Madden 23
You know you fucked up when professional players from the sports franchise your IP is based on start dragging it to Hell. This is exactly what happened to EA’s Madden 23 when it dropped on August 19. The bugs were truly awful with this one: random geometry would appear on the field as if the players were trapped in some kind of maze, players on the same team would inexplicably trip each other in the middle of plays, and there was even signage for a Super Bowl that happened five years ago. I guess EA invited time travel and didn’t patent it or anything.
Jokes aside, Madden 23‘s bugs were so egregious that, alongside ruining plays, players started to lose their progress. You read that right: The bugs that would cause it to crash or freeze ended up costing players progress in Franchise mode, a component of Madden 23 in which you manage one or several teams over multiple seasons. As you might assume, players have had enough, and I imagine John Madden is rolling in his grave.
