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

[cuttingteeth]

I've been digging (thoroughly) for facts, and as best as I can figure, all that we love with regards to player editing and custom playbooks will be available to us in "Play Now" mode.

This will cause us to make spreadsheets for season schedules and statistics, but for those of us so OCD about that all, we'll do it without much hesitation. Anyway, I'm about 95% sure of the above information. Once 100% confirmed, I may very well create spreadsheets to share with all. It'll likely be an excel page.

[Sarvinator]

I love the Madden series, and have never once edited a player or created a custom playbook, so this doesn't mean anything to me.
I'm looking forward to this year's game more than I have any version in a long, long time. The new physics engine really looks like the biggest thing to happen to this game in awhile. All I really care about is getting the game to play more like the actual game of football. The little things like importing draft classes, playing editing etc is cool, but that really is just fluff compared to the actual gameplay.

[cuttingteeth]

Quote: Originally Posted by Sarvinator

I love the Madden series, and have never once edited a player or created a custom playbook, so this doesn't mean anything to me. I'm looking forward to this year's game more than I have any version in a long, long time. The new physics engine really looks like the biggest thing to happen to this game in awhile. All I really care about is getting the game to play more like the actual game of football. The little things like importing draft classes, playing editing etc is cool, but that really is just fluff compared to the actual gameplay.

It may well be fluff, but the contentions are the following:

A. Every other sports game has full on customization, and they almost always sell better than Madden (some like NBA 2K series has no competition, either). That has to say something per what consumers want or have gravitated to.

B. Last year, the whole major selling point of Madden is that they finally got full customization in the game after publicly recognizing that consumers clamored for it so much.

C. It's revealed that the CCM code has been worked on for at least the past 2 years...but not once within those years did they try to work in full customization?

They've brought such questioning upon themselves with contradictory decision making of what's really important and suddenly, it's retroactively not. It's rather odd at the least.

[DukesofHazzard]

This is the first year i'm not buying madden or ncaa at launch and i WILL NOT buy them this year or even next year till they add IMPORT/EXPORT draft classes again. Thats my big selling point. I don't want to see all the top players in college football not in madden when my seasons are done and it is the most UNREALISTIC thing to see fake players in the draft in madden. This dev team should all be fired. Josh Looman said in the CCM video that they have been working on this mode for about 4 years and they couldn't figure out a way to add all the stuff they removed( the most important stuff IMO) I hate when company's make the game how they want it not how WE(the consumers) want. Never going to buy them again unless they get there act together.

[brahmagoul]

New motto, "If it's in the game, it's no longer in the game."

[AshTray]

Wow I just signed up today and found this out.This is definitely a deal breaker.
I can't edit players in my career "franchise",so even though I may think Peyton thrw pwr should be lower I can't do it.

I think Flacco is underrated,but hey for like 15 yrs I can edit but now I can't?

So rookies that come in I'm just stuck with,can't even import my draft class anymore?

I can't run two or three teams in "franchise"?

I can't even play the other games of my choice on the schedule?

Even though Madden player progression and regression has stunk for yrs I can't fine tune players in my "franchise"

This is an epic failure,I've bought every single madden since 94 even with all its issues.I always siad hey its video game it won't be perfect,but I try and usually enjoy it anyway.

This has completely turned me off of Madden,after hearing about the new engine and physics,and a revamped "franchise" mode I was more excited for Madden then I'd been in many years.

Epic failure EA,completely destoys replay value for me an offline franchise user.Sale lost.

[xJxJx]

Alright, so by now many people have played the demo and also know what "Connected Careers" is. The concept of the mode IS pretty sweet and does make for a much more interesting, possibly more involved experience with Madden.

For once the most alarming thing for me concerning Madden isn't even the gameplay. The demo is generally decent thus far, but Connected Careers took away the only thing I enjoyed doing in Madden... Fantasy Draft Franchise. Not to mention the inability to import draft classes from NCAA, use custom playbooks within your coached team and edit players (outside or inside connected career). Just too many features removed for me to care.

http://www.pastapadre.com/2012/06/11...-madden-nfl-13

Quote:

"There are of course downsides that accompany major changes to a mode and they will attract the ire of those who have become accustomed to utilizing certain features over the years. There will be no player editing of any kind, custom playbooks are not able to be used within the mode, and there is no “fantasy draft” at the start. There will also be no ability to import a draft class from NCAA Football 13. The time to implement properly was not there but for those who place high value on them why they’re not included won’t matter."

No way I will be purchasing this game at $60 new. Even $40 new would be pushing it. If it drops to $30 for Black Friday, then I'll consider giving EA my money, otherwise I'm passing altogether. Maybe next year...

[TRiCKY_J]

i was hyped till i dug a little deeper to find out every reason i played madden and enjoyed the game despite its flaws was removed i decided to not buy the game brand new day one. hell i might just play madden 12 another year. its disappointing because everything else looked great but i guess we cant have everything in our madden game. it needed some kinda flaw right? what a business model lol