Online Franchise in Madden NFL 10 - Q & A

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EPICfencer — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:44:38 GMT

PS allow the commish to sim the fantasy draft after a certain point. Once you get down to players that are 65 ovr there is no point in wasting time looking through worthless players.

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EPICfencer — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:06:30 GMT

I'm not going to make this a long winded speach about how madden 10 sucks, or how the online franchise is broken... I'm Going to take 2 modest suggestions

1. Allow more control of the franchise on the Ea sports website. being a commish in a league I should be able to sim a week from any computer at any given time from any computer in the world. If you have online leauges in servers than the abiltiy to control the online franchise from anywhere should be a relatively simple task.

2. SPEED UP THE ONLINE DRAFT!!!!!!!!!!! I shouldn't have to get rid of a decent 70 overall ranked player for a 44 ranked garbarge player. My team is done drafting by round 4 in the most part, any other picks after that are just garbage and don't even matter anyway.

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vkbaby4@yahoo.com — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:03:26 GMT

I was wondering why in Online Franchise Mode, if all players are done with all of the tasks necessary why we cant advance the week? Whats the point of having to wait if all players are ready? Please get rid of that!!!!

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SoonerCoolguy — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:39:23 GMT

and also, i just read your comment shane2727 and you are dead on. without salary caps and player contracts, it really isn't a franchise, it's just the same season over and over again, but with new draftees who won't even be of much impact. unless a very skilled player is playing with a bad team like the lions, then that team has no shot of winning the super bowl, ever. it really is a shame. i'm honestly disheartened, because i thought this was going to finally be the perfect madden... and then i discovered this. don't get me wrong, it's still good, but it's basically madden 09 all over again, but now you can play your online league over again another year. that isn't that much of an improvement. if ea can somehow get free agency and player contracts into online franchise mode, it would be fantastic, but i doubt they will...

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SoonerCoolguy — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:28:31 GMT

I've been playing Madden for over a decade now, and I will say that the online franchise mode was great at first... and then i found out that there's no free agency or ncaa draft imports! now, i guess i can live without the ncaa draft imports, but no free agency?!?! that isn't a real franchise. if you're the lions, then you're solely relying on drafting to improve your team. and while that may help a little, it will take 2 or 3 years for those picks to develop into good contributers on the field. whoever is the patriots will never have to worry about their ability to resign a guy like Randy Moss AND sign their first round draft pick. they will be able to keep both without a problem. essentially, every team is the new york yankees, but some teams start further behind than others. ea sports' number 1 priority needs to be getting free agency and player contracts onto online franchise mode. it is an absolute must. it isn't real football without it. i was incredibly excited about participating in my online franchise, but realizing that there's no free agency has lessened my excitement. if online franchise mode had free agency and player contracts with team salary's like a regular franchise does, this game would be an A+, no questions asked. unfortunately though, i'm just gonna have to wait for the day when this game is perfect...

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tha1foru24@yahoo.com — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:08:45 GMT

I agree, there really is no point in buying college football if the onlinf franchises can't be linked in anyway.

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tha1foru24@yahoo.com — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:35:54 GMT

look, i'm a huge fane of the madden franchise, and i can't remember a year that i haven't purchased the game. That is until last season, the online franchise is THE feature that everyone is looking forward too, thats you greatest selling point, by you leaving that out on last years title, i began to lose faith in the developers. I mean everything else was great, the dynasty is where its at. I played college football 09 from the day it dropped all the way to Feb. Since when did college become the measuring stick for Football games? Now you have the online franchise and NO SALARY CAPS? NO SALARIES WHATSOEVER? THATS JUST BLASPHEMY, NO COLLEGE FOOTBALL DRAFT CLASS IMPORTS?? Thats just crazy. The franchise will never be as successful as you planned unless you address those issues and fast. I just popped my game in and went to start a franchise and none of my friends even wanna play it just because all the guys that we built up in EA's college football 10 will never be seen again. Again, i'm not a Madden Basher,just a concerned fan trying to let our voice be heard. ONLINE FRANCHISE AND DYNASTY IS THE BEST FEATURE, YOU SHOULD SPEND A LITTLE MORE TIME WORKING ON THAT INSTEAD OF ALL THE ACCELERATORS THAT PEOPLE IN THE ONLINE COMMUNITY COULD REALLY CARE LESS ABOUT IT. We want the real NFL experience and are starting to feel short-changed with all this extra crap. Just fix the online dynasty, have a group of people constantly working on roster updates and i guarantee you'll get nothing but rave reviews instead of so many complaints on Launch Day

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shane2727@hotmail.com — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:34:44 GMT

i know im just one more madden fan saying that im dissapointed with the salary cap and lack of contracts but lets just face facts here...

if i want to join a online franchise mode as a crappy team to try to rebuild them, how would i go about that other then the draft?... no body is going to let their good players go simply because their contracts wont run out... it seems to me that the good teams are going to stay good and the bad teams are going to stay bad... well atleast until the most of the players retire...

without contracts and salary cap it kind of takes the strategy out of franchise mode...thats what makes an offseason in offline franchise so fun is that you might have to plan and prepare for the future by letting some of your better and more expensive players go in order to pay your up and coming rookies... personally i fell in love with the idea that you get to select the captains of your team and decide what your rookies gear up in, or what numbers they wear (hint: dissapointed with the fact you cant edit players too.)

you know there is going to be some commisioners that have friends that they want to help out... whats to stop the patriots from getting Fitzgerald and Moss lining up on oppisite sides of the field?

i have seen alot of people coming up with interesting "house rule" salary cap ideas based upon the player ratings... for ex. each team has a sal cap of 200pts... if a player is rated 90+ then they are worth 10pts to hit your sal cap... but all in all it gets too complicated when you try to pass rules by 32 people...

who cares about importing ncaa into online franchise?

if there is sal cap and contracts people would be perfectly content with the rondomly generated names you get from drafts, well atleast until madden 11

i dont wanna dis Madden 10 because the game is going to be off the hook but to not have salary cap and contracts is going to be a big hit in the way people are going to view madden and might shy away from a purchase... some people like the idea of house rules but its going to be too much work for a commisioner to have to think of a sal cap and free agent rules.

congrats on such an award winning game but flaws continue to hold madden back to reaching its potential of having every nfl fan purchase a copy...

please put the sal cap and contracts in, it would make this game a heck of alot better

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YungDev 412 — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:17:02 GMT

y wuldnt they let us import our ncaa draft classes that messes the whole franchise up. that takes away the point of buying ncaa

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HotHammerhead7 — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 05:04:22 GMT

I was so excited when i heard this year's game was going to have online franchise, but after reading about no salary caps, no contracts, no import NCAA draft classes, and a terrible way to make the free agent wire, im not even going to buy the game. There better be updates for all of these left out features that make the game what it is.

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GeeBee3000 — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:39:54 GMT

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ABSOLUT3 VENOM — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:17:25 GMT

how does the season work does everybody have to be on to play weeks or can you advance weeks with out people being on that are behind you

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BirdOfFlight — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:09:24 GMT

They said if we complain in enough numbers, they will consider making changes. LET YOUR VOICES BE HEARD, WHO'S WITH ME?!?

Q: Can I trade with CPU teams?

A: Yes, you are able to trade with CPU trades. You must choose turn the Trade Settings to "ON". However, the CPU teams do not have logic as to whether or not they should accept/reject a trade.

Q: Why don't CPU teams run logic for things like trade proposals?

A: That is something that we sorely wanted to squeeze in for Madden NFL 10, but simply could not pull it off in time. Because everything was built to be server-based for Online Franchise, things like CPU logic would have to be run on that server, so we were not able to make that a part of the online franchise experience by the time the game will hit the shelves. Based on usage once the game is released we will obviously look to update and change whatever the community feels is most important.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME? WOW THE ECONOMY REALLY IS HITTING EVERYWHERE, NO CPU TRADE LOGIC? THATS RIDICULOUS and ABSURD, YOU DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO ADD A SIMPLE FEATURE THAT HAS BEEN IN PLACE FOR 10 YEARS??

Q: Does Online Franchise support the NCAA Import Draft Class feature?

A: No, unfortunately this did not make the final feature list this year. This is one of my absolute favorite features amongst all of our football games here at EA Sports, and we have some good ideas on how we can try to update this after the game launches based on community demand.

LETS SHARE THESE GOOD IDEAS BECAUSE WHY THEY HECK AM I SAVING THESE NCAA ROSTERS FOR MADDEN IF ITS USELESS FOR ONLINE FRANCHISE.....

Q: Does online franchise have player contracts or the salary cap?

A: No, this was the hardest pill to swallow for the entire design and development team this year as far as cut features go. But the reality of this decision was that we were able to get all of the other features of online franchise, and we were able to make it all in time to get into the Madden NFL 10 box. Just like with CPU trade logic, we will balance what features are most important to the community and try to attack those first after the game comes out.

Q: So no free agency either then?

A: Actually, we do have a free agent wire. You have the ability to cut players in online franchise and then sign a free agent to replace him. That means when you release them to the free agent wire, they become available to the rest of the league. If you are in a Franchise with your friends, you could submit waiver claims to your commissioner and have him determine the order of who gets what free agent like a fantasy league (this is what we've been doing here at work). However if you are in a Franchise with strangers this will just be first-come first-serve.

Q: So how long does the player stay on your team?

A: Since we do not have contracts in online franchise, players stay on your team until they retire or until you trade them away.

Q: So no free agency, no contracts, and no salary cap...that stinks! Why didn't you put them in?

A: Many have asked why we left these features out, and the simple answer is that there just wasn't enough time to get it in before the game hits the shelves. Creating a 100% server-based Online Franchise mode with full stat tracking and numerous other features wasn't a very quick task. It took a major effort from our team to get to what we were happy with in a 1st year feature. The good news here though is that we HAVE given you a way to simulate this important part of the NFL off-season. We have given you a way to handle all of your offseason player movement, player contracts, etc. with your own house rules. The commissioner will have the option to Add/Drop players at will during the offseason (this is a website exclusive feature). I can give you an example of what we are already doing here at the office in our online franchise...Each team in the league is forced to give up five 70+ OVR players to free agency (we all agreed on the CPU team players to release). We then took that list, and did a quick free agency draft with that list of players. The commish then went into the Commissioner Options screen and add/dropped the players to the new teams. While this is not exactly ideal, it does give those folks who are looking for a very realistic Franchise experience a way to have offseason player movement every year. We are actively looking at a robust, live bidding free agent type feature for the future, but a lot depends on the priority you all (the fans) give us on each feature once you get your hands on online franchise.

SO IN OTHER WORDS COMPLETE AND UTTER CHAOS....THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE AN MUST BE CHANGED SOMEHOW....WITH NO TRADE LOGIC AND NO SALARIES THIS MIGHT AS WELL BE MADDEN 09 ONLINE LEAGUES....

Anybody agree with me??? Please reply and let your voice be heard to EA however possble!!!!

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YuNGxCeDDy — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:09:08 GMT

alright guys enough of the negativity towards the New Madden , like the maker's said its a server-based feature meaning that they can fix whatever seems to be a problem for the online franchise , you people must not realize how much work it takes to put something of this caliber in a video game you should be grateful that we are getting something this good in our video game.

btw in the online franchise is their a pro-bowl game...?-

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kylefrick — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:22:56 GMT

Ea gets all this money is it really that difficult to put in a online franchise completely!!??? youve had basically a year and a half after that bogus league/franchise you hyped that was garbage. No Draft class no free agents so if u have lions your screwed trades you cant do with cpu and only 10season franchise. I understand why you hype it so much u make the game gold steals people money for preordering then tell them theirs holes because you guys are lazy cause u know people will keep waiting for you lazy bums do actually finish something. Instead of getting 9.5 u will get 8.5. Good job E.A you bought all sports games now you can do whatever you want. Then you guys make mlg for ps3 u guys are all about money just took sony but too bad nobody plays ps3 as close to xbox 2ksports get back on football whenever you can and use quarter of the money E.A does and show them up like you guys do in nba2k9 compared to nba live where u press X to dunk over 3 guys since 2001. E.A. Is a fraud but im still buying games good job E.A i will like Madden but never love it cause of the lazy E.A develop team that has so much potential to make the best games ever but dont.............

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kylefrick — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:22:56 GMT

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maddenfan14 — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:28:49 GMT

is edit player in regular franchise??????????????????????? pleeeaze tell me when u got a answer