Madden NFL 17 Releases on August 23, Cover Athlete & Gameplay Trailer on May 12

[georgiafan]

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Great news on the last tweet from rex about franchise mode

[DeuceDouglas]

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The fact that he acknowledged and answered that, knowing how savage the Internet is, only furthers my suspicion that they have something up their sleeve with regard to franchise/CFM.

Picture this. Thursday comes. Sportscenter is on. They're telling you what a storied franchise the Madden video game is while standing in front of an enlarged cover telling you how this cover is like nothing you've ever seen before. For the first time ever the cover guy is someone who has never even appeared in a Madden game before and then the current drops and it's....

Spoiler

Bill "F***ing" Polian

[Toupal]

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I'm in the same boat as him. They need to come up big this year in CFM. I go back and read their deep dive about CFM's new features last year and it is just laughable. And when I mean come up big I don't mean something like new daily goals where our players get 100 XP for eating an orange before practice. I don't want to be overly negative because I like the gameplay and I'm willing to see what happens first and give them a chance but if deep dive time comes around and I'm reading about new goal mechanics, score tickers, and draft presentation I just might lose my mind.

Ditto. I have been, and always will be a franchise guy. I hear they are putting a ton of effort into CFM this year, and I sure hope so. I hope I just don't get my heart broke again by getting my hopes too high. All I want is the ability to play CPU vs CPU, ability to edit rosters, and create a draft class... Two of things were in Madden 12, so I am hoping they wise up and start adding back some of the old features.

[Junior Moe]

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This. I'm glad Rex and other devs are active on Twitter but you have to remember is another form of marketing so take it with a grain of salt. Would you expect a sizzle/release trailer to say something like "minimal improvements from last years release" or "no new content but newer fresher menus"? I'm not saying the game will have no improvements but what is a dev supposed to say when asked a question on Twitter like the one posted "you'll be bored don't buy this one"

Again I'm not bashing the game it just seems like there are people in here who argue that everything a dev says on Twitter is gospel, these things must be taken with a grain of salt.

You do have to take what they say with a grain of salt. However, I have seen devs outright ignore questions leading up to release. Then, sure enough, I see why. There was nothing there for them to fluff. So instead of saying (or confirming) that X hasnt improved much they say nothing and do no harm. So I take acknowledging the question as a sign of confidence. Especially when they guy says he expects major improvement to warrant a purchase. Well find out soon enough, though.

[Junior Moe]

Re: Madden NFL 17 Releases on August 23, Cover Athlete & Gameplay Trailer on May 12

Picture this. Thursday comes. Sportscenter is on. They're telling you what a storied franchise the Madden video game is while standing in front of an enlarged cover telling you how this cover is like nothing you've ever seen before. For the first time ever the cover guy is someone who has never even appeared in a Madden game before and then the current drops and it's....

Spoiler

Bill "F***ing" Polian

Lol. That would be awesome!

[howboutdat]

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I'm in the same boat as him. They need to come up big this year in CFM. I go back and read their deep dive about CFM's new features last year and it is just laughable. And when I mean come up big I don't mean something like new daily goals where our players get 100 XP for eating an orange before practice. I don't want to be overly negative because I like the gameplay and I'm willing to see what happens first and give them a chance but if deep dive time comes around and I'm reading about new goal mechanics, score tickers, and draft presentation I just might lose my mind.

That will be the real test.As ive stated before ,one mark im looking at, will they finish what they started with the watch list and give us a real draft board ( had it in madden 10) or will they just leave it half done and thats it. If so , thats a failure to me .

As well, the "what" of which they add to CFM is the big key, ive done like you recently too , looked back at the deep dive from last year for CFM( when they supposedly put more resources into cfm than ever) and just look at it, not much was really added that community had asked for.

Some of which still wasnt even fixed right like regression still is too much for some positions. The members list was a joke to me as a commish.Because it says "New Members panels allow players to quickly interact with fellow league members in a Cloud Franchise. You can see their game status and whether they’re online." but the truth is is was never 100% right. Found this out in first couple of drafts, we skipped some people who that list said was not online , when they were actually looking at who to pick when i skipped them.

Im still curious why the heck you have to pause the free practice( we did ask for) just to change the play? What is so wrong with the playcalling screen like in a normal game? Would it have been that hard to use so we can just either pick same play or pick a dif play without having to pause everytime? i gave up using free practice because of that , just waste too much time for me.Free practice could be so , so ,so much more. Practice situations like 2 min drill and many others, without getting xp.Imagine it.Hope to see that this year.Once again, another marker im looking for. Dont lay a foundation and then let it just sit there without the house being built on top of it next year.

I am hoping for the best, but preparing to be let down. Only because its what happens so often. Here is to hoping in june we find out good news for once and its not a let down!

[SageInfinite]

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Regardless of what the game turns out to be, this is still my favorite time of the year. I will never get tired of the speculation and the discussions had on this forum.

[roadman]

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Here is to hoping in june we find out good news for once and its not a let down!

Might find out a nugget tomorrow night.

I've heard the trailer is short and there will be the cover person.

Not sure how much more info will be released.

[SageInfinite]

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Might find out a nugget tomorrow night.

I've heard the trailer is short and there will be the cover person.

Not sure how much more info will be released.

That's a little disappointing. Thought we would get more of a trailer than a teaser. Oh well, it's better than nothing.

[Dwaresacksqb]

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That's a little disappointing. Thought we would get more of a trailer than a teaser. Oh well, it's better than nothing.

Yeah, August is fast approaching though. I would expect them to release info slowly to try and capture some hype. If we get more than that though, I'll be thrilled.

[roadman]

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That's a little disappointing. Thought we would get more of a trailer than a teaser. Oh well, it's better than nothing.

Agree on that, but I wasn't expecting info until around EA Play time, so, I'll take this and more later until the game goes gold.

[howboutdat]

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Might find out a nugget tomorrow night.

I've heard the trailer is short and there will be the cover person.

Not sure how much more info will be released.

Yeah thats what i expected and what we got about this time last year actually.As a matter of fact , it came out on May 13th last year, so we getting it a day earlier if one wants to count that as earlier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9Oc9sxa6M0

That is about all i expect to see tomorrow, very short, very quick clips, that bounce change quickly and not a minute long.

However, im hoping that they wil ldo their deep dive before Eplay/E3 this year , like they did last year. https://www.easports.com/madden-nfl/.../madden-16-cfm was published on May 28th,while not much sooner , still be glad if they came out with it before Eplay.

[SolidSquid]

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Just pointing out that a person can add the math starting with Rex's interview after 16 came out, the cover of Madden yesterday with the caption "Franchise Mode started in 1999 and the affirmations concerning customers concerns or reservations.

That's half of it, the other half, like you mention, is how well it's implemented in late August.

Hope for the best.

SS- Not saying it's gospel, but confirming a customers request is(plus other evidence), shall we say, fairly positive from one of the lead Developers that CFM will be improved. I really don't think that is a stretch, wouldn't you agree?

Absolutely agree, even though you were the one who originally posted it in wasn't specifically referring to you you're one of the posters i really like to have level headed discussions with on here.

[BreakingBad2013]

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I don't think there's any coach that retired or has made such a huge footprint that they'll be on the cover.

I could see it being Peyton Manning - but why would they build it up?

Maybe it's the Panther's team doing the dab.

Maybe it's Jared Goff - to hype the LA fan base and NFL pushes it HARD.

[Brightline]

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Just pointing out that a person can add the math starting with Rex's interview after 16 came out, the cover of Madden yesterday with the caption "Franchise Mode started in 1999 and the affirmations concerning customers concerns or reservations.

That's half of it, the other half, like you mention, is how well it's implemented in late August.

Hope for the best.

SS- Not saying it's gospel, but confirming a customers request is(plus other evidence), shall we say, fairly positive from one of the lead Developers that CFM will be improved. I really don't think that is a stretch, wouldn't you agree?

The big concern though, is direction. All of the effort and focus wont matter (to me at least) if they continue down the RPG path of XP and goals. My hope is that they bifurcate the mode as 2K did.