Madden NFL 18 Franchise Mode and Play Now LIVE Details

[Steve_OS]

EA has just posted their Madden NFL 18 franchise mode details, along with information on their new Play Now LIVE feature.

Play Now LIVE

With the new Play Now LIVE feature in Madden NFL 18, you’ll be able to play along with the real-life NFL season and playoffs like never before. Jump into the stories as they are happening around the league, with Play Now LIVE matchups posted each week with up-to-date stats, rosters, and commentary ensuring you have a rich and deep experience. Excited about Sunday’s primetime game? Head into Play Now LIVE and experience it on the field before you watch it on TV.

Simple Season

At the end of each Play Now LIVE matchup, seamlessly continue your team’s season by using brand-new customization options. Play a simple season that gets you from game-to-game as fast as possible, or play a full-control season to manage and improve your team as you see fit. Customize your experience even further using a new suite of options.

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[triplechin]

Re: Madden NFL 18 Franchise Mode Blog

Usually this is the point where I get hyped about a feature and change my mind and buy Madden, then stop playing after a week. I'm glad they came out with this blog so that I wouldn't even have to buy it this year!

So much of that wording could have just been replaced with
- improved trade, draft, and free agency logic. Tuned XP.

[Toupal]

Re: Madden NFL 18 Franchise Mode Blog

Play Now Live is the only thing that somewhat excites me....

Notice how Madden's biggest additions to franchise over the years have involved skipping the game?

Madden ??- Super Sim
Madden 17- Play the Moment
Madden 18- Play now Live

I am just too tired to complain anymore....

[young22]

Re: Madden NFL 18 Franchise Mode Blog

Definitely not buying on release day this year. Gonna rock with NCAA 14 and probably the NBA Live demo for a while.

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[Aggies7]

Re: Madden NFL 18 Franchise Mode and Play Now LIVE Blog

I do like the commentary on games around the league. Would prefer Studio Updates with whoever they want to do it. But I will definitely take the new commentary for now.


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[Mav3rek7]

Re: Madden NFL 18 Franchise Mode Blog

Nothing groundbreaking, but we knew that.

I like the improvements/fixes for some of the issues that plagued '17.

Look forward to actually testing everything out.

[Find_the_Door]

Re: Madden NFL 18 Franchise Mode and Play Now LIVE Blog

Wish play now live was a ranked h2h mode where you could play through the season together with the updated injuries on rosters. That'd be cool

[XtremeDunkz]

Re: Madden NFL 18 Franchise Mode and Play Now LIVE Blog

Again the focus is on casuals and playing more quickly. Depth is just not a priority.

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[T4VERTS]

Re: Madden NFL 18 Franchise Mode and Play Now LIVE Blog

I'm kind of a nerd I guess because I really like many of these changes. They are a lot of the smaller, minor detail type of things but they can add up in franchises that go 7+ seasons. I think the adjustments to align injures better will make things more interesting especially with the addition of off ball injuries. Changes to the progression system better align with how things should be, and the regression appears to be getting away from a linear setup to more accurately ramp up with age.

[Datninja619]

Re: Madden NFL 18 Franchise Mode and Play Now LIVE Blog

So they mention companion app. Yay excitement!

And link a article from December.... For madden 17.

Bruh


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[mestevo]

Re: Madden NFL 18 Franchise Mode and Play Now LIVE Blog

Relocation to Vegas and San Diego is great. Looking forward to off the ball injuries, and might use the 'Starting Points' stuff to start franchises at different point of the season, that's a neat feature.

Otherwise a bit verbose because there's not a ton there, but certainly looking forward to starting my franchise next week.

[therealsmallville]

Re: Madden NFL 18 Franchise Mode and Play Now LIVE Blog

I like the Preseason changes. Still not ideal (I think starters should be limited to 2 drives in week 1), but still better than what we had before.


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[T4VERTS]

Re: Madden NFL 18 Franchise Mode and Play Now LIVE Blog

Another thing, people wanted drafted player commentary last year and it appears now that drafted players will have commentary lines after season 1.

[peki]

Madden NFL 18 Franchise Mode and Play Now LIVE Details

This is all good stuff, but there is one problem. One big problem...

This is not the list of features as it should be. There is only one real feature here: draft board

This is just a list of fixes, something that usualy comes out with the early season update.


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[Yeah...THAT Guy]

Re: Madden NFL 18 Franchise Mode and Play Now LIVE Blog

I wasn't really expecting anything significant out of this blog since they pretty much told us they didn't do anything for CFM this year already.

I'm still on the fence about buying this game for the first time in 20 years though, and that's despite having the option to get it for like $25ish from Best Buy.

Relocation to Vegas and San Diego is great. Looking forward to off the ball injuries, and might use the 'Starting Points' stuff to start franchises at different point of the season, that's a neat feature.

Otherwise a bit verbose because there's not a ton there, but certainly looking forward to starting my franchise next week.

I'm curious to see what branding choices they give you for Vegas and San Diego.

I'm also curious to see if there are any new jersey combos for the relocation, though I'm guessing they would have mentioned it if there were.