They Heard You: Popular Community Requests Coming to Madden NFL 17's Franchise Mode

[glenzariczny]

Madden was just nominated for best in show at E3. That's promising.

[NateDogPack12]

Re: They Heard You: Popular Community Requests Coming to Madden NFL 17's Franchise Mo

While I'm sure for some this is a cool feature, I don't see the point of having the editable rosters yet not allowing draft classes to be changed. I'm assuming it's the O'bannon issue, but I dont think us doing all of it from scratch would put them in any legal grey area.

I think you're spot on that it could be tied to O'Bannon. One would think that they would alleviate any likeness issues by simply allowing customization - nonetheless the last thing EA may want are a bunch of videos surfacing that showcase guys like Watson and Fournette represented in Madden. That just doesn't fit the ethos of what they're trying to do.

[BayRaider510]

Re: They Heard You: Popular Community Requests Coming to Madden NFL 17's Franchise Mo

I think you're spot on that it could be tied to O'Bannon. One would think that they would alleviate any likeness issues by simply allowing customization - nonetheless the last thing EA may want are a bunch of videos surfacing that showcase guys like Watson and Fournette represented in Madden. That just doesn't fit the ethos of what they're trying to do.

I don't think that's the reason. It's all about money. If the NCAA game ever gets launched back up, a large portion buy it because they can import draft classes to Madden.

[EricFreakingBerry]

Re: They Heard You: Popular Community Requests Coming to Madden NFL 17's Franchise Mo

Has anyone seen if they brought back the teams a guy played for in the stats screen?

[bfett81]

Re: They Heard You: Popular Community Requests Coming to Madden NFL 17's Franchise Mo

I'm surprised they didn't fix this. Seems like it would be very simple to randomize this.

[MajorSupreme]

Re: They Heard You: Popular Community Requests Coming to Madden NFL 17's Franchise Mo

I'm surprised they didn't fix this. Seems like it would be very simple to randomize this.

Seriously? How is that still an issue?

[Brightline]

Re: They Heard You: Popular Community Requests Coming to Madden NFL 17's Franchise Mo

Seriously? How is that still an issue?

This is the kind of thing that is "Maddening."



Unrelated Q: can we choose opponent uniforms?

[bfett81]

Re: They Heard You: Popular Community Requests Coming to Madden NFL 17's Franchise Mo

Seriously? How is that still an issue?

It wasn't in Madden 08.

It's a few lines of code to randomize teams for crying out loud.

[sccavs64]

Re: They Heard You: Popular Community Requests Coming to Madden NFL 17's Franchise Mo

Looking ahead...How do you guys plan on actually editing the players to create the 2017 rookies post-draft? Just making a big board of position ratings (i.e. Fournette is the highest-rated RB, McCaffrey is the 2nd highest-rated RB, etc) and then editing the first RB taken in the draft and making him the first on your "board"?

I guess it's better than nothing, but I wish this could be done before the draft

[MajorSupreme]

Re: They Heard You: Popular Community Requests Coming to Madden NFL 17's Franchise Mo

Looking ahead...How do you guys plan on actually editing the players to create the 2017 rookies post-draft? Just making a big board of position ratings (i.e. Fournette is the highest-rated RB, McCaffrey is the 2nd highest-rated RB, etc) and then editing the first RB taken in the draft and making him the first on your "board"?

I guess it's better than nothing, but I wish this could be done before the draft

Yeah, probably write it on paper. I'll probably only do like 10-12 actual prospects for each position and the rest can be what the game gives me. Definitely all of the bigger names though.

[KingV2k3]

Re: They Heard You: Popular Community Requests Coming to Madden NFL 17's Franchise Mo

Unrelated Q: can we choose opponent uniforms?

I certainly hope so!

Failing that:

I wish they would simply assign ALTs / Throwbacks / etc. to the CPU team in the "National Broadcast" / MNF / SNF games...

[bfett81]

Re: They Heard You: Popular Community Requests Coming to Madden NFL 17's Franchise Mo

I'd imagine people will earmark a few highly ranked players before the draft to be re-rated after the draft. This way it will ensure competitive balance with the CPU, who will still draft those players high.

I think I'll actually probably end up re-rating the first player in every position group that's a first rounder, so there are some ****ing freaks that can be somewhat evenly distributed around the league.

Another thing you could do...if, for instance, the top RB speed is still 91 this year...earmark all the "speed" backs and stagger their speed ratings.

[eastcoast49ers]

Re: They Heard You: Popular Community Requests Coming to Madden NFL 17's Franchise Mo

This is the kind of thing that is "Maddening."



Unrelated Q: can we choose opponent uniforms?

I saw in another thread that we CANNOT choose opponent unis inside CFM

[therealsmallville]

Re: They Heard You: Popular Community Requests Coming to Madden NFL 17's Franchise Mo

I saw in another thread that we CANNOT choose opponent unis inside CFM

This is correct, Price confirmed that we can't change opponents uniforms.

As for the preseason teams, I'm disappointed. Not scream-from-the-hills disappointed, but still. It wouldn't be so bad if one of my opponents wasn't a division rival...every year after season 1 I (as SF) get Rams, Broncos, Patriots, Chargers. In that order.

I guess I'll hope for at least a new set of 4, but I know it'll be the same set...

[ehh]

Re: They Heard You: Popular Community Requests Coming to Madden NFL 17's Franchise Mo

Excited for all the improvements/additions but it really sucks that we can't change the opposition's uniforms. Playing several years in CFM and never (or rarely) getting to see our rivals' alternate unis blows. NCAA Football always had that, weird that Madden can't add it.