Can anyone with developer’s ear please...

[Radiant1]

Ask them to fix the generic playbooks so that we can edit them and run them as a scheme in franchise again. This is a ridiculous, pointless oversight that continues to be passed down each installment since madden 16. It’s the most random thing to stubbornly ignore year-after-year and I just don’t get why they can literally patch the game to the point that it’s basically a brand new game... yet still won’t make this simple correction.

So someone (ANYONE) on this forum who has been able to communicate with the development team, please bring this to their attention via Twitter or whatever social media platform you choose. I have tried but I don’t much care about social media and don’t really have a following so I’m assuming they’re just ignoring my feedback. If you’re able to get their attention, please post in here so that anyone else on this forum who agrees can see and retweet until it gets their attention.

No reason imaginable why we should have to BEG for something so basic that was previously in the game

[IcedCoffee1983]

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Agreed.

I miss running the generic West Coast and basic 3-4 on D. I enjoyed the simplicity of it.

I mean you can find plenty of coach books that are basically the same thing. But it was fun to just use a generic one.

[Armor and Sword]

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Agree 100% it also makes playing with classic rosters difficult not having the generic playbooks as an option in franchise.

Makes no sense.


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[kennylc321]

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The other day I complained about how there is only one 4 WR set out of the Singleback formation. This has never been the case. Someone pointed out that those sets are only available in the Run and Shoot formation. I checked and sure enough he was correct.

Yes... if EA decides to keep this status quo, I would love to at least know their rationale behind it.

[niftyjets]

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Absolutely 100%. We should be able to set these as our defaults in franchise.

ALso they need to fix the glitch that was created 2 patches ago that we can no longer edit our coaches appearance. You were always able to but now if you try to it wont save.

[Radiant1]

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The other day I complained about how there is only one 4 WR set out of the Singleback formation. This has never been the case. Someone pointed out that those sets are only available in the Run and Shoot formation. I checked and sure enough he was correct.

Yes... if EA decides to keep this status quo, I would love to at least know their rationale behind it.

Agreed. What makes it even more silly is the fact that they have “run and shoot” as one of the schemes you can build a roster around, but not the playbook itself to run with. So you can build a roster around a 4-wide dominant scheme but there’s not a single team playbook that’s even close to “run and shoot,” which makes it pretty pointless to even have as a scheme

I’ve actually gone back to madden 15, and enjoy playing it more than 20 at the moment

[VTWiseGuy]

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How about telling them to put back in letting us use them as custom playbook and being able to use all the plays and formations.


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[BeastMode4MVP]

Re: Can anyone with developer’s ear please...

Ask them to fix the generic playbooks so that we can edit them and run them as a scheme in franchise again. This is a ridiculous, pointless oversight that continues to be passed down each installment since madden 16. It’s the most random thing to stubbornly ignore year-after-year and I just don’t get why they can literally patch the game to the point that it’s basically a brand new game... yet still won’t make this simple correction.

So someone (ANYONE) on this forum who has been able to communicate with the development team, please bring this to their attention via Twitter or whatever social media platform you choose. I have tried but I don’t much care about social media and don’t really have a following so I’m assuming they’re just ignoring my feedback. If you’re able to get their attention, please post in here so that anyone else on this forum who agrees can see and retweet until it gets their attention.

No reason imaginable why we should have to BEG for something so basic that was previously in the game

It's due to a database limitation. They made the non-team playbooks, as well as, their exclusive formations and plays unavailable outside of those books to create space for new plays. That's how they have been adding new plays to the game the last few years.

[Radiant1]

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It's due to a database limitation. They made the non-team playbooks, as well as, their exclusive formations and plays unavailable outside of those books to create space for new plays. That's how they have been adding new plays to the game the last few years.

Yes, that was the company line 4 years ago... However, that is not a viable excuse TODAY. We all know this could easily be fixed if they really made it a priority

[The Black Redneck]

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Agreed. What makes it even more silly is the fact that they have “run and shoot” as one of the schemes you can build a roster around, but not the playbook itself to run with. So you can build a roster around a 4-wide dominant scheme but there’s not a single team playbook that’s even close to “run and shoot,” which makes it pretty pointless to even have as a scheme

I’ve actually gone back to madden 15, and enjoy playing it more than 20 at the moment

They have a generic run and shoot playbook which is pretty good. You just have to go and manually select it before each game.

[Radiant1]

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They have a generic run and shoot playbook which is pretty good. You just have to go and manually select it before each game.

But you can’t select the playbook for your team in franchise or edit them at all. I don’t play every game in a season so I’d like to be able to sim with the correct scheme and statistics

[Big Bankhead]

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I second this, I’ve been sending tweets respectfully about certain issues with no reply but I hope they read them. Generic playbooks should be selectable in Franchise. Maybe next years version.

[The Black Redneck]

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It is ridiculous that we can't use generic playbooks as a scheme in franchise. Especially when they allow you to build a roster around the scheme. IMO a lot of these generic playbooks are good and in some cases better then some of the team ones.

[Radiant1]

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For the people on this forum who are able to get consistent feedback from the developers, can you please do those of us that care about this issue a solid and bring this to their attention?

[Radiant1]

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Straight from the horse’s mouth:

https://www.operationsports.com/madden-nfl-20-patch-1-20-available-now-patch-notes-here/

“The NFL Live Playbooks will NOT be available for use inside of Custom Playbooks but will instead function like the ‘generic’ playbooks and the alternate playbooks will also NOT be supported by Formation Subs inside of Franchise mode. More details about some of the new playbook content can be found below in the ‘Gameplay’ section of the notes.”

These guys are TELLING us they’re aware of the issue with ‘generic’ playbooks not being customizable or usable in franchise mode anymore, but rather than fix it they’ve instead decided to double down on the sentiment and say “not only are we going to continue to ignore this issue but we will add more features to playbooks and restrict them in much the same way we have been with the generic playbooks”

EA... I’m done with you guys