| 21 August 2010
Madden 11 creative director Ian Cummings announced Friday that EA Sports began punishing those who quit or disconnected an online ranked or Ultimate Team game in Madden 11 before it was over. More information was posted on the EA Sports blog this morning.
There were also notifications about stats being altered in the shorttime because of these fixes. But if a hit in stats means fixing what seems to be a glaring issue, I'd take that everytime.
This is one of two major fixes they'll be putting into the game. The other one will be the option of using the regular audible system, which will be put in via a patch sometime in the next couple of weeks.
Some of the word from Cummings:
1. Any quitter / disconnecter in a ranked game will automatically be given a loss. The victim will automatically be given a win.
2. We are currently monitoring the leaderboards and planning on zero’ing out the stats of any accounts found to be using quitting tactics (via high DNF / win percentages and game logs). This monitoring will be standard practice moving forward as well, as we have built in notifications to our server team that will automatically zero out any folks caught “boosting”, or using one account to quit immediately and award a win.
3. In a Madden Ultimate Team game, a person quitting will have a game burned off of his contracts for the players in the game to discourage this practice. The victim will always receive coins, prorated based on the percentage complete of the game (i.e. if it’s the 1st quarter, he’ll only get ¼ of the coins he would have gotten if he were to finish, if it’s at the end of the game, he’ll get ~90%, etc). The same note applies as above on anyone caught “boosting” after this fix is rolled out – they will be punished with bans, contract removals, or any other tactics we see fit.
4. We also found an issue where PDLC OTP boosts were being subtracted incorrectly. Anyone that had this happen has had their boost coin purchase refunded.
