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

[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!

[moylan1234]

Re: Sound Off: Has the 'closed' nature of Connected Careers turned you away?

Turned me away and sent me running to NCAA13 in a full on sprint

[xboxfever]

Re: Sound Off: Has the 'closed' nature of Connected Careers turned you away?

Not being able to use your edited rosters in connected careers is a real downer, but it is not a deal breaker. Definitely cooled on anticipation however.

[fsufan4423]

Too many other positives to let this completely turn me away.

[brahmagoul]

Re: Sound Off: Has the 'closed' nature of Connected Careers turned you away?

You put it in the perfect perspective, sir! They're forcing you to play the game their way. Because of that, yes, it has turned me away.

I especially get disheartened by tweets and comments those who work on Madden or within the company and say "trust me, this is a better mode," which I take as "we will tell you what you want," or "I know you're complaining because you care," which I take as "we know we'll get your money regardless, so we're not worried."

[bigsmallwood]

I would not say that it has turned me completely off...but being able to edit rosters is a huge issue.

[cletusdog]

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

100% turned me away. While the development team continues to preach that it is our game and we have limitless ways to play, the changes that they've made to the game are completely the opposite.

[ballgameronny]

I am even more interested in seeing how this mode works. Yes, they took away a lot of features, but the franchise mode has gotten stale, and they re-worked it to make it fresh. I think it has plenty of very cool potential and is a good starting point. I won' lie, I do not like the import draft class option removed, but that is what it is. I feel like they are going to add some sort of outside of CC editing though.

[ccdeville]

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

I am completely turned off.

[TheBleedingRed21]

Re: Sound Off: Has the 'closed' nature of Connected Careers turned you away?

Sucks but no, I will be buying this day 1, I love NFL too much and the additions are too positive in my case (since I rarely edit)

[themassacre771.1]

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

Turned off slightly, but am still happy about what is in.

[ABR173rd]

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

I would say it has cooled my enthusiasm, I was willing to live with editing players and then bringing them into CCM- that option being removed as well has definitely made me more apprehensive about my expectations. If you package that with everything else you "CAN'T" do now I can definitely see how fans are getting upset.

On the other side of that I am still excited about the positive things they've done with the added immersion and the new progression system and dynamic scouting. I'm willing to wait until I get some hands on time to see if the pro's outweigh the con's.

[bcruise]

Re: Sound Off: Has the 'closed' nature of Connected Careers turned you away?

I feel like a franchise takes on its own identity (separate from real life) as soon as you start it, and so the lack of editing and not being able to use a pre-edited roster in CC doesn't really bother me. What does bother me is not being able to watch other games - I always felt like that added to the immersion, like I was watching another team's games on TV or something.

Still excited about what CC does have though, and of course Infinity. That said, it did bring me down to a "maybe" from a sure thing. But that's why I have Season Ticket - to give myself a solid answer on purchasing it or not. I just didn't expect to have to use it to decide on Madden. I'm still keeping an open mind on it until I play it for myself.

[brahmagoul]

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

Also, I think people get fired up about this not because they love Madden as much as they feel shafted by not having another option, such as NFL 2K.

[BurghFan]

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

Yep, though no imported draft classes from NCAA was more of a turn off than no editing/not being able to play other games. For me it's all about importing my NCAA Draft classes and drafting my Pitt players to the Steelers and trying to develop them. That being said, I'm very strongly leaning toward just sticking to Madden 12 and continuing my franchise there with my NCAA 12 draft classes.