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6 years ago
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Franchise mode showing Locked Fantasy Draft when not selected

Product: Madden NFL 20
Platform:PC
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Date/time issue occurred 8/11/2019 - 8/13/2019
What type of issue do you have? Gameplay
Which mode has this happened in? Franchise Mode
Which part of the mode? Offline
Summarize your bug Anytime I start up a “offline” franchise. Under the “things to do” tab. It gives me a locked option to start my fantasy draft. Even though I’m not doing a fantasy draft. And I’m also locked out of free agents.
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? I do not know how to find this bug, but the one person I talked to from ea help even had the same issue as me.
What happens when the bug occurs? Gives locked option to start fantasy draft, when I’m not doing one. And locked free agents option
What do you expect to see? Hopefully it gets fixed by the time week 1 rosters come out.
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The only work around I had with these two bugs were given to me by the person from ea help. If u start up the first preseason game and sim it all the way through. The fantasy draft option will be gone and the free agents will no longer be locked. Just wish I knew why this is even happening in the first place.

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    KAOS1050
    6 years ago

    Well after today's update, my issues of locked free agents and something about a fantasy draft is all gone. Like I've said before, I don't know how it happened but with this update it fixed it all.

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  • Hey, @KAOS1050 

    Are you still experiencing this after today's update and have you already tried reinstalling the game?

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    KAOS1050
    6 years ago

    Yes, still having my issues. I uninstalled and re installed the game 3 times and nothing changed. I have this game for ps4 and pc and only have problems on pc. When I bought the game for pc. I hopped on, started up a "offline" franchise to test stuff out. As I always do in new maddens. The first day I had no issues, second and third day, had issues. It only happens in a "offline" franchise too. If i do a "cloud" franchise, there is no problem. Why on one half there is issues and on the other, there is none?  I've seen one other person kind of experience the issues i'm having but his is; he's locked out of advancing the week, upgrading players and addressing an injury. I can only assume its the same bug, possibly different though. But if i'm experiencing these issues, a person I saw on twitter and the person I talked to from EA Help via Twitter had the same issues (And gave me a work around for it) as I said in my first post. I don't think it's on my end but it's on the games end. I can deal with the issues now since I won't be starting my legit franchise until the week 1 rosters come out. But I hope the issues I'm having are fixed by then.

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    EA_Blueberry
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    6 years ago

    @KAOS1050 

    For that offline franchise is there more than 1 human controlled team when you go to the settings?

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    KAOS1050
    6 years ago

    I have just been testing stuff out for other things I might be missing. But I start up my franchise with the Steelers, the issues still happen. I add a new "character". I do that, then retire him, sends me back to the Steelers and no bugs. Or I retire Mike Tomlin right from the start, it sends me back to the main menu, I load back into an "autosave" of my franchise and no bugs. I even did a fantasy draft, just simmed though it. When it was done, had no bugs. As I've been saying, this is the first time experiencing this "bug" or whatever it is. But it makes no sense that it happens when I'm only controlling one team and not doing a fantasy draft. But if i'm doing everything else but an offline franchise or with work arounds, it doesn't happen to any other type of franchise.

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    KAOS1050
    6 years ago

    Also confused on why I had no issues the first day but every other day after that I've had issues when I did nothing different.

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    KAOS1050
    6 years ago

    Also if i just start up a franchise, back out to the main menu and then go into the auto saved franchise. Nothing is locked and no fantasy draft thing.

  • EA_Blueberry's avatar
    EA_Blueberry
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    6 years ago

    It could be due to a corrupted update. Try deleting the roster update and profile settings.


    1. From the Madden 20 home screen go to Settings
    2. Share & Manage Files
    3. Load & Delete Files
    4. Delete the Profile and Roster files.
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    KAOS1050
    6 years ago

    Did everything you said to do and nothing changed.

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    KAOS1050
    6 years ago

    Well after today's update, my issues of locked free agents and something about a fantasy draft is all gone. Like I've said before, I don't know how it happened but with this update it fixed it all.