Playoff Card ART...!!!! ---- This looks like someone at EA let their child make

theoriginalkbgames33 said:

I usually don't complained about the art really but the colors are so distracting.

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therobfather87 said:

It’s bad because the Super Bowl 59 art is bad irl. They are just matching what the NFL put out for this year

they just dont seem to care. I'm not great, but I could do better than this. My son can do better than everything I seen this whole season. They simply must not care

MaddenIsTerrible said:

Shit art and shit players

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peatrick said:

Thing is, there hasn't been a legit art department since liek uhhh M23 cycle, i believe.  EA basically fired anyone and everyone on that team and began leveraging artificial intelligence to come up with this stuff.  That's why ALL of the cards this year are basically just a photo of the player with some bullshit abstract designs or splashes of color slapped on top.  It allows them to crank out a large volume of content with essentially zero actual effort.  Employees aren't going to pay themselves, gotta keep those business expenses down so you can focus on what truly matter... profits / pack sales.

WOW......

this was a bitter pill bro, but thank you

In my opinion, some of the card art in Madden 24 looked good but this is just a steep fall-off. Blitz was just a stupid chain link fence photoshopped onto a player art. I guarantee you that if you look up an action shot of a specific player within 2 seconds you’ll find one that EA used. I hate the LTD design in general just being a bunch of action shots of a player layered and put on a generic background. And Playoffs just looks like bad graffiti you’d see on a alleyway wall.

GregL said:

WOW......

this was a bitter pill bro, but thank you

Your original point remains extremely valid, I just don't think you went far enough, as sad as this is to say... EA has essentially "given up" (couldn't have said it better myself, I believe my own phrasing was that they stopped trying. Same difference).

Because if you want to avoid spoilers, but here's the ICON card art which just leaked. Seems they're just reusing AKA promo and possibly adjusting the colors. High volume, low effort, probably automating much of the art stuff with generative ai. M23 Jackrabbit AKA was a work of art, I miss that stuff more than I thought I would -- I'd prefer they focus on bug fixes and gameplay, but EA would rather fluff us up.

Oh so sad, but the team is already working on Madden 2026, this M25 is basically headed for maintenance mode. Hopefully I'm wrong, they could surprise us with meaningful gameplay changes this late in the cycle, but I won't hold my breath. I think this is what we've got until August. 

I thought Zero Chill was pretty great, though... but my expectations were extremely low.

The funny thing about the card art is how lazy they’ve been for years. It’s not the worst art they’ve done, but people who played madden prior to MUT 20 know they used to change how the cards look every year until they just decided to keep using this design

lol i think it looks rad. i think they messed up tho, these colours and patterns already made for the superbowl? the pattern will be on everything during the superbowl last year it was line that

peatrick said:

Your original point remains extremely valid, I just don't think you went far enough, as sad as this is to say... EA has essentially "given up" (couldn't have said it better myself, I believe my own phrasing was that they stopped trying. Same difference).

Because if you want to avoid spoilers, but here's the ICON card art which just leaked. Seems they're just reusing AKA promo and possibly adjusting the colors. High volume, low effort, probably automating much of the art stuff with generative ai. M23 Jackrabbit AKA was a work of art, I miss that stuff more than I thought I would -- I'd prefer they focus on bug fixes and gameplay, but EA would rather fluff us up.

Oh so sad, but the team is already working on Madden 2026, this M25 is basically headed for maintenance mode. Hopefully I'm wrong, they could surprise us with meaningful gameplay changes this late in the cycle, but I won't hold my breath. I think this is what we've got until August. 

I thought Zero Chill was pretty great, though... but my expectations were extremely low.

To further elaborate on my comment, the statement you mentioned just busted my bubble, because I hate all things "A.I"

And it's not like I don't know it's involved in so much these days, but I hadn't thought about it when I made this post. You comment just made so much sense to me. And without going into this any deeper I want to give you a very serious bit of advise on this ........"A.I. is not what we been led to believe, try to avoid it my friend." It's going to attempt to mingle into life itself. Remember this day I told you, "avoid it when ever you can" God bless bud

Its horrible! Honestly thought it was Easter promo first look.

I completely agree, the design, the colours everything on the cards looks bad. Personally i like it when the card art is dope, it makes me want to buy the new players more

GregL said:

I know someone will say "who cares", but real talk, this art looks like they just gave up

Worst card art since last year's Infinite Flux.

phatalerror said:

Worst card art since last year's Infinite Flux.

agreed 100%

They need to bring back actually good card art besides a couple of promos card art has been trash this year back then in Madden 20 every card looked unique and different