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

[Sanchez_Mareno]

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

I only ever played my own games

[cletusdog]

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

I fail to see the problem? If you are playing as a COACH, why should you have control of the other teams?

Because I paid $60 bucks for a football video game.

Why make a football video game that doesn't allow you to play football games?

[goravens2052]

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

This just sealed the deal for me, I'm not buying Madden 13. Now I'll admit, while I normally controlled one team, and sometimes for excitement I would play other games during the week, I never really thought about controlling all 32 teams. I always thought it would be too time consuming, but it wasn't until I decided to put together a Franchise in Madden 12 controlling all 32 teams simulating the 2011 Season. I would pull up NFL.com and the results week by week to ensure the records were correct and every team won when they did and lost when they lost. I had the playoff games right and got it all the way through to a Patriots-Giants Super Bowl.

That was when it hit me, I thought how fun would it be to play each game(usually only 5-7 minutes a Quarter) and play out my own NFL and my own season. To have my own story lines that I could make up to keep things exciting throughout Franchise, I thought for Madden 13 seeing all the improvements, I thought it was going to be even more fun.

Now I'm just disappointed that they removed many user customization features and mostly the ability for me to play out my own NFL universe in Madden. To be honest I was already thinking about some cool story lines to play out in my Franchise for Madden 13 but guess not.

[AiDub]

Casual players most certainly care about the missing features, are you kidding me? Player editing is huge for casual players. Not for accurate sim results, but to play around with their favorite players.

Define casual... When I think of a "casual player" I see someone who wants to pick up the controller and play a few games in "Play it Now." They may venture into CCM to play around a season or two but nowadays it's about playing against your bud from across the country online for bragging rights. The rest of the CCM is more like EA throwing us "Hardcore" fans a bone. The finer details that wasn't at the top of the list got nixed and will be held off until they have the time to fine tune it for next year. Simple as that. And again, I'm sure allowing a user to modify uni's and update rosters in CCM is much more painstaking to develop and make work properly online than anyone is giving credit for. Code doesn't write itself nor does it work properly the first, second, or third attempt. You have to be realistic about these things.

[gjneff]

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

I fail to see the problem? If you are playing as a COACH, why should you have control of the other teams?

Because so far they have never been able to give CPU teams good enough AI to build competent teams. If you control multiple teams you make the league better as a whole and give your team more competition.

[ngreatshark]

No I heard that you cant save anymore....They didn't have time to put that in the game ........This is just a joke so people don't really flip out and believe that it's true lol

You might be joking but that might be the case, so EA won't even let us control when we stop playing as you must leave your game console on and connected to the net or risk forfeiting you whole "connected career" it's not a mode, it's a life sentence

[ralphieboy11]

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

I fail to see the problem? If you are playing as a COACH, why should you have control of the other teams?

Even if you don't want to play other team's games, some people would like to have control over what the other teams do. For instance, what if the cpu decides that Kurt Warner should come out of retirement and take over as some team's starting QB?

While that may seem ludicrous, there was a screenshot of this same scenario recently posted for Madden 13.

[DeuceZeroz]

As someone that played only their own game, I do have friends that played/made moves outside of their one team. It sucks it's gone, but I see their point of view that if they want to build this deep, feature rich CCM, some things didn't work correctly and they're not going to include it until its right. I'd prefer they not input something that's broken and we complain (EA's signature move). I do want to ask, whats going to happen that if they hear the complaints, patch the support in and then in the patch it doesn't work. Then what? They really won't want to listen to us then. Just my two cents.

[N51_rob]

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

I fail to see the problem? If you are playing as a COACH, why should you have control of the other teams?

What if you have sons, brothers, roommates all living under one roof that want to play an OFFLINE franchise together? What are those people suppose to do? Secondly, if I pay $60 for a game and I want to make my team all 99 OVR players and the CPU all 30 OVR players who's business is it? Why am I going to pay $60 and not be able to play the software the way that I want. What control am I getting for my money. That is the bigger picture here.

On top of that, all this comes 1 year after Josh Looman talked about how users should be able to edit, and customize their franchise experience as they see fit? In one dev cycle he has done a complete 180.

[darknmild]

i dont know if this has been said didnt feel like reading all the comments. I personally didnt like controlling but I liked watching the Sunday Night and Monday Night games if my team was not participating in them. Plus after about 3yrs franchise gets boring to me so I would watch the 2 teams that made the Super Bowl thats is how Madden entertained me, So I that this years Madden will keep my attention past 3 or 4yrs of CC. So I understand why people are frustrated about this "feature" not being in the game.

[kingcrf]

multi team control is probably something that will be in next year with as massive a game mode some things had to be left out

[AiDub]

multi team control is probably something that will be in next year with as massive a game mode some things had to be left out

Finally, someone else who is realistic about the situation.

[Suntan Superman]

Finally, someone else who is realistic about the situation.

You can't expect a realistic reaction. Either the sky is falling, or the ground is crumbling beneath us. Either way, while I'm beyond myself that editing players is removed, I'm honestly just happy they did something to what was one of the single worst "dynasty/franchise" modes in all of sports game. It underwent so few changes from 06-12 its about time.

[boodahisthe1]

i was told that we wouldnt be able to import draft classes from ncaa13 this year..could someone confirm this please..that is the only reason why i buy ncaa & madden every year..

[StanleyStutters]

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i was told that we wouldnt be able to import draft classes from ncaa13 this year..could someone confirm this please..that is the only reason why i buy ncaa & madden every year..

That is correct. You can not transfer draft classes or Road to Glory players from NCAA 13 to Madden 13.