Open Letter To EA Games & Tiburon

To EA Games & Tiburon,


As someone who's been buying games since the mid 80's I am going to say something that should have been said a long time ago to both of you.

Fix your shit, or stop making Madden.

As someone who wastes 60 bucks of their hard earned cash every year on your shitty product I'm going to say what the rest of us have been feeling. When you purchase a game it comes with bugs. Sure we're not all stupid. We expect that. Nobody is perfect. But every year we've come to expect the same line of garbage from you people. End game glitcher's, line pullers, and code exploits. Enough is enough. Unless I hear an outright apology from your companies before Madden 09 comes out with a promise to return for a full refund if not satisfied, I will not be purchasing your game again. We've all given you enough time to get your act together. When I outright see people message me that I should "Just take it," when they are line pulling and glitching me. Enough is enough.

There are millions of us who love the game of football. We take it very seriously and when we play a game that is supposed to be enjoyed only to find somebody is screwing your game's code like a cheap whore, we have to ask the questions of why the fuck hasn't it been fixed yet?

How many years do you think we're all going to swallow it? I was VERY reluctant to buy 08 in the first place. But was "assured," this would be the best Madden yet.The only thing I'm sure of is that I got fucked again this year without lube.

Want a suggestion? Make people have to actually sign up to play the game online if they want to play their copy on the internet against other players. I mean REALLY sign up. Real address, real name, real identifiers. What does this do? Well if you find that someone is abusing the game you can cut them off outright. Problem solved. No more of the "make another screen name and start over," crap.

Your account locking works well on anyone who curses someone out after getting cheated but fails to place the people who cheat year in and year out on the sidelines where they belong. Why? Start banning accounts from the source. If I want to buy the game and play it online why should I have to wonder EVERY GAME if I'm going to get a fair match? I'm tired of trying to beat your shitty game's exploits, lag, and abusive users. I just tried 5 different times to play a fair game tonight. Guess how many of them went fair? ZERO. That's how many.

Enough is enough.

Fix your shit, or stop selling it to us. Give up the license to a game company that respects the game and the people who want to play it THE RIGHT WAY.

- The Truth