I'm with you 110%... I've always been on this side of the fence with this stupid game mode... It belongs with the ring builder and card collector things of old. It simply needs to either be done away with, or included only as a DLC and nothing more.
I honnestly wonder just how much space and time it does take them in order to include this feature every year to simply fill up the disc?
Could that time and space be used to include more animations in every aspect of the game?
Could this time and space be used to include important features long since left in the last generation versions of this game like those for the franchise mode?
Could this time and space be used to creat something which would actuely make the game better and more unique, like a fully functional play creator?
Could this time and space be used to bring the franchise mode that much closer to what we got with Head Coach, which in my opinion as well as many others, think this is what a franchise mode should be like?
Could this time and space be used to creat a better and smarter running engine in order to creat a truely new and unique playing game of football...
Keeping this outdated game mode is like a guy saying "I like my two beat up and rusting ricer cars. And I'd rather have these two ricer cars instead of one mint super car that costs the same price." You can have two flawed and worthless things, or one truely great thing... The choice is (I'd say yours, but that isn't true) EA's... To be continued until 2012.
P.S. A thought occured to me the other day. I think gamers are going to the wrong place with their complaints about these games. We're happy to go to the EA people and ask them to fix, replace, repair the various issues with the game, but if this is an NFL licenced game... Shouldn't we be complaining to them in place of the EA teams? I bet the NFL has NO idea that gamer are not happy with this kind of stuff... Perhaps it's time to clue them in?