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

[Big FN Deal]

Quote: Originally Posted by roadman

License ends March 2013, so EA will make another game with the current license and probably several more when they re-up. oops, sorry went off topic, back on topic.

Correction 2014.

[XplosiveRunna26]

Quote: Originally Posted by roadman

License ends March 2013, so EA will make another game with the current license and probably several more when they re-up. oops, sorry went off topic, back on topic.

*FacePalm* If they do, I swear I'll.....do nothing about it i guess

[roadman]

Quote: Originally Posted by Big FN Deal

Correction 2014.

Ah, thank you my friend, I stand corrected.

[DrewsLions]

Quote: Originally Posted by A_New_Classic

No fantasy draft is kind of a bummer, but it's not like there aren't ways around it either.

Ummm... like? I fail to see how there will be ways around no fantasy draft. It's not like someone can create a roster and upload it for use in a franchise....

[themassacre771.1]

Not to be off topic, but from the NFL's standpoint, why would they make things exclusive? They do this with season ticket as well. Wouldn't they stand to make more money by not being exclusive? Someone give me a business lesson!

[StanleyStutters]

Quote: Originally Posted by themassacre771.1

Not to be off topic, but from the NFL's standpoint, why would they make things exclusive? They do this with season ticket as well. Wouldn't they stand to make more money by not being exclusive? Someone give me a business lesson!

I don't know any of the details, but I'm guessing that EA is spending a large amount of money to have the exclusive NFL rights. And whenever the deal runs up they'll likely be paying even more to keep the NFL deal exclusive.

I think it's going to be a very long time before we see anyone other than EA make an NFL game. I hope I'm wrong and I'm not saying that I think EA makes poor NFL games, but if we had multiple NFL games every year the competition would lead to higher quality games for all of us.

[roadman]

Quote: Originally Posted by themassacre771.1

Not to be off topic, but from the NFL's standpoint, why would they make things exclusive? They do this with season ticket as well. Wouldn't they stand to make more money by not being exclusive? Someone give me a business lesson!

Was proved a long time ago that the NFL makes more money with an exclusive vs non-exclusive by a former EA employee.

It's the standard practice of the NFL, exclusivity.

Probably better for another thread, like Big's lol.

[lilgame06]

Wow, I didnt realize that editing your own rosters and playing other teams games was such a huge deal for people. I suppose I understand why though. I guess its more about at least having those options available to you, and now that they aren't, it does come across as a slap in the face to those that have used these features over the last several years.

Regardless, these two issues don't apply to me. When I play my offline franchise, I only worry about my own team anyway, and I dont ever find myself messing with editing rosters. But I'm a big time online franchise guy, so having all these new features to play with in my online franchises has me extremely hyped up. I was disappointed at first to hear that there's no fantasy drafts, but im well over it now. Completely fine with using default rosters.