Madden NFL 10 Blog: Franchise Mode Improvements

[sram444]

not sure if anyone posted this or not.... but how about not making the retirements so pathetic... by just having the same players retire each and every year... i must of played 10 franchises and the same players would retire each year.

[xblake16x]

I am all about franchise mode! I have been ever since i can remember playing madden. Play just over half the games in a season so i can affect my players stats for the season. I really loved managing the salary cap in Head Coach, but in madden that aspect was lacking for me.

when starting a multiplayer franchise there should be an option to assign a controller to a specific team, that way there would be no accidentally signing or drafting a person for your friend's team. This would also allow for the same style of signing people that is used in nfl head coach which would be really neat for madden.

in madden the rookie contracts are no where near realistic, guys who are good but drafted in the 2nd or 3rd round for some reason always ask for more than 1 mil per year which is not realistic. NFL Head Coach got this aspect right, where pretty much anyone outside of the first round even if they were projected higher wouldnt ask for more than a million.

i would love to see players leave for more reasons than just not having enough cap, or the user just deciding not to sign him. Maybe a player wants more money, more PT, a better team, better coaches etc... whatever it is that happens in real life, implement it into the game.

i see that salary cap tuning will be attended to next time which is cool! after about year 3 i have around 38 million in cap with an superbowl caliber team. i have to set my own cap limit!

but what i really want to see is some sort of negotiation when dealing with contracts because as it is now, anyone you want to sign, you sign. Pretty much no matter what. I want to see un-restricted free agents want to leave to get a change of scenery or to get more playing time somewhere else. NCAA has the option of making promises to your recruits, and if you dont fulfill them, those recruits might transfer. it would be really cool to see promises in madden; if you dont fulfill them the player will demand a trade, or demand to be released!

thanks for the amazing update!

[Clarke_311]

I don't know if this applies with teams drafting team needs, but what having teams drafting posistions that they think are important/not important. Take the Eagles, for example, they probably won't draft a WR but they might take an OL or DT, or the Lions, they'll probably take a WR.

[Jazzfanatic12]

make it like head coach only they should make it more realistic, i know a lot of people don't care about this but if they put it in it will be amazing, they need to add suspensions like all of a sudden an icon pops up and says one of your players got caught beating someone up in a bar. you get to choose to suspend him or not and if you do then the player may ask for more money for a contract at the end of a season but if you don't your team starts to build a reputation of being a team of "bad boys".