On August 29, the first title update for Madden 23 was released, although things have quite gone to plan for EA. With a new patch hitting every platform, fans were excited to see stability come to the game after a rocky start to the year. But players of Madden Ultimate Team were perplexed to find that they couldn’t even log into the game as they had been reset back to the tutorial.
Players voiced their frustration by turning to social media to try and get some answers. However, the problem became so widespread that EA was forced to shut down the mode temporarily.
Hours later, they would tweet that the issue had been fixed, and players were once again allowed into Ultimate Team. Yet when they tried to look at objectives, they were given an error screen.
EA has again stated that they “are aware of issues” and that server maintenance will occur in the early morning of August 30. Some players are still reporting issues, and even though the lastest EA support update states that issues are resolved, some people are still seeing issues.
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Today’s problem is on top of a release window where rewards have been delayed and the only way to get the game to check for those rewards is to restart the game itself. It has been the most unstable release in recent times for Madden, and it seems the community is at a boiling point.
More and more, over the last two generations of consoles, we’ve seen games take to online modes of play that reward engagement. One of the key ways developers reward players is by engaging and spending time in that system, but if that system is disrupted, then those players who don’t have enough time to play are restrained. Madden Ultimate Team, in particular, is a game
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