Madden 10 Franchise Mode Improvements

It would be nice to add more connectivity for online leagues but I'm a offline franchise player myself and like that facet to be taken care of 1st before moving on with other issues including graphics.

Another thing. Why don't players who are unhappy ask for trades? Maybe even go as far to specify teams they would like to be traded to that would best fit their needs? You know, like in THE REAL NFL! Julius Peppers again is my example. The man does not simply care only about money, he wants something specific. He gave a list of teams he would like to be dealt to. That would be a great addition to the game.

If a certain receiver isn't getting the amount of touches he wants, or a RB wants to be a starter, they should be able to ask for trades.

In response to you Julian here is my take. There are a lot of studies in the NFL that basically proves that when a RB hits 30 his production dramatically decreases. So even though Westbrook is a great all around back history shows that he will start to deteriorate in regards to his production (especially when you take into consideration his degenerative knee).

As far as the franchise tag the only time I seen it work in Madden is for a 90'2 rated fullback. Instead of paying him 2-3 million u can tag him for 1.5-1.7 million. So yeah if this is the only way for it to be effective the system is broken. What's funny is that they use to have hold outs and players who refused to resign with you. Do remember Madden 06? That was when the players had personalities now every single player is happy beyond imagination ……….even T.O.

Also you use to be able to trade for a restricted free agent form a team with draft picks depending on their team's off season tender. Remember Madden 06 again?

Yeah the off-season FA really is no competition as anybody would sign with you because you have loads of cash. You could have Tom Brady and Payton Manning will sign with your team as a back up and join the happy club ridding the bench for 5 years. If they included personalities as before there would be no way a stater would come in as a free agent to be a backup.

In response to you Julian here is my take. There are a lot of studies in the NFL that basically proves that when a RB hits 30 his production dramatically decreases. So even though Westbrook is a great all around back history shows that he will start to deteriorate in regards to his production (especially when you take into consideration his degenerative knee).

As far as the franchise tag the only time I seen it work in Madden is for a 90's rated fullback. Instead of paying him 2-3 million u can tag him for 1.5-1.7 million. So yeah if this is the only way for it to be effective the system is broken. What's funny is that they use to have hold outs and players who refused to resign with you. Do remember Madden 06? That was when the players had personalities now every single player is happy beyond imagination ……….even T.O.

Also you use to be able to trade for a restricted free agent form a team with draft picks depending on their team's off season tender. Remember Madden 06 again?

Yeah the off-season FA really is no competition as anybody would sign with you because you have loads of cash. You could have Tom Brady and Payton Manning will sign with your team as a back up and join the happy club ridding the bench for 5 years. If they included personalities as before there would be no way a stater would come in as a free agent to be a backup.

In response to you Julian here is my take. There are a lot of studies in the NFL that basically proves that when a RB hits 30 his production dramatically decreases. So even though Westbrook is a great all around back history shows that he will start to deteriorate in regards to his production (especially when you take into consideration his degenerative knee).

As far as the franchise tag the only time I seen it work in Madden is for a 90's rated fullback. Instead of paying him 2-3 million u can tag him for 1.5-1.7 million. So yeah if this is the only way for it to be effective the system is broken. What's funny is that they use to have hold outs and players who refused to resign with you. Do remember Madden 06? That was when the players had personalities now every single player is happy beyond imagination ……….even T.O.

Also you use to be able to trade for a restricted free agent form a team with draft picks depending on their team's off season tender. Remember Madden 06 again?

Yeah the off-season FA really is no competition as anybody would sign with you because you have loads of cash. You could have Tom Brady and Payton Manning will sign with your team as a back up and join the happy club ridding the bench for years. If they included personalities as before there would be no way a stater would come in as a free agent to be a backup.

Your doing a good job Pasta keep it up. Any word on another Head Coach game?

WOW!!!!! are they finally listening to us madden degenerates????!!!!!!!!!!!!! I like what they're doing…looks like Drafting is ACTUALLY going to be interesting…as is scouting…

I hope you can build a new stadium for any team without having to relocate. You used to be able to do this on all the maddens on PS2

that would be a sick franchise mode in store looks like its shapeing to be a great game hopefullly its not a bust

Looking forward to it. Franchise is where it is at for me so I like what I am hearing so far. Online play for me was hit or miss. Some guys play sim and the game is fair, when others cheese and use exploits the whole game. The people that care too much about their online records are the ones that ruin the online experience for me because most of those guys cheat or cheese to win. Like your online record counts for anything. Unranked matches usually give me the best online games or games with my friends here at the house on the same console.

Bottom line, out of all of the blogs this one gets my attention the most and I cant wait to see the improvements.

About realeasing players, or not resigning with them, it's on the game, try reading the options when you creat a new franchise game (or while at your franchise), something like "Let CPU re-sign players". Just turni it off. That's it, you got your wish on madden 09 already!

And about CPU trades, there's reason to be concerned. If it happens, there should be at least a little bit of AI. We don't want the Colts trading Peyton Manning, for whatever they get, even if it is like 5 first round picks…

FAIL

u right man. the presentation is horrible and has been for 4 years but it seems like theyre improving on it. but one thing that i did in previous maddens was switch the ball to the hand closest to the sideline. now u cant do that. that needs to be re-implament into the game. the stiff arms suck ass right now

u ppl really should have played head coach. the same guys who worked on that r working on this years madden so most if not all of ur concerns will be resolved. teams just do not trade certain ppl in head coach loke manning or brady and if they do u gotta give up a hell of a lot of shizz. im sure if cpu teams play how they did in head coach franchise will be damn good

That would be so awesome…….Be able to basically build a new stadium……and they should make u able to name it after the original….if not, at least be able to IMPROVE stadia conditions

I hope they add a OVR limit for rookies coming in (around 85 max) and having it so OVR ranking is based on where they're drafted and not just on stats. Let the progression/degression affect their stats within the first few seasons. A good example is even though I made Aaron Curry a 99 OVR in NCAA and then had him imported he was projected as a 3rd rounder and was only a 71 OVR in Madden 09 when drafted 3rd overall. I mean wtf lol.

yea right player progression was promised last year. the draft wasnt improved and scouting was a waste. players came out as 96 overalls. that is realistic.

looks like online gonna suck again this year. no point in buying if you play online. maybe next year they'll address all the same online glitches that has been there for years. like the pause and dc glitch. it will be a new feature next year.

Also – in 09, you do have holdouts and people who refuse to re-sign. For a challenge I just picked up the bottom team in the league to see how fast I could turn it around. Three star players refused to re-sign no matter what – I franchised one of them, but had to lose the other two.

The tweaks mentioned should address lifetime heros that rarely drop and such – but for those that beg for reality – would you be happy when a game end and none of your stars had good stats and the score was 3-0? Why not – it happens in real games. What about when your star WR shoots his own leg and goes to jail or your QB makes a face print into a Buick while riding his motorcycle? I don't think EA wants to get into the defamation suits here – so they can only do that with generic rookies years down the road in franchise mode — otherwise we're stuck with maybe just more random "hyper-extended knee injuries" — It would be nice to have one or two stars each year randomly go batsh!t crazy and get arrested… realism, yeah..

In my opinion Madden 09 for PS3 dropped the ball when it comes to the francise mode. How the hell do you forget about player progressions after it was in madden 08, i played 3 seasons in franchise mode and 3 superbowls later, everyone was the same rating, that's outrageous. Not to mention that there's basically no owners mode offseason, where did all the rebuild, renovate, rename stadium features go, no newspaper or radio, are you kidding me? They were so busy with the graphics and the VIRTUAL TRAINING features, that they completely forgot about the simple things that made franchise mode awesome. As far as i'm concerned, all that had to be done was take madden 08 for ps2 and give it ps3 and x360 graphics, but no, in an attempt to completely change the game, things went too far, the game didn't even use the maximum capabilities of the ps3 of 360, I hope EA learns this lesson and doesn't make the same mistake to Madden 10, or they will see sales drop, i've learned my lesson, i wont automatically buy the next Madden like i always do, for the first time ever, i'm renting it first, and i suggest others do the same.
-Oh and i forgot, could you please, for the love of god, show which direction the wind is blowing during gameplay, i constantly go for a fg then realize the wind is in the wrong direction b4 i call a timeout and punt.

josh looman= genius

how do u not add a online franchise mode and again ncaa continues to dominate madden on updates.

I mistakenly removed myself from my franchise using at EASportsWorld site… I clicked the "Leave Franchise" button thinking that it would return me to the main madden page… NOPE! it removed me from the league… If the commissioner sends me another invite, will I be able to rejoin?

KevyKev

guess what the game is released and im not seeing the so called changes sad sad franchise needs a lot of work pretty much read every comment other than mine other than the idiot saying get rid of franchise mode altogether then DO WHAT UR FANBASE TELLS U GIVE THEM PERSONALITYS MAKE ALL THESE SUGGESTIONS ALONG WITH MINE, heres mine give us practice squads undrafted free agents lets make preseason useful for once and, also for once let a players stats dictate his progression instead of this autamatic well he wont be an elite player till hes 28-29 cause thats not realistic look at todays ratings of top position players and their age

Madden 2010 is Awesome in comparison to previous years.

However, EA has shit in our cereal a bit too much and If any NEW FEATURE is removed in 2011 (other then the IDIOTIC press xybaabxy to get the fumble….some jackass put that in…we arent 12 we dont want to press blue yellow green to get a touchdown…) Im done with Madden altogether.

One of the Biggest things I want to mention…
EA NEEDS TO REALIZE MADDENs PLAYERBASE is not 15 year olds!!! (except the online since the faggots cheat)
Watching party balloons and USAF thunderbirds crap is as entertaining as taking a shit christmas morning…
What happened to the cheerleaders in football???
*John Madden is a horny old man…why the hell did the cheerleaders get removed*

Overall Very Happy with Madden 2010! Lot to improve on but hell of a Great Start.
Hopefully EA understands madden 2010 is NOTHING special…its not the Greatest game ever but simply where Madden should have been 10 years ago.
So PLEASE Next year IMPROVE dont degrade the damn game and then update it with cheezy shit the next year.
Or….I simply wont buy it =) along with countless others.
Ea obviously doesnt understand they are losing their fanbase (IN EVERY DAMN GAME THEY MAKE…Epic Failure of what could be a great company)

BRING BACK MADDEN FOR PC! Release one each year and its sure to be bought…release the same one each year and it wont you damn retarded pricks…
(money hungry bastards)