So as some of you guys know, I was ready to step away from playing in PML for Madden 23 the other day. To recap quickly, the 3rd game (and 2nd OT game) of the Giants’s season did not save after Week 15. Along with those games not saving, the Giants have also faced DC issues from opponents in 3 separate games, one resulting in a Giants FW (and a 4th sim game on the season).
That put me at my personal boiling point with playing a CFM this year, and Saquon Barkley getting hurt in the Week 15 sim put me over the point. Now unfortunately it isn’t just Madden hasn’t been the only frustrating part of playing for me, PML and it’s rules have held a part as well. There are rules I strongly disagree with in PML like midseason usage rules when a team is trying to figure out their offense in the 1st half the season (and having 3/8 games be sim games), a CB getting the Unfakeable SS ability, and not being able to change the ability despite Unfakeable not being an ability anyone would ever put on an outside CB, and injuries being on for a sim of a game already played. And yes, there should be a such thing as “hot fixing” rules and not waiting until the end of a season to change something. Not making a hotfix is an attempt of absolving yourself of blame, yet only add blame to yourself.
So why did I come back? All of those sound like great reasons to leave. Well, they were, for me personally. But I don’t only do this series for myself, I do it for fans of my Youtube channel. And for them, they want to see an online sim CFM series regardless of how broken Madden is. And when you try to do an online sim CFM series, you deal with bad rules in any league. Everyone’s got their own terrible perceptions of what “Sim” is. So in my estimation, PML is still the best of the scrum. There’s still a lot more done well than bad in here. And no, I would never make my own league with my own rules because I hate the burden of being responsible for 31 other users.
So…yes, I’m sticking it out with the Giants, I’m not stepping down. I can’t promise how hands-on I’ll be with other content just because I’m still unbelievably turned off by Madden 23 and its franchise issues, but I’m here. All we can hope for is for Madden to improve their game and hopefully, we can work on improving PML. And also shot out to CEO, who had no idea I planned on leaving and asked me multiple times to play our Week 16 game. I had zero intention of playing that game, but I only played it because I felt bad for CEO who had lost 2 CPU games in a row and figured he really wanted to play a user.
