#Madden nfl 20 designer series#

#Madden nfl 20 designer series#

He works on MUT’s live content team - the folks responsible for the new 10-year anniversary challenge series that has me trying to stop the immortal Bo Jackson before I get a new superstar opponent this Tuesday. “I’m not sure of what the outside perception would be, but a majority of our players are more single-player experience players, versus people who want to go jump into online games,” Stein said. The result is a meatier mode than I’ve given it credit for over the past 10 years.

Jake Stein, an eight-year veteran of EA Tiburon’s development team, says designers have been giving solo players more attention, year-to-year, responding to the data they see in how people play their mode and what causes them to leave it. I’m not spending any money because this year, there’s simply a lot for me to do with this team without getting into the arms race of competitive human-vs-human play, and the grind against zero-sum, full-game, win-or-lose outcomes that represents. My Ultimate Team may still only be rated in the upper 70s, but I have a cast of interesting players and a connection to them that’s much stronger than being their virtual teammate or coach in the game’s traditional Franchise suite. It’s Madden Ultimate Team, and before you ask, I haven’t spent a cent in it, either. There’s a great single-player mode in Madden NFL 20, it’s just not the one I was expecting.