Sound Off: Has the 'Closed' Nature of Connected Careers Turned You Away?

[mercalnd]

Personally, while I understand people's disappointment, I never used any of these features. I always just used an official update when starting a franchise and haven't imported draft classes in years. I also don't have teh free time to actually watch/play other teams' games.

This new mode seems to be an integration into Madden of all the great things NFL Head Coach 09 did with some very nice improvements tacked on. Head Coach didn't let you edit players or play other teams' games either and I absolutely loved the game.

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definetly has cooled my enthiusiasm but wont turn me away completely from purchasing the game....let's just see how it plays first before i make a full assessment

[azdawgpound]

i was excited till all the stuff that came out about franchise and now im either gonna rent or do the ea sports ticket and wait see if i like or not. im an offline franchise type player and with everything taken out from that mode that i like to do to me its not really worth $65. i may just keep playing 12 i already have every single rookie made up in this yrs draft class plus i can edit and change number's as i please and wont have wait for the so called "czar"'s weekly updates which he has never seem to get right.

[bichettehappens]

Quote: Originally Posted by mercalnd

This new mode seems to be an integration into Madden of all the great things NFL Head Coach 09 did with some very nice improvements tacked on. Head Coach didn't let you edit players or play other teams' games either and I absolutely loved the game.

That's what I've been wondering, having never played Head Coach myself. With all the praise it got from the offline franchise community I figured there would be more faith in Looman. How was the AI team-managing logic in HC?

[cuttingteeth]

Knowing now, that the only difference between the demo and the real game will be being able to select another team...nope...no reason whatsoever to purchase the game. I can get a bead on the infinity engine from the demo alone. Nothing else I want or could find out about the game that would excite me would warrant purchasing it.

[brandon27]

Unreal that they could take something out that they finally put in after people said they wanted it for years. Just doesn't make sense. Ran out of time? Jeez... I'm not very pleased with this news. I would be ok with not being able to edit them inside of CC, but to not even be able to edit a roster outside, and bring it into CC... that's a big problem IMO. Especially with how unreliable EA's rosters generally are. I've still got my preorder, I dont think ill change that, but I'll check it out on the season pass thing first and see if I like the gameplay much better before deciding whether I go out and buy it, or keep playing Madden 12. Shame it comes to this really. Had such high hopes for this game after all the June 4th announcements. But as a mainly offline franchise player, this is not good news.

[DirkJesusNowitzki]

Quote: Originally Posted by brahmagoul

Having only one choice to play NFL football as a video game. That's it. On another note, I scratch my head at the tweets I see at Josh Looman; people saying how they appreciate EA not rushing things to get it right. Am I wrong or is putting out CC and taking away options in itself rushing the product!?

Depends on how you wanna look at it.

You can look at it like "well they didn't include ____ and ____ and ____ so they must be rushing it out".

I look at it as "well they included ____ and _____ and ____ and spent a lot of time making sure all of those are fleshed out and balanced and then just ran out of time to include ___ and ___ and ___".

[mvb34]

Looking at the big picture no.. I am disappointed for no being able to play or view other game but I know that stuff will be back. I still will download the game three day early and will be in line at midnight release..