Madden NFL 13 CCM Will Not Allow You to Play Other Games on the Schedule, Only Yours

[Marino]

Sucks for those that play other games in the franchise, but I only stick to my team anyways, so it doesn't bother me any. Still sucks though.

[kjcheezhead]

EA could've avoided most of this by having offline franchise be the starting point and using something like the old locker system for online franchises to get them to be one mode. That would also give the online commishes the ability to edit anything, sim games if needed, allow substitute's to play for certain owners, etc.

On the plus side, Madden 14 should be a great year with a full connected careers mode, improved line play and a more polished RTP system. Then the new systems come out and we start over again.

[CMH]

I'm not the biggest Madden fan, so it wouldn't normally behoove me to actually get involved in this discussion, but I am a sports fans and I really cannot understand how it's 2012 and companies are still - STILL - removing full control of teams.

We should be beyond this issue at this point. We should be asking for other things. Instead we're still having to ask for such a simple thing that every fan either wants or can understand the reason why someone wants. There's no strong argument for why full control should not be featured in a game.

The go-to argument that it removes realism is mostly laughable considering we are playing a video game. Realism is subjective, anyway. My realism is different than your realism. That's why we have sliders. If someone feels that they should only control one team, let them choose to take that path. If someone wants to coach one team and still play other games, let them take that path. If someone wants to coach one team and play the other 7 games in the schedule and purposely make certain teams lose so they can win the division and the Super Bowl, let them take that path.

Inexcusable. Really can't believe we're still on this topic of full control. Just can't.

[msuboy11]

Sucks for those that do this, but I only play my own! Sounds like a lot of people are upset!

[jlfarris]

So, if I'm reading this right, then that means that my kids and I can't play a Franchise together, since you can now only control one team? I guess if that's true, then I'm going to stick with 12 another year whether I want to or not.

[DukeC]

So....we can only play with one team in CC?

We can't control CPU vs CPU games right?

So...if our team happen to suck and we miss the playoffs...we can't play or watch any of the playoff games? We'd have to sim it?

That's...that's not good news. Ugh. I'll have to tell my uncle he needs to stay away from the game since he doesn't have xbox live.

Here's a list of thing people without Xbox Live won't get:

Updated rosters in any form (USB trick won't work any more)
The ability to edit rosters
The ability to play with more than one team
The ability to play or watch a CPU vs CPU game in CC
Oh, and patches, but they couldn't get that in the first place

EA basically just told him:

[blklightning]

Another feature I don't use. But this is still ridiculous. What's next? Your starting QB goes down with an injury and your team can't throw the ball until he returns. This game is going to require some serious patching. It's just too bad that, given Tiburon's track record, that patch will be called Madden '14.

[mwjr]

I never do this, but just from being around here at OS t I know there are TONS of players who do.

Just...wow.