{"id":3062,"date":"2010-08-03T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=3062"},"modified":"2010-08-03T06:03:14","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T11:03:14","slug":"madden-11-%e2%80%93-in-need-of-a-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/08\/03\/madden-11-%e2%80%93-in-need-of-a-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Madden 11 \u2013 In Need of a Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received some EA Sports propaganda over the weekend that \u201cthanked me for playing the Madden 11 demo\u201d and if I \u201cshared the demo with a friend\u201d I would receive a Madden 11 Ultimate Team Pack (and potentially unlock other exclusive content \u2026 which may just be the \u201cfree\u201d Ultimate Team Pack).<\/p>\n<p>I really enjoyed Madden 10 Ultimate Team, so of course I jumped on the opportunity to get a free pack to start of my Madden 11 deck.  Silly me; after clicking on the link I was told that I have to log into Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>I am probably one of the last Facebook holdouts, but I really do not intend to sign up for an account no matter the pressure from family and friends.  Ah, but what about pressure from Madden 11 and free Ultimate Team packs?<\/p>\n<p>To be honest over the last few months I have thought about signing up for Facebook, linking back to this site, and maybe posting some pictures to share with friends and family. In addition, networking for future employment opportunities is probably a good idea in these troubled economic times.<\/p>\n<p>As I said, I have managed to hold out.  It is not that I am anti Facebook or think my friends can go f\u2019 themselves, I just do not like the social networking concept.  If I want to know what my family or friends are doing, I will call them, and I hope they have the common decency to call when they come into some money, are riding a train through the Europe countryside, or happen to be getting drunk at a nearby establishment.<\/p>\n<p>Will I finally give in to social networking pressures?  All for the love of Madden?  I am doing my best not to prostitute myself, but it sucks that my Madden 11 Ultimate Team deck will start out inferior to millions of others that are not afraid of the potential consequences and baggage that go with social networking.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received some EA Sports propaganda over the weekend that \u201cthanked me for playing the Madden 11 demo\u201d and if I \u201cshared the demo with a friend\u201d I would receive a Madden 11 Ultimate Team Pack (and potentially unlock other exclusive content \u2026 which may just be the \u201cfree\u201d Ultimate Team Pack). I really enjoyed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/08\/03\/madden-11-%e2%80%93-in-need-of-a-friend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Madden 11 \u2013 In Need of a Friend<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,21,9],"class_list":["post-3062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-football","tag-madden","tag-ps3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3062"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3064,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062\/revisions\/3064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}