Dev traits not revealing

Its a process BUT IT WORKS!!!!!.....i played the whole season from preseason to super bowl on PLAY FULL GAME. My downs weren't showing as well, but once i passed super bowl ALL 22PLAYERS ABILITIES WERE UNLOCKED. THIS IS A VERY VERY GOOD GAME......JUST HAVE ALOT OF TWEAKS YOU HAVE TO FIGURE OUT ON YOUR OWN.....AND THIS IS THE 2ND ONE NOW THAT IVE FOUND OUT BY MYSELF AND COUNTING LOL HAVE A GOOD ONE. Send direct message if help is needed.

but i doubt it s supposed to be the intended way to make franchise mode  works

as its not either to make kick return and field goal impossible in the 4th quarter unless you re clever enough to "imagine" the kicker bar.........

I m not the kind to spam forums and to post actually

but again and again in 7 days it s the start of the regular season the game is out since 30 DAYS now ......... and with no guarantee to be able to use the official roster changes in franchise mode or to be able to play a full match of 4 quarters ????  its OVER frustrating 

it s even more frustrating when you see that they have no problem adding everyday new fancy overpriced pack in MUT mode celebrating 10 years !!!! yeah and that they CANT even have an official communication on fix date and on this problem

Hi @EA_Blueberry we have been asking for an update for over 2 weeks now and we have had no response at all from you, I can see that you have been answering other threads so are you just ignoring this one? The game has been out over a month and it still doesn’t work properly. The dev trait reset is game breaking on what is the only update to a very dated franchise mode but it’s still my favourite as I don’t play MUT. If I edit anything it breaks, if I trade in a few rookies to active rosters it breaks. If I change a players position it breaks. This surely cannot last too much longer as the game has been out for over a month for early access and they have tried to fix it and failed, are they even looking in to it? Please just keep us updated that is all we ask for and the communication has been poor at best so far. Look forward to getting a response and an update. 

So i completed a full franchise season on pc without any issues. I manually did training for half the year (i'm lazy, okay?), edited multiple players including my rookies, exited the franchise multiple times. This is with an ACTIVE roster on cloud.

This issue, for me on pc anyways, is solved. Its a little perplexing that it's not the case for all 3 systems, but like i said i will leave this thread open until @EA_Blueberry gives us an official answer and it seems most people have this problem resolved. 

your last post gave me some hope so i tried again

running the game on PS4,

so......

only the preseason roster in offline mode allow me to have snap counting toward development, what ever i do or don't i mean editing player saving training whatsoever with cloud or active roster iit wont let rookie developed

and in the middle of the 4th quarter ( i play all match on full 60 mn experience ) the kicking bar disapear from screen leading to automatic missed FG attemps and penalty on punting ........

Still no answers @EA_Blueberry does this update solve the issue or not?

As everyone stated, this issue is game breaking for me as well... I play on PS4 and have bought Madden every year for many years, but this goes beyond comprehension for me.  I spent $80 for a game that has it's only real update broken in Franchise mode and yet like a miracle from God himself MUT (the EA Money Maker) works like a charm and we can keep adding stupid * to that for people to spend thier hard earned money on but yet those of who already spent our hard earned money lose out.  This should be fixed and EVERYONE should get half of thier money back to them for this.  What do you have to say for yourself @EA_Blueberry ?? Are you going to fix this any time soon and if not where can I get my hard earned money back at??

and still broken on PS4 after the last patch

i give up :/

@EA_Blueberry can’t let this go I’m afraid we need an update as it’s obvious it’s not being worked on and that it was actually the new mode they were working ok. Need to keep this on the front page in the very slim hope that easports actually do there job and make franchise mode remotely playable. If I was this inept at my job I would get the sack so not sure what you are all playing at but it’s become laughable

Hey y'all,

been browsing here and in other madden related sites since I first realized the issue yesterday a couple games into my first season in SINGLE PLAYER OFFLINE UPDATED ROSTER franchise mode.

since EA obviously doesn't give a f* about franchise mode (going to be the last Madden I bought) I tried to find a way to at least have it working acceptably for me;

and it kinda worked, I just haven't fully understood what the critical moves are and for which player they work and for which not.

I'll describe it as detailed as possible, so maybe some of you guys who have some time at hand (I'm in the middle of my exams and got no time for extensive try and error right now) can develope it further and find the way it works out bulletproof.

- Go to edit player at your hidden players and change the trait to normal. then go out of editing, back in and change it back to the original trait.

-this let's you play with the open traits for now,

unfortunately they reset to hidden as soon as you have to leave for whatever reason and reload the last save (auto or manually doesn't make a difference)....

- BUT I figured out that this re-hiding of traits would only happen to rookies, a year 1 TE I changed from Normal to Star just stayed with it, so i suspected it might disappear after the season.

- tried with one rookie TE, revealed his star trait so he couldn't accumulate snaps and simmed to week 17

-I did this because I wanted to make sure his development trait is open when the season ends, because even though hidden players seem to get their deserved share of XP points  when the trait itself is hidden, I wanted to keep the possibility open that his trait gets upgraded by going to the Pro Bowl, which I'm not sure is possible when the trait is hidden.

- so I simmed the last game, got pro bowl XP for him (no change of trait unfortunately)

- then simmed the first playoff game; divisional, where I forced a loss to end my season to get him in year one, and then he was a year one player with star trait

- now the trait stayed on star even after going out and loading

- another player who i had edited to superstar and what was hidden before the switch to year one revealed it immediately, even though he had 0/500 before the advance, and he also stayed with it.

- for good measure I tried what would happen if I'd let the hidden star TE go into the second year with a hidden trait, and it also revealed the trait and stayed with it after reloading

- for even better measure I then simmed to next season, and the traits still stayed revealed after reloading

so long story short, you can play with the revealed traits after editing them, and at the end of the season, when your players go from rookie to 1yr it stays or gets revealed permanently. Nevertheless I would suggest you make sure the trait is revealed when the season goal xps get rewarded to make sure they can get a better trait.

I hope this helps some of you enjoy your franchise mode a little more.

and if you find this helpful and you are registered at other madden related platforms where you discussed this problem, please share this so as many people as possible benefit from it and maybe someone can use these tricks to find a total, permanent workaround for it.

EDIT: okay I had to learn that when I play a game manually, the traits are reset after the game, during the season.