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

[kc10785]

This news is a major killer for me. I don't have fun playing the computer After a couple months of playing the computer it's get stale fast. I'm strictly a online person I have some hardcore madden fans as friends and this disappoint us. How can you not touch a mode at all for 2 years in a row. I understand it will take time to match what they offer offline to match online but I think a lot of people was just asking for a little additions at least. The major headaches with the online franchise is not having some type of salary cap to make teams run fairly, Fair trade logic, and The commissioner being able to over rule and replay games.

Even though I love XFN and LM for stepping up to plate I feel I shouldn't have to turn to a 3rd party website to make a game fun. It's going to be another year for begging people to get on the website so we can all be on the same page.

EA drop the ball big time and I try my best not to come on here and be on the bash bandwagon but this is frustrating.

[Stick skills]

The biggset dissapointment for me is that a fully functional online franchise mode would really show innovation, it would have showed that they were trying. last year when they gave us their excuse i was upset but i believed it. I really hope they lose sales this year so at least they will have the motivation to really improve OF.

[aksumite]

This is a major piece of crap.

Online Franchise is broken and they site low usage #s as the reason they won't fix it....GTFOH

It's low usage is because it's broken, duh.

Madden 12 will not be purchased by my group of 10 or so coaches.

[Stick skills]

The fact of the matter is Madden does not respect its consumers. I could understand gaming issues because every game has them (fifa 11 an nba 2k11) but to not adress your main features for three years that is pathetic. free agency and trading draft picks was all they need to get my 60$ this year.

[aksumite]

Madden and NBA 2K desperately need to take a cue from NCAA's Online Dynasty

[roadman]

Quote: Originally Posted by Stick skills

The fact of the matter is Madden does not respect its consumers. I could understand gaming issues because every game has them (fifa 11 an nba 2k11) but to not adress your main features for three years that is pathetic. free agency and trading draft picks was all they need to get my 60$ this year.

And 6 yrs went on without my main feature not being touched at all. It's a good thing both franchise will be able to be upgraded at the same time in the future.

[roadman]

Quote: Originally Posted by aksumite

Madden and NBA 2K desperately need to take a cue from NCAA's Online Dynasty

Madden probably will because one of the guys instramental in NCAA's online franchise is now Madden's Executive Producer.

Hopefully, good times ahead.

[KOTC Wayne]

Quote: Originally Posted by kc10785

This news is a major killer for me. I don't have fun playing the computer After a couple months of playing the computer it's get stale fast. I'm strictly a online person I have some hardcore madden fans as friends and this disappoint us. How can you not touch a mode at all for 2 years in a row. I understand it will take time to match what they offer offline to match online but I think a lot of people was just asking for a little additions at least. The major headaches with the online franchise is not having some type of salary cap to make teams run fairly, Fair trade logic, and The commissioner being able to over rule and replay games. Even though I love XFN and LM for stepping up to plate I feel I shouldn't have to turn to a 3rd party website to make a game fun. It's going to be another year for begging people to get on the website so we can all be on the same page. EA drop the ball big time and I try my best not to come on here and be on the bash bandwagon but this is frustrating.

I feel the same way. The days of playing the CPU been over like in the 90's and the days of all my friends and family trying to come over so we can run a franchise and all the teams that don't get pick, when one of the human controlled teams face a CPU team, we all just share a quarter with the CPU team is over as we all have gotten older with more responsibilities and we live distances a way from each other so online is where it has to be for us. The experience of playing 32 different people that all come with their own styles is the closest thing to real football as it get, especially when its governed right.

EA dropped the ball big time, atleast tinkering with online franchise mode a little, I mean, c'mon EA. This mode could actually be the best mode on the game if they were to do the same thing with online as they have done with offline.