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

[Smoke6]

Quote: Originally Posted by g2thecore

And that's fine. You have a right to do that. I felt the same way last year when I found out that offline franchise wasn't getting any love either. What I don't understand is why people were expecting them to have time to improve EVERY facet of the game in just one dev cycle. I mean think about. They improved gameplay, they overhauled the presentation aspect of the game, and they rebuilt offline franchise. It would be absurd to expect them to have the time, or resources to make any significant changes to the online portion. I understand why people are disappointed, but I think a lot of you are very naive if you expected more.

I mean, all we have had this whole time has been their word!

We ask for certain things and they comment with subtle replies and blogs about hints of it being on the right track. Find out in 3 weeks or whatever!

Those are the words and messages we have clung onto these past few months, only to get out hearts stepped on after being coming off life support from the other good news about the changes made to the game.

[alkamist]

are you kidding me, after reading this i just might not buy this game, i only play this game for ONLINE FRANCHISE MODE. Ive never even played online PVP, or even set up a gay Offline Franchise, or even that gay Madden Ultimate Team crap... Well damn, this game is not even worth it, i was expecting big things this yr with the Online Franchise, guess not, now all this game is a upgrade of 2011, just like ncaa

MADDEN 11.5
NCAA 11.5
NBA Live 10 - NBA Elite Canceled

What more can you ask for... Thank god I kept Madden 11... Thanks again EA...

[Segagendude]

Quote: Originally Posted by dretayla

***steps out of lurkdom*** I was going to refrain from commenting... mainly, b/c at this point it feels somewhat helpless to do so... However, if the most my post will do is add to this thread... the number of Madden players who feel letdown with this news... then it's done it's job. After reading several peoples opinions... Here's my stance... 1. If you don't play online franchise or franchise in general... please refrain from adding your two cents about "not giving a damn..." ...when Superstar mode, online co-op mode, etc... were what you banged the drum for... we supported that cause. Support ours.

Good point. No, make that great point.

I'm one who doesn't care, but I can understand why it's important to others.
Offline franchise is all I do, and if the situation was reversed,I'd feel the same way you do if online gamers were saying "who cares".

[g2thecore]

Quote: Originally Posted by ebugaloo

If it gains new customers or saves current ones, EA can and should find the resources. If they lose 1% out of their 6 million yearly customers because of a crappy online franchise, that's $3.6 million of revenues lost. You think they can't find a couple of developers with that kind of dough at stake? To suggest it is absurd to expect an overhaul to online franchise is, well, absurd.

What makes you think that they're going to lose 1% of their customers based on "no changes" being made to a game mode? For the last 5 years offline franchise has gotten no attention whatsoever. What kind of decline in sales have they seen?

Look I can appreciate people being upset about this. Like I said previously, I was in the same boat last year when I decided not to purchase the game for the 1st time since 2001. I was upset that offline franchise (my favorite mode) was yet untouched. But I got why it wasn't touched. They explained that they would need to rebuild it, and that they couldn't do that during that cycle. The way I see it is, I'd rather they take an extra year to make some significant changes to the mode than to have them half-*** it with some crappy feature, and say that they improved it.

[Automatik]

WOW, for the first time in a very long time I'm debating on not buying Madden. Can't even put a simple random rookie draft? Pathetic.

If the ice skating doesn't get fixed on the demo, then I'm not getting Madden 12. Gameplay>Graphics

[warren123]

Disappointing. OF will be hyped up next year I guess, if ever. I play all the modes and salary cap wouldn't really matter to me in OF but something new would have been nice.

[CRMosier_LM]

Quote: Originally Posted by Automatik

WOW, for the first time in a very long time I'm debating on not buying Madden. Can't even put a simple random rookie draft? Pathetic. If the ice skating doesn't get fixed on the demo, then I'm not getting Madden 12. Gameplay>Graphics

No one has said anything about the draft other than rumors from OS members.

[GGEden]

Quote: Originally Posted by g2thecore

What makes you think that they're going to lose 1% of their customers based on "no changes" being made to a game mode?

I can't count how many people in this thread have said they're canceling pre-orders, or made up their minds to skip M12 for NCAA12. That's now a category of "people not buying game because OF wasn't touched as promised, and nothing was ever done with the 'we've got OF servers to add things in people want'." Not just 'any old feature', but a very important mode for Madden communities. The number of people in that category can only grow as more people hear the news, and will represent a % loss of sales. There might be an increase % sales of people who don't care about online, or casual gamers, to offset that. But losing long-time stalwart Madden buyers is never a good thing.

As Tazdevil has always suggested, it should be one franchise mode, that can be filled up with humans or played single-player. Surely something so genius and simple. The problem is not only EA Tiburon's focus on cosmetics over game-play, but a lack of vision and ingenuity of how to design modes/ideas.