Madden NFL 13 CCM Will Not Allow You to Play Other Games on the Schedule, Only Yours

[cuttingteeth]

I just knew that Megatron would break the Madden Curse...

Only he sort of deflected it back into the actual game. D@mnit!

[moylan1234]

Quote: Originally Posted by rbowers7

Have you seen the videos? It really is a step up to what was used before. They do not have us lined or whatever, there are some of us who are happy to get the changes we got and see that complaining OVER AND OVER is pointless as they are not gonna change anything. Say what you will, I still bet you buy the game.

? but isn't that how this "monumental change" happened in the first place?

[mwjr]

Quote: Originally Posted by xcef2005

I've had a little while to think this over and present my argument and beliefs in the best way possible. Hopefully I've been clear and if no one reads this at least I can vent my feelings out through typing: I remember a few years ago when MLB: The Show announced that they would let you control all 32 teams and all aspects of the game. They would even let you control who got injured and how long they were injured for. Here was the top baseball game in Video Games knowing what the people want. Some could argue MLB the Show is THE video game when it comes to sports. NBA 2K realized what the people wanted. They gave you the power to control your NBA World however you wanted. They realized fans wanted the power to create their own NBA drafts and it was given. Here was the top basketball game in Video games knowing what the people want. Some could argue NBA 2K is THE video game when it comes to sports. Now some of you can post and say these modes aren’t important or that you just don’t understand. You can say that you’re angry but in the end you’ll just live with it. The above mentioned franchises knew what was important and knew what the future of their games needed to have and I don’t think that can be stressed enough. So here you have Madden who possibly beat both those games to the punch when it comes to franchise mode. You could finally edit players during the season; you could for the longest time already control all 32 teams. They didn’t let you edit your own NFL drafts but they at least had the NCAA Import feature which was not great but good enough for most. They had the chance, the opportunity to become the top sports game again, a sports game the NBA and MLB the Show probably tried to be like in some aspects, or at least once upon a time. Madden ’13 was going to be THE game once again, but it was going to be a lot of hard work. I feel like Madden put a lot of work into this game but at what cost? The cost obviously is a deleted franchise mode. Features that fans have known for years are gone and new features that were in Madden 12 are now lost as well. Also how much work did they really put in? Is a “Connected Careers” mode really a lot of hard work because it’s a new feature? Or was in the easy way out because Madden gave up the hard work that was needed to fix two features that were already there? This isn’t a rant or a post full of anger, it’s a realization. Madden ’13 is the year of “Connected Careers” and I honestly hope everything works out perfect and that this mode is a huge success with no major flaws because if there is, there will only be a patch to fix it (if even possible), not the users of Operation Sports.

Good post. In my opinion, makers of NBA 2K and MLB The Show have tried to make consumers happy. EA is trying to improve its bottom line by trying to control the way we play.

Put all of the modes together in order to get people online, where we can charge more for additional features. Oh, but if we move them all online, we have to limit their abilities to "cheat." Therefore, importing draft classes, editing rosters, custom playbooks, playing games other than your team's - all the things that are available to offline players, now must be eliminated to level the playing field.

I know I sound like Chicken Little, screaming about the sky falling, but I just have a sneaking suspicion that this is what we're heading for.

[ImReady77]

LOL how much **** can a fan take!!!

[SteelerSpartan]

Quote: Originally Posted by mwjr

I guarantee you that there you will be able to purchase XP from the EA market or whatever they call it. And people will buy it. It won't be required, but it will most certainly be available.

Lord they better not....I witnessed first hand how the XP Pack Buying destroyed what was left of Fight Night Champion.....People called them "Steroid Packs" because they let people enhance their fighters and dominate Online...while the other guys who didn't want to purchase these Steroid Packs had to go through a much harder process to get their fighters to be competitive...

^^And to make matters worse their Multiplayer MatchMaking Logic was so terrible that you'd constantly have fighters who were just starting out going up against these steroid freaks

[mestevo]

Quote: Originally Posted by mwjr

I guarantee you that there you will be able to purchase XP from the EA market or whatever they call it. And people will buy it. It won't be required, but it will most certainly be available.

"No DLC, you have to grind it out" - quote from one of the videos.

Really a reach to complain about either way since you obviously wouldn't buy it and you could probably prevent people from using it in your own leagues just as you were able to limit helper DLC in NCAA.

[GhostWriter99]

The fact is the Madden team WOULD have kept most of these things in if there was competition out there. The only way they try something so drastic is because they know they are the only game in town.

It's almost like they have no idea what people want with their game.

I am a fully 32 Team offline Franchise player and this is the worst news that I could have possibly gotten. I play my more favorite team in each game. I have know idea how I will play this game this season.

[cbenti60]

CC Mode was good on paper, but the removal of true franchise mode is killing this right now