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

[Jibbler]

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With all do respect, how in the hell does anyone have time to play 16 games a week for 17 weeks? Seriously I mean where does the time come from? How many seasons could you play and why would you want to play every game? It's amazing to me! I am not calling people out but to me, that is just flat out nuts.

You don't HAVE to play 16 games a week you might wanna play 4 games a week the point is the option was there since madden 1994 now its not

now it's oh my same old boring team with the same players and btw out of the 16 games 8 of them will be against division rivals. so you will playing against the same teams 8 times a season now. because we can only be 1 team

I actually play every game on MLB the show

[Big FN Deal]

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

With all do respect, how in the hell does anyone have time to play 16 games a week for 17 weeks? Seriously I mean where does the time come from? How many seasons could you play and why would you want to play every game? It's amazing to me! I am not calling people out but to me, that is just flat out nuts.

Yeah but so is grown men wearing replicas of other grown men's uniforms, neglecting responsibilities just to catch "the game" and posting on the internet about a video game.

That's sports! LOL

[WillisFaithful]

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

That's all I did anyways .. I'm good ..

[roadman]

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REALLY.

Why do you some people defend EA by saying "It's a limited cycle, things might not make the cut, they are fusing it to add more in the future etc.".

I'M NOT SURE IF SOME OTHER SPORTS GAME DO THIS.

Look at NBA 2K10-12. Have they really deleted any type of features game mode wise? Have they had to make any "final cuts"? Have they ever taken out a feature because it didn't work well?

SERIOUSLY.

I know some of you don't use some of the features that were taken out, but notice that they were OPTIONAL. EA is removing the little things that we liked or have liked in Franchise mode this year, or for years. The RTP will be good, but of course, they haven't fixed the bad running animations that have been there for years, along with the footplanting issues, the o-line d-line, the passive WR's/WR & DB issues, etc.

The CC could've remained it's own feature that should have been implemented in M14 so they could improve franchise mode current by bringing back some features from old-gen/other next gen maddens that had potential, but if course, the only way they can add stuff to the three main modes (Franchise, Superstar, Online Franchise) is by fusing them, and sacrificing features that some of us liked in order to put stuff in that (at least in my honest opinion) don't really outweigh the negatives, at all.

But you get the point.

Oh, 2k12 didn't include an important online feature from 2k11 and people were up in arms about that.

I thought it was called The Crib, but I could be wrong on the name of it.

[KBLover]

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By the way, I don't think they will scrape CC after putting two yrs of work into it.

Not immediately anyway. It took a couple years before they gave up on the vision cone.

I could see it "getting a pass" for M14 and probably M15 before re-evaluating another shift/significant re-ordering of things.

If, by M15, it really doesn't pick up momentum, I could see M16 moving in another direction.

[StrawHat Patriot]

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

@Strawhat have any of those had a franchise mode as stale as madden's? have any of those completely rebuilt their franchise, superstar, and online modes? i don't like them taking the features and haven't decided if im gonna get it yet, but i understand their logic of getting a working mode into the game with features that work for offline and online before adding ones specific to either.

the foundation is now there to add those features back and even add new ones easier than before. its easier and more efficient to keep up one code base than three.

But thing is that, if they had to sacrifice features for an incomplete mode, then they should have just put it next year to be honest. Those other games didn't have have a stale franchise mode because they either had a real direction/knew what was wrong for the most part/listened to their fans.

Still, they just didn't have to fuse them to make the modes better. Just compare it with other games, whether it old gen, new gen, or other sports games.

I have NEVER seen a company FUSE GAME MODES just to add features that can work.

[Jibbler]

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

hey should have just given us a simple 'season mode' plain and simple. so that we can have our own rosters in it draft classes eidt players play as many games as we want in a season

As a 49ers fan I am going to be bored to death playing seahawks rams cardinals 2 times each a season.

and they try to bring in the whole 'unquie stadium ' crap that every stadium will look unique to bad we won't be able to play and check out any stadium we wish now unless it's in play now mode.

[DickDalewood]

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I honestly don't care about this personally, but the devs HAD to have known the type of reaction and backlash this would cause. They can't possibly have just thought that everyone would be ok with this... Could they???

[KBLover]

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the foundation is now there to add those features back and even add new ones easier than before. its easier and more efficient to keep up one code base than three.

What I don't get is why didn't they do this a long time ago?

Why not just have ONE franchise and a toggle/menu for if you want to take it online or not long before now? Why hasn't online franchise just be a mirror image of offline - just...online? Why didn't they work on a revamp before now? Why wasn't M10 the revamp? Or M09, or whichever was the first one for the PS3?

I don't know - it just like a lot of things don't make sense.

[RandyBass]

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

From an networking IT type perspective, I see it this way:

They used this year as an opportunity to increase centralization of the code and management of the whole set of features. It's a year to consolidate, while also allowing them to scale some development across user groups.

But the sacrifice was they reduced user (player) profile customization and control. They knew they were doing this.

That doesn't mean they don't hope to add more customization back from the centralized development platforms in future years, especially as console technology goes nextgen. But they knew they were going to take this hit this year and they're hunkered down to ride it out, for this year at least.

Before everyone gets after me, no I don't like it. I'm not excusing, just offering a possible understanding. First rule in network IT when you roll out upgrades across an enterprise is : don't reduce the user experience by taking away things they are used to. Even if the majority don't use it, the outcry will be intense, swift and sustained.

And that's what we're seeing.

My question is, where's the vision? Where's the foresight?

No reason why they should be where they are right now, with an entire console cycle more or less wasted.

[moneal2001]

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

the reason they haven't had a concrete vision/direction is they keep blowing up and rebuilding their team.

[DeuceDouglas]

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I honestly don't care about this personally, but the devs HAD to have known the type of reaction and backlash this would cause. They can't possibly have just thought that everyone would be ok with this... Could they???

No but they also know that everyone isn't always going to be happy. There's still plenty of people that aren't devastated (or even care) about the things omitted. I'm sure there's tons of people that play online that are absolutely ecstatic with what CCM is offering them this year. I know if I was an online guy, I'd be absolutely thrilled headed into this year.

[Herky]

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Connected Careers is sounding more like a RPG and arcade as more info comes out. I'm all for a revamped progression system, but why go almost total RPG? Just progress guys they way they did on last gen with tweaks.

The arcade factor is that you have to create a coach or player and cannot control the front office staff moves. If you get fired, you either have to get hired someplace else, or "game over".

If I am off base here please let me know but from things I have read that's the summary of Connected Careers.

[themassacre771.1]

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

I don't know why people are hating on ccm? It has a lot of great things in it and looks really good. The issue is what got taken out. That is what we should be focused on. Not bashing the potential career mode we have been wanting for the last 4 years.

[Herky]

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I honestly don't care about this personally, but the devs HAD to have known the type of reaction and backlash this would cause. They can't possibly have just thought that everyone would be ok with this... Could they???

It's all geared towards the causal and online gamer now. Madden is no longer a football sim. Each year they have slowly been moving away from a sim experience and now they just blew the barn doors off.

Nothing against the casual and online gamer but that's where I think everything is moving to. I don't agree with it but that seems to be what EA wants to do with Madden.