Ea, seriously...its about creating an immersive experience and this franchise is nothing like that...Not even close.
Im a Franchise/Madden junkie and I've been playing madden 12 for two days now... and I'm sorry to say, I'm done with it, tired and bored. With no replay value at all. I cant believe I waited two years for franchise upgrades with total excitement to be this bummed out...
guys it "under promise and over deliver" not the other way around!
The features that are supposed to add... take away.... and make it the most unplayable frustrating franchise ever! Lets look at the list....
1. Cut days - you cant see the salaries of the players...so you cant make an informed decision on who to cut.
2. Combine and prodays?? whats the point? I barely get any info on players unless I just keep picking the same players. There nothing here but added steps to get to a bad draft experience. There no built up to something important....just more steps.
3. Draft - really?? 15 players? I can scout 15 players in the whole draft... then it's a crap shoot? There's nothing to it.. the draft is as boring as ever.
Side note::: When are you going to realize that scrolling through spreadsheets of players names and numbers doesn't create and immersive experience. We need more out of the game man! You said you gave us what we want but you didnt ...its almost patronizing to say you did. you had it right with Head Coach 09!!!
4. Player progression - hmmm let me see...I'm gonna hit pause 45 times a game just to see whos hot or whos not??
5. Weather tuning...really, then why does it rain all the time?
6. Accellerated clock-lock? whats that about?
7. The whole staff section is pointless and uninspiring...Does it even matter who my coaches are? You said it would effect a small amount ...not miniscule... another pointless exercise.
8. Lets get to free agency - terrible... its not fun, its not realistic. It runs like a penny action rather than a real NFL offseason. You cant see who's a free agent until you get to the screen. Where is the scouting there. NFL team don't just scout rookies. It should be a bidding war like in Head Coach.
9. The new menu system is the worst idea I have ever seen. Someone on this board said it felt like you were playing single games over and over... and that hit the nail on the head. Wow EA just wow. It creates a compete disconnect from the experience.
10. Franchise game plans?? I have to constantly audible to get out of bad plays and I cant fix it unless i start my franchise over.
But you know whats really bad about the whole thing... the developers apologizing for the madden code and structure as if we, the gamers, should feel bad and understand their plight... Guys your getting millions of our dollars...no excuses, play like a champion. If you dont have a good foundation or structure to build a game upon, fix it!
Maybe you can just let us update Head Coach 09 rosters and draft picks with a few added patches...then atleast I can play a game that has the NFL logo on it, this Madden is your worst yet. congrats!
Thats all I got.
|||I think we can all at least agree that scouting is terrible. I understand not seeing the players' speed, strength, etc, but at least let me see their combine results, and maybe pro day results too.|||You cana ctually scout more than 15 players. You can just onyl do so many at once.|||the only critique i have for scouting is this: you should be able to select schools to scout, and within that, players. that way you could find a sneaky prospect nobody else sees by dumb luck, a high risk high reward guy, happens for real NFL scouts|||Sorry but if your going to whine about how bad the game is why do you still have and why waste time on these boards? Not like EA plans on responding back to you let alone reading this.|||Its called letting my frustrations out....it's not whining.... Its telling it like it is.
I don't care if they care. I know they don't care.
Its almost like dealing with the government...alot of promises and no follow through.
They promised a hell of a lot more than they delivered. Thats the truth.
|||How do you draft then?
Oh wait just keep trading your picks for later picks and don't draft anyone, then use your accumulated draft picks to trade for someone already drafted right after pre season. BTW you can figure out how good peeps are in pre season, just go to team managment, all nfl and sort by say for example speed, your player will drop in the order their speed is, basically if your player is 82 speed when you sort speed there will be a ? in where they should be in the speed column.
Way to go EA, just a heads up I cant practice with my team in franchise because I use a different teams playbook and I cant use custom playbooks because I like to read the defense and audible. I completley agree with the NARDZ post, my offline franchise is worse. I do like the gameplay though, maybe you can patch this stuff?|||ya am with ya they screwed the pooch badly with franchise mode i still cant believe they made it the worst franchise mode ever yet am in awe of the madden devolpment team only they could take a bad game and by "fixing it" make it worse|||
Sorry but if your going to whine about how bad the game is why do you still have and why waste time on these boards? Not like EA plans on responding back to you let alone reading this.
so than why did you bother to respond?|||I don't disagree with all of your criticisms... but I do think you should have formed them in a more constructive way. Telling them something sucks doesn't help, say how it should be fixed also.
I've been pushing the idea of replacing Franchise mode with a DLC slimmed down version of HC09. After playing franchise this year, it's clear that HC09 was at least 10 years ahead of Franchise mode. They could charge $20 for a franchise package (including both on and offline), and I think it'd be worth every penny.
HC09 couldn't have been a very big game once you strip away all of the presentation, and gameplay aspects. And you wouldn't need those, since all of that would already be on the disk.|||
I don't disagree with all of your criticisms... but I do think you should have formed them in a more constructive way. Telling them something sucks doesn't help, say how it should be fixed also.
I've been pushing the idea of replacing Franchise mode with a DLC slimmed down version of HC09. After playing franchise this year, it's clear that HC09 was at least 10 years ahead of Franchise mode. They could charge $20 for a franchise package (including both on and offline), and I think it'd be worth every penny.
HC09 couldn't have been a very big game once you strip away all of the presentation, and gameplay aspects. And you wouldn't need those, since all of that would already be on the disk.
am with ya i voted yes for that hell at this point id pay almost anything including my left nut to get even a decent franchise mode|||
1. Cut days - you cant see the salaries of the players...so you cant make an informed decision on who to cut.
3. Draft - really?? 15 players? I can scout 15 players in the whole draft... then it's a crap shoot? There's nothing to it.. the draft is as boring as ever.
8. Lets get to free agency - terrible... its not fun, its not realistic You cant see who's a free agent until you get to the screen. Where is the scouting there. NFL team don't just scout rookies. It should be a bidding war like in Head Coach.
Thats all I got.
There is plenty more. I can't believe how badly they coded in drafting and FA
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