EA spends the year in a trickle feed

Since Madden's business model is built around Ultimate Team, a game mode where you slowly accumulate stronger players within the course of the year (preferably by purchasing random packs, naturally ). EA spends the year in a trickle feed, in which they keep bumping the quality of players you get. If they did not launch a brand new Madden, there could be nothing to Mut 21 coins work toward (everyone would have elite rosters) and people would walk off. It's scummy, but the entire Madden franchise is based on people spending hundreds on MUT and then jumping to another game a year after. On the flip-side, in case you don't care about being constantly up-to-date with rosters, most sports games now have profound"end-of-life" sales before another one comes out.

That's how I've bought the Madden games that I have. Hell the latest NBA2K was on steam like 92 percent off the other day. They do it so the MUT players need to restart their collection every season. EA does not really change much with each Madden series. I Perform franchise, and I'm honestly okay with older rosters. If Metacritic scores appears to bear significance to sales then they'd care. IIRC, John Riccitiello, former EA CEO, really much cared about it. Metacritic scores matter to publishers as soon as it provides them the opportunity to cheap Madden nfl 21 coins screw more than developers. Might make some stockholders ears perk up a bit, but I really don't see much other than that.