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

[Airdrop01]

Quote: Originally Posted by DrPhibes

Madden 13 has left each and every one of us offline players behind. Offline franchises are a memory. Back to Madden 12 for me.

This is exactly right.

[hawksruleva]

Quote: Originally Posted by prey2god

I used to do what you did. I actually put my friends as team members. Friends I played with in high school and in college. But I can no longer do that in CCM mode. It's a very limited franchise mode now.

I did that too! It was especially fun when you could import NCAA teams. I'd recruit myself and my friends out of high school, play in college, and then make it to the NFL.

Oh well, I guess having fun and making the game interesting for groups of people isn't what EA has in mind. They want to create the real NFL experience. There work to make thing like the salary cap work just like the NFL are truly amazing. And the practice squad feature? Awesome!

[Maelstrom]

What I don't like is that some players are underated in the initial release, & when you download the online roster you see them rated much higher.

For instance Chiefs TE Steve Maneri in the original Connected Careers roster is rated 47, in the Connected Careers update, he is rated 53 & 5th on the depth chart.

However, in the online roster, he is rated at 66 & second on the depth chart.

A there is NO WAY to turn a 5th-string player rated at 53 into a 66-rated 2nd stringer, because you only get practice time to earn XP points, ZERO game time & attribute packs cost A LOT & only upgrade one point.

Although, I agree with making it difficult to level up a player, when a player was clearly underated by the EA developers & they realize their mistake & correct his attributes for online rosters, why woudln't they change his underated attrubutes to reflect his actual attributes?