No Season Mode?

[StormsWarning]

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Yeah I'm usually one to hold this company in particular to high standards because in the past they have been the company to seem to always be for the people, and what I mean by that is they didn't use bogus moves or tactics to get over on people like a lot of other company's in the past.

This is a very very low ball move, seriously, I mean how can you have a calender full of launch events, hype this game up to no end, talk about what's coming blah, blah, blah only to (oops, I FORGOT TO MENTION WHERE REMOVING SEASON MODE)

Sorry but this is unacceptable and I feel very hurt by this, I don't play franchise to be honest, I played season mode and road to the show. This is a very very bad thing. This is officially my LAST DAY 1 Per Order. And I mean it.

I was already holding out on other company's as a wait and buy, but thx to this move I can now add this game to the list. I mean this is dirty.... don't tell no one nothing and have the nerve!!!! To come in now and say "oh yeah, no big deal just shrink the number of games in franchise mode.

Smh...

I'm installing 17.... the only fix I see in this guys is to basically go back into 17 start your season over and start a new franchise with those seasons rosters. Then load them up as a franchise file. Turn your numbered games you'd like to play, turn off all the franchise stuff and then basically do your 1 year season.

Mannnn so disappointed.

[Millennium]

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I'm going to remind all of you:

You can be upset. But if you attack anyone, INCLUDING the guy from SDS here on his own time trying to help however he can, you will not be welcome at OS anymore.

We're better than that, folks.

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[JTommy67]

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I just wanna hear them TRY to give a justification for removing seasons.

I suspect we're not going to hear a word about it...someone on here said that he was even asking about it and got no response. Kudos to him for asking. I never would've dreamed it would be taken out cause I always considered it part of franchise mode itself.

But...they knew they were removing it. They knew people would be disappointed. They knew people using carry-over saves would be majorly screwed...especially if they were using customized rosters...and they deliberately said nothing.

This is THE worst move I've ever seen from this company...and I am not blaming our dev contacts who show up here.

At least they announced they were removing online franchise, for better or worse, but season mode players - who were using a feature that was a staple of the game for 10 years - don't get that courtesy, apparently.

What really burns is they established the ability to carry over season mode files from year to year...doesn't this imply the mode would be there to stay? They say, "Hey! Great new feature! You can now carry over your season files!" only to follow up by yanking the whole feature out from under you.

But because the feature was there, some people who truly want to take advantage of all the features of gameplay wind up spending much more time and effort setting up rosters and taking their time playing the game...no need to hurry, you can keep right on going with the new game next year. THAT WAS THE POINT...

Perhaps they regret adding year-to-year saves. I'm starting to see it, now. That option allows people to immerse themselves in a mode that doesn't have the potential to generate additional revenue. Maybe they want to herd more and more people into DD and away from franchise altogether...pretty obvious, when you think. They have, what, one guy working on franchise mode?

Does every company have to follow in the footsteps of EA? I quit Madden many years ago because they would take features out and then add them back in claiming the feature was "new"...I was always eager to support this company precisely because they didn't do stuff like that, but now it's finally caught up...

[CyberOps]

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Hi folks. While the option for Season mode is no longer available, there are steps you can take to create a similar experience to it within Franchise mode.

1. Set the GM Contracts option to OFF in the mode entry options list.
2. On the Franchise Responsibilities page, set Player Development & GM Tasks to AUTO.
3. From there, you can control how much or how little you want to control by visiting User Settings > Mode Specific Options to tailor what additional areas you want to control.

How about those of us that played season mode just so we could do shorter seasons ? Do you have a solution for that too ? I mean I like franchise mode and all but i always also do a season mode with shorter seasons since i dont always have the time to do long seasons like in franchise mode. Would be nice to know what the reason was why its been taken out of the game btw.

[SwedishTouch76]

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I bought a virtual boy don't get me started on burned *******. Maybe you people should understand that some modes become stale and need to be removed. Everyone here loves to say they love baseball but then they go and play 29 game seasons. That isn't baseball.

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Some people have jobs, kids and a life outside their PS4. Keep it up...

[seasprite]

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Never played a day of season mode in my life and I normally think highly of SDS and how they do business, but this isn't good business. Either they knew that a certain amount of people wouldn't buy knowing season mode was taken out or they overlooked it.......either are unacceptable. Just disappointed in SDS here, not that the mode is removed, but just the way people found out about it after and only after buying.

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[adam42381]

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Never played a day of season mode in my life and I normally think highly of SDS and how they do business, but this isn't good business. Either they knew that a certain amount of people wouldn't buy knowing season mode was taken out or they overlooked it.......either are unacceptable. Just disappointed in SDS here, not that the mode is removed, but just the way people found out about it after and only after buying.

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I agree with this 100%. I'm not a season mode player, but I get the frustration. There's no excuse for them not to mention it during one of their many announcements over the past 6 weeks.

[Rob_NYY]

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I remember at least one guy during the Franchise stream asking repeatedly in chat about Season Mode and whether it was still in. I obliviously assured him the mode would still be in the game, since SDS usually never removes things from previous years.

Now I know why his repeated questions got ignored. Not cool.

SDS used to be so good at communicating with the fan base. Not only here at OS, but in the streams answering loads of questions. Now they answer maybe two or three questions per stream, and spend the rest of the time hootin' and hollering and overreacting to DD cards.

[SuicideSqueeze]

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They obviously knew removing this would be a big deal, which is why they secretly 'forgot' to mention it before release.

[slider916]

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Even with season mode being removed. Can't you simulate some games and play ones that you want to play manually?

[dalger21]

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Even with season mode being removed. Can't you simulate some games and play ones that you want to play manually?

I believe the point for the people that play Season mode only is that they were not given a heads up that it would not be in the game and that they should not have to change the way they play because a mode that has been in the game for years has suddenly vanished without warning.

[Ebpmd]

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It's not just that this was failed be mentioned. A lot of classic roster players spend a lot of time setting up seasons knowing that they can be transferred year to year. Myself for example make all my player edits within season mode to ensure accurate results. As a result I do not have a for example 1978 roster saved. Just a 1978 season saved fully having expected to be able to transfer it to '18. Sure I can export all the players from a season. Then create a new franchise with those players... but that is a tedious process.

[seasprite]

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It's not just that this was failed be mentioned. A lot of classic roster players spend a lot of time setting up seasons knowing that they can be transferred year to year. Myself for example make all my player edits within season mode to ensure accurate results. As a result I do not have a for example 1978 roster saved. Just a 1978 season saved fully having expected to be able to transfer it to '18. Sure I can export all the players from a season. Then create a new franchise with those players... but that is a tedious process.

If they had mentioned it before, then it wouldn't have been a big deal. The issue here is that they failed to mention it's removal for whatever reason before release. It would have still sucked for those that enjoy the mode, but an entirely different issue than withholding information about a product that may affect whether or not a consumer would purchase or not after knowing. It's bad business and shady.

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[ElvisP41174]

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Well I am defiantly sticking with 17. Not having season mode is inexcusable. I don't like playing franchise mode and doing all the trade stuff and all that. I like it simple. I will maybe pick it up when it goes on sale for $20. Its not even 24 hours that the game is out and not seeing people saying it's a drastic step up from 17. Oh well.

[extremeskins04]

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I just don't understand the reasoning behind removing this mode. I understand online franchise cause of the repairing of servers they had to do, but season mode didn't hurt anything. This is a bad move. Also, not telling anyone? Why?