Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Madden 07 Xbox 360 patch released

The patch addressed the fatigue bug that plaqued this years madden since it's release. For those of you that didnt know, fatigue was basically non existant (though a few players proved that it was still in there, you have to run Micheal Vick in circles for a few mintues and one tick will come of the fatigue bar) This allowed online players to contantly run the same players without the fear of them getting fatiue, then in conciquence running slower with a increased chance of fumbling.

This was argueably the biggest bug in recent madden memory, altering the way the game is played online. A patch was mentioned as soon as the game was released in August, it took EA up until October 3rd to patch it.

While this is a good demonstartion on how patching on next-gen consoles can save games, it begs the question, how could this get by QA? Is EA slacking on the job since it strong armed the competition out of town?

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