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

[ImaGamer_OS]

I am taking an open mind in to Madden 13 this season. I am disappointed in the inability to import NCAA rosters nor edit rosters like the majority though I am open to the connected careers mode.

I will take a "wait and see" approach. Saves a lot of angst that is obviously effecting some of our members!

[Jukeman]

Quote: Originally Posted by brahmagoul

It just seems like it's been an EA thing to limit user customization. I don't know if it's that "we know best" mentality or what. All of the EA Sports games either don't have a lot of customization options or have been slow to add them over the years, when 2K games and MLB The Show have had them since I started playing them. FIFA's the same way with that play as only one team in a season thing. Live was like that a lot, particularly on the last two generations. I don't get it. These things seem like simple fly ball features that should be in there.

My thoughts exactly and ironically Madden was the only game from EASports that had the customization.

Live, FiFA, NHL were always no buy for me because of this throughout the years.

When Madden first enable 32 team control, man that was the best news I heard about the game way back when. I was excited as hell

[sportskid84]

Well I already pre-ordered it,so its not a big turnoff to me.

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[oldman]

I am actually reallly excited about Madden. NCAA has become stagnant. It is the same game every year with only minor changes. That is why this year was the first year since they started releasing it that I did not purchase it. I played it at my brother's house and couldn't stand it. It is the same as it has always been.

Now that NCAA rant brings me to my next point. Every year people clamor for innovation and something new from both Madden and NCAA. Well this year, they are giving us that with both the infinity engine and CC. Madden makes it sound like they are trying to create an experience that will be uniquely different from previous Madden iterations. With that in mind I am counting down the days until the release of Madden. It is time for EA's football games to be shaken up and give a great Franchise mode experience and I think this may be the first step in that direction.

As for not being able to import rosters from NCAA, I quit doing that two years ago when Madden revamped all of their draft classes. Every year when you move the NCAA draft classes to Madden there is always a huge problem. I got tired of dealing with that and decided to break free of that.

[Guru03]

It's totally turned me away and I'm not buying because of that. I'm keeping Madden 12 and they should have built on to Franchsr mode instead of scrapping completely.

[StrawHat Patriot]

Quote: Originally Posted by Guru03

It's totally turned me away and I'm not buying because of that. I'm keeping Madden 12 and they should have built on to Franchsr mode instead of scrapping completely.

It's the whole code thing, where apparently its easier to make changes to one combined or something like that.

[Cardot]

Quote: Originally Posted by brahmagoul

It just seems like it's been an EA thing to limit user customization. I don't know if it's that "we know best" mentality or what.

I completely agree. It can be frustrating. The NHL series doesn't have options for a shorter season, nor did the MVP back in the day. In NCAA 12 I am constantly bombarded with the Season Showdown messages that I care nothing about. Like you said, it comes across as EA saying "Try not to think. Just sit back and play our way. We know what is best for you".

[mpeterso]

Quote: Originally Posted by Guru03

It's totally turned me away and I'm not buying because of that. I'm keeping Madden 12 and they should have built on to Franchsr mode instead of scrapping completely.

Based on the info I've read on Connected Careers I feel the same way. I understand that people were annoyed with the usually suspect AI in the traditional franchise mode, where cpu controlled teams seemingly made poor and illogical decisions over and over again, requiring you to control all 32 teams if you wanted a reasonably realistic NFL experience. However, at least we had options to improve our franchise experience. Now with the closed nature of Connected Careers we're stuck with whatever the limitations the modes AI has and that sounds like a recipe for epic user frustration and not fun. I think Connected Careers is EA's attempt to improve franchise AI and cpu decision making, but I don't think it will work for the simple fact that the same AI issues that resulted in poor decisions in the past (cpu teams cutting the wrong type of players, poor draft logic, poor free agent logic etc) will likely still exist, meaning now I will be stuck playing a RPG with very limited user control and no ability to customize the game to over come its AI short comings.