cam Newton makes his return to Madden football

[micnificent28]

Little light hearted topic.. For whatever reason Cam Newton doesn't appear in Madden ultimate team every year for whatever reason like most legends. I personally believe it's due to them robbing him of appearing on the cover of the video game series during his peak years winning NFL rookie of the year and the MVP super bowl run. 

Needless to say I'm a huge Competitive Madden ultimate team player spending hours of days crunching numbers and churning roster management. When this was announced it was a lightening rod in the Madden community. Competitive players know Newton is a game changer.. Your talking fastest quarterback in the game and highest throwing power in the game when he drops. That a long with. Unheard of ability at quarterback like freight train the ability to run over linebacker and corners and I was stoked. I m ashamed to say how much money threw at the game to try to pull newton and failed 

But it's a big deal seeing as every pro Madden player most certainly has to have him on their roster and the card art is pretty sweet. 

[Kuhndog94]

Everyone had Cam in 2015/2016. It was a pain in the ass to deal with. 

[Icege]

I have a feeling that this thread is going to go in the same direction as PFF threads.

[CPF4LIFE]

Yeah saw that yesterday when I turned the game on and immediately started thinking wait...when is the last time cam has been in the game??

[micnificent28]

3 minutes ago, CPF4LIFE said:

Yeah saw that yesterday when I turned the game on and immediately started thinking wait...when is the last time cam has been in the game??

Not sure myself and I have bought every Madden to come out in the last 20 or so years.. I'm sure he was in the game when he was playing ball most of his career but after that I dunno if it was a licensing issue or what.. he became scarce.. that said the Panthers  don't get many legend/ hall of fame QBs if you play mut. I wanna say he's the only one.. you don't get Jake or Collins or whoever. You do get Bryce but they always give him like the weakest arm in the game so he's almost unplayable.

Cam on the other hand comes with top end speed at the position.. probably the strongest arm at the time of release, most strength at the position and a rocket arm.. he's a offense changer.

[Mr Mojo Risin]

Baltimores playbook (obv) has all of the designed Cam runs from the Gun Heavy formation

[micnificent28]

14 minutes ago, Mr Mojo Risin said:

Baltimores playbook (obv) has all of the designed Cam runs from the Gun Heavy formation

Been wanting to try that.. right now I have the jets playbook with all of the stuff they have for fields..

[Manna]

In the older games, when I got bored, I used to trade Cam to the Falcons, and rename/relocate the Bucs to another city which I took over. It was always fun going against Cam and beating the Panthers. 

[Mage]

I love this.  I actually enjoy playing MUT because I can build a Panthers team that doesn't suck.  And I've been desperately waiting for this card to drop

[Captroop]

I won't depress myself by getting wistful about the good ole days.

I'll just say I'm so happy that Cam is getting recognition as one of the all-time great players in NFL history. The Panthers will always have that. 

[LinvilleGorge]

Just now, Captroop said:

I won't depress myself by getting wistful about the good ole days.

I'll just say I'm so happy that Cam is getting recognition as one of the all-time great players in NFL history. The Panthers will always have that. 

I feel like that if we ever finally win a SB that I'll be able to go back and enjoy '03 and '15 a lot more. It just feels like winning the lottery is more likely than us winning a SB and I didn't even buy a ticket.

[Panthering]

I used to be an Ultimate Team guy but only in FIFA, which has now been totally ruined from what I've seen. Cool to see Cam as a "Legacy" player in Madden even if it dates me a little bit now. 

[Waldo]

EA is being sold so if you think it can't get worse then you had better buckle up.

I gave up on them long ago when Madden became more for children buying cards vs the great days of franchise mode. 

 

[LinvilleGorge]

23 minutes ago, Waldo said:

EA is being sold so if you think it can't get worse then you had better buckle up.

I gave up on them long ago when Madden became more for children buying cards vs the great days of franchise mode. 

 

Yeah, I've always just been an offline franchise mode type of guy and EA just doesn't care at all about people like me anymore because there's no ongoing revenue stream for them out of people like me. I honestly play the older games more simply because the offline franchise mode was better in those games. From a pure business model perspective I completely get it. But it just sucks for people like me who have no interest in the online stuff and just fire the game up every now and then, usually to get my off-season football fix. I'd be more than happy to give them $60 every year for a game with good offline franchise mode updated but minus that I'll just keep playing the old games and buy last year's game at a discount every two or three years to give a "new" one a shot.