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Madden NFL 13 CCM Will Not Allow You to Play Other Games on the Schedule, Only Yours

04:33 PM - June 12, 2012 by Steve_OS

Because I have been asked about this via Twitter and email so often, I wanted to make sure people were aware.

Justin Dewiel, Community Manager for EA Sports, just confirmed via Twitter (just follow the timeline), if you coach a team, you can no longer play other games on the schedule, only the game(s) on your own schedule.

For example. Rgiles asked if he could coach the Cowboys in CCM, but play the Patriots vs. Browns game.

Justin stated that it is not possible, because CCM is based around you and your character (coach or player).

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# 101 moneal2001 @ 06/12/12 07:57 PM

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Originally Posted by statum71


	When Josh did the Connected Careers blog he stated "play as 32 humans in a league: CHECK" about halfway down in this blog: http://www.easports.com/news/article...developer-blog Did he have it wrong or did something change or what??

nope he is still right you can have a 32 person league online.

# 102 dill911 @ 06/12/12 08:00 PM

the news just keeps getting better and better! my god do they have any idea what they are doing! madden is losing $$$ by the day. talk about the most LINEAR game mode ever. "Madden 13: now with a new engine! and CC game mode! oh and play now! for 60$ you get one game mode!"

# 103 Wildcats302 @ 06/12/12 08:06 PM

I was gonna give Madden a shot this year after taking last year off due to the new engine in gameplay and such, and CC sounded cool...but this is a feature I like to have. I like to play other games on occasion, or at least watch them.

NCAA is cheaper at 45 bucks and I figure next year it will have psychic engine as well and Madden will be tuned so next year might work out better for me there.

# 104 Calvin_Johnson81 @ 06/12/12 08:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Dirk504


	This doesn't really affect me because I only use one team... but it's about to get real ugly in here

yeah same here I've never liked playing other teams games on my schedule

# 105 statum71 @ 06/12/12 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Tmorales13


	Is everyone serious........No duh u wont be able to coach one team like the Cowboys and play Browns vs Patriots.... Why would this even be a problem????? If i coached the cowboys and the eagles play the 49ers or someone. I could just tank the eagles game so I can move up in the standings. I hope this post was all a joke...

Because we don't consider ourselves to be so-called "coaching."

We're just playing NFL games. Without having a team.

# 106 dill911 @ 06/12/12 08:08 PM

you know since this basically has sent the world of OP sports off the deep end, i gota say congrats to all these guys posting these awesome .gif's because although this making me crazy, I am laughing harder than i have in forever. here is my contribution! the look of every Os'er as they read these threads

# 107 mwjr @ 06/12/12 08:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Kaiser Wilhelm


	You could always play franchise together with other people. Why do you think 32 team control was in the game? So 32 individuals could sit down at one console and play against each other, as highly unlikely as that was or any combination of players and teams between 1 team: 32 players and 32 teams : 1 player.

That's what I thought.

Again, I've never controlled more than 1 team, but the poster who said he played a franchise with his kids really reinforced it: this is a bitter pill to swallow.

Makes no sense whatsoever.

# 108 mwjr @ 06/12/12 08:16 PM

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Originally Posted by SA1NT401


	Only one LIVE GOLD profile per console.

I'm confused. Are you saying that a console can only have 1 Live Gold membership to it? That's not accurate. Otherwise, my kids could access Netflix without having to sign is as me.

Or am I misreading the question?

# 109 aholbert32 @ 06/12/12 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by msdm27


	But... what if? Everytime we switch to a different coach all the previously acumulated XP with the old coach are lost? Thus, deeply hindring the ability to scout or buy coach upgrades. I think this is a real possibility

Its possible. My workaround only works if you dont care about XP.

# 110 mwjr @ 06/12/12 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by TajDeni


	ive been saying it over the last few days, anybody who is reading the tea-leaves can see that its clear that EA vision as a company going forward is all about the online gamer 1st and foremost. this philosphy started with ssx ( a snowboarding racing game with no local multi-player) and that pilosophy as move on to madden. dont believe me i can prove it. take a good list of all the features that were removed. now ask yourself, how any those features have a real impact on the way random, tourny, or online franchises are played. - you might say CP, but the online crowd mostly feel its a feature that promotes too much cheese. - not many OF are gonna use fantasy draft. - can only control 1 team online. - online you cant edit ratings - you cant import draft classes online basically what you have here for the first time in the history of sports games is a reversal of ports, meaning in most sports titles the online modes are a direct port of what you can do offline. for the 1st time ever the offline is now a port of whats important to online. so because EA has now fused online and offline franchise into 1 mode, whatever is not good for online or relevent to online will never again be given to offline. get used to it because it is the future, online gamers 1st, everyone else if they have the time after that.

It's really, really difficult to contradict anything you said.

# 111 Equinox831 @ 06/12/12 08:22 PM

# 112 dill911 @ 06/12/12 08:23 PM

you know reading the twitter feed from Dewiel on the original post, they honestly just have no idea. he keeps saying how "well if your the browns coach, you would never be able to coach another team in real life?" and saying " well ya your gona miss those things but this mode is better." according to who? you and your development team? i honestly think they have no idea what they are doing. they don't understand the view point from us, as a customer. they are hyping all of this "real life" stuff and umm its a video game! if we want martin luther king jr. to be our running back with Abe lincoln at qb, why cant we! its just insane. honestly looking at all this is summarized in one point. : a complete breakdown between EA and the customer." just look at the twitter timeline and its all right there

# 113 msdm27 @ 06/12/12 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by aholbert32


	Its possible. My workaround only works if you dont care about XP.

Yepp, the "workaround" basically COULD mean losing the ability to scout + upgrading your coach attributes

# 114 djordan @ 06/12/12 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Tmorales13


	Is everyone serious........No duh u wont be able to coach one team like the Cowboys and play Browns vs Patriots.... Why would this even be a problem????? If i coached the cowboys and the eagles play the 49ers or someone. I could just tank the eagles game so I can move up in the standings. I hope this post was all a joke...

I can't believe some of the people in here that are posting things like this. Do you understand we've had this feature since Madden 94 and Tecmobowl on the SNES?

This makes no damn sense if you think about it. Give the user the option to play traditional franchise or CCM. Plain and simple.

# 115 msdm27 @ 06/12/12 08:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Errors Occurred


	You know it comes down to this really...It's your game you should be able to play it how you want to...It's a game right and my lord this site is going to blow up if the AI is not 100% right and I'm almost 101% sure that will be the case...I couldn't wait to see what June 4th was going to bring but really I can't wait till everyone talks about the AI....It will be a fun show to watch that's for sure.

I can't wait to see a full Crazy Trades thread like the one on MLB The Show 12 forums

Albert Pujols from the Angels to the Pirates for A.J. Burnett + 2 AAA Prospects

Tom Brady from the Patriots to the Jaguars for Blaine Gabbert + 2 2nd round picks

Done & Done! But only one of these 2 games has the ability to take control of the AI to prevent this from happening

# 116 mwjr @ 06/12/12 08:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Errors Occurred


	You know it comes down to this really...It's your game you should be able to play it how you want to...It's a game right and my lord this site is going to blow up if the AI is not 100% right and I'm almost 101% sure that will be the case...I couldn't wait to see what June 4th was going to bring but really I can't wait till everyone talks about the AI....It will be a fun show to watch that's for sure.

Well, if they are indeed trying to shift the focus from offline to online, as Taj suggested, then it makes sense. They can shift the players online and charge them for more things.

# 117 djordan @ 06/12/12 08:37 PM

Really?...

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Originally Posted by [URL="https://twitter.com/#%21/JDewiel"


	JDewiel[/url]] @jpdavis1982 @rgiles36 Connected Careers is a new way to play man. It's the evolution of franchise mode.

How is it an evolution when you can't edit players, equipment, or play other games on the schedule whereas previous Maddens you could?

# 118 Ninjoid @ 06/12/12 08:38 PM

Terrible news this.....as a champion of the cpu v cpu cause and also the "play any game from any side's schedule" question I ask every year for every game this is disastrous.

This will totally remove the immersion within a franchise...as others have said, you can't watch any other game from that week and also if you don't make it all the way to the superbowl well the post season is going to blow when you're just shown who has won - we want what we've had for all time, the ability to watch/play any game from any side's schedule including the playoffs.....

Disaster....no purchase for me based on this......I suspect it will also be the same for NHL 13, a franchise that removed the ability to watch any game some time ago - I thought it might return this year but that looks doubtful based on this news.

At least this option is still available in NCAA 13....but, total despair for Madden, it really is.

Ridiculous.

# 119 Tweeg @ 06/12/12 08:44 PM

Such BS. I like to watch the Superbowl (if I'm not in it) in my franchises. Now I can't....thanks.

# 120 shadia147 @ 06/12/12 08:48 PM

Done!!

I went 5 years not playing Madden and other games because of single team control. They just undid anything (Which wasnt all that much) that had any glimmer of promise.
Next, they're not going to allow us to play CPU vs CPU. As I said.... Done! Kaput! Outta here! Stick your game where the sun don't shine!

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