Chatting With Josh Looman About Madden's Franchise Mode

[brettmickey]

Quote: Originally Posted by albert_24

I'm kinda surprised no one is jumping up and down since teams can now distinguish between 3-4 and 4-3 DE.

It's definitely a great acquisition. Personally, I know what type of player to look for to fit the 3-4 or 4-3 but the computer could never distinguish the difference so this will clean that up

[steelers1]

I haven't been following the updates recently, so this is awesome. Expanded rosters, player roles, dynamic ratings, hidden rookie ratings, free agent bidding... looks like I'll be getting the game this year.

[JalenTigh]

Quote: Originally Posted by albert_24

I'm kinda surprised no one is jumping up and down since teams can now distinguish between 3-4 and 4-3 DE.

Excited, yeah... Jumping up and down? No... Madden unfortunately has a long history of releasing very buggy games, especially when introducing new features. With this much of an overhaul, I wont be getting too excited until there is evidence this stuff is actually going to work as intended.

[ryan36]

Quote: Originally Posted by DocHolliday

There seems like there is alot of room for major bugs and errors in this system, lets hope they Tested the crap out of this. I see a Tsunami of complaints in the future.

Yaeh, I want to see how plays out. Healthy skepticism is the key here

[TuffJuff]

Quote: Originally Posted by huskerwr38

In pre-season, accuracy of rookie ratings should depend on the strength of your coaches or even for everybody's ratings for that matter. I always thought this was a good way for your coaches to actually matter. For instance, say you had a QB that was rated at a 90, but he keeps under performing. It turns out your QB coach is horrible and you hire a new one only to find out he's (your QB) actually rated a 78 or so. Or say you had a really good QB coach and your players were over achievers. For example, say your QB is rated at an 85 and your QB coach retires and you hire a new one only to find out that your QB is actually rated at like a 75 or so. I think this would add a whole new dimension to the game.

Love this idea

[Rudolph999]

With all the changes of rosters and drafts and players coming and going in the Franchise League. We need to keep track of the changes going on in the Franchise. I say you bring back newspapers, radio, ea sports tickers. sports center aka espn. Website for each team franchise. This will tie in all the drafts picks , trades, player being cut. Up and coming players, superstars, retired players, Hot and cold streak. There will be so much to blog , write ,broadcast about and it will bring the franchise together nicely.

[acreyman]

sliders are gonna be a PAIN this year lol

[LorenzoDC]

Quote: Originally Posted by acreyman

sliders are gonna be a PAIN this year lol

Yup, because performance will now be a moving target due to DPP.

You'd need to three time the sample size with the three game streak logic to test any slider sets or adjustments.

I think Playmakers just retired from the slider development "business."