Re: Can't play couch co op franchise

This happens to me too. It happened when I had chose ‘owner’ as the franchise “person” (not coach or player). The second player controller wouldn’t go co-op or vs. in controller select. We were able to get around that but then the “couch co-op reverts to rookie difficulty bug” got us. I’m very frustrated as a longtime fan of this franchise. My brother and I have been purchasing the product, every year, for decades - how could you get this wrong now? Focus on these types of things and less on stupid menu graphics that’s just slow everything down.

I have the same issue as well. I was very disappointed I can’t play franchise with my son. This has been a feature available for the last 20 years. Huge mistake in the game but hat needs to be fixed ASAP

@DaBennies 

Just to confirm, you're playing an offline franchise and you've assigned your son to the other team under your Franchise setting, right?

Once you move one team over, try turning off that primary controller and then turn on his controller to see if he can move the team over. Can you let me know if that helps as a workaround fix?

Yes we are playing off line franchise mode. Could you explain more about assigning my son to the other team in Franchise settings? I have looked in the settings and do not see any options for assigning a 2nd player. He is able to be the team I am playing. It just won’t let him move onto my team. I did try what you suggested with turning the controller off but had no success. All it did was move the primary controller into centre of game screen so it’s on neither team and I still can’t move the 2nd controller over to the franchise team. Thank you for the suggestion though and I will try anything else you could suggest to get around this defect. 

@DaBennies 

Under the management screen you can determine what teams you want to take human control of. I'm assuming you've assigned yourself more than 1 human team?

I tried with multiple controllers as well. Nothing works. This is the reason I bought the game..to play offline franchise couch coop. I’ve reverted back to lastt year’s edition. Please tell me how to return the game. I don’t want it without this feature

I hear you. How did you get around it? If you get around it, can you manually change the skill level back to AM?