Key Takeaways
- EA Sports College Football 25 is a $500 million success in its first week, with over 130 FBS schools and various features.
- Fans are petitioning for a menu music change in College Football 25 to fight songs instead of repetitive drum lines.
- While some technical issues have been addressed, such as bug fixes and updates, other player complaints remain unresolved.
EA Sports College Football 25 fans are calling on EA for a quality of life change to be made to the game concerning its main menu music. As it stands, EA Sports College Football 25 players only have a single audio option when navigating through the American college football sim’s numerous menus, which is a repeating drum line, something that quite a few players are beginning to find more than a little grating.
Ending an 11-year hiatus without a proper college football video game, EA Sports College Football 25 is being considered a massive success, making a reported amount of $500 million in its first week on the market alone. The title features over 130 FBS schools, with the vast majority of rosters opting into NIL being used, along with school traditions and other various features to differentiate itself from its Madden NFL counterpart. The game has also proven to be a boon for Microsoft and Sony, as EA Sports College Football 25 has proven huge for Xbox and PS5 console sales.
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While EA Sports College Football 25 has sold well, the title hasn’t been without its technical and gameplay issues. While audio hasn’t necessarily been at the forefront of complaints, the particular problem of the menu music – or rather the lack thereof, has suddenly been gaining steam. Reddit user ameadows_13 took to the popular forum platform to create a petition for EA to change the menu music to college fight songs instead of drums. Many comments echoed the sentiment, with one person liking the drums, but finding it grating when recruiting and roster-building in Dynasty Mode for extended periods of time.
The developers seem to be fairly in tune with the game’s sizable player base, releasing multiple patch updates in the roughly two months since its launch. EA Sports College Football 25 released a big update just a couple of weeks ago, which addressed numerous bug fixes, player likeness updates, and 11 new formations, which, along with the prior update, added 19 new formations. Although the update has addressed some issues players have had, other issues like streamlining player substitutions and giving more variety to menu music have yet to be resolved.
Regardless of the issues, however, EA Sports College Football 25 is undoubtedly a massively popular game, and means EA Sports College Football 26 will automatically be facing an uphill battle. As it’s been seen with the overtly critical eye surrounding the Madden NFL franchise, players expect innovation and improvements with each annual installment. Given the nostalgia factor of EA Sports College Football 25 for many players, creating an even better sequel is a tall, tall order.
