Hey! It's not so much spelled wrong as it is pronounced though. Brett Favre is pronounced Brett F-a-r-r-v-v with the r before the v. One thing if the v was silent, no problem, but this is one totally messed up thing. I almost believe they spelled it incorrectly just to make a point.

darbonne

So is Kotaku going to start posting bugs from every game released?

baccardi84

Hehe, at least they don't have to bother with Patrick Roy anymore in the hockey games, the amount of times I had to explain how to pronounce his name to my friends.

Weirdwolf

Ahh EA, you still know how to work your magic.

sobjw

Meh, who gives two shats anyways really. I mean, they just got the r and v mixed up, whoopde doo.

Oh yeah, and did I mention who cares? Madden = meh, anyways.

Sentry

Well played EA.

CarlCaliente

Its not EA's fault that he has a last name everyone pronounces weird.

who8myrice

What the hell is Brett Favre doing here?

MitchCumstein-III

I wouldnt be suprised if it is fixed in the next patch
Tbh i dont really care - i used to play pro evo with all the names wrong as long as it looks like them i dont mind
But still lazy on EA's part

dandoc2

Madden's gonna shit a brick when he sees this...

HomerSapien

this makes me giggle.

inb4patchtomorrow

willz0rz

Wow... little sad, coming from EA, really... I mean, really, is it that hard to get his name right? =S

Ravenhood

ROFL wow i wonder how Favre's people are going to take that?

Burn1n9m4n

@who8myrice: It is though if you are going to put someones as your cover you should make sure that you spell the person's name right. It just says that someone wasn't paying attention and most likely there will be a patch to fix someones boo boo.

TheNexusRebound

@darbonne:
Well, technically that's not how his name SHOULD be pronounced. The sad thing is that Madden, that drunken moron, started calling him "Farve" like 10+ years ago and the name stuck so effectively that even Brett himself doesn't care to challenge it.

The name is definitely NOT pronounced "Farve". That's like calling sherbet "sherbert" or nuclear "nukular". Yeah, people say it, but it doesn't make it right. =/

Archaotic

@torsoboy:

I never had a problem with that one, maybe because I'm English. I still almost wrote Roi though, rather embarrassing as I'm a Habs fan.
To be fair, American Football does have some of the strangest spellings for first names and variations on traditional names.

Weirdwolf

I don't really care for Brett Favre nor the Packers.

As a big fan of the Jaguars, Bucs, Patriots, and Bronco.. I don't really give a flying haysack about how his last name spelled.

At first it does look like it would sound out to be like
"Fah-eey-rehh," over "Fah-ARRRGH-fffe."

Shachihoko

@darbonne: kinda like Antawn Jamison amirite?

god that shit pisses me off.

willz0rz

Man you mess up the cover players name. I could understand some second or third string guy that no one has seen but Favre? So sad when people don't check their spellings.

TheNexusRebound

@MitchCumstein-III:

I'm in town to play the Dolphins you dumbass.

jello44

@Weirdwolf: Yeah, I always hated that. The only one worse to read/pronounce was Jaromír Jágr.

torsoboy

Looks like the people at EA have never seen "There's Something About Mary".

"What about Brett FAV...RE?"

Erinaceus

@Sentry: "Oh yeah, and did I mention who cares? Madden = meh, anyways. " If you don't care about Madden then what are you doing commenting in a article about a Madden game? Douche.

y2julio

@baccardi84: There are billions of software "bugs" out there that take offense to your statement. They aren't that dumb.

MitchCumstein-III

Is it pronounced like the "V before R" in "hors d'oeuvres"? Is Favre a French name?

klew

@klew:

Well, he is a cajun(from louisana) thus I would make a strong guess that the name is french.

@Archaotic:

In linguistics, if a word is pronounced a certian way by a majority of people for a extended amount of time, than it is the correct way to pronounce it. This can be seen in many words that are now correct in american english, but incorrect in proper english.(While the languages are the same, america has a differant set of phrases which one might call a dialect, that sets it apart. Additionally, within each of those nations you have several other dialects.) So for those who pronounce his name "farve", your not incorrect at all really. Just like people who say "sherbert". I would go as far as to say that the majority of americans have been pronouncing it as that for a very long time. I actually wouldnt be suprised to see the spelling change over the next 20-30 years as well to match the pronounciation as has happened in the past with other words.

In anycase, as for EA screwing up, there is no excuse for it. Misspelling the cover star for your best selling title is inexcusable.

RuneX21

@torsoboy:
But you have written it perfectly.

Traitorcz

@Archaotic: That's why his name's pronounced this way? It's that simple? Me and a friend already had epic theories about this misspelling, but it's that simple? Wow.

@Topic: At least they didn't call him "Plank Farve" because that's what a "Brett" is in German: A simple wooden plank. :)

Al Bino

Dude its that curse I tell you. Its an odd manifestation that seems to only affect EA.

vgfanboy

I have noticed a few other gramitcal errors in just 4 hours of playing.

Seriously, how does Madden of all games, get out w/ easy to fix crap...

oh wait.

arekthorn

@klew: It's spelled "Favre" but pronounced "Farve".

I'm convinced its because ol' Brett spelled his name wrong on the job application and nobody in the NFL could bring themselves to tell him.

TRT-X

Misspelled is "mispelled."

GrumpyJedi

It's probably just a typo.

magictroll

@GrumpyJedi: Nice catch ;)

Leathersoup

spilled milk....

zeroknight

Wow.. I guess even bloggers are grammer and spelling police ;)

Leathersoup

@thaKingRocka: Ditto that. Anyone notice four headlines up? Bash misspelled "Fighter" as "Figther".

vanlingo

kotaku's in a glass house here.

thaKingRocka

I told you all EA did was put an 09 on that 08, they can't even bother to get their cover player right?...how sad.

karateka

@Archaotic: No, that's how the family pronounces it. I lived next door to Favre's second cousin in college, and that's how he pronounced it as well. I asked him why and he didn't know.

Larry Horse

That is just stellar. Bang up work with your validation techniques, there, EA.

If it's in the game...

beta_angel

Exactly. This is a classic EA move. How many times can you reskin a GUI and change a digit on the packaging before people say "Hey wait! Why is this $59? OH Look! A penny!"

Oban

Not EAs fault that Fahv-ray can't pronounce his own dumb name.

Nogib

@thaKingRocka: You said it. I'm glad that Kotaku admits that Favre is a hard word to spell. Unlike "release" or "dragon".

Oh well. I'm sure if you dug into my post history, I'd have dozens of spelling mistakes as well.

skrame ☆

The EA Sports QA team was let go earlier today...

amazinglarry

pfft, might as well have put his name in as "jet favre"

smuai

OMG 2 letters are switched EA is teh suck! This is proof that all EA games are trash!

taftsearlobe33

Hhahah thats awesome! Now I see why one critic gave this game a perfect 10!

fenderfuel08

How many times has EA put Brett Favre's name in the exact same video game?

Chewbenator

@Nogib:

Well from the spelling it should be pronounced Fahv-ruh. In order for it to be Fahv-ray it would have to be spelled Favré.

Leathersoup