s MUT, exhibition or franchise.  That’s what I expect…constant improvements. Understand?

OBIDOBI said:

Well, Im not asking them to change the sport, duh, I’m asking for IMPROVEMENTS to their representation of the game.  If they are going to keep sole control of the “simulation” tag I expect progress.  More penalties. More realism, less animations, get the NFL to add injuries because they ARE in the game Whether it’s MUT, exhibition or franchise.  That’s what I expect…constant improvements. Understand?

injuries are a thing in franchise and are not a thing in the competitive game modes. As it should be

OBIDOBI said:

Well, Im not asking them to change the sport, duh, I’m asking for IMPROVEMENTS to their representation of the game.  If they are going to keep sole control of the “simulation” tag I expect progress.  More penalties. More realism, less animations, get the NFL to add injuries because they ARE in the game Whether it’s MUT, exhibition or franchise.  That’s what I expect…constant improvements. Understand?

I'm absolutely 100% with you on this, unfortunately that requires development time and competent project managers to guide the process.  Also would require someone on the team to actually play the game and understand the impact changes have.  Imagine how many manhours of Dev effort went into ridiculous stuff liek adding refs back into the game, or worse... that bullshit Catalogue feature.  Perhaps i'm just a casual, or am missing something, but i got accustomed to having the ability to quickly tap up on the right analogue stick in order to automatically search the auction house.  The menus are so painfully slow, the performance on PS5 is beyond horrendous, one misclick and we're stuck waiting on menus to load.  Hard to believe this is an AAA title in the 21st century, but it's par for the course at this point and i'm the asshole for still complaining in hopes that community feedback will ever be taken seriously.

Unfortunately, we're just pissing into the wind at this point.  And community members will constantly lap up the steaming pile of shit that EA keeps dumping on us.  Even voicing the most minor and obvious gripes will result in a chorus of ignorant takes in response.  Ahhh well.  We should all just go check out the alternative NFL simulation video games available... oh wait.  We can only hope that EA is so full of themselves they will be too cheap to extend the license one more time, but i won't hold my breath.

This tweet (X?) thread (RANT) says it better than i could ever hope to: https://twitter.com/JasonThomasxl/status/1563979375065849860

If we can do sets in 24’s app it would be the greatest thing ever

AZCARDS said:

The app has been pretty bad for me this year. Keeps shutting down. As of right now mine is broken but idk why

Not that you need it anymore seeing that the new game is out but try clearing your cache and force stopping it ... if this doesnt work do it again and then uninstall it and re-install it.

Skylineracer24 said:

Not that you need it anymore seeing that the new game is out but try clearing your cache and force stopping it ... if this doesnt work do it again and then uninstall it and re-install it.

Thanks I’ll try that

elmango30 said:

injuries are a thing in franchise and are not a thing in the competitive game modes. As it should be

I disagree.  Injuries in MUT would prevent so much BS.  So much.  It would change peoples ideas about what players they get and actually getting good back up players to sub in due to injuries.  Right now, my backups are in the low 70’s just so I can get 50/50 theme team, other than that,  a lips are pointless, so why have a depth chat? Remember…it’s in the game. Except for injuries, real penalties, challenges, ejections… I understand the NFL doesn’t want EA to show injuries because apparently in their world, the NFL is unirxorns and gummie bears and no one ever gets hurt, but cmon…

OBIDOBI said:

I disagree.  Injuries in MUT would prevent so much BS.  So much.  It would change peoples ideas about what players they get and actually getting good back up players to sub in due to injuries.  Right now, my backups are in the low 70’s just so I can get 50/50 theme team, other than that,  a lips are pointless, so why have a depth chat? Remember…it’s in the game. Except for injuries, real penalties, challenges, ejections… I understand the NFL doesn’t want EA to show injuries because apparently in their world, the NFL is unirxorns and gummie bears and no one ever gets hurt, but cmon…

injuries increase the game effect of RNG. the more randomness is introduced into the game the more often the worse player will win. additionally it is a pet peeve of mine when players who only play MUT complain about realism. Regs and franchise is the simulation, MUT is the esport