Re: E3 announcement and career mode update
This is pretty disapointing news to me personally. Online Franchie was a great addition to Madden. Perhaps the reason no one played it, was because it was fundamentally broken without a salary cap and FA something that has been in Madden for years.
When NCAA released Online Dynasty, they didn't take out recruiting. I mean you look at the systems that people have to go through to make Online franchise have some sort of FA, not to mention the fact that when you draft players if you are over 53 the CPU will cut players for you.
The Madden Online Franchinse Ipod/Iphone app never worked as far as I could tell. It seems like Madden released a half assed attempt at Online Franchise then says no one used it so we don't think its popular feature, or to say that scouting won't be included in Online Franchise (OF) because it's not where the hardcore users are. Look at all the work that the ACQB OF has doen to make their FA system work, then say that those users aren't "hardcore".
While it's nice to hear that '12 is they year of the franchise "overhaul". I remember them adding one of the guys who worked on HC to the Madden staff last year, and there wasn't a lot of tweak to Franchise online or offline.
I personally didn't buy Madden 09 because I was having a blast with NCAA 09 and it OD. I loved the direction of Madden 10 and bought it, but honestly I think that NCAA 11 is gonna blow Madden 11 out of the water interms of the online leagues, which is what I'm becoming more interested in. Although the ability to adjust the diffculty in recruiting could give the offline Dynasty more legs this year.
I'm really disapointed in this news, but there is still a long ways to go until August so I will hold out making snap judgements. That said, this news probably means that I won't be getting Madden on release day. I will have to wait and see what that small "OS demografic" of hardcore sim gamers thinks of it.
But my hats off to EA for being forward about this and addressing the issue before E3 rather than waiting around for it to be reported on various websites.
This is pretty disapointing news to me personally. Online Franchie was a great addition to Madden. Perhaps the reason no one played it, was because it was fundamentally broken without a salary cap and FA something that has been in Madden for years.
When NCAA released Online Dynasty, they didn't take out recruiting. I mean you look at the systems that people have to go through to make Online franchise have some sort of FA, not to mention the fact that when you draft players if you are over 53 the CPU will cut players for you.
The Madden Online Franchinse Ipod/Iphone app never worked as far as I could tell. It seems like Madden released a half assed attempt at Online Franchise then says no one used it so we don't think its popular feature, or to say that scouting won't be included in Online Franchise (OF) because it's not where the hardcore users are. Look at all the work that the ACQB OF has doen to make their FA system work, then say that those users aren't "hardcore".
While it's nice to hear that '12 is they year of the franchise "overhaul". I remember them adding one of the guys who worked on HC to the Madden staff last year, and there wasn't a lot of tweak to Franchise online or offline.
I personally didn't buy Madden 09 because I was having a blast with NCAA 09 and it OD. I loved the direction of Madden 10 and bought it, but honestly I think that NCAA 11 is gonna blow Madden 11 out of the water interms of the online leagues, which is what I'm becoming more interested in. Although the ability to adjust the diffculty in recruiting could give the offline Dynasty more legs this year.
I'm really disapointed in this news, but there is still a long ways to go until August so I will hold out making snap judgements. That said, this news probably means that I won't be getting Madden on release day. I will have to wait and see what that small "OS demografic" of hardcore sim gamers thinks of it.
But my hats off to EA for being forward about this and addressing the issue before E3 rather than waiting around for it to be reported on various websites.
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