Madden NFL 15 Connected Franchise Videocast with Josh Looman

[Toupal]

Quote: Originally Posted by sword1986

Yeah, I too am pretty disappointed that we cannot edit draft classes, even edit a player's name! We were able to do this in NFL 2K5, but in 2014; Madden 15, ten years later we cannot. It shows how superior NFL 2K5 was as a product, to this day!

At 14:45 he talks about how creating new draft classes were more important than allowing us to edit them.

What happened to customizing YOUR franchise?

Are offline CFM paying, because now they are tailoring the to the online community?

I miss the good old days of Madden where they actually had to compete for your business, as opposed to releasing someting they've had in games past, but now pretending like it is a new, big deal!

[zmonkey]

Quote: Originally Posted by sword1986

Yeah, I too am pretty disappointed that we cannot edit draft classes, even edit a player's name! We were able to do this in NFL 2K5, but in 2014; Madden 15, ten years later we cannot. It shows how superior NFL 2K5 was as a product, to this day!

I wouldn't be surprised if the same legal issues that torpedoed the NCAA series are scaring EA away from letting people create their own draft classes.

[TheBleedingRed21]

I think an easy fix would be ONLY allowing attribute changes, not names, etc.

[Dirk5049ers]

Well as a franchise guy, I'm definitely impressed. All I can say is one thing... Preordered.

[Skyboxer]

Come on release day. I'll have 3 days off work after release so I'm happy

[Toupal]

Quote: Originally Posted by zmonkey

I wouldn't be surprised if the same legal issues that torpedoed the NCAA series are scaring EA away from letting people create their own draft classes.

NCAA did it. They only got in trouble because the premade players had the "likeness" of the real college athletes.
Not only did NCAA allow you to edit attributes and names, but they allowed you to share the rosters with everyone.
You would think after NCAA went under, that Madden would have tried harder to incorperate as much from their college football series as they can in Madden...

[Sheba2011]

The ability to edit draft classes would have been nice but for me personally it is not a deal breaker given how much else they worked on and improved. Hopefully it all works as advertised. The new confidence system sounds like it could be a huge addition and help CFM mimic the real life NFL even better. Just look at last year and the example of Josh Freeman, he entered the season a 4000 yd QB who threw 27 TD's and quickly fell off a cliff, meanwhile you had a player like Nick Foles who wasn't expected to start but has a monstrous season.

[Sheba2011]

Quote: Originally Posted by Toupal

NCAA did it. They only got in trouble because the premade players had the "likeness" of the real college athletes. Not only did NCAA allow you to edit attributes and names, but they allowed you to share the rosters with everyone. You would think after NCAA went under, that Madden would have tried harder to incorperate as much from their college football series as they can in Madden...

Those are part of the reasons why NCAA is no longer a game. The player likeness was only part of the lawsuits.