Madden NFL 25 Connected Franchise & Owner Mode Articles From Around the Web

[DeuceDouglas]

Quote: Originally Posted by Trick13

While I am guessing they will, I hope the CPU teams have a significant "predisposition" to retain the same name, or bring back a old one - Oilers - I really don't want to see Brooklyn Beats in my NFL fantasy world - perhaps an option to "lock" CPU teams into their names at the very least - If I gotta fly to London and play the Crumpets I am gonna lose my freaking mind.

Just came across this that sounds pretty interesting:

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When creating the team relocation feature, EA went to the NFL and procured a list of viable NFL cities. After doing that, they created a selection of team names and back stories for each city. Want to move to Brooklyn and recreate the Dodgers, go ahead! How about move another franchise to Houston and resurrect the Oilers? You can do that too. In one of the smarter design decision in my opinion, EA took each city/name combination and asked Nike to create various uniforms for each combination. That means each uniform will be professionally done, so I won’t ever have to play a team that uses “grass green” as a main color choice.

I really like the sound of that. It almost reminds of what NFL Fever did with the made up teams for their 'fantasy challenge' or whatever it was called.

[drk3351]

Wait so this isn't all the news to CCM? There is more coming on later days for THIS mode

[DeuceDouglas]

Quote: Originally Posted by drk3351

Wait so this isn't all the news to CCM? There is more coming on later days for THIS mode

Seems to be. There is still an NDA looming over certain stuff so not everything has been unveiled quite yet. Don't know if we'll necessarily get it tomorrow with the Xbox unveil, but I would anticipate some more CFM news this week.

[DJ]

I like what I'm hearing but why was all of this not in Madden 13? Was Madden 13 just an IE and CCM beta? That's what it feels like with all of the options that were removed being re-introduced this year.

I'll still need to see how the CPU plays in CF. If the AI is as bad as last year, I'll be staying far away.

[DirtyJerz32]

Quick question... I've been looking, but I didn't find an answer.

If I run a online CC and we have 7 owners, but some doesn't want to do all the owner stuff would they be able to still be in the league? Or will there be a auto manage mode like NCAA does with recruiting.

[DeuceDouglas]

Quote: Originally Posted by 32

Quick question... I've been looking, but I didn't find an answer. If I run a online CC and we have 7 owners, but some doesn't want to do all the owner stuff would they be able to still be in the league? Or will there be a auto manage mode like NCAA does with recruiting.

I believe they could just play as a coach rather than an owner.

[Chiefsfan881129]

Couple questions for Cory.

#1 is the pro bowl back in & playable? If so is it still the Standard AFC & NFC Helmets or have they finally added the individual team helmets?

#2 I know you said no coordinators are in but is there real life coaches in the free agent coaches pool that can be hired as HC?

#3 do the coaches that retire come out of retirement to coach again? What about players when they retire do they come back to play or even come back to be a HC?

# 4 has preseason subs been fixed last year kickers would replace punters & 2nd team players were never subbed for 3rd team guys. Plus starting defensive players never seemed to get subbed from game for good.

#5 how is the weather in can we choose the weather & temp like a few yrs ok as I would love to see sub 0 temps or a foggy blizzard sub 0 game which we ain't seen in madden in yrs?

I would love to see dynamic weather where it changes troughout the game like the dynamic skies we got last yr which is hopefully back!

#6 can legends be used in owner mode part of CFM? If so can I sign say berry sanders to lions &there was a mention u can talk Jimmy Johnson out of retirement is this true if so what about.other great coaches like Jon Gruden or Bill Cowher to name couple? What about legendary owners as I see Eddie Dolbarto Jr is in so what will be roles for Legendary Owners like him who currently don't own a team?

Thanks for taking the time to awnser these!

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[Trackball]

Is there a fantasy draft option for OFFLINE coach/owner modes this year?

I kept getting disconnected during my one-man private online league in M13...but wow, I loved the in-game Twitter reaction to the news that every single player was going to be re-drafted. It made me wonder how a real-life breaking-news article would read, should this happen in real life (after all, what better way to ensure parity?)

Makes me wonder what would happen if this was demanded by NHL owners, given the labor disputes under Bettman's watch...but that's for another forum, obviously.

Oh, and how long can Owner Mode go on for? Last time I had a Madden that had Owner Mode (M2004), it made you retire after 30 seasons. Is it unrealistic to play indefinitely? Of course. But it's sure a nice thing to have.