Madden 10 Franchise Q&A

by pastapadre
Posted June 16th, 2009 at 1:20 pm

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Last week we got a Q&A about the Online Franchise mode in Madden 10. This week brings a general Franchise mode Q&A that goes into more of the basics of what has been worked on. You can read through the entire blog posting here.

As I’ve mentioned before my goal was to clean up the logic and get this mode back to where it needed to be. I’ll repeat my favorite analogy for those of you who haven’t heard it before: If you found out you had termites in your house, would you build on another addition or clean up the foundation so that you could build on the house in the future? That was exactly our attitude and my sole focus since I joined the Madden team halfway through the development cycle. I enlisted the help of one of my top programmers from NFL Head Coach ’09 (Jeff Keyek) and worked with the rest of the Madden team to address many of the core aspects of the mode that really needed fixing.

While there may be a lack of revolutionary additions to the mode (outside of the interface redesign) it seems as though they’ve been able to accomplish a good deal in getting the base of it to where it should be. It is just unfortunate that many of those areas that have been addressed such as free agency and trade logic won’t come into play in the Online Franchises.

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jammer122963

question on franschise mode with the browns. Changing defenses from 3-4 to a 4-3, I fired Mangini for a 4-3 head coach but it stayed the same 3-4 defense with Mangini when i plated the game. question is how do i change the defense without having to select it ever time i play?

mick

is there a way to add user teams in your franchise mode in the offseason? i know you could do it with the earlier madden games

confused

does madden 10 for wii have franchise mode?

raider1

will there be an option to change teams in a franchise? for those who get tired of playing with the same team ten years into a franchise?

NFBCPlayer

Madden question...
with the online co-op...can we play with a friend in another city on 2 different ps3's?and be on the same team.....? anybody know this question?

mcdonaldsm

i hope we can like really play a real nfl season with friends online and why the tackles look so soft this is the nfl not ice skating .....please ea sports bring back the tony bruno show or can we have sportscenter like the 2k game with t.o as the cover boy i just wanna feel like the fans like the players i create it make the game seem more real

mcdonaldsm

ok what about the radio show where the fans get to participate man thats the one i miss the most

King

how did you knnow his rating? is there a place for all the player ratings?

Blitzkrieger

They posted the Madden ratings here and on OS but they have since taken them down.. Overall the Packs ratings were bad, Hawk a 78 ! Which may be why they overdid Kampy a bit as the elite players seem to be getting special treatment for '10...

King

Pack not that bad they are 78 Minnesota 80 sounds right. Pack have a lot young talent so we'll see

King

ok so The Green Bay Packers are switching to 3-4 defense meaning Kampman will play OLB. I tried to use 3-4 in 09 just to get the feel for it but then when switched from DE to LB Kampman is 97 overall to 60. Will he be rated higher in 10?

Blitzkrieger

Kampman was over 90 for '10 @ LOLB. Whats even worse is his awareness was a 98 ! Thats ridiculous for a guy playing LOLB for the first time in his career. Id say he should be mid 80's at best but it seems EA is simply throwing us Packer fans a bone here..

King

· less than 1 minute ago
haha heck yes! be fun to play as Green Bay now LOLB-Kampman
MLB-Barnett = BEAST!!!!!!!!!!!!
ROLB-Hawk

but yea I agree hes good but not amazing. Thanks for your help

King

haha heck yes! be fun to play as Green Bay now LOLB-Kampman
MLB-Barnett = BEAST!!!!!!!!!!!!
ROLB-Hawk

but yea I agree hes good but not amazing. Thanks for your help

The_King_Wilmes

What is the pre game warm up I'm hearing about?????

Willy2535

they have videos of it on youtube, its nothing fancy lol

james

I am creating a league if anyone wants to join..go to eliteleagues.freeforums.org for info

Willy2535

hahaha i just watched the 32 teams in 32 days feature of Seahawks and i like how soloman said "there is no better than tatupu", could someone tell EA that, hes been terribly underated and considering that the seahawks have been quoted as having the "best LB core in the NFL" hmm how do we pull that off EA with a tatupu 90, hill 83 and curry 84........... heaps of teams have higher rated than ours and yet we have the best, go figure

Willy2535

hahaha i just watched the 32 teams in 32 days feature of Seahawks and i like how soloman said "there is no better than tatupu", could someone tell EA that, hes been terribly underated and considering that the seahawks have been quoted as having the "best LB core in the NFL" hmm how do we pull that off EA with a taupu 90, hill 83 and curry 84........... heaps of teams have higher rated than ours and yet we have the best, go figure

Willy2535

hahaha i just watched the 32 teams in 32 days feature of Seahawks and i like how soloman said "there is no better than taupu", could someone tell EA that, hes been terribly underated and considering that the seahawks have been quoted as having the "best LB core in the NFL" hmm how do we pull that off EA with a taupu 90, hill 83 and curry 84........... heaps of teams have higher rated than ours and yet we have the best, go figure

Charles Liddel

Sounds good.. I never scouted players in 09 cuz it didnt mean anything. After the 1st round, you werent gonna get any hidden gems so why scout 20 players? Of course you could always trade away your last 3 or so picks for nother 1st and 2nd. But, hopefully they really did fix this

Jay

When talking about progression, they mention a 'potential' rating. Does anyone (Pasta?) know if this rating is visible to the user, or is it hidden and just utilized by the progression feature?

fgafgadf

can you confirm if Brett Favre is in this years game

Willy2535

they'll probably retire him like they did on 09 and then if he does come out of retirement they can just add him back on in a roster update

Sidewinder

To be honest, I haven't even played the Franchise Mode on Madden for a couple of years anyway. Now that it's online and they've cleaned it up a lot, I'm really looking forward to starting one up again.

I really think this is going to be the best Madden in a long time but the wait is killing me!

Sidewinder

To be honest, I haven't even played the Franchise Mode on Madden for a couple of years anyway. Now that it's online and they've cleaned it up a lot, I'm really looking forward to starting one up again.

I really think this is going to be the best Madden in a long time. I can't wait!

Mr_EA_Sports

You know when you look back on Madden games you see a lot of features that were left out of future additions. Like Coaching changes, QB Vision, Personalities, Halftime highlights, Holdouts, Trade Requests, up field blocking controls and probably a few others that I can't think of right now

Mr_EA_Sports

I have always enjoyed offline franchise. If you try to treat it as a actual simulation and not try to take advantage of the CPU it can be quite enjoyable. Now that they have fix some of the logic in this mode I can see myself playing more without the need to hold back. I still would like to see personalities enter back into this mode and past decisions factor into whether a free agent will sign or resign with your club. Back in 2004 they had these implemented in the game then for some reason took them out. I would also like to see the return of QB Vision but I think that has died out because it was supposedly too hard for novices.

Amen Ra

Now they need to do the same with Online Franchise!!!!

Willy2535

the extra point show looks really cool, just wondering how long its appeal will last, but at least its a new and interesting addition

Mr_EA_Sports

Kinda funny that they had highlights from other games in Madden 92 & 93 then they just stopped and never came back to it again. Hopefully they will have scores from other games during the game that you are playing.

DoubleC18

When I first heard about it, I was like "HOLY SH!T!! They're bringing other games highlights back!!" Then I realized it was just another way too show stats from other games, Week MVPs... nothing more than what was in the game before.
Damn, they had highlights 15 years ago... and in 2K5. Can't we have them now?!?

Sidewinder

I was disappointed when they didn't have highlight footage, but at least this puts them on the right track.

It also seems like this is something that was made specifically due to community response. In that case, it's pretty cool that they could put it in there and hopefully they'll improve it in the future.

How cool would that be to get a full show with the NFL Countdown guys or even the FOX crew?

Sidewinder

I was disappointed when they didn't have highlight footage, but at least this puts them on the right track.
It also seems like this is something that was made specifically due to community response. In that case, it's pretty cool that they could put it in there and hopefully they'll improve it in the future.

How cool would that be to get a full show with the NFL Countdown guys or even the FOX crew?

WhenBearsAttack

I somewhat agree, but it's definitely put them on the right track. How about actually using the ESPN license for more than a ticker, EA? I would love to see Boomer saying "AND HE...GOES...ALL...THE...WAY!" when Matt "Running is my" Forte takes a TD to the house in franchise

RvG_SPEAR

iM JUST XCiTED FOR THiS GM AND THE SEASON!

acreyman

These really arent small improvements, they are huge! Some of these litle "nit pick" items that they fixed ruined franchise for some people. This year is so bad ass so far.....BELIEVE the hype! yeah there might be a few patches as usual after launch but this game has me fired up.

william30

PASTA why do you dis NCAA so bad on everything even the demo length

WWOFTBBNR

The front end of Madden 10 is leaps and bounds above 09. The 09 interface was just anemic compared to this. I just think they NEED to fix the trade logic and contracts/free agency in online franchise.

Halosniper52

If they just add Salary cap online Franchise than that will pretty much fix a lot. Also the trade logic get that done but pretty much just get the salary cap.

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