Franchise Mode Blog - EA

[strahanfan92]

Says the guy who all but offered to have my children so I'd put in a good word for him to get to CD. Way to about face to stick with the in crowd, bud.

Just curious what does CD stand for?

 

[Aso]

CD = Community Day right? Are you sure that was me. Honestly you're a cool guy but I don't want your kids and I never wanted to really go to CD.

 

[St. Francisco]

When'd you get back here? Your butthurt finally go away? Crossing your arms and nodding arrogantly whenever abj speaks does not equal educated.



Says the guy who all but offered to have my children so I'd put in a good word for him to get to CD. Way to about face to stick with the in crowd, bud.

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Thanks, Dave.

Quick question I'm hoping you can shed some light on for me, ya know...since you're here and all (long time no see BTW .

The Madden-generated draft classes are money in terms of properly balancing incoming classes to address the needs from the NFL, but I was wondering just how much work was done to the NCAA-imported classes? I read that the ratings stabilized, but what about projections? Will there be busts in the top ten, and gems later on in the draft like the generated classes, or will they continue to be cookie-cutter like last year, where the best guys get drafted first, and their ratings slowly trail off to the finish? Also, has there been any logic put in place to keep non-essential roles like fullback from dominating the top remaining prospects list in the later rounds? In recent years, by the time you got to the sixth rounds, the top ten best players were basically all fullbacks and punters.

 

[St. Francisco]

Oh yeah, for those interested, OS did an interview with Looman about Franchise mode. Goes a little more in-depth on some of the new features. I was particularly happy to hear that you can go into the free agency part, and look at all the players available before starting the bid system. It's more realistic since real teams know who's on the market well in advance, and gives me a chance to gameplan.

http://www.operationsports.com/feat...h-looman-about-maddens-franchise-mode-part-1/

 

[adembroski]

Quick question I'm hoping you can shed some light on for me, ya know...since you're here and all (long time no see BTW .

The Madden-generated draft classes are money in terms of properly balancing incoming classes to address the needs from the NFL, but I was wondering just how much work was done to the NCAA-imported classes? I read that the ratings stabilized, but what about projections? Will there be busts in the top ten, and gems later on in the draft like the generated classes, or will they continue to be cookie-cutter like last year, where the best guys get drafted first, and their ratings slowly trail off to the finish? Also, has there been any logic put in place to keep non-essential roles like fullback from dominating the top remaining prospects list in the later rounds? In recent years, by the time you got to the sixth rounds, the top ten best players were basically all fullbacks and punters.

Unfortunately man, right now we're on a bit of a communication freeze. There's a communication policy conflict between PR/Marketing, us on the game team, and accounting that we're trying to work out. Once that's sorted, I should be able to explain everything since I tuned it this year.

 

[MrBill]

Unfortunately man, right now we're on a bit of a communication freeze. There's a communication policy conflict between PR/Marketing, us on the game team, and accounting that we're trying to work out. Once that's sorted, I should be able to explain everything since I tuned it this year.

Appreciate the insight. Please just tell us if OF franchise was part of that tuning. The lack of a salary cap and the inability of the league commissioners to enter scores for games that disconnected late in the 4th quarter and/or default wins in the event of no-shows hindered the experience last year. It would also be great if the playoff tiebreaker wasn't alphabetical this year. Just saying :yep:

 

[St. Francisco]

Unfortunately man, right now we're on a bit of a communication freeze. There's a communication policy conflict between PR/Marketing, us on the game team, and accounting that we're trying to work out. Once that's sorted, I should be able to explain everything since I tuned it this year.

Well be sure and pop in to give me the lowdown when you're free to talk.

 

[Hitman]

Yea, I'm not really sure what all the venom is about for adembroski.. This guy used to work on making Madden playable like it was a real job long before he actually got a job with them. He would make Franchise tuning threads that went on for months at a time with data sheets pages long just to try to get good sim stats. He would put together slider testing threads that were more extensive than the tax code. Lay off this guy. He is good people.

 

[killgod]

Unfortunately man, right now we're on a bit of a communication freeze. There's a communication policy conflict between PR/Marketing, us on the game team, and accounting that we're trying to work out. Once that's sorted, I should be able to explain everything since I tuned it this year.

Is there any way possible if you could confirm/deny fixing playoff seeding and tiebreakers?

 

[j.hen]

The more I read the more I get the pseudo-RPG vibe for building your team in Franchise Mode. I love it.

 

[hackett]

The more I read the more I get the pseudo-RPG vibe for building your team in Franchise Mode. I love it.

Another copy to be sold on opening day perhaps? Happy to see Madden get some positve attention.

 

[Aso]

I'm actually sort of glad adem got the job. Hopefully this franchise mode comes out as good as expected.

 

[j.hen]

Another copy to be sold on opening day perhaps? Happy to see Madden get some positve attention.

I've bought Madden every year on release night, I'm too much of a football fan not to. But I'm really loving how much attention they seemingly have put into my beloved Franchise Mode, especially since they haven't beefed up the mode at all since next-gen. Back on PS2 I would play the mode for weeks at a time when I was but a young lad.

Only time will tell how well these additions translate into the game, if everything works as it should I don't see how Franchise Mode couldn't be a lot of fun this year around.

 

[Aso]

stop sucking dick faggot

What people are saying is right though. He did do a lot to help make the game better when he was just a poster. By what dave says though it doesn't seem like you need a lot of expertise in anything to work on Madden though. You just tell the programmers what to do? Wow.

 

[inthecards21]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPw-3e_pzqU

Right after I slam the presentation preview of the game, they release this shit. Now I have to get this game

 

[hackett]

I've bought Madden every year on release night, I'm too much of a football fan not to. But I'm really loving how much attention they seemingly have put into my beloved Franchise Mode, especially since they haven't beefed up the mode at all since next-gen. Back on PS2 I would play the mode for weeks at a time when I was but a young lad.

Only time will tell how well these additions translate into the game, if everything works as it should I don't see how Franchise Mode couldn't be a lot of fun this year around.

I know what you mean about the offline chise. I haven't ran one of any length since s2 days as well. If they can put this into online franchise..... well then :bow:

 

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

The problem was it just was never really that clear when you would go to sign somebody. When you went to sign somebody, it just looked like they weren’t interested in signing with you, but if you offered them enough money they would eventually be interested. It was just tedious. As I’m sure you know, and all the guys on OS know, you had to toggle up the contract amount by an extra seven or eight million sort of like a guessing game. Then you would check and see if the player was interested yet. And if he wasn’t, then you had to toggle the contract amount up some more.

Eventually, we’d like to get something in there where players refuse to sign with you or something like that, but we have to be really careful when we do that and make sure it’s very clear why something like that is happening so it doesn’t frustrate the user. So if they desperately need a corner and Asomugha is sitting there in free agency, only some users just cannot sign him, they need to know exactly why and figure it out.

I thought this was a good thing. They have a interest meter for a reason. Everyone going to a high bidder is lame.

because it’s really up to you if you want to decide to draft an 80 overall guy that is really consistent, which means basically every single game you’ll get the same guy -- he could be a 79 or an 81, but he’ll typically be around 80. Or do you want to go out on a limb and sign or draft a guy who is really inconsistent, but has the ability to have a wide range of ratings and swings. So he could start as a 70, but you may get the 80 guy or you may get the 60 guy.

Um...what ?
Ill passup the consistent 80 to get a 70 who "may" be an 80 but may also be a 60 ?



I also support Adembroski and dont think he deserves any bashing. That said I lol at everything EA says until I see it in action and working as presented.

 

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

2 of my biggest issues.

1. No ability to pick "random" for both sides during a practice. I want to select a random play from a specific set for both sides. I.E Random plays from 5 wr against random defensive plays in Dime package.

2. No training camp. I thoroughly enjoy(ed) the mini games of the past. Why they were removed from franchise mode I dont know but I want them back.

 

[Sharkweather]

Um...what ?
Ill passup the consistent 80 to get a 70 who "may" be an 80 but may also be a 60 ?

Yeah that comparison makes no sense. They should both be the same rating and you either get the consistent 79/81 or the other guy who can maybe get up to an 85 but also could drop to a 70.

 

[PP]

2 of my biggest issues.

1. No ability to pick "random" for both sides during a practice. I want to select a random play from a specific set for both sides. I.E Random plays from 5 wr against random defensive plays in Dime package.

2. No training camp. I thoroughly enjoy(ed) the mini games of the past. Why they were removed from franchise mode I dont know but I want them back.

Loved playing through the mini games on PS2 to get bronze silver or gold. The FG one was good as was the coffin corner.