Madden Franchise "end game" disconnect

[Joe0705]

Anyone having an issue with the servers dropping for both players? It just says end game for both and it only occurs in franchise games.. I heard it was a corrupt roster, but deleting the rosters don't help.. It just happened to me and someone in an online franchise where the game was over and the disconnect happened with 14 seconds left.. Anyone have any suggestions? This is getting annoying.

[falconfansince81]

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over half our online franchise games over our 8 franchises are getting D/C at some point in the game...usually 3rd or 4th quarter ever since the patch. almost up to 90 out of 178 played have been d/c at some point or failed to even start...people are getting really frustrated.

[Joe0705]

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Yeah man.. it's annoying.. some guys played 5 or 6 times before it completed

[udungoofed]

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over half our online franchise games over our 8 franchises are getting D/C at some point in the game...usually 3rd or 4th quarter ever since the patch. almost up to 90 out of 178 played have been d/c at some point or failed to even start...people are getting really frustrated.

I walked away from my OF just a couple days ago, others have decided to keep it running but personally I don't see it succeeding without the efforts that I put into it.

I lost the ability to play anyone in OF after Week 10 in our league, 7 straight weeks and D/C's before the first drive ended. We went from 0-2 sims a week to 6-10 sims a week around Week 10 because all of a sudden people we're being disconnected like crazy.

I make a living as a Network Analyst, I know there's nothing wrong on my end but that's where EA will place blame.

Personally, with their lack of interest in OF after dropping the ball with it in Madden 10, and that they pointed out the costs of running OF, for essentially a very small percent of their players, lead me to believe this likely won't be addressed in any decent time frame, or not at all.

I don't have time to wait for a patch. To run a 32 human OF, you got to have a schedule if you want to complete multiple seasons over the next 12 months.....and if you don't complete multiple seasons there really isn't much point in the OF, because there's no rise and fall of a franchise, no development of your draft pick, no fear of making mistakes, etc. Too many facets of being involved in an OF go out the window when you only intend to play 2-3 seasons. With Madden 10 we completed 4 seasons and that wasn't enough, so I set the pace for 6 and we easily would have attained that......until half the league couldn't connect any longer.

Some of the guys in my league have played together for 5+ years without these issues before. It's all on EA here, this is entirely their issue, their servers, their connection. Yet you contact their support and they'll blame your own ISP, your home network setup, YOU.

It's pathetic.

[Joe0705]

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servers are down completely now.. wtf is EA doing.

[Dog]

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There are a few people in OS Vets that are close to being done with Online Franchise this year completely, myself included, if this stuff continues. With this happening it makes replaying the game over and over again un-fun, thus making Online Franchise un-fun

[dawgs18]

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I walked away from my OF just a couple days ago, others have decided to keep it running but personally I don't see it succeeding without the efforts that I put into it.

I lost the ability to play anyone in OF after Week 10 in our league, 7 straight weeks and D/C's before the first drive ended. We went from 0-2 sims a week to 6-10 sims a week around Week 10 because all of a sudden people we're being disconnected like crazy.

I make a living as a Network Analyst, I know there's nothing wrong on my end but that's where EA will place blame.

Personally, with their lack of interest in OF after dropping the ball with it in Madden 10, and that they pointed out the costs of running OF, for essentially a very small percent of their players, lead me to believe this likely won't be addressed in any decent time frame, or not at all.

I don't have time to wait for a patch. To run a 32 human OF, you got to have a schedule if you want to complete multiple seasons over the next 12 months.....and if you don't complete multiple seasons there really isn't much point in the OF, because there's no rise and fall of a franchise, no development of your draft pick, no fear of making mistakes, etc. Too many facets of being involved in an OF go out the window when you only intend to play 2-3 seasons. With Madden 10 we completed 4 seasons and that wasn't enough, so I set the pace for 6 and we easily would have attained that......until half the league couldn't connect any longer.

Some of the guys in my league have played together for 5+ years without these issues before. It's all on EA here, this is entirely their issue, their servers, their connection. Yet you contact their support and they'll blame your own ISP, your home network setup, YOU.

It's pathetic.

I have tweeted Ian and Jeremy about it. Ian said they are looking into it. Jeremy said they shut down the server yesterday from 4-11pm.

I got on this morning and tried to play a OF game and guess what happened? "Lost connection to peer" in the 3rd qrtr.

If they ACTUALLY fix it will you go back to commisshing the league?

[falconfansince81]

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i know this may not be a real 'fix' to the problem, but since the D/C issues started this has cut our D/C's down to next to 0.

before you invite your opponent to the OF game, 1st invite to unranked and quit right after kickoff. when you both are back in the OF lobby invite again and you should stay connected all game. it's the only thing that has saved our leagues...

maybe the network guy who posted earlier can shed some light on why this works, as it seems like a p2p issue where the game cannot establish a secure connection during on OF match. however if you establish it unranked 1st it will maintain itself through your OF game.

[dawgs18]

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Its crazy that we have to try these work arounds. I will try it and post back.

[Th3Landl0rd]

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I am getting a disconnect every single time I play online franchise right now

[dawgs18]

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Did you try what the above poster said? I played a full one with no drop last night.

[falconfansince81]

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^^ yeah man its been working out great for everyone, 35/36 games in 4 days (i'll take that one random d/c as it can happen) which is a lot better than more than half not getting finished.

[DaCarver13]

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Just played 2 back to back games and both got disconnected after a turnover. This is ridiculous. We have been running Online Franchise since last years madden and this is very frustrating. This has never been this bad, everyone in our league cannot get through a full game.

Just to show you how much we enjoyed the online franchise feature you guys should check out our site with salary cap, rules, hall of fame and everything. But then they have the excuse that the Madden community does not play OF. We got through 9 seasons in last years Madden until Madden 11 came out.

[JoeSchroeduh]

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Every time someone in our league gets consistent D/C it seems to be because of a roster shortage at a certain position due to injury.

This can happen prior to a game starting, if there is someone on the injury report, and there aren't enough players at that position. Or it can happen during a game if someone gets hurt and puts you at a shortage at a certain position.

One thing that has worked for us is to drop and add the injured player, this somehow clears up the issue most of the time... also, you can add a player of the same position from FA to fill the roster spot while the player is injured.

[DaCarver13]

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This issue continues for me.