Product: Madden NFL 23Platform:PlayStation 5Which console generation do you have? Sony PlayStation 5What is your gamertag/PSN ID?Date/time issue occurred 2022/08/17What type of issue do you have? GameplayWhich mode has this happened in? Franchise ModeWhich part of the mode? CloudWhat is your Franchise League Name? Can’t rememberSummarize your bug After year two high overall and franchise players for all teams do not renew contracts and the y all go to free agencyHow often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Start a franchise and sim a couple of seasonsWhat happens when the bug occurs? High rated players can’t renew contracts and can be acquired in FA for minimum contracts What do you expect to see? AI should realistically renew their best players offering contracts PS4 Crash Reporting: Please copy the text you put in the crash report here.What is the AMD or Nvidia Model Number of your graphics card?Enter RAM memory size in GBPlease fix this

Product: Madden NFL 23Platform:PlayStation 5Which console generation do you have? Sony PlayStation 5What is your gamertag/PSN ID? xRGIVxDate/time issue occurred 08/17/2022What type of issue do you have? GameplayWhich mode has this happened in? Franchise ModeWhich part of the mode? CloudWhat is your Franchise League Name? N/ASummarize your bug Teams are not re-signing their big name free agents. It is really noticeable after year two with players like Justin Herbert, Trevon Diggs, Nick Bosa, Justin Jefferson and many more becoming free agents. These players would never hit free agency in real life. How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Actually play franchise.What happens when the bug occurs? It ruins the actual emersion of franchise because it immediately becomes unrealistic. What do you expect to see? Teams re-signing their star players.PS4 Crash Reporting: Please copy the text you put in the crash report here.What is the AMD or Nvidia Model Number of your graphics card?Enter RAM memory size in GBTeams are not re-signing their big name free agents. It is really noticeable after year two with players like Justin Herbert, Trevon Diggs, Nick Bosa, Justin Jefferson and many more becoming free agents. These players would never hit free agency in real life. It ruins the actual emersion of franchise because it immediately becomes unrealistic.

@descoyuntao Makes the game absolutely unplayable

This is absolutely awful. CPU teams do not sign franchise players and after season 2 free Agency is loaded with TONS of 85+ overall players. This ruins franchise and takes EVERY BIT of realism out of the game. Quit releasing unfinished games, it’s criminal, 2 years in a row now I have to wait for you guys to fix an issue before I start my franchise. Fix the damn game.

Xbox Series X gamer tag: FuegoPapi#1809 Its absolutely ridiculous, 2 years in a row now I have to sit here twiddling my thumbs for who knows how long. (Months again like last year?) EA needs to get it together, franchise is why most of us buy the game, not their money grab, pay to win, cheesy game modes. We were promised realism and that is what we should receive. This needs to be fixed NOW, not halfway through the season, not in September. This should have been fixed before the game was released, Do you guys even play the game before releasing this garbage year after year?

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44 Replies

bibbles35
3 years ago
Product: Madden NFL 23
Platform:PlayStation 5
Which console generation do you have? Sony PlayStation 5
What is your gamertag/PSN ID? xRGIVx
Date/time issue occurred 08/17/2022
What type of issue do you have? Gameplay
Which mode has this happened in? Franchise Mode
Which part of the mode? Cloud
What is your Franchise League Name? N/A
Summarize your bug Teams are not re-signing their big name free agents. It is really noticeable after year two with players like Justin Herbert, Trevon Diggs, Nick Bosa, Justin Jefferson and many more becoming free agents. These players would never hit free agency in real life.
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Actually play franchise.
What happens when the bug occurs? It ruins the actual emersion of franchise because it immediately becomes unrealistic.
What do you expect to see? Teams re-signing their star players.
PS4 Crash Reporting: Please copy the text you put in the crash report here.
What is the AMD or Nvidia Model Number of your graphics card?
Enter RAM memory size in GB
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Teams are not re-signing their big name free agents. It is really noticeable after year two with players like Justin Herbert, Trevon Diggs, Nick Bosa, Justin Jefferson and many more becoming free agents. These players would never hit free agency in real life. It ruins the actual emersion of franchise because it immediately becomes unrealistic.
lynchvontrier
3 years ago
This is game breaking!
ntk_monaco17
3 years ago
@descoyuntao Makes the game absolutely unplayable
EA_Kent
Community Manager
3 years ago
Hi everyone,

We appreciate the reports on this.

Could you please reply with the platform you're playing on along with your PSN ID, Xbox Gamertag, or EA ID so we can pass this along?

Thanks!
bigguy6933
3 years ago
Please fix this. Do you think it's safe to start a Franchise if I only play a few games at a time? Or will it be like that one year where I had to completely start my franchise over to get over a game breaking bug?
lynchvontrier
3 years ago
@EA_Kent LynchVonTrier on Xbox
descoyuntao
3 years ago
@EA_Kent PSN ID is mikiross and I’ve currently set up a league to reproduce the issue (cloud franchise mikiross_5), after year 2 there are 16 players in FA with overall over 88, players like Nick Bosa, JJ and Derrick Henry
DustinHough12
3 years ago
@descoyuntao EA doing what they do best. Franchise mode is unplayable until they fix this.
descoyuntao
3 years ago
@DustinHough12 Clearly there’s too much talent in FA after year 2 and it’s not realistic. Probably the CPU is not handling well resigning players with the new motivations system
DizzurpFLINT
3 years ago
This is absolutely awful. CPU teams do not sign franchise players and after season 2 free Agency is loaded with TONS of 85+ overall players. This ruins franchise and takes EVERY BIT of realism out of the game. Quit releasing unfinished games, it’s criminal, 2 years in a row now I have to wait for you guys to fix an issue before I start my franchise. Fix the damn game.