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

01:53 PM - June 13, 2012 by RaychelSnr

It all seemed too good to be true.

Now after this week's bombshells that you cannot edit players in connected careers or play any other games in the mode other than your own, it seems like the Madden team is once again forcing you to play your game their way. To me, this is a huge problem. Others of you? Maybe not so much. But let's hear it: Has the 'closed' nature of Connected Careers turned you away and/or cooled your enthusiasm about Madden NFL 13?

Sound off!

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# 741 cbc72 @ 08/27/12 05:42 PM

Thank you for that information, that is good news on my enjoyment front anyway.

It is still too bad that they removed other options that a lot of other people enjoy.

I am actually looking at making this my first "new" Madden purchase on this generation console. I have only bought 2 others and waited a year for the price drop. I have been getting NCAA each year, though.

# 742 DereckM @ 08/27/12 05:58 PM

So is there now no regular franchise? If no then yes CC has turned me off. I just can't believe people are willing to except no franchise mode from madden but would not take that from other football titles.

# 743 Jukeman @ 08/27/12 06:04 PM

No its a stripped down version on last year's franchise mode covered up with twitter feeds.

-Juke

# 744 BLA7E @ 08/27/12 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by chino22


	The most brutal disappointment of all to me is that they have finally included some legendary players in this game only to find out that we can just use one at a time. It already sucks massively that they don't have historic teams in general like NBA 2k12, but I was willing to settle and get pumped for at least some legends. I want control of all the teams. I want to immerse all of the legends back into the league on the teams they originally played for where applicable. And then I'd like the ability to play with any of these teams whenever I wanted and just enjoy the experience and thrill of getting to use these legends once again. The addition of legendary players in M13 just seems like a major tease more than anything else. Give us our freaking options and customization back!

YES! YES! YES! YES!

(X 1000)

# 745 inkcil @ 08/27/12 07:40 PM

Now that people are reporting depth chart mismanagment with the CPU controlled teams, the closed nature is a big turnoff. Makes it pretty much a "Play Now" game only. Imagine being in week 7 of your season and playing against an Eagles team with a healthy Jackson and Vick and McCoy on the bench. It destroys the immersion. No "twitter feed" can make up for that.

# 746 LaW97 @ 08/27/12 08:19 PM

Yes
Im turned away.
They betrayed us in the name of all those who will go and spend 60 dollars blindly every year.

Removing franchise that they had been improving since M10 makes me feel like the end of Planet of the Apes,

"you really did it. you blew it up. you maniacs. god damn you to hell EA."

# 747 prey2god @ 08/27/12 08:24 PM

I'm one of those turned off. I played online about a few times and those said times, I have not enjoyed it. However, I like to feel immersed in my NFL franchise, often putting myself on teams, but I can't do that now. I'm forced to play as myself only as myself. After years and years, they took out the functionality of franchise mode to appease the online crowd.

I cancelled my pre order and this is the first time I have with Madden since 2001. I'm highly disappointed. I'm glad others enjoy the game, but I know there are massive amount of Madden fans who are very much turned off by the whole limited franchise mode they installed in this new Madden.

It's just not Madden anymore.

# 748 inkcil @ 08/27/12 08:45 PM

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Originally Posted by prey2god


	I'm one of those turned off. I played online about a few times and those said times, I have not enjoyed it. However, I like to feel immersed in my NFL franchise, often putting myself on teams, but I can't do that now. I'm forced to play as myself only as myself. After years and years, they took out the functionality of franchise mode to appease the online crowd. I cancelled my pre order and this is the first time I have with Madden since 2001. I'm highly disappointed. I'm glad others enjoy the game, but I know there are massive amount of Madden fans who are very much turned off by the whole limited franchise mode they installed in this new Madden. It's just not Madden anymore.

Although I stated this in another thread, it is also applicable here (probably moreso) and worth repeating that "Madden NFL the Videogame" is not just a videogame to the NFL anymore...it is an entertainment computer program social media tool being used to connect people to the NFL and to each other for the purpose of promoting and sustaining greater interest in the NFL. Connecting people to the NFL and Promoting fantasy football and creating social (online) networks surrounding the NFL to increase NFL revenue is the "endgame." The numbers must be qualified and quantified, thus the "encouragement" for everyone to be online so that the numbers can be counted just like they are on Facebook or Twitter or other social online applications that are now being used to shape our perception of oursleves, others and how the world works or should work around us.

# 749 KingV2k3 @ 08/27/12 08:49 PM

Now that it appears as though the game doesn't even play properly offline, I am not only "turned off", but I'm starting to question EA's motive to MAKE us play online...

Which in 12 years of pretty much daily gaming, I have NEVER done...

Can they benefit in any way from tracking our time / online gaming habits?

Hate to be a "conspiracy theorist" re: this, but as they say:

"If you want to know the answer to a question, follow the money"

# 750 prey2god @ 08/27/12 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by inkcil


	Although I stated this in another thread, it is also applicable here (probably moreso) and worth repeating that "Madden NFL the Videogame" is not just a videogame to the NFL anymore...it is an entertainment computer program social media tool being used to connect people to the NFL and to each other for the purpose of promoting and sustaining greater interest in the NFL. Connecting people to the NFL and Promoting fantasy football and creating social (online) networks surrounding the NFL to increase NFL revenue is the "endgame." The numbers must be qualified and quantified, thus the "encouragement" for everyone to be online so that the numbers can be counted just like they are on Facebook or Twitter or other social online applications that are now being used to shape our perception of oursleves, others and how the world works or should work around us.

You are 100% correct. Social networking is destroying America but that's another topic. I'm so turned off by social networking, I quit facebook. I can't stand it. Even making a twitter account just to "tweet" Donny Moore and Josh Looman was a pain for me.

Maybe i'm getting old, but i'm just not into the whole online sharing thing. I also don't want to be a statistical pawn for their game of money making.

# 751 Jukeman @ 08/27/12 08:56 PM

Got dammit the illuminati is taking over gaming too

-Juke

# 752 Airdrop01 @ 08/27/12 09:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MMChrisS


	It all seemed too good to be true. Now after this week's bombshells that you cannot edit players in connected careers or play any other games in the mode other than your own, it seems like the Madden team is once again forcing you to play your game their way. To me, this is a huge problem. Others of you? Maybe not so much. But let's hear it: Has the 'closed' nature of Connected Careers turned you away and/or cooled your enthusiasm about Madden NFL 13? Sound off!

YES. It's absurd. I actually gave away NCAA13 when I got M13. Looks like I'll be sending M13 back when it comes from Amazon tomorrow and instead buying NCAA13 again. I'm very disappointed in the entire iteration. It's a real lost opportunity.

# 753 leo2k2ndc @ 08/27/12 09:13 PM

Dammit, I hate this website sometimes, I should just keep myself numb to the game til I buy it, but can't. This is by far the most bad I have heard from a game before it was even released. I also am an almost exclusive offline player, and don't need this negativity when the games one day way -_-. Luckily I haven't started a NBA 2K12 MyPlayer and just started one yesterday and its addicting. Unless its a spur of the moment buy, I don't see me buying Madden on release date for the first time ever, Since 95, When I was 8. This is a little sad, but when all I really wanted is to be able to create 3 people and me, my cousin, and brother play a franchise (Offline), I don't see the $60 price reasonable. Atleast I haven't played a Dynasty in NCAA13 either, so when MyPlayer gets dull I can get into that. Hopefully 2 months for 2k13 will come fast enough.

# 754 prey2god @ 08/27/12 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Jwest85


	Haters gonna hate and ballers gonna ball.

lol sounds legit

# 755 HandsomeJack @ 08/27/12 09:34 PM

In every single iteration of Madden that I have bought, which goes back a decade, until this one, I have created, not 1, but 30 teams. An entirely custom league. I realize that few people would or did go to such lengths, but I honestly had just as much fun playing with my home town South Dakota Sentinels, taking on the likes of the New York Knights and Indianapolis Executioners, then I did while playing with real teams in the real NFL (as much fun, mind you, not more.) More importantly, I liked having the ability to create a full 52 custom players, players that I have created and used in every Madden heretofore and feel a greater kinship towards, in some ways, than I do to real players (yes, I know that's sad.) And while I can understand why the create-a-team function was left out, I would have been satisfied being able to simply create my boys and put them on an existing team. Even that option is gone now, and it greatly saddens me. It really does. And it will lead to my passing on the game for the first time in 10 years.

And even if no one is interested in creating a full team of custom players like I do, surely some of you out there would have some fun with stacking a team entirely with Pro-Bowlers and dismantling the rest of the league for a season. (This was my MO every year as I waited for Week 1 rosters updates to come out.) But as with my more ambitious custom league, this is not an option, nor is it an option to institute a fantasy draft and give the league true parity and a unique feel. The game, as is, may be fun between the lines, but we are far too pigeonholed in how we are allowed to play. And that's NO fun.

# 756 prey2god @ 08/27/12 09:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HandsomeJack


	In every single iteration of Madden that I have bought, which goes back a decade, until this one, I have created, not 1, but 30 teams. An entirely custom league. I realize that few people would or did go to such lengths, but I honestly had just as much fun playing with my home town South Dakota Sentinels, taking on the likes of the New York Knights and Indianapolis Executioners, then I did while playing with real teams in the real NFL (as much fun, mind you, not more.) More importantly, I liked having the ability to create a full 52 custom players, players that I have created and used in every Madden heretofore and feel a greater kinship towards, in some ways, than I do to real players (yes, I know that's sad.) And while I can understand why the create-a-team function was left out, I would have been satisfied being able to simply create my boys and put them on an existing team. Even that option is gone now, and it greatly saddens me. It really does. And it will lead to my passing on the game for the first time in 10 years. And even if no one is interested in creating a full team of custom players like I do, surely some of you out there would have some fun with stacking a team entirely with Pro-Bowlers and dismantling the rest of the league for a season. (This was my MO every year as I waited for Week 1 rosters updates to come out.) But as with my more ambitious custom league, this is not an option, nor is it an option to institute a fantasy draft and give the league true parity and a unique feel. The game, as is, may be fun between the lines, but we are far too pigeonholed in how we are allowed to play. And that's NO fun.

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.

# 757 DrPhibes @ 08/27/12 09:42 PM

Madden 13 has left each and every one of us offline players behind.

Offline franchises are a memory.

Back to Madden 12 for me.

# 758 Nunyerbiz @ 08/27/12 09:49 PM

Today is the first that I've read anything at all about Madden 13. I rarely buy sports games every year, although I did buy both Madden 11 and 12... Last year being an impulse buy... So I had decided that I was waiting for 14 no matter what. Then I caught an article about the new physics engine and got second thoughts.

I will say that I'm bummed about a couple of the things that will not be included. Over the years, a buddy of mine would occasionally join me in co-op during my offline franchise, but not a deal breaker... Also I will miss the player editor. Once every other draft class or so I would find a middling cornerback who made much more sense as a safety... or a tight end who worked better as a fullback. So I would miss that flexibility as well.

That said, I am very excited about what looks to be a pretty major revamp of the physics and on-field gameplay. Still on the fence about whether I will purchase, I have read about some of the bugs and such... so I will probably wait for the first patch.

# 759 Airdrop01 @ 08/27/12 10:28 PM

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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.

# 760 hawksruleva @ 12/02/12 01:07 PM

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!

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