Online Career Mode
I'm sure that this general topic has been brought up a bunch over the years, but I truly believe this would completely revolutionize the game mode. Imagine being able to start a career mode run with a handful of others, all manage your own team in one league, and fight for the title, promotion, etc. Personally, I thoroughly enjoy playing career mode, but having the option to play with others in a synced save would be a game changer. In Madden, the connected franchise mode (I believe it might just be called "franchise" nowadays) has the option for users to invite their friends and compete against one another in what essentially is the career mode for that game. Although franchise and career mode have some similarities, there is no doubt that FC is a bit more complex in comparison.. with some of those differences including the following:
- Number of Teams: obviously there are significantly more teams around the world than the 32 in the NFL
- Schedule: there's a pretty clear schedule with the NFL season, while the season for a top club in the world has many moving parts and additional games that goes beyond the initial league schedule.
- Simulating: in Madden it is very simple, as you can only sim from one game week to another (as opposed to day by day like in career mode). Again, since it's just one league.. the schedule is pretty fixed and less complex overall.
I'm not entirely sure of the specifics that would be able to achieve this, but perhaps a more simplified simulating system for an online save or only allowing the owner of the save to simulate (since you'd likely only progress when everyone is playing anyways). I didn't do much research to see if there was any reason that something like this hasn't been worked on/added at this point, but would love to see it in a future FC game.