How Ultimate Team Ruined Madden
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- The Madden NFL games used to be awesome, even comparable with the great NFL 2K5. The Ultimate Team, or MUT, came and ruined everything. Because of how profitable underage gambling is, EA stopped paying attention to the rest of the game, which is why it's in the state it's in now. That, and the exclusive license with the NFL. Ugh. Franchise mode will likely never be good again. Madden NFL 20 sucks
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I can't be the only person who never plays ultimate team right?
Nah you aint alone. I play franchise and head-to-head with my dad or brother on occasion
I rarely play it cuz ion wanna do micro transactions to boost my team..
I’m more of career mode/franchise and superstar ko depending on my time
I’m with you. Haven’t purchased a copy of madden since madden 12 for my 360. Recently ordered madden 12 for the ps2 , been my only source of gaming
I play a little bit but just draft head to heads because tbh that's kind of fun but other then that I just play franchise and head to head
Never have never will
Madden sucks because the got rid of the competition like the monopoly it is. No competition, no reason to get better. If 2K came back, I bet Madden would up their game.
2k would still out shine them like they did with 2k5. This is why they won't let them do it cause they know already only thing they are good at is recycling the same MUT bs
29% of EA's business comes from ultimate team. it needs to stop.
I was born in 04 and the only game mode I play is franchise and don’t play ultimate team
Plot twist: he was born in 1904
Long live PS2 Madden
Another major issue is how the top 100 players in every mode are filled with dc glitchers. Guys with hundreds of wins, no losses and not a single td or point scored. Ea refuses to ban them or do anything, and you can watch their stats go up every week. My first time back on madden in years and I swear I am never buying another madden as long as I live ✌️(from a legitimate top 100 player). I hope ea goes bankrupt
What's a dc glitcher?
@@hardworkgetsbuckets8797 when you are matched up with someone they will disconnect you from the game by messing with their internet connection and you will automatically get a loss before the game has even started.
Oh wow didn't know this, thx for reply.
I guess I’m happy I bought this used off of a fellow chap for $5 instead of $60. Can’t imagine paying $60. The game isn’t even deep enough to drown in.
Thunder 55 shit we’re did you get madden 20 for 5$ hook me up lol
I hope you start uploading again soon bro. You're content is the best and factual and honest much respect
My Ultimate Team experience:
I’ve been playing Madden 20 on and off since its release. It’s been alright. Frustrating at times but also very fun at times. I start getting back into football in general, watching more NFL and getting into the new XFL. I began watching old highlights of Bo Jackson and Marshawn Lynch and Deion Sanders and my other favorite explosive players. I decided I wanted to see if I could play with those guys in Madden through the only mode I could: Ultimate Team. I played a few challenges, got a few free players, etc etc. Eventually, I start a head to head game and get ready to play my first online opponent. My team is 75 overall since I just started. So I get everything going, game loads up, and it shows the top 3 players on each team. I’ve got a 90 overall Kyler Murray and a couple 90 overall DEs from the early challenges. He has a 98 overall Michael Vick, 99 overall Lawrence Taylor, and 99 overall Eric Dickerson. First play of the game, I kickoff. He gets up to about the 30 before I hit him. He shoves my tackler to the ground, reverses across the whole field, and scored a TD. He kicks off. I return the ball from his kickoff, and my returner fumbles it when he’s hit. The guy returns in for a TD and then runs a fake PAT for 2. Next drive, I don’t fumble, and I manage to get a respectable drive down the field by throwing quick passes since all he does is blitz (which still works half the time since Lawrence Taylor just breaks through the line and hits my QB before he throws to the receiver I’ve been holding the button for since I snapped it). So I get into range of a 40ish yard field goal. Decent kick accuracy, but my kicker sucks and shanks it. He returns it for a TD after breaking another tackle. At this point I’m down 22-0 and it’s been 2 minutes. I get the ball again, get a decent drive to about midfield, and have to punt. Not caring at this point, I run a fake punt for 17 yards. Surprisingly, I have enough time to get the throw off. I even get a good throw right into the hands of a wide open receiver across the first down line. But he just drops it. No contact or anything, he just drops it. So he has the ball, he runs a run play, and I get my first tackle. That’s pretty hype. So then, he starts using jukes with his 99 overall Eric Dickerson and breaking tackles and my guys are just bouncing off of him. Now he just starts being a tool and diving every time he had an open TD. As soon as he starts lining up to take a knee every play (in the first half), I quit. I’m not going back. And that’s my Ultimate Team experience.
And that’s why this game sucks now. Sorry about your experience. I haven’t played/bought Madden since 10. They dumbed down everything... except graphics(whoopty-doo) Too easy to draft A potential players. I’m still playing NCAA 12 on 360. Haven’t looked back since. It’s now just a stupid arcade game for kids... I’ll play NFL Blits if I want arcade.
I have a 90 overall ultimate team and havnt spent a penny 🤷🏻♂️ I also work 40+ hours a week. It's just a grind like any other game.
Same can be said for 2K. This mode killed all innovation and quality of life for these games.
i remember having a hard choice back in the day. do i continue my DEEP IN DEPTH FRANCHISE? Or go Online? These days i dont even want to play the game at all
It's not just MUT that ruined Madden. It's also the fact they have the NFL licensing rights so there is no competition for them to have to match or be better than.
Madden is a joke now and EA is a joke.
The day EA decided to buy the exclusive NFL license back in 2005 was the start of the beginning of the end for Madden NFL Football.
You have no idea how hard I had to grind to get my 85 OVR team without money and yet I still lose 60% of my games
the matchmaking is horrendous I have a 90 ovr team and every game I get dudes who's top threes are all nfl 100s or Tillman chemed up with ray lewis and some other demon.
Frozenwhirlpool tell me about it. You can grind days for the new cards while others will have it in about 20 minutes by spending money on packs
Frozenwhirlpool it’s because during Black Friday there was a pack that gave one nfl 100 player. But if they have multiple idk then. Matchmaking is trash.
@@lastingspirit2636 I just mean a team you can tell they spent money the newest ltds all the way powered and chemed up
Frozenwhirlpool oh I feel your pain. If they have a kicker that goes for 400k they spent money on the game.😂😂
I only play Franchise, every year I get more depressed. I only buy the game for the new roster, I wish Madden could actually try instead of just focusing on MUT
I was once talking to a friend a played halo with back around the time ultimate team came out. Him and I both played madden, and we played each other a few times. We didn't play madden together much because he *only* played ultimate team, and I never did. One time he convinced me to start one and play him, and all of his players were either hall of famers, or current superstars. I asked him if he was spending money on it, and I swear to god, he said "Nah not real money, just microsoft points". Completely serious, not joking at all. He honestly didnt see it as spending realy money since it was labelled as microsoft points. the fact that he bought them with money meant nothing.
They brainwashed him just like every other brain dead MUT player luckely i escaped it after madden 15.
Also doesnt help that all the ppl that spend all the money are idiotic 9 year olds who geniunely suck but cant be stopped because their team its OP also the same ppl are who goes for it on 4th and 30 like a person i just played
@@Souleater_4242 Maybe he just likes playing the mode
I’ll never understand why people pay a ton for the new game and even more on bonus features within the game 🤦♂️
I definitely agree with just about every point the thing is though tha really dropped the quality of Madden imo is the "community" Over the last 5 years in games not just Madden there has been a change in playstyle for gamers and it's the super try hard "do anything to win" mentality. When being a gamer was considered uncool or nerdy it seemed like everyone was just playing for fun and playing carefree but now no matter the game you have people playing like their lives depend on it and they're actually stressed out playing. I suppose that does play a lot into having a reward system in just about every game for being the "best". Great video btw.
Nailed it. Glad to know I’m not the only one that’s tired of this BS from EA with Madden.
Madden 16 looks better graphically then Madden 24
“I want to Die?” Well that took a dark turn. I will say madden 20 has improved on gameplay since the big update. But unfortunately the franchise mode is still not deep.
Maddogg2001 the game shouldn’t take multiple updates to be fixed. They should be good day 1 or atleast closet to it. Smh..
Madden 20 is still half-assed garbage with many great features from past games ridiculously removed
ECHICAGOBEARSDBZ that’s madden in general they’ve been taken out shit since madden 25.
Every word of this true, I’ve had more fun dusting off my PS2 and playing Madden 05 than playing 20.
6:25 It's ridiculous that all those features are missing from Madden 🤦🏾♂️
DarkManX16 mannn
WHO IN THE WHOLE ENTIRE CHEESEBURGERS WOULD SAY I want to DIE
ImDominic Idubbz
Great video as usual.
2K5 is STILL the best football game ever made and gets better with every selfish move by EA.
Madden 12 was the last great madden
I agree
The lack of true competition hurts more but yeah MUT works hand in hand with the decline of Madden.
Granted I don't know why people are dumb enough to spend money or time on MUT...the video touches upon this but yeah its dumb gullible consumers feeding an evil lazy monopolistic franchise
I still love madden (I know that’s a controversial opinion) and I play it a lot, but I don’t play MUT cuz it’s pay to win or a lot of grinding
yes exactly i just dont luv luv it ya know
I played so much Madden 06 when I was young........ God those were the day
i still play madden 08 on my old xbox....still works still enjoy it...i made up 32 custom teams and love playing it daily
They moved a step in the right direction this year with Qb1
QB1 is ass
Wow i felt this we need to take a stand
Madden 10 was the last 1 for me thats sad.
Madden 15 was after that I was out.
Ultimate Team should be F2P and then you can spend $10 or $20 to get the rest of the game
I LOVE Franchise I wish I could play with historic teams like the 2012 Seahawks I also wish I could design a NFL staduim
the golden age of video games is long over, Madden was never the best football game just the only one
I remember once when I was younger once I begged my mom to get Madden 25 but it was too expensive so she got me Madden 07. Now that I think about it I wish I didn't waist all that money from Madden 15-19 and just played Madden 07.
I'm the ONLY kid/teen that plays franchise mode
TheFiendPlays good for you bro!!! franchise is the pillar of all sports games. don't get into smut..I mean MUT..lol
Not the only
TheFiendPlays bruh moment
TheFiendPlays not only by a long shot
@@krisbryant7100well I do play Madden mobile (ultimate team on phone)
what ruined madden was the exclusive NFL lic. deal
The Madden I had the on my PSP had more depth then Madden 20 I have on my first PS4
I love franchise mode, but its so hard to keep playing with the garbage of madden
Honestly I’ve never really gotten into ultimate team I’ve tried it many times but never found it fun. With franchise you can rebuild teams, lead your team to a super bowl, and just play around but in ultimate it’s just buying packs. This year I’ve played a little and I’ve got a decent 83 ovr team when I go to games I play 93 ovr teams. Honestly I would recommend most people to go back to ncaa 14 that game was fire as fuck
As a madden player who has only played madden since 16, thank you for shining light on the situation. You tubers like you are the reason I know what I have been missing. I have always noticed madden seemed to get boring really fast, and now I know why. I never played ultimate team, and I’m blessed that I haven’t decided to try it.
This is what bridges the great games from the trash. Great games are made by companies only focused on entertainment, while trash games lure customers for profit... smh
The same thing happened to fifa
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The answer is still the same as it was 3 years ago. STOP BUYING THE GAME. I cannot understand why anyone spends hundreds or thousands of dollars to build a virtual team.
I'm absolutely SHOCKED people even considered playing ultimate team. Especially in those early years of it where you would literally pay money for "packs". Franchise mode had me fantasizing over the NFL season and Madden completely ignored it. People who actually cared about UT seriously disappoint me...
A returning vet playing Ultimate Teams is a no brainer. Old school vs the new or both. MUT 23 is goated. I started on Madden 1998. Played the shit out of it till 2007. Got a 92 overall FTP squad on Ultimate Teams. Madden 23 is 🔥🔥🔥 Especially with field sense added.
New Madden, FIFA, etc videogames are what happened when people who don't like the actual real game, create the videogame.
You can expect girls, nerds, people that never in their lives touched a sports ball.
This is because since head, to lower code programmers, they don't love, they don't like Football.
Just look at their game Engine Frostbite, it was made for a war videogame (Battlefield) and not for a sports videogame. It certainly looks good, but lacks of all physics, deep and speed that a good sports game needs.
They only are there (at EA) to earn money, a nasty amount of dirty money.
Ultimate Team mode it's like a children drug, a bad habbit, or an addiction worse than junk food, alcohol or smokes... Why?
Because you need to paid $300 for a current gen game Console, then $60 bucks for the actual Madden videogame, then micro-tran$action$ (that are unlimited in the amount you can $pend) on virtual, non-value game cards, and then you have to paid the Electric bill (monthly)...
Sum all of that! It's like spending on drugs or alcohol, an addiction with no benefit.
Why? 'cause you don't get any gamer progression (like in the e-sports). Your gamer value it's going to be proportional to the amount of real money ($$$) you spend on virtual cards.
So, people attack modern videogames for being bloody, for their violence and even for their lack of feminism on it (WTF!), but nobody cares for sports videogames, their fall from grace and deepness, and specially, I don't see moms, or feminist associstions, or even the videogames journalist talking about the crime EA it's making while robbing with their Ultimate Teams game mode, the bad addiction it creates in children and finally, how EA it's destroying the videogame industry from inside.
Hope some day, we would have all our voices raised and demand EA and all the videogame industry to raise their standards and create actual good, well value, non bad habbit addictive videogames.
But that it's becoming harder year after year, meanwhile we only hear that videogames created crazy aggresive people, that videogames are misoginist, that videogames are for children...
Well, ELECTRONIC ARTS took $800 million USD from their children customers pockects last year (at least), and that only from micro transactions, sum $60 bucks per game sold... And that sirs, isn't a child's game.
Madden 25 on next gen was the last great madden the olny year me and my friends played every single game of our season in CF with legend fantasy Draft
The BigBalvin it was okay, but that’s when it started declining
Spent 50$ on Madden 20 ultimate team, it was a gift card so i really didnt see the problem. A few days pass by and now they have better limited edition higher overall cards and they want you to buy them, its crazy. Luckily i have a sense to put things down, and now find more fun in playing online h2h with real rosters
I didn’t know none of the purchases or achievements made in ultimate team didn’t carry over to the next year. that should be fucking illegal.
Preach!
2:40 "bUt ThE fRoStBiTe EnGiNe Is ThEiR bEsT eNgInE."
Amen! I can relate SDS. I just bought a PS3 after 10+ years of not playing Madden, and i can tell you I totally agree. I am playing NCAA12, Madden 12 for the rest of my life.
I’m a kid and me and my friends hate madden but play franchise because we want to have fun
2013 was the last great Madden to me personally
There is ZEROOOOOOO CHANCE THIS GAME IMPROVES. 😂😂🤷 I Mean I totally truly hope XFL brings back 2K football. Or EA sweeps in last min buys license so 2K can't make a football game. Can't have self control when anyone who plays Madden is a liken to a crackhead/methhead legit all Madden players are addicts and won't ever stop. Try telling a Heroin addict to stop shooting up .. won't happen just like Madden players will never give up madden
Madded died when they made you pay for draft champions …. A year after you can draft for free….that’s when I knew all EA cared about was money
The mode itself didn't ruin Madden. The fact EA eventually chose over time to focus almost exclusively on it DID.
Once madden 16 hit yes. Ian Cummings had good gameplay in maddens 10-2 until he left. It was until that GODDAMN POLITICAN Rex Dickson made the game bum friendly and took away the skill gap
Great vid soft drink
I would still view madden 25-16 franchise modes better than 17-20.
Madden is slowly resembling a mobile game more and more instead of an in depth football game/simulator that it should be. Thanks for trying to make people more aware of that. We need more people to speak up so we might start seeing some real good changes.
I started on Madden 13 for Xbox 360 but used to play the old NCAA games on my PS2. I’m a big Notre Dame fan and the 2008 NCAA game is by far my favorite ever football game. If only I hadn’t broken that machine. I’d still be playing that game.
I loved 07! Played it religiously on regular Xbox.
The difference between 2k and Madden/EA, is 2k feels a strong franchise mode makes the game better along with it's ultimate mode, EA intentionally makes the rest of the game worse
I agree to an extent. You can’t deny that at least this year, Madden got a lot better. A lot of new additions, namely the superstar abilities that have brought an entire new side to franchise mode
You’re an idiot.
@@greatestnitemare6626 explain rather than throwing out meaningless names bud
It ruined NHL too. The craziest thing is that it would be an awesome game mode if done in a real way instead of being a scam. Instead you grind for a few days until you realize it's unplayable or you are a chump and pay a huge amount of cash to play it. The widdling down of other game modes is completely unnecessary without the idea of trying to push it too. I remember playing the shit out of NHL12 because I would play the Online Team mode where you pick a position. Now they turned it into some weirdo, team club mode that ruins the ability to just go in and play a game at whatever position you want.
Additionally the quality of ultimate team has flustered. In madden 12, you could actually do collections and make coins so u didn’t need to spend money, but ever since 13 collections and stuff have been unprofitable so u need to spend money
I love how true you are with EVERYTHING and I say "thank you"
What ea doesnt realize is, the only reason mut makes more money than the game itself is because they no longer appeal to the common gamer so now they're selling millions less copies annually
Same for NBA 2K, FIFA, PES, etc
All once good games now with their non-online aspects neglected.
SDTV: the NFL can open their license and let any other company attempt to make a game, but that probably wont happen.
3 months later: 2k announces NFL2k21
A mix of a mix Unfortunately, they said they’re making a non-simulation type game so it’ll probably be something like NFL Street. So, Madden will still be the only realistic/simulation football game.
Shadow_Greninja and the shitty thing is it’s not even realistic🤦♀️at this point idgaf if the game is gonna be like nfl street I’m playing that over madden anyday
If anyone remembers how Smash Bro’s Melee did trophies and coins was awesome.
Yea it was a huge grind but it was rewarding. I wish games did that instead using the pay to win concept.
The thing I hate about the state of gaming today is that it was always understood that the cheap or free games are the ones you “paid to win” on and the games you paid $60 for to use on a console was all skill. Why pay top dollar for a game where the $60 only buys a fraction of the games possibilities?
If you disliked this video. Leave this earth, you are no longer wanted.
The worst part is that if you don’t spend money on it, you’re team is way worse than everyone else’s.
I also hate the direction Madden has gone in with MUT a primary focus but I feel MUT has uses within Franchise Mode that EA has not tapped into yet. If you own Elway, Marino & Kelly cards, having the option to import them into a Custom Draft Class is a big plus IMO. Placing them on current teams in the main menu then starting Franchise Mode, IE Ray Lewis & Ed Reed on the current Ravens, if you own a Vick MUT card, put him on the Bengals and see how the QB duel of Lamar vs Vick plays out inside your Franchise Mode.
Now the issue comes with MUT coins and real money being used to buy them. If MUT coins could be earned within Franchise Mode(IE winning a Super Bowl gets you 100 coins) then people have incentive to play Franchise Mode to get coins and now people don't have to use real money to buy MUT cards and can play another mode within Madden to earn them. The result? MUT crowd is playing Franchise and Franchise players are buying cards to use legend players/coaches to enhance their franchise experience. It's a win-win situation for EA but for some reason they don't do this.
Imagine being a FIFA fan and watching EA slowly killed the career mode. Sad that they surely have enough money to expand on the offline modes but don’t even bother.
I played Madden 13 on the Wii and I never new MUT existed until 2 years later
I stopped sports gaming around 2012 because the quality kept getting worse. Found myself playing PS3 less and then stopped altogether. Got into trading cards as an outlet and ended up making money instead of spending it. Ended up being a lot of fun, unlike the experience playing Madden. Thanks for putting this together, I now know the why!!! #trustyourgut
In terms of the last 15 years worth of madden games I played I say there are 4 era's since madden 06 (06 being the oldest madden I played a lot)
Madden 06-11 is the revolution era: in these madden's there something called madden cards. They are boost that you can unlock by opening packs with points. They were no microtransactions back then so you earned the points by playing the game. The boost may be like WR'S have a plus 3 catching or the CPU can not intercept passes. Then there was superstar mode which got better in madden 09 with the addition of supersim. The gameplay was also very arcade like. It had an elite creation mode. And extremely deep franchise mode. And other features like fantasy mode where you draft your own team and go through challenges or the mini games mode. The was even online head to head.
Madden 12-25 the transition era. Here is where we saw the decline and end of superstar mode. The gameplay became more of a realistic game. Franchise mode got many changes mainly features being removed and was the end of the create a team create a fan and create of play/playbook. And of course the addition of MUT.
Madden 15-19 the new era: the xbox one and playstation 4 burst on the scene and with it came many new things with madden. MUT became a complete power house and of course the addition of MUT draft. There is no more career mode and online became a even bigger focus. The gameplay was completely a sim type but u can turn on arcade mode. Microtransactions become a focus. Making sharing and downloading rosters becoming a staple of offline and franchise play. And the addition of long shot. Long shot is basically a campaign mode but not a career mode like we all hoped it may be.
Madden 20- to be determined the next chapter: we are only one year into this era but it is easy to see the change of focus and have a good idea where this era is heading. We got the addition of X-FACTOR. X-FACTOR is some what similar to madden cards but it is fairly easy to unlock and instead of a team boost it is a player boost. The franchise mode is getting a slow overhaul with the additions of a scenario engine and 5th year option. The worst version of MUT and of course face of the franchise aka a career mode. The mode is extremely bare bones and dry but it has been the first year of it.
i tend to consider AAA gaming in general declined around the start of the 8th gen of consoles so 2014-2015. thats when alot of the issues we see today started to take root.
The number 1 example of this is how they made draft champions but then they put it into MUT
And I used to love the superstar mode. The worst part was they created the Longshot story and when people didn't like the effort they put in because it sucked EA was like "whelp guess superstar mode isn't what the fans want." Yeah, I totally understand this frustration. I only buy Madden now to play franchise mode which receives only nominal improvements each year. The biggest issue for me with the past 4 Maddens has been how the "updated" physics engines do not create a fair game. It's a completely random chance whether a fumble or interception happens, and those are game-changing events that should rely on skill and very little randomness. The introduction of simulation surprised me, and when I compared it to competitive I didn't see much difference. The game has changed, and not for the better.
There is no reason to believe this will ever change. No new developers will change that .
I literally don’t understand why the NFL just doesn’t have its own gaming company that focuses just on the NFL
Wow! You're dead on...but that final remark. I'm paraphrasing..."but the game sucks, it will always suck, and I want to die." That's exactly what I feel.
I don't play EA titles anymore. They ruined Battlefield, they ruined Madden, they ruined Crysis and others. I wish somebody would release a single non annualized sports title per console generation, continuously improve it and add features over time and sell new seasons as expansion packs, each with their own new stars and storylines that directly impact how franchise mode plays out. Kind of like how you can buy new campaigns as expansions in other game genres.
I pre ordered BF 2042. That was the first and last time I will EVER Pre Order games.
This is the most lit 🔥 video and I've been saying the same thing for years. Someone at EA said something like "fixing franchise isn't that easy, neither is making video games."
My response was, and is true, "I worked for and still work in the software industry. You COULD FIX FRANCHISE, but you won't because all projects in a development cycle get assigned resources (# of Devs), priority level, and number of hours to work on it. Thus why we have no franchise mode. Madden only cares about MUT Revenue and it shows.
They bought their exclusive rights deal with the NFL eliminating competition and thus we are stuck with this crap.
1 thing I will never understand.
why pay $100s-$1000s every year for Madden when...
you’re just gonna not play it the next year and spend another few hundred dollars and repeat the parasitic lifestyle an additional year?
c’mon, *We Are The People* right?
if we want *change* we have to make *noise*
edit: and really, it’s not *our fault*
Social pressure, Ego, Dopamine etc humans want the best for themselves, it’s life.
Quit playing last season. It was tough because I had been playing since the game's inception, and I was addicted to MUT. Glad I got away. Haven't looked back.
i hate how the announcers barely get excited when you get a last minute hail mary touchdown. the detection is so off. you could literally recreate the miami miracle, and the announcers would say: “and he is into the end zone, touchdown miami” or the simple fact that they barely change any announcements
I know MLB is a much smaller video game community, but it's the same story for The Show series. Exclusive rights from one developer. Diamond Dynasty is MUT essentially. They add juiced cards for cash or pack luck.
*Agreed. Never have and never will participate in Ultimate Team*
That's why alot of people moved over to basketball, I used to hate playing 2k, but now I'm all in for 2k
You could literally change the word Madden for Fifa and it’s the exact same situation.
In fifa they made a couple million dollars in one hour just by packs. EA you just want money
The Madden simulation monopoly means there are no NFL sims. Madden should be considered arcade since the sim mode isn’t even a priority. 2K, Sony, etc should get a stab at making a true sim.