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

[Rondo is GOD]

absolutely. I have always spent hours going through and editing the new rookies after year one. changing numbers, changing equipment the whole 9 yards. sometimes it's funner than actually playing.

[StrawHat Patriot]

Quote: Originally Posted by moneal2001

have you played the ncaa demo? wrs and dbs are not passive in that and that is because of the 400+ new catch animations. and the read and react defense ai has decreased the unrealistic plays by the defenders as has the new catch animations since they work both ways.

It depends the certain routes you do. Yes I have played the NCAA Demo. Whenever there is man on slants and deep post routes the receivers are passive and the DB's are zooming sometimes.

[BrianFifaFan]

Quote: Originally Posted by Wista5

I signed up just to post how upset I am by this. I like letting the CPU make all trade, draft, and free agent signings and I just play the games I want and let the league play out itself. I like using more than one team because it gets boring just controlling my Raiders. What if some hot-shot overall 1st round QB gets drafted by a team I can't control? I never get the benefit of playing as him and seeing how good he is. This is why I can't get into Fifa and NHL Hockey. Gameplay is great in both games and I like playing one-off games but I cant get into BE A GM mode because I am stuck playing as my Sharks over and over and it gets boring. What if I want to play a game as Sid the kid with the Penguins or Ovechkin with the Capitals. I buy and play almost every sports game every year, but this is why NBA 2K and MLB the Show get the majority of my play time. Great Gameplay plus great franchise modes. EA is just pissing me off and screwing-up my hobby.

I love NBA2k's Association, play it a ton. But I also love my ManU CM in Fifa12. Why? Because I am a Cavs fan and a ManU fan. I see your point, as well as a lot of the other guys, but I offer this. I am 45 years old. Started cheering for the Bengals in '88 with Boomer at the helm. Now we're finally back to Andy Dalton as the first legit QB we've had. If I was playing one Franchise mode that included them all I would've seen a bunch of crappy QB's come and go, as well as many other Bengal greats and not so greats. A lot of guys have been saying they want realism, but how could you duplicate the Boomer to Dalton reality? You can't use NCAA, it's only 4 years worth of guys at best. Custom rosters? Still tied to NCAA in real life.

At some point there will be a fantasy aspect to try and keep playing for 30 seasons. And it wouldn't last as long as people think, based on the pace you would have to play 30 season before next Madden. Even if I play at a pace to make this last a full 12 months, Andy Dalton retires in 6 months, if I'm lucky. I've also got a full 8-9 years of fake players filling the league.

I guess my overall point is this. I am a fan of the organization/team first. The players are secondary. They will come and go if I stick with my Career/Franchise/Association long enough. I understand the point about not being able to play other games. I really get the not being able to play with other friends on the same console. I guess where I have found myself befuddled at the level of anger is the whole ratings/equipment editing/accurate rosters thing. Any videogame "career" mode is going to turn towards the fantasy element pretty darn quick, that is if the gameplay holds a person long enough....

[jerwoods]

on June 4 i was hyped then June 5 crushed bottom line i would buy it used but if u buy it used no online pass means no way to update rosters beyond the ones on disc but i will likely buy at launch because skipping ncaa utail OS has a good roster slider sets they are worth the wait but to my point if i download EA Rosters if CCM plays well this might work but will plob wait utail FEB to start a CCM

[KingV2k3]

I WAS willing to give it a try until I was made aware of the fact that the editing issue doesn't just affect attributes, but will make it impossible (for example) to move an aging CB to FS as a result of multiple year franchise regression / etc...

I'm mos def going to wait to read everything on OS re: this title up to and including the first patch cycle before making a definitive decision...

However, based on how much was removed / sacrificed with regard to us 32 team / offline franchise / sim players, I'm pretty sure I'll be passing this year...

They done gone "too far" IMHO, this time 'round...

Oh, and for perspectives sake, this would / will be the first time I passed on Madden since I bought my first console in 2002...

[JerseySuave4]

Quote: Originally Posted by JayD

Nope, I like the direction it is going and people need to stop freaking out being that it's only year one of this completely new format.

year one of a completely new format

year six of development on these systems and they're taking things away

less than 2 years away from the next wave of systems when they'll take more things away and use the excuse of having to learn what the new systems can do.

[mdiggitydawg]

It has definitely cooled me...but then again, i was completely turned off by Madden after the past two years releases and vowed not to purchase until a few weeks of customer testing (for I don't believe the madden team does a good job at testing nor cares, and i feel reviewers don't get enough time to see the many bugs that the fans find).

[Playmakers]

Very dissapointed in EA....I was really looking forward to Madden 13.

Not purchasing the game now because i have no desire to play the way they want me to play the game all year (their way).

Can't create Classic players and teams...

Can't play any game on the NFL schedule even if I decide to play with their rosters in CCM....

So, I'm going to excercise my rights to not buy their game this year...