Madden NFL 10 Franchise Mode Improvements: Part 2 Q&A

[Canadeion]

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This is the only part of that whole disaster of a blog that really makes me happy... the fact that he admits this year isn't going to be FANTASIC, but they are laying the ground work for future franchises.

I’ll repeat my favorite analogy for those of you who haven’t heard it before: If you found out you had termites in your house, would you build on another addition or clean up the foundation so that you could build on the house in the future?

Although it's the same song and dance as every year, the old 'wait-til-next-year' routine... I have a feeling that with this development team, it's actually legit...

Just a shame he couldn't take more time to honestly answer more than those bare-bones generic questions.

Frankly, I'm surprised he didn't have a question in there like 'Q: How many weeks are in an NFL season in Franchise Mode?'

[Canadeion]

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You would be more correct if we were a large portion of Madden customers, but the internet isn't even close.

You're right, but we ARE a large portion of the Madden customers who CARE, and enjoy the game enough to research it, and find out what's going on, and try to contribute. We are the ones EA SHOULD be catering to. The ones who are the dedicated customers. The ones who REALLY enjoy the work these guys do every year.

Not the ones who buy the game, play a season, then let it collect dust for the next 3 years until they want a new one.

If EA spent more time listening to the die-hards, and not throwing in cheesy crappy new game modes to try and attract borderline gamers, we'd have an awesome game buy now, and not so many hardcore Madden fans on the fence about buying it every year.

[afro_dogg20]

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Nice blog, really looking foward to playing the game.

[K_GUN]

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I get the feeling you are wrong on the 1st bolded part...read some of the devs replies to HONEST critical feedback, and I get the feeling many times they think we should be falling all over them for being here.

2nd part, I could not possibly agree more. But, many people here don't see it that way...I think many of them really think Ian and crew are here ONLY because they want to give the OS members this great favor of a good game. The truth is, especially after the debacle that was the previous crews game, Ian has heat on him to produce....to turn this franchise around, so he can keep his job, feed his family (if he has one), and pay his mortgage, period! And he is held accountable by the SALES numbers, they are what determine (for EA) how successfully he has done his job. Not bashing him, just telling it the way it is....business is business, period.

the thing is...if Ian gives the consumer (read not just OS'ers) a good/great product the sales numbers will naturally follow suit, right?

he 'leans' on OS because only we care about hand towels/cleat colors/LB placement in the 3-4 and how things should look

OS...a free consulting firm....at EA's disposal for no money at all...i'd say a brilliant decision...wouldn't you?

[Jono078]

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This is the only part of that whole disaster of a blog that really makes me happy... the fact that he admits this year isn't going to be FANTASIC, but they are laying the ground work for future franchises.



Although it's the same song and dance as every year, the old 'wait-til-next-year' routine... I have a feeling that with this development team, it's actually legit...

Just a shame he couldn't take more time to honestly answer more than those bare-bones generic questions.

Frankly, I'm surprised he didn't have a question in there like 'Q: How many weeks are in an NFL season in Franchise Mode?'

Yeah but IMO they've done a whole 360 turn on that analogy..

Hear me out..

To fit that analogy, wouldn't they have been better off to fix OFFLINE franchise 100% and then build online next year?

This year they've gone with the both features and both are probably only half done, or half of what they good be for lack of a better term.

Then again I was in the minority against online franchise.

[Step2001]

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I don't understand why I.R. was not fixed. That's been rittled with termites since last gen days.

(shakes head)

[roadman]

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You're right, but we ARE a large portion of the Madden customers who CARE, and enjoy the game enough to research it, and find out what's going on, and try to contribute. We are the ones EA SHOULD be catering to. The ones who are the dedicated customers. The ones who REALLY enjoy the work these guys do every year.

Not the ones who buy the game, play a season, then let it collect dust for the next 3 years until they want a new one.

If EA spent more time listening to the die-hards, and not throwing in cheesy crappy new game modes to try and attract borderline gamers, we'd have an awesome game buy now, and not so many hardcore Madden fans on the fence about buying it every year.

Agree with everything you said except for the 1st sentence. There are customers who purchase Madden on a yearly basis outside of the net who care too. I witness that with 35 customers at midnight at Game Crazy the last 2 years and they are the same people.

[MrNFL_FanIQ]

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You're right, but we ARE a large portion of the Madden customers who CARE, and enjoy the game enough to research it, and find out what's going on, and try to contribute. We are the ones EA SHOULD be catering to. The ones who are the dedicated customers. The ones who REALLY enjoy the work these guys do every year.

Not the ones who buy the game, play a season, then let it collect dust for the next 3 years until they want a new one.

If EA spent more time listening to the die-hards, and not throwing in cheesy crappy new game modes to try and attract borderline gamers, we'd have an awesome game buy now, and not so many hardcore Madden fans on the fence about buying it every year.

The unfortunate thing, each of those borderline guys who play it for a week and love the cheesy features are worth the same dollar amount as us diehards. They don't get money based on how long you play, just if you buy.

Not that they shouldn't be focusing on that (before someone starts to flame me) They are a business. The number one goal of all businesses is to make a profit so they can stay alive.

[JeriousNorwood]

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I'll assume you can't move LBs to DEs.

Did you ever realize you can edit your player and change his position to DE? You can do that in '09.

[sois]

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I don't understand why I.R. was not fixed. That's been rittled with termites since last gen days.

(shakes head)

Is that confirmed broken? Some have said it's fixed, some have said it isn't. It's a yes or no question and its been broken for so long!

[PacMan3000]

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Is there a way for OS to create a franchise mode forum? I'd love to have a centralized place where we can all write about the progress of our franchises and post updates...maybe even pics and videos, etc.

[droopizzle34]

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has anyone heard anything on whether or not you can change teams after a season? i am SOOOOO missing this feature!!

[marktg30]

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Is there a way for OS to create a franchise mode forum? I'd love to have a centralized place where we can all write about the progress of our franchises and post updates...maybe even pics and videos, etc.

Here are a couple -

OS Dynasty HQ
Madden Mania Franchise/Dynasty Reports

Madden Mania has some of the best ones I have ever read. DeeGeezy and Matt10 write some really good stuff and there are a lot of others out there.

I had one going with the Jaguars but just couldn't bring myself to finish a season in Madden 09.

*Hoping the big playoff feature isn't the airplane fly-by*

[mikeveli20]

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has anyone heard anything on whether or not you can change teams after a season? i am SOOOOO missing this feature!!

Doubt it's in. I've been trying to find this out for awhile now. I PM'ed Donny and Josh and didn't get a reply about it from either. There has been several threads in the last month or two about people wanting this as well, but no word from the devs. Not so much as an acknowledgment that they know we want it, which would be fine by me if they did because then I'd at least know it would probably be in Madden 11.

[MJKiehl680]

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There was one thing I loved from 2K was they had photos for rookies. Itll be boring having an entire team of blank people. Not a huge complaint and im very impressed and excited