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Re: Sound Off: Has the 'Closed' Nature of Connected Careers Turned You Away?
I know that the reason they took some of these features out of the game (Editing rosters, imported draft classes, fantasy draft, etc) is because they didn't have enough time to tune and make these work correctly in CC mode. A lot of people may be discouraged about them leaving it out of the game, but you have to understand that Madden is released every single year, they can't just delay the game for months and months to make sure everything is perfect. At this point, I think they decided that if they can't get it right, they're just not gonna put it in the game this year.
For the last two years they've been working almost exclusively on making CC work perfectly to reflect a realistic franchise/SS simulation using the actual NFL rosters that they put out. You have to ask yourself, would you rather have franchise and superstar work great in CC without those extra features that are more on the fantasy side rather than sim; or would you rather have all of those features in the game, but neither those nor the regular options work nearly as good because they had to spread themselves too thin?
Me personally, I don't have any issues with the rosters EA puts out and never edit them anyways so it's not a big deal for me. No fantasy draft is kind of a bummer, but it's not like there aren't ways around it either. I would much rather have them focus their time on getting CC's as close to perfect as they can with regular rosters before they start trying to do too much. All will be well as long as they get it right for me.Comment
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Re: Sound Off: Has the 'Closed' Nature of Connected Careers Turned You Away?
quick question,
Since you can't PLAY any other league games on the schedule other than the team you're controlling, can you atleast SPECTATE (watch) the other league games?Comment
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Re: Sound Off: Has the 'Closed' Nature of Connected Careers Turned You Away?
Here is my issue with this. They have been working on CC for 2 or more years. The time they were working on the Franchise Improvements for 2012 is inside that time frame. They were working on the Franchise improvements for 2012 at the same time they were working on CC, knowing they would be throwing it away with CC. As far as trying to take the game forward, what a waste of resources. Why would you put resources into enhancing something that you know you are throwing away? Wouldn't those resources have been put to better use by enhancing the game in areas that CC would not have replaced?
Why is this game not so much farther along than what it is? I just SMH at this stuff.Comment
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Heres what i dont understand about the whole editing issue in CC
When you create a superstar (not sure if this has been confirmed that you can do this with existing players also) but when you create a SS..the edit screen comes up and you can edit your player how u like before you start your CC....
so what is all this talk that editing/coding couldnt be added into CC!? It already is to some degree!!! That whole excuse they and a couple ppl on here are giving us regarding that makes absolutely no sense...why cant we have a option with ALL players before we start our CC like we do with a created SS regarding equipment/# editing...you cant say its not implemented in CC system...because IT IS!!!!...
Like in the webcast, they show the older players with the longer sleeves and etc...welllllll players like Peyton Manning and Tony Romo still wear them and in videos i seen at E3 they dont have them...soo if Donny Moore doesnt give them their realistic equipment...what happens then??...since these are included in the game now...i would like to represent MY career/franchise as realistic as possible...but how can i when i dnt even have that option...and i have to depend on ONE guy to get this right...who has shown the inability to do this in the past...
Some of this absolutely makes no damn sense...period
Sent from my PC36100 using TapatalkLast edited by Bigmac612; 06-14-2012, 02:18 PM.Comment
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Re: Sound Off: Has the 'Closed' Nature of Connected Careers Turned You Away?
yea I know that, when DOES their license end anyways?...I still bare hope that theres a 2k14 or SUMTHIN to light a match under EA's butts. I just hate this yoyo effect with them. they improve the game only to regress again.Comment
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Re: Sound Off: Has the 'Closed' Nature of Connected Careers Turned You Away?
Not to be off topic, but from the NFL's standpoint, why would they make things exclusive? They do this with season ticket as well. Wouldn't they stand to make more money by not being exclusive? Someone give me a business lesson!Comment
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Re: Sound Off: Has the 'Closed' Nature of Connected Careers Turned You Away?
I don't know any of the details, but I'm guessing that EA is spending a large amount of money to have the exclusive NFL rights. And whenever the deal runs up they'll likely be paying even more to keep the NFL deal exclusive.
I think it's going to be a very long time before we see anyone other than EA make an NFL game. I hope I'm wrong and I'm not saying that I think EA makes poor NFL games, but if we had multiple NFL games every year the competition would lead to higher quality games for all of us.Comment
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Re: Sound Off: Has the 'Closed' Nature of Connected Careers Turned You Away?
Was proved a long time ago that the NFL makes more money with an exclusive vs non-exclusive by a former EA employee.
It's the standard practice of the NFL, exclusivity.
Probably better for another thread, like Big's lol.Comment
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Re: Sound Off: Has the 'closed' nature of Connected Careers turned you away?
Wow, I didnt realize that editing your own rosters and playing other teams games was such a huge deal for people. I suppose I understand why though. I guess its more about at least having those options available to you, and now that they aren't, it does come across as a slap in the face to those that have used these features over the last several years.
Regardless, these two issues don't apply to me. When I play my offline franchise, I only worry about my own team anyway, and I dont ever find myself messing with editing rosters. But I'm a big time online franchise guy, so having all these new features to play with in my online franchises has me extremely hyped up. I was disappointed at first to hear that there's no fantasy drafts, but im well over it now. Completely fine with using default rosters.Comment
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