>They killed off the competition with the monopoly contract
>and now they put out a 60 dollar roster update.

And with the possibility of someone making updated rosters on the older games easily available to download in-game, it makes little sense to fork over the full $60 for the new Madden unless you're gonna play it a LOT. And even then, I'm not so sure.

I was playing last year's Madden yesterday with NFL rosters...from yesterday. Teddy with Carolina for instance. Rookies on the scene. All of that. Good enough for me!

At this point, I look at buying Madden on day one as supporting and validating EA's lameness. It makes no sense that they still haven't mastered some of the stuff that 2k5 got right 15 years ago. No sense at all. But they have that Ultimate Team/pay to win stuff ready to roll for that azz every time. Ridiculous.