Madden NFL 13 CCM Will Not Allow You to Play Other Games on the Schedule, Only Yours

[CRMosier_LM]

It's all tied into the Online Pass. By doing what they are doing with CC, EA is strong-arming consumers into buying the product either brand new or buying the $10 Online Pass if you go the used route. There's no workaround to getting updated rosters or patches going forward, it seems.

Cmon man lol. Online pass has been there for what? 3 years....

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[DJ]

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Oh noes I can't control all the teams and make sure the one team I want to win every year in franchise mode does? WORLD ENDING!

I can't fathom why people ask or even want that either in madden or NHL. Makes no sense to me.

Realm, I'm a little surprised at this post from you, to be honest. You come across as well-spoken in the NHL forums, but this is very snide remark and short-sighted.

While this news may have no affect on how you play your CC, you've got to know that not everyone plays the game the same way you do. There's nothing wrong with that. If people want to try and have certain teams lose, that's their business because it's their game.

If people (like me), want to watch Playoff or Super Bowl games their team isn't involved in via CPU-CPU mode, what's the harm in that?

If people want to edit their rosters and have all their players be rated a 99, go for it! If others want to really dive in to the ratings and provide TRUE PLAYER SEPARATION (like we see Matt do in the NHL forums and Gotmadskillzson and Playmakers do for Madden/NCAA), that's a benefit to a larger community and helps with the enjoyment of the game.

I mean, it really makes no sense why EA is ripping the guts out of the offline options and forcing everyone to play the game the same way.

We all have different ideas and ways of playing our Career/Franchise Modes. While something may work for you, it may not work for me. Options are a vital component of a successful sports game and by eliminating those options, EA is making it awfully hard to get behind its product because not everyone is going to happy with what was taken out of what was supposed to be their game.

[JerseySuave4]

Give it some time to sink in. People DO NOT LIKE change. A lot of these folks will soften up by August.

Madden isn't a good enough game for me to ignore that they removed everything i enjoyed doing (outside of the actual game). I haven't bought Madden for the past 2 years and really i haven't played Madden for the last 5-6 years. For a few years i was buying it, bored after a week and would sell it back until i finally smartened up and stopped buying it. I didn't miss it one bit but saw with the new Infinity Engine that it was looking good this year so i was gonna give it a try until they took away everything else and forced us to play 1 way basically.

[Skyboxer]

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You know it comes down to this really...It's your game you should be able to play it how you want to...It's a game right and my lord this site is going to blow up if the AI is not 100% right and I'm almost 101% sure that will be the case...I couldn't wait to see what June 4th was going to bring but really I can't wait till everyone talks about the AI....It will be a fun show to watch that's for sure.

I know what you're saying BUT
It's not your game, Its EA's. You have the choice of buying it or not to make it "your" game. If it doesn't suit you dont buy it.

Now if you get it and it doesn't do something its supposed to, then complain.
Everyone knows going in what it will and will not do so if people want to make a statement, stop buying games that don't do what you want.

For me I'm looking at it as maybe they can get better coach/team management etc.. AI going this route.
We'll see.
Again I'm not saying this is a good way to release the game and I'm sorry for those that want the added control.
I'm hopefull future versions add more control but I'm giving this "new" group the benefit of the doubt and am excited how Madden with grow now with the CC mode.

[KBLover]

Re: Madden NFL 13 CCM Will Not Allow You to Play Other Games on the Schedule, Only Yo

Insert "end of the world" comment here.............

Maybe this is what the Mayans saw happening in 2012 that would end the world...

[kjjnesb]

Re: Madden NFL 13 CCM Will Not Allow You to Play Other Games on the Schedule, Only Yo

I would say no since XP will not be DLC. So XP has nothing to do with it. Let's just kill the conspiracy theories now because we hear them every year yet they never come to fruition.

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My point was EA will let people buy stuff like extra XP DLC and other enhancements over Xbox live we kinda saw some of this in madden 10-11 where you could keep you're player from retiring maxing out potential etc. I'm not sure why that would be a conspiracy theory seeing as EA has done it before.

[GiantBlue76]

Re: Madden NFL 13 CCM Will Not Allow You to Play Other Games on the Schedule, Only Yo

I know what you're saying BUT
It's not your game, Its EA's. You have the choice of buying it or not to make it "your" game. If it doesn't suit you dont buy it.

Now if you get it and it doesn't do something its supposed to them complain.
Everyone knows going in what it will and will not do so if people want to make a statement stop buying games that don't do what you want.

For me I'm looking at it as maybe they can get better coach/team management etc.. AI going this route.
We'll see.
Again I'm not saying this is a good way to release the game and I'm sorry for those that want the added control.
I'm hopefull future versions add more control but I'm giving this "new" group the benefit of the doubt and am excited how Madden with grow now with the CC mode.

Didn't Looman say that trades and other moves would be able to be controlled by the commissioner? If you are in a CC by yourself, you are obviously the commissioner, so you could probably veto any crazy trades made by the cpu. At least I hope that is the case, because in an online league that isn't full, you will end up with cpu teams breaking trade rules and screwing up rosters.

[DJ]

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Cmon man lol. Online pass has been there for what? 3 years....

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Yep, it has. But, with the way CC is set up, if you buy the game used and don't buy Online Pass, you're forced to play with the default roster. So, if you want an updated roster to play CC, you're going to have to pay the $10 to get that. It's why a lot of people were upset that roster editing has been removed from career mode. You can edit, but the roster is only good for Play Now.

That doesn't do the people that bought used and don't want to pay $10 to get the Online Code any good. So, again, it's a way for EA to bring in extra dollars that they typically lose in used game sales by creating a mode that's so heavily online-based that the old workarounds of buying used and avoiding the $10 extra charge no longer apply.

[bcruise]

Re: Madden NFL 13 CCM Will Not Allow You to Play Other Games on the Schedule, Only Yo

My point was they'll let people buy stuff like extra XP dlc over Xbox live we kinda saw some of this in madden 10-11 where you could keep you're player from retiring maxing out potential etc

Not this year they won't. They've already stated that.

[KBLover]

Re: Madden NFL 13 CCM Will Not Allow You to Play Other Games on the Schedule, Only Yo

Give it some time to sink in. People DO NOT LIKE change. A lot of these folks will soften up by August.

I don't mind change - it's inevitable.

That doesn't mean I should dance with joy if that change brings a short-term negative event.

There's a difference in being "anti-change" and just expressing disappointment.

[bucky60]

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I know what you're saying BUT
It's not your game, Its EA's. You have the choice of buying it or not to make it "your" game. If it doesn't suit you dont buy it.

I would agree with you if they didn't have a monopoly on NFL licensed real time 3D games on the PC or console. Because of the NFL and EA/Tib, the consumer has no other choice for the "NFL licensed real time 3D game". I can't go to the store and get a different one of those.

[DJ]

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Somewhere, Pared is sitting back laughing at all of us while he gladly passes on EA's football games for another year and happily continues along in his MLB The Show New York Mets franchise.

[BlueNGold]

Re: Madden NFL 13 CCM Will Not Allow You to Play Other Games on the Schedule, Only Yo

"It was all good just a week ago".

[KBLover]

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You can LOL all you want, but I'm OK with something being arcady if it's an OPTION to turn off. I just don't want arcady to REPLACE realism. People should be able to make their franchise as arcady as they want or as real as they want. No sarcasm at all here.

Exactly.

Options for all. It would be a wonderful thing.

[N51_rob]

Madden 13...now featuring:

No full customization of rosters.
No Editing of players in CCM
No Import Draft Classes
No 32 team control
No Fantasy Draft
No offline co-op play
No custom playbooks
No playing games except those of the ONE team you select for CCM

....I wish I had the gif of Bart Scott saying, "CAN'T WAIT."

I'm sorry but I find this post hilarious! Kudos to you.

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