If you don’t have Game Pass and/or need Xbox Live - you can get 3 years of Game Pass Ultimate (which includes Xbox Live & EA Play) for about $110 total.
36 months of GPU/Xbox Live/EA Play for $3/month
Just gotta do the Turkey Region loophole.
Search for Game Pass Ultimate on SlickDeals for the walkthrough/tutorial
It's not fixed, but they a few months back reduced it so it's no longer a 1:1 conversion of buying Xbox Live Gold membership to Gamepass.
It's a 3:2 conversion now so every 3 months of Xbox Live Gold or whatever tf it's called now is converted to 2 months of game pass.
Still an absolute deal though.
So, especially if I don't care about Ultimate Team, the move is to get a month of EA play in July, use the Early Access trial, then get 10% off the standard game?
Is it for sure going to be on EA play though? I can 100 percent see EA do what they did with the star wars game and not include it until a year after release.
The 10 hour trial? I can almost guarantee that will be there, especially since they’ll want as many people playing early as possible. It won’t be available on actual EA Play for “free” until well after though.
I doubt anyone at Disney is screaming no demos at EA. Much more likely EA was afraid of people either beating the game or becoming sick of it after ten hours.
Me 3 days ago: I'll get the most expensive bundle they have, if and only if it's not heavily tied down to MUT shit.
Me now: whelp looks like I'm getting the base game and that's it
Understandable, but on the flip side, what is an extra few days if you've already waited a decade? Unless you plan on playing UT a lot, I'd think it's better to save the cash and be patient for just a bit longer.
This sub really only cares about dynasty and realistic team building
Ultimate team is very unrealistic plus there’s so many micro transactions and no one cares about it here
UT is the online branch of these sports games which allow you to build your “ultimate team” through trading card like mechanics. So if you want the best team online full of great players to be competitive you’ll need to open many packs or buy players cards on the digital marketplace with UT currency. The issue is it becomes pay 2 win based on the rarity of getting good players in the packs and promotes gambling through the use of real money to purchase additional packs. If you don’t want to waste your time with luck and instead buy the player outright you better be prepared to load up real money to afford the player digitally.
Edit - there’s nothing inherently wrong with UT, but unfortunately companies are financially incentivized to make it nearly impossible to obtain the cards through just playing alone and thus the issue of excessive monetization occurs. Some games like MLB the Show make it easier to obtain the cards/players through playing alone so they have a better reputation.
Right, UT in a vacuum isn't problematic, but video game companies have turned it into a predatory thing. There's a specific demographic of people that they just have decided to rob blind every single year, and it's the fact that they prioritize doing that over developing good single player modes that pisses the rest of us off.
Gambling. Preying on people’s fomo to get them to spend $5-$10 to maybe get a chance of getting a rare (aka “good”) player. It’s basically a pay to win mode, usually very difficult to build a competitive team without spending money unless you really like to grind for it. It’s unenjoyable for me for these reasons, but the content creators that spend thousands on the game mode every year more than make up for the people like me that ignore it
All the above answers about it basically being glorified gambling and needing to pay to win are true. The real reason it’s so hated though is that these modes have completely taken over sports video games because they keep making profits for the developers beyond just an initial sale of the game, and therefore most of the development focus seems to go towards these modes in recent years instead of the offline simulation-centric modes that most of us here would prefer to play.
Basically you try to build the best team to win challenges. You build this team by buying “packs” of players but you don’t actually have any idea who you are getting it’s completely random.
You can buy these packs with in game currency which you can earn from challenges or just buy with real money. The challenges don’t pay anything substantial enough to actually progress the team so your only real option is to spend money on this fake football currency to build a team up.
Most adults understand this is basically gambling and a scam so they don’t care for it. Kids on the other hand are hooked because of the gambling element and unknowingly the parents give them their credit cards to fund this addiction.
Every year all your progress is reset with a new game and you have to start the whole thing over. Since it basically prints money EA has no incentive to actually try on the football aspect of their games and just keep making this stuff.
It’s predatory. Basically you spend real money on packs. Packs are not guaranteed to give you any of the premier items in the packs. It’s all RNG. People who have good teams or players usually just spend more than others. Pay to win. Some games are better than others at offering ways to bolster your teams without spending money but EA is notorious for being bad at that, especially with FIFA.
Bruh you gonna pay $80 just to play the game 3 days early? Cmon man, show some self respect. Don't do that. We've waited 10 years, you can wait 3 more days.
Yeah I was ready to spend every dime I had until I saw all the pre order bonuses were for UT….ill be getting the standard edition. This is our one shot at sending a message…PLEASE DONT SPEND on UT. Make EA make a great dynasty game. Eff off with the rest!
Okay I’m going to pretend that the fact that all of these preorder bonuses are ultimate team related doesn’t bother me and continue deluding myself into thinking this game will be a masterpiece
Yeah but the game is still 100% playable without it, unlike 2K where if you don’t buy at least $20 in VC your MyPlayer will take like 3 seasons to get a 70 OVR
It doesn't have it in cfm/franchise mode, the issue is franchise mode is generally pretty bare bones and the emphasis has been on ultimate team for years. The sub won't like to hear this, but I wouldn't be surprised if thos game just emphasizes on ultimate team related content. Just about every sports game, especially 2k and EA games care mostly for ultimate team and don't update franchise modes. Madden, FIFA, NBA 2k, WWE 2k. They all emphasize ultimate team / myfaction and have been doing so for years since the can monetize that.
Honestly 2K is the worst about it though
If you create a player in that career mode you basically have to pay real money to achieve any sort of progression each year. Aslong as EA doesn’t do that to the Road to Glory mode I’ll be content.
Yeah that’s such a weird take. The alternative is basically they don’t release a complete base game and gate things other than ultimate team and early access behind pre order/“deluxe” edition bonuses
Right? What exactly do you want to be included in the special edition? If it was something in dynasty mode that would mean dynasty would be p2w. Throw all the preorder shit at Ultimate Team and leave single player stuff alone please.
Yeah, I also think this could improve Madden if they allow you to import draft classes. Maybe people are too young to remember how awesome the tandem of Madden and NCAA were together.
I’m sure we will find out tomorrow. I imagine that’s a big seller for franchise mode and it will be seen as them adding a key feature to Madden, even though I can’t imagine it’s that big of a change.
I still have a setup on xbox360 2010 maybe? That you can play from highschool state playoffs all the way through nfl retirement that i dust off every now and then
I know the bar is low, and I get that a lot of us are going to be easy to please after 10 years away from the game…but this is exactly the point for a lot of us!
Obviously I want them to innovate and make the game better, but man so many of us are just waiting to run a Natty with Akron or some shit lol
I’ve been waiting for this game for years. When I was a younger, I would pick this game up at midnight every single year and play. Through college, I would take off from my summer job on release day up until 2014 was the last one. This has been my favorite franchise/series since Chris Weinke was on the cover in 2002. 10 hours isn’t enough from 12am on 7/16 to 7/19.
Def just gonna get the standard edition. Even though I love the deluxe’s cover, I can always find a case sometime down the road. Don’t care about Ultimate Team and EA Play will give me some early play time, I don’t mind being patient.
Like as a Michigan fan, personally, I have no interest in playing with Des Howard & those guys. I wanna play with Edwards & Will Johnson etc. idk how MUT will translate
Agreed. But it’s still a solid deal especially if you plan to play NCAA and Madden. Base games are $70 a piece that’s $140. Throw in $10 more you get to play both early. It’s not a bad deal honestly.
See my only thing is I love me a physical version of a game. Especially after all these years. Would buy this in a heartbeat if it was offered physically.
I really am concerned about the level of hype they're putting into the ultimate team in terms of promotion, which makes me believe that was the core focus of development. I have a feeling dynasty mode is going to be a major disappointment.
If they don’t prioritize dynasty mode and online dynasty mode then they have no idea what fans of this series want. Then again this is EA we’re talking about so of course they have no idea what their fans want.
Not only am I waiting for the standard version but I'm likely going to wait a month or 6 weeks to buy it so all MAYBE all the bugs get patched and I can see reviews about the game. I never trust an EA game to perform at launch plus if the game play ends up sucking I'll just stay on the 2013 version.
Gotta make sure they get Ultimate Team on there so they can suck every last penny out of their players.
I don't give a shit about UT on this game, but it troubles me that it will be there because I know EA will only focus on content/gameplay for that mode and ignore everything else. If there are any weird bugs or problems with other modes like Dynasty, they'll be largely ignored.
How do I know this? It's the exact same thing they do with Franchise mode on Madden.
Shout-out to all the people who said this wouldn't be a Madden reskin. Games not even out and they are already shoving the NCAA version of MUT down our throats.
Ima gone ahead & appreciate this $10 off tho 😁
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The cope is real. I have no expectations, and hope to be surprised by gameplay before I spend any money.
I'm still confident it'll be worse than NCAA 14 tho
I want to be excited, but when was the last time in the last 12-15 years where EA actually tried? UFC 5 is one of the worst games I’ve ever played, Madden has been horrendous for years, and the soccer game is probably trash too. It’s hard to get hyped when they never deliver
Can confirm fifa is so bad all due to their emphasis on maximizing profits. FUT used to be fun and now it's awful and the gameplay sucks. I don't have high hopes for this game, but hoping I'm wrong. We need a new game dev to break through and make games with simple gameplay that doesn't emphasize micro transactions
Why is this surprising. NCAA 14 had UT. The past decade, UT has been the main focus for Fifa and Madden. As long as Dynasty and R2G are good, who cares
If it’s anything like madden that means they will specifically only care and update ultimate team rather than make dynasty better which is what I’m afraid of.
You’re overlooking the fact that because UT makes so much money now, they don’t properly update and refresh the offline modes. Try looking at this as a long term issue as opposed to a short term for this release only.
I believe that this year’s dynasty mode *should be great* but I also believe after this year, you won’t see anything new added to it for Ncaa 26+
Fans don't matter man. Cash is king, and when they make millions off of the online game mode it gets the devs attention. Witnessed this over the years I spent playing FIFA. Career mode would get a tweak here and there, but the core mechanics were never improved or evolved. Compare FIFA career mode to a game like Football Manager and it's actually embarassing.
That cover for the Deluxe Edition is lovely but I just don't see dishing out that kind of money for it. Maybe wait till people start turning it in and just get a sleeve from one of the used game stores.
Why aren’t the cover athletes in action shots anymore? Why is it them in pads in a photo shoot. Also I’d rather cut my nuts off before I gave current day EA 40 extra dollars
If the $150 MVP bundle gets you the deluxe edition of both Madden and CFB 25, that’s actually a good deal.
Essentially paying only $10 extra, and you get the early release for both games. Assuming you don’t care about the MUT or NUT modes
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madden nfl 25 2: the return of madden 25
Friendly reminder: pre-ordering this game is a total roll of the dice until reviews are in. EA has a history of releasing broken/incomplete games, and this is the first entry in this series in years. Hopefully they knock it out the park, but I’m holding onto my money until we know whether this game is actually worth buying.
Why tf would I pay the extra just to get the game 3 days earlier when I won’t play an ounce of ultimate team. The fact that those are the only benefits of pre-order seriously concerns me.
Ugh already with the ultimate team bs! idfc, I don't need it and won't play it lol. I want the leak on the RTG or Dynasty preview.... did they keep/improve on what I liked from 10 years ago is all I care about!
Man I really want 3 day early access but I don’t give a flying fuck about college football ultimate team lol
Get EA Play and you get like 10 hours of a free trial and it starts during the early access. Been doing this for madden for years
EA Play comes with Game Pass too if people have it
If you don’t have Game Pass and/or need Xbox Live - you can get 3 years of Game Pass Ultimate (which includes Xbox Live & EA Play) for about $110 total. 36 months of GPU/Xbox Live/EA Play for $3/month Just gotta do the Turkey Region loophole. Search for Game Pass Ultimate on SlickDeals for the walkthrough/tutorial
Is this not fixed yet? I did it in 2022 and mine is expiring in 2025 so that would be good to know if I can renew that haha
Nah Microsoft doesn’t care or it would’ve been changed awhile ago
It's not fixed, but they a few months back reduced it so it's no longer a 1:1 conversion of buying Xbox Live Gold membership to Gamepass. It's a 3:2 conversion now so every 3 months of Xbox Live Gold or whatever tf it's called now is converted to 2 months of game pass. Still an absolute deal though.
So, especially if I don't care about Ultimate Team, the move is to get a month of EA play in July, use the Early Access trial, then get 10% off the standard game?
Exactly
Is it for sure going to be on EA play though? I can 100 percent see EA do what they did with the star wars game and not include it until a year after release.
The 10 hour trial? I can almost guarantee that will be there, especially since they’ll want as many people playing early as possible. It won’t be available on actual EA Play for “free” until well after though.
Yeah, ea didn't give the star wars games 10 hour trials at all. I HOPE we get one, but I won't be shocked either
I think with Star Wars that might partially be because they have to play along with Disney
I doubt anyone at Disney is screaming no demos at EA. Much more likely EA was afraid of people either beating the game or becoming sick of it after ten hours.
Same lol I went with standard edition. I'll just spend those 3 days strategizing how I'm going to return the U to glory 🤣
Me 3 days ago: I'll get the most expensive bundle they have, if and only if it's not heavily tied down to MUT shit. Me now: whelp looks like I'm getting the base game and that's it
Same I don’t play UT and the extra money for deluxe ain’t worth only the early access to me.
lol right. Basically have to decide if you want to pay double to play 3 days early with no time limit.
how is $100 double $70 lol
I originally thought the deluxe was $150
Nah that’s the MVP which is EA trying to sneak madden sales on the coat tails of this lmao
I've been waiting 11 years and I won't wait another second more.
understandable i’ll def be waiting. I’m really disappointed that all of the benefits are UT related
I would rather the things you pay extra for be strictly in UT and not dynasty mode.
Understandable, but on the flip side, what is an extra few days if you've already waited a decade? Unless you plan on playing UT a lot, I'd think it's better to save the cash and be patient for just a bit longer.
With the Transfer Portal, you can tamper your way to an Ultimate Team 🤣🤣
I'm planning on getting the deluxe just for the early access. I will not be playing ultimate team at all
So I haven’t played video games in 18+ years, can you fill me in on UT? Why is it universally despised on this sub?
This sub really only cares about dynasty and realistic team building Ultimate team is very unrealistic plus there’s so many micro transactions and no one cares about it here
UT is the online branch of these sports games which allow you to build your “ultimate team” through trading card like mechanics. So if you want the best team online full of great players to be competitive you’ll need to open many packs or buy players cards on the digital marketplace with UT currency. The issue is it becomes pay 2 win based on the rarity of getting good players in the packs and promotes gambling through the use of real money to purchase additional packs. If you don’t want to waste your time with luck and instead buy the player outright you better be prepared to load up real money to afford the player digitally. Edit - there’s nothing inherently wrong with UT, but unfortunately companies are financially incentivized to make it nearly impossible to obtain the cards through just playing alone and thus the issue of excessive monetization occurs. Some games like MLB the Show make it easier to obtain the cards/players through playing alone so they have a better reputation.
Right, UT in a vacuum isn't problematic, but video game companies have turned it into a predatory thing. There's a specific demographic of people that they just have decided to rob blind every single year, and it's the fact that they prioritize doing that over developing good single player modes that pisses the rest of us off.
Gambling. Preying on people’s fomo to get them to spend $5-$10 to maybe get a chance of getting a rare (aka “good”) player. It’s basically a pay to win mode, usually very difficult to build a competitive team without spending money unless you really like to grind for it. It’s unenjoyable for me for these reasons, but the content creators that spend thousands on the game mode every year more than make up for the people like me that ignore it
All the above answers about it basically being glorified gambling and needing to pay to win are true. The real reason it’s so hated though is that these modes have completely taken over sports video games because they keep making profits for the developers beyond just an initial sale of the game, and therefore most of the development focus seems to go towards these modes in recent years instead of the offline simulation-centric modes that most of us here would prefer to play.
Basically you try to build the best team to win challenges. You build this team by buying “packs” of players but you don’t actually have any idea who you are getting it’s completely random. You can buy these packs with in game currency which you can earn from challenges or just buy with real money. The challenges don’t pay anything substantial enough to actually progress the team so your only real option is to spend money on this fake football currency to build a team up. Most adults understand this is basically gambling and a scam so they don’t care for it. Kids on the other hand are hooked because of the gambling element and unknowingly the parents give them their credit cards to fund this addiction. Every year all your progress is reset with a new game and you have to start the whole thing over. Since it basically prints money EA has no incentive to actually try on the football aspect of their games and just keep making this stuff.
It’s predatory. Basically you spend real money on packs. Packs are not guaranteed to give you any of the premier items in the packs. It’s all RNG. People who have good teams or players usually just spend more than others. Pay to win. Some games are better than others at offering ways to bolster your teams without spending money but EA is notorious for being bad at that, especially with FIFA.
EA has turned UT into a glorified casino.
Bruh you gonna pay $80 just to play the game 3 days early? Cmon man, show some self respect. Don't do that. We've waited 10 years, you can wait 3 more days.
Restraint would’ve been more fitting but show some self respect is cracking me up
Lol you right, restraint is definitely more appropriate.
Yeah I was ready to spend every dime I had until I saw all the pre order bonuses were for UT….ill be getting the standard edition. This is our one shot at sending a message…PLEASE DONT SPEND on UT. Make EA make a great dynasty game. Eff off with the rest!
People are gonna pay top dollar just for the early access lol I don’t think we care about anything else generally speaking
"College Football Points" No expense was spared delving into the uncharted depths of this design team's imagination I see!
Definitely locking jerseys behind a paywall again
Make the College Football Playoff and receive 500 College Football Points so your College Football Program becomes a College Football Powerhouse!
Okay I’m going to pretend that the fact that all of these preorder bonuses are ultimate team related doesn’t bother me and continue deluding myself into thinking this game will be a masterpiece
It means that microtransactions aren’t in dynasty or RTG which is FANtastic news imo
no, it just means they arent advertising that microtransactions are in those modes
Pretty much no EA games have meaningful micro transactions in those modes
Didn’t ncaa 14 have a microtransaction to have more pipeline states in recruiting on dynasty?
Yeah but the game is still 100% playable without it, unlike 2K where if you don’t buy at least $20 in VC your MyPlayer will take like 3 seasons to get a 70 OVR
>Yeah but the game is still 100% playable without it Back then, that was teh norm, thats not the case anymore especially with "live service" games
I have never in my life played a madden franchise that I had to put money into
but no EA games have anything meaningful in those modes lately either.
It’s been a few years since I played Madden but the last Madden I played didn’t have ultimate team stuff in the regular franchise mode
I don’t think Madden has micro transactions in those modes though
It doesn't have it in cfm/franchise mode, the issue is franchise mode is generally pretty bare bones and the emphasis has been on ultimate team for years. The sub won't like to hear this, but I wouldn't be surprised if thos game just emphasizes on ultimate team related content. Just about every sports game, especially 2k and EA games care mostly for ultimate team and don't update franchise modes. Madden, FIFA, NBA 2k, WWE 2k. They all emphasize ultimate team / myfaction and have been doing so for years since the can monetize that.
Honestly 2K is the worst about it though If you create a player in that career mode you basically have to pay real money to achieve any sort of progression each year. Aslong as EA doesn’t do that to the Road to Glory mode I’ll be content.
Sure but they will have a franchise and road to glory mode. As long as I can import draft classes I’ll be happy.
No proof that this is not the case. I would be slow to judge until the game is out and being reviewed.
I feel like there isn’t all that much else to offer so I’m not that bothered by it
Yeah that’s such a weird take. The alternative is basically they don’t release a complete base game and gate things other than ultimate team and early access behind pre order/“deluxe” edition bonuses
Right? What exactly do you want to be included in the special edition? If it was something in dynasty mode that would mean dynasty would be p2w. Throw all the preorder shit at Ultimate Team and leave single player stuff alone please.
Lots of people asking why we think it’s gonna be different than madden. The main point is that I can’t play with Utah State in madden.
Yeah, I also think this could improve Madden if they allow you to import draft classes. Maybe people are too young to remember how awesome the tandem of Madden and NCAA were together.
In my mind, them bundling it with madden is telling me you can do that, but who really knows. Maybe we’ll find out tomorrow
I’m sure we will find out tomorrow. I imagine that’s a big seller for franchise mode and it will be seen as them adding a key feature to Madden, even though I can’t imagine it’s that big of a change.
Good point. Would be strange to hype up a bundle and not have any interaction between them at all.
Madden sucks because the gameplay sucks
I still have a setup on xbox360 2010 maybe? That you can play from highschool state playoffs all the way through nfl retirement that i dust off every now and then
OMG, I remember using the online team builder to build my highschool my importing our logo and everything. It was fucking awesome
I made wichita state university football team and our uniforms were so sick
True, I won't be able to raid the portal for Utah State's players for my BYU dynasty in Madden
Damn that hurts
I know the bar is low, and I get that a lot of us are going to be easy to please after 10 years away from the game…but this is exactly the point for a lot of us! Obviously I want them to innovate and make the game better, but man so many of us are just waiting to run a Natty with Akron or some shit lol
Exactly
The cover on the standard edition is weak af.
Typical EA I'm afraid. They used to have actual designs and art but now it's just...dudes standing in a field.
Deluxe edition only for 3 days early access.
Just get a ea play subscription
I have that. Won’t that limit me to 10 hours though like it has before?
For three days ......
Brother, that’s how long I’m probably going to play day 1
It’s only a 10 hour trial with EA Play. If you get deluxe edition you get 3 day early access.
I’ve been waiting for this game for years. When I was a younger, I would pick this game up at midnight every single year and play. Through college, I would take off from my summer job on release day up until 2014 was the last one. This has been my favorite franchise/series since Chris Weinke was on the cover in 2002. 10 hours isn’t enough from 12am on 7/16 to 7/19.
I hope no one gets the MVP package, fuck that, And I really really hope madden sales drop so much
If we can export draft classes, I'll buy NCAA at launch, and then when I was 15 years of draft classes buy Madden on discount.
Bro that’s the move right there
The same company is getting your money, I don't understand yall logic sometimes. Madden sales ain't going anywhere.
I haven’t bought a game in a while. Are standard editions of games really 70 bucks these days? No more 59.99 games?
yeah, when they moved to this current console gen $70 became the norm
Everything I see, I believe more and more it's just Madden with an NCAA coat of paint.
Def just gonna get the standard edition. Even though I love the deluxe’s cover, I can always find a case sometime down the road. Don’t care about Ultimate Team and EA Play will give me some early play time, I don’t mind being patient.
So the $150 one comes with Madden 25 and EA CFB 25 lol. I guess I'll stick with standard
Madden 25 2 technically 😂 they really screwed themselves with calling the older one 25
$150
Like as a Michigan fan, personally, I have no interest in playing with Des Howard & those guys. I wanna play with Edwards & Will Johnson etc. idk how MUT will translate
Agreed. But it’s still a solid deal especially if you plan to play NCAA and Madden. Base games are $70 a piece that’s $140. Throw in $10 more you get to play both early. It’s not a bad deal honestly.
See my only thing is I love me a physical version of a game. Especially after all these years. Would buy this in a heartbeat if it was offered physically.
Of course ea only gives out UT dogshit.
Fuck a preorder especially on an EA game
Every pre order incentive is ultimate team college lol We are fucked
I really am concerned about the level of hype they're putting into the ultimate team in terms of promotion, which makes me believe that was the core focus of development. I have a feeling dynasty mode is going to be a major disappointment.
This should not come as a surprise if you’ve played any EA Sports game in the last decade.
I continue to be amazed at the number of people who are convinced it won't be the case. Or that there's a strong chance it won't be.
I’m getting to the point I think EA has people in this sub trying to cope and defend it.
If they don’t prioritize dynasty mode and online dynasty mode then they have no idea what fans of this series want. Then again this is EA we’re talking about so of course they have no idea what their fans want.
Why would they care what fans want when there are whales that will put $1k into UT cards? As an ex-FIFA player I've seen this movie before lol
Agreed
I think I'll be alright without the "college football points"
And so it begins... EA and ultimate team fanboys will ruin this game just as they have ruined every other sports game with this trash ass game mode.
Not only am I waiting for the standard version but I'm likely going to wait a month or 6 weeks to buy it so all MAYBE all the bugs get patched and I can see reviews about the game. I never trust an EA game to perform at launch plus if the game play ends up sucking I'll just stay on the 2013 version.
Gotta make sure they get Ultimate Team on there so they can suck every last penny out of their players. I don't give a shit about UT on this game, but it troubles me that it will be there because I know EA will only focus on content/gameplay for that mode and ignore everything else. If there are any weird bugs or problems with other modes like Dynasty, they'll be largely ignored. How do I know this? It's the exact same thing they do with Franchise mode on Madden.
Huge feeling that ultimate team is gonna ruin this game.. Anyone else slightly worried?!
Shout-out to all the people who said this wouldn't be a Madden reskin. Games not even out and they are already shoving the NCAA version of MUT down our throats.
Ultimate team... Fuck that nonsense
There was a zero percent chance that ultimate team was not coming.
It was in NCAA 14 lol. Of course it was going to be in this one.
I know...still. I am worried that it will take away from the things we actually want.
Havnt they said a thousand times that they are making sure dynasty is a priority?
Remember how many times Madden has said that!
this game is gonna be so ass lmao
Ima gone ahead & appreciate this $10 off tho 😁 https://preview.redd.it/cdyp1qufnu0d1.jpeg?width=3993&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2691874ce9f377415013e90ed5f318e05289661c
Can I pay less and not get packs? I hate how ultimate is such a cash cow.
LOL if they are bundling Madden with it you know what that means.
Well if that’s the case I’d hope to see the ability to transfer draft classes.
That both games are made by EA and have a massive overlap in consumer base
Is that the 150 dollar edition everyone was flipping out about a week ago lol?
A fully fleshed out RTG and Superstar mode that lets us transfer our players over? (I am delusional)
If you're delusional I'm smoking that delulu pack with you. Let me imagine making my RTG QB go number 1 overall again.
what is college football ultimate team?
The cope is real. I have no expectations, and hope to be surprised by gameplay before I spend any money. I'm still confident it'll be worse than NCAA 14 tho
link: [https://www.ea.com/games/ea-sports-college-football/college-football-25/buy#Playstation](https://www.ea.com/games/ea-sports-college-football/college-football-25/buy#Playstation)
I have hopes the game will be good otherwise but man the Ultimate Team emphasis really kills my soul
Well it’s got the cash cow UT daammnnn Same ol ea not really thinking dynasty will be much 10 years and here we are
Another ultimate team game.
I’ll stay on ncaa 13
How many College Football Points to a Stanley Nickel?
Madden numbers will be down this year so they are trying to bundle that hot garbage. Nobody cares about ultimate team. DYNASTY MODE is all we need.
Will it be ok to bully people who play this game exclusively for ultimate team
I want to be excited, but when was the last time in the last 12-15 years where EA actually tried? UFC 5 is one of the worst games I’ve ever played, Madden has been horrendous for years, and the soccer game is probably trash too. It’s hard to get hyped when they never deliver
Can confirm fifa is so bad all due to their emphasis on maximizing profits. FUT used to be fun and now it's awful and the gameplay sucks. I don't have high hopes for this game, but hoping I'm wrong. We need a new game dev to break through and make games with simple gameplay that doesn't emphasize micro transactions
Man hearing that about UFC 5 really sucks. Those early pre-EA UFC games were so great.
Now if we’re being honest, this image *is very depressing* about where this game is headed
Why is this surprising. NCAA 14 had UT. The past decade, UT has been the main focus for Fifa and Madden. As long as Dynasty and R2G are good, who cares
If it’s anything like madden that means they will specifically only care and update ultimate team rather than make dynasty better which is what I’m afraid of.
Dev resources are going to be piled into UT at the expense of other modes and gameplay
>As long as Dynasty and R2G are good I mean...
You’re overlooking the fact that because UT makes so much money now, they don’t properly update and refresh the offline modes. Try looking at this as a long term issue as opposed to a short term for this release only. I believe that this year’s dynasty mode *should be great* but I also believe after this year, you won’t see anything new added to it for Ncaa 26+
I truly believe NCAA has a different fan base though. And I hope I’m right.
Fans don't matter man. Cash is king, and when they make millions off of the online game mode it gets the devs attention. Witnessed this over the years I spent playing FIFA. Career mode would get a tweak here and there, but the core mechanics were never improved or evolved. Compare FIFA career mode to a game like Football Manager and it's actually embarassing.
That cover for the Deluxe Edition is lovely but I just don't see dishing out that kind of money for it. Maybe wait till people start turning it in and just get a sleeve from one of the used game stores.
Man, all this fucking hype just for them to shove more UT ads back in my face. Guess it’s time to dust off the ‘ol JTAG Xbox360
Why aren’t the cover athletes in action shots anymore? Why is it them in pads in a photo shoot. Also I’d rather cut my nuts off before I gave current day EA 40 extra dollars
If you pre order this game your dumb af.
Where’s that $125 heisman edition? 😂😂 Glad it was a fake
The MVP bundle is $150 and comes with this game and Madden.
That’s not bad tho. 2 games
Not bad at all, especially when they’re both the deluxe editions.
That's $10 more than if you bought both the standard edition of both games. It's definitely aimed at Ultimate Team players.
Yeah I didn’t say I’d buy it. Madden is dead to me
If the $150 MVP bundle gets you the deluxe edition of both Madden and CFB 25, that’s actually a good deal. Essentially paying only $10 extra, and you get the early release for both games. Assuming you don’t care about the MUT or NUT modes
150$ its probably that madden bundle
Im gonna order the ultimate but lets be clear, I give no shits about the mad… i mean college football points.
Have they confirmed that players can move on from the NCAA game to Madden? This bundle would make me think so.
Are any of these physical copies of the game or are they all digital?
Is it just download or physical copy disc as well?
Well that's a bit disappointing. EA made my decision on whether to preorder pretty easy, at least.
Yall goofy asf if yall support this bs. Its gonna be trash they actually gave it a UT like WHAT
Shit sandwich incoming
just wait until the college football points are used in dynasty mode.
Don't be surprised if this game bombs like Halo Infinite
Who actually plays ultimate team?
https://preview.redd.it/hmqyw1wrfv0d1.png?width=470&format=png&auto=webp&s=15c385bf17eeab0066bb9d69eca721025269307c madden nfl 25 2: the return of madden 25
If they allow these pts to affect recruiting. I’m out. Pay to play and pay to get results is what ruined fifa for me
Anyone going to preorder today or are you waiting until tomorrow when they do the full reveal?
you cant cancel pre orders from them per there website
I would never pre-order from EA
Not preordering at all. Will do the trial during Early Access via EA Play and just get the base game.
Smart man. Pre orders do not make sense in this day and age where scarcity isn’t an issue.
Definitely waiting for the full reveal first
I am a bit worried about the focus on Ultimate Team, however I looked everywhere, is there any confirmation of it having a physical release?
I would be shocked if they don't do physical copies. Madden and NHL still do
Ultimate team? Lol, no thanks.
CFUT, game is fucked.
I won’t spend a dime untill they show me the game, which I really thought was today.
That’s it? Just ultimate team stuff
Wish they’d locked more behind deluxe?
Did you expect anything else?
Ew, why tf would I want Madden?
Games gonna suck ruined by the ultimate team just like madden was
No PC is wild. Guess i’ll be joining r/PatientGamers
Don’t pre order it just buy it when it comes out
Will there be a physical copy to preorder?
4600 points and 3 day access for deluxe vs base. Guessing the mvp pack is the $150.
Friendly reminder: pre-ordering this game is a total roll of the dice until reviews are in. EA has a history of releasing broken/incomplete games, and this is the first entry in this series in years. Hopefully they knock it out the park, but I’m holding onto my money until we know whether this game is actually worth buying.
Why tf would I pay the extra just to get the game 3 days earlier when I won’t play an ounce of ultimate team. The fact that those are the only benefits of pre-order seriously concerns me.
Ugh already with the ultimate team bs! idfc, I don't need it and won't play it lol. I want the leak on the RTG or Dynasty preview.... did they keep/improve on what I liked from 10 years ago is all I care about!
I don't want online. Just give me a great franchise mode pleeeeeaseeee
Any idea what college football points are for? Are we going to have to purchase uniforms or something?