Madden NFL 12 Blog - No Additions This Year For Online Franchise Mode

[Danimal]

Quote: Originally Posted by jpdavis82

Online communities is no joke, it's going to allow you to play with players online that don't go for it on 4th down everytime or nano blitz every game and they will be penalized for it if they are in a league with those settings and do. It will basically allow you to play with only the type of people online that you want to play with.

I do that now, it's called a friends list.

[HeavyHitter55]

Quote: Originally Posted by CRMosier_LM

Therefore, there will be no additions to Online Franchise mode in Madden NFL 12.

Seriously?! Not even the addition of a slider set? Something that is a part of NCAA and seems to be the absolute simplest thing?

WOW!

[labguy]

I really doubt he looks forward to hearing my thoughts! Two straight years online franchise is 100% ignored. This after EA touted that it was built on the server side, so modifications and improvements would be easier. They hide behind usage numbers that they never share all along knowing that the usage would increase if they built it properly...you know with a salary cap, free agency, trading draft picks, etc. Not sure how the can justify ignoring a whole segment of their consumers. With EA it is always wait til next year.

[GGEden]

gotta lol with agreement at a lot of funny/grr/smart posts the last dozen or so.

[CRMosier_LM]

Quote: Originally Posted by GGEden

gotta lol with agreement at a lot of funny/grr/smart posts the last dozen or so.

Yes, but I always try to look at it as "What can you do?", you know. I'm disappointed for sure but knowing that they added massive upgrades to offline franchise mode plus the addition of Roy Harvey from NCAA series is a big step in integrating a setup similar to what NCAA has now. Until then I will continue to play online franchise (with leagueManager) and just enjoy the game.

[ABR173rd]

Quote: Originally Posted by Danimal

There referring to communities which they think is going to be awesome. My guess it's another feature some marketing guy dreamed up to capitalize on social networking etc and it's going to be widely ignored but I guess we'll see. When a rep comes in and makes a statement that it's going to change the way we play online forever they better deliver.

Kinda was thinking the same thing when the word "Huge" was used....

[heurelho]

They clearly didn't have time to improve online franchise

Ray Lewis' intro scenes have to be made!

[jergrah]

Ridiculous that yet again there are no improvements - RIDICULOUS! At minimum, let users go Auto-Pilot so they dont have to be kicked when out of town and rejoin (which resets depth charts) and let us practice with our Online Franchise team. It boggles my mind these 2 simple things have not been added.

Online Dynasty in NCAA has a 100x better setup than Madden Online Franchise, its embarrassing