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itskenta
Seasoned Traveler
2 days ago

I'm frustrated with Teambuilder. Here's why.

I wanna make this as clear as possible. I don't hate Teambuilder. I really don't. But it feels like teambuilder never really wants to take that big step forward, its always one step each year. While I'm grateful for the things added, it really feels like they're not opening it up enough. Not to mention the bugs and glitches with teambuilder. Like I said, I don't hate it but man its frustraiting seeing just be so underwhelming. And there's the elephant in the room. Not having teambuilder teams usable in offline franchise and play now for madden. For the third year in a row, we do not have this. Why? I couldn't tell you to be honest. I tried wrapping my head around it, but I can't come up with the answer. This is a requested feature since teambuilder came back, and yet we don't have it. I'm sorry EA, but not everyone plays franchise online. We shouldn't have to use online franchise to use our teambuilder teams, it makes no sense. I myself, just won't buy it this year because I love to build my own football universe, but where's the fun in that when I can't use all 32 custom teams that you put hard work into in a franchise? Yeah there are workaround for that, but that's time-consuming. In older Maddens we didn't have this issue. Didn't have any bugs or glitches, didn't have a error when trying to update our teams, and I don't even know if that's patched yet. EA, please let us use teambuilder teams in offline franchise and play now. It's what the community wants. But I guess we gotta wait till Madden 28 for the feature to return right?

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  • chicagodave203's avatar
    chicagodave203
    Seasoned Rookie
    21 hours ago

    Great points.

    In my case, the offline franchise thing hits hard... being forced to play as an online franchise although it's just me against the CPU. Then one day out of the blue, I tried to load my league and get an error message that it's "temporarily unavailable." (Temporarily equals three weeks and counting at this point.) No support from EA and no interest whatsoever in solving the problem... a "support" chat that assures me the problem will be looked at, only to have my case closed immediately after the chat ends. So essentially, I lost all the work I put into my franchise... needlessly, because there was no logical reason it should have been online in the first place.

    Other areas where I shake my head with the Teambuilder... for anyone who is technically savvy and has looked at the app in developer mode, there are a number of player and team settings that the web form doesn't include (as of Teambuilder 26... will be interested to see if this changes when the 27 version goes online.) Player ages, years pro, salary, contract years, player's hometown, etc. It's all there but apparently gets randomly assigned when you load your custom team into Madden... how much trouble would it have been to just add these fields to the form?

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