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

[secondsolution]

The main reason I'm not deterred by what is being left out of CC is that it is obvious that there is a plan to make something that will be truly amazing. If I have to go a year without editing players or having a fantasy draft in order to have the best career mode in sports gaming then I will happily take that sacrifice.

[Jibbler]

Yep it has. I have been buyng madden since 93 and 94 was the first year they had the season mode where you could play every game in a season.

Now if editing rosters was ONLY locked out I could live with that for this year if I could control 32 teams and play as many game as I like, but seeing all 3 of those options were locked and add on top of that no import draft cass co op etc that did it for me and it will be my first time ever not buying madden. since i have been playing it back in 1992

it aint worth the 100 dollars (yes games cost that much here) Id be bored after playing the same division teams 8 times a season with the same roster after 1 week.

[legendkiller5]

Quote: Originally Posted by Phobia

Nope none of that affects me. Going to be one of the best years for Madden for me. Plenty of things I am really excited about, most of which is Franchise CC related.....and.....of course the gameplay improvements!! I barely have time in my schedule to get through couple seasons playing as ONE team. I would never make it through 1 season if I played the other teams games also. I am like Dale, I see the complaints but don't understand how those would equal a NO BUY with all the other great inclusions.

Just because the so-called list of 'improvements/additions' is longer than the negatives, doesn't necessarily mean they outweigh them or outweigh them enough to forget the omissions. I don't know what's so difficult for people to understand that what one may like or feel are worthy enough improvements that outweigh the negatives may not be the same sentiments as everyone else.

For example, you mention the 32 play in OF that WE asked for. I don't play OF, nor do I have any interest in it, so you aren't speaking for all of us. I would much rather have the ability to edit rosters than have anything online-related, but at the same time I'm not going to try to devalue what other consumers think is important, because it's different from what I like.


People act like just the ability to add multi-colored visors was removed; the things removed were core aspects that were important to a lot of Madden's past consumers. I'm still confused as to how something can be so great, that removes many aspects that were in previous games, going years back.

That'd be like saying the new Xbox 3 will be revolutionary because of the ability to watch different sports packages, new voice commands or whatever else is new, but we've removed the ability to use Netflix, YouTube, or be backwards compatible for previous Xbox games.

Quote: Originally Posted by Evan_OS

Haven't turned me away at all. They got rid of a couple of things, but introduced something so much bigger than the modes that we're thrown out. No sense in getting our panties in a wad over a few modes when something HUGE was just added IMO.

Uhh...yeah, in YOUR opinion. In YOUR opinion, it was much bigger, but I'm sure you can see, that's not the opinion of everyone, and it doesn't mean our 'panties are in a wad'.

I don't play online in any capacity whatsoever, and I only played SS in the past to kill time or in between franchise games. The whole, twitter feeds, CCM, whatever, doesn't entice me whatsoever, but good for those that are happy.

But please, stop with subtle insults towards people who, heaven forbid, care more about controlling all 32 teams so MJD doesn't get traded for a bag of peanuts or making sure a new addition to a roster isn't wearing a retired number, etc.


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I also like how Madden 13 bragged about adding all this new equipment that we can't even use on rosters, yet, NCAA, who still offers the ability to fully edit rosters, didn't add anything new.

I feel like I'm being punk'd.

[DeuceDouglas]

The entire thing is a matter of opinion. Everybody puts different weight on certain things. What is HUGE to one person means nothing to another person and vice versa. You take something away and the people that really like it are going to be angry and the people that don't care for it are going to be indifferent.

[themassacre771.1]

Quote: Originally Posted by legendkiller5

Just because the so-called list of 'improvements/additions' is longer than the negatives, doesn't necessarily mean they outweigh them or outweigh them enough to forget the omissions. I don't know what's so difficult for people to understand that what one may like or feel are worthy enough improvements that outweigh the negatives may not be the same sentiments as everyone else. For example, you mention the 32 play in OF that WE asked for. I don't play OF, nor do I have any interest in it, so you aren't speaking for all of us. I would much rather have the ability to edit rosters than have anything online-related, but at the same time I'm not going to try to devalue what other consumers think is important, because it's different from what I like. People act like just the ability to add multi-colored visors was removed; the things removed were core aspects that were important to a lot of Madden's past consumers. I'm still confused as to how something can be so great, that removes many aspects that were in previous games, going years back. That'd be like saying the new Xbox 3 will be revolutionary because of the ability to watch different sports packages, new voice commands or whatever else is new, but we've removed the ability to use Netflix, YouTube, or be backwards compatible for previous Xbox games. Uhh...yeah, in YOUR opinion. In YOUR opinion, it was much bigger, but I'm sure you can see, that's not the opinion of everyone, and it doesn't mean our 'panties are in a wad'. I don't play online in any capacity whatsoever, and I only played SS in the past to kill time or in between franchise games. The whole, twitter feeds, CCM, whatever, doesn't entice me whatsoever, but good for those that are happy. But please, stop with subtle insults towards people who, heaven forbid, care more about controlling all 32 teams so MJD doesn't get traded for a bag of peanuts or making sure a new addition to a roster isn't wearing a retired number, etc. ----- I also like how Madden 13 bragged about adding all this new equipment that we can't even use on rosters, yet, NCAA, who still offers the ability to fully edit rosters, didn't add anything new. I feel like I'm being punk'd.

[dannyisastud]

It has turned me away. All I would play was 2 team franchise and compete against my cousin. Ill just stick to m12 and use updated rosters..

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[goravens2052]

Ok, so it seems we are split. The online folks seem to be thinking this isn't a big deal and don't know why people are upset, specifically the ones who only play offline and don't play Madden online. Let me ask you online players something. How many of you "commissioners" have came here and asked for more control over your league? How many times have you said, "I wish I had control over so and so" and "I wish EA would give us the ability to kick out cheesers from our league". See if you answer yes to both than your asking for the same thing us offline users want, MORE USER CONTROL.

Just because your online and don't play offline doesn't mean that when more control is taken away from offline users that "it's not a big deal" and that we are "whining". Well it's a big deal to us offline players. You think offline players cared that Online Franchise didn't have the same features as offline? Nope, because offline players had the same attitude toward online folks that you online players now have toward offline players, "It's not a big deal and stop whining, and there will always be cheesers".

So again, what makes it different when you online players ask for more user control in Online Franchise compared to when offline players ask for more user control in Offline Franchise?

[Bigmac612]

Quote: Originally Posted by legendkiller5

I also like how Madden 13 bragged about adding all this new equipment that we can't even use on rosters, yet, NCAA, who still offers the ability to fully edit rosters, didn't add anything new. I feel like I'm being punk'd.

This 10x!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thats whats get ppl like us angry more than anything!!! You advertise something so great to us..pull us in to the matrix...to pull the rug right up under our feet...smfh...and ppl wanna know why we are "whining and "complaining"??

Cause this is the same s*** we been havin to deal with year after f'n year... -_-

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