offline ALL-MADDEN vs CFM ALL-Madden

[DA KING]

why is the gameplay different? SAME EXACT settings in my offline franchise as I have in my online league...but the online league is 92309479374 times harder. the CPU is waaaaay faster and better on D. What is the reason for this? or is this another #BecauseMadden moment? Just curious.

[Jm0ney2001]

I think every game play different. There's like a range of games you get vs the cpu. Some games are easier and some games are impossible. If you don't do well on offense the cpu will take advantage. Often I can't get anything going on my first two drives and I'm down 14-0.

[Hooe]

At E3 this year I was told by Clint Oldenburg repeatedly and strongly that, with the exception of penalties (the CPU cannot trigger penalties in Ultimate Team, Draft Champions, and online head-to-head games outside of CFM), there is zero difference between how the game is tuned for any of the game modes, and that the game is tuned to play the same in Play Now / Connected Franchise / Ultimate Team / Draft Champions.

Knowing this, we can either take the developers word on this point and disregard one-game anecdotes as anomalies accounted for by playing a game with results influenced by random numbers, or we can accuse the developers of deliberately deceiving their audience. Personally, I like the first option a lot better.