Back in 2018 I posted about thirteen of the lost features that Madden 23 coins need to be restored to sports games. Five of them came taken from American football and, nearly half a decade after, four features are still not present.
For instance, we're unlikely to see dynamic attendance. In real life fans will leave stadiums masse if their team is at the center of a blowout, or don't show up in the first place towards the end of a bad season. But in Madden every stadium is filled, from beginning to end, for every game. It's nothing but a demand made from on-high.
"We included accurate attendance for every team, but Jacksonville always had terrible turnouts," a former EA Tiburon producer told Sports Illustrated (opens in new tab). "The Jags owner got all furious when he realized there were seats empty when you played as his team during the game. The team called the NFL and we were required to address the issue immediately."
The show is not likely to make the cut, from that same program: Chris Berman's half-time show that was famously made with ESPN NFL 2K, the option of creating your own team as in EA's NCAA games and the return of"the" Madden ambulance. The ambulance is very old-school, and forgivable buy mut coins madden 23. And in fairness, draft classes of importability are in the mix now which have proved to be a appreciated improvement.