Madden 16 offline Franchise stuck on loading screeen

Did you guys go in and delete all the old save files and start over?   Or are you trying to continue the old save files?   I'm only 2 games into a new franchise but deleted everything and started fresh.  

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@junior097 wrote:
So EA how about franchises that are online? I don't have any files on my PS4 to delete...Are you telling me I have to delete my league on your cloud servers and start it all again???!

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I am on xbox one but was able to delete all my offline saves through the madden menus. I don't know how the online stuff works. But from what EA said if you are trying to continue an old save that got corrupt before then you will end up with the same problem now. It won't fix saves that are already corrupt.  You may not need to delete everything but you will need to start over with a fresh save. 

Bought the game yesterday for xbox one, and this is happening with me. Surely I wouldn't have had the corrupted file stuff, my game would have downloaded with most up to date patch surely?

Getting a bit fed up of this, was the same last year, my game was bugged out for ages with the constant replaying of the panthers seahawks moment at the start, so infuriating that ive shelled out another £50 and immediately cant play CFM which was whole reason i bought the game.

So do i need to delete it all and reinstall it then? cant get why if i only bought it yesterday it would download with all the old bugs.

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@Aldojags wrote:

Bought the game yesterday for xbox one, and this is happening with me. Surely I wouldn't have had the corrupted file stuff, my game would have downloaded with most up to date patch surely?

Getting a bit fed up of this, was the same last year, my game was bugged out for ages with the constant replaying of the panthers seahawks moment at the start, so infuriating that ive shelled out another £50 and immediately cant play CFM which was whole reason i bought the game.

So do i need to delete it all and reinstall it then? cant get why if i only bought it yesterday it would download with all the old bugs.

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What is the exact problem that you had?    

To recap what the main issue is in this thread

After playing a connected franchise game the User hits "Finish Game" and instead of being brought back to the Connected Franchise menu the User is returned to the main menu of the game. Then when trying to continue the connected franchise save in question the User gets stuck on a blue screen that has a large spinning football in the background, a ticker at the bottom and the Users screen name in the top right hand corner. The menu of the connected franchise never loads because the game save is now corrupt. 

The 2nd patch released for this game addressed the issue. If you still have that exact scenario then please post it in detail so when/if EA responds and looks into it they have the info needed. If you experience game freezes, error messages, corrupt files or connection drops in any other scenario that doesn't involve the spinning football screen then you may have a different issue that hasn't been addressed yet.  

I have only played through 3 games of a completely new connected franchise save and so far it hasn't corrupted anything. Prior to the patch it was happening almost every game but that was in week 12 of year one. So only time will tell as more of us get deeper into our franchise play. 

thanks for response man.

Well the exact issue is i play a game of connected franchise, click "finish game" and it goes straight onto blue spinning football page and i need to shut down madden.

It doesn't put me out to main menu as you stated in your reply...possibly a new bug?

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@Aldojags wrote:

thanks for response man.

Well the exact issue is i play a game of connected franchise, click "finish game" and it goes straight onto blue spinning football page and i need to shut down madden.

It doesn't put me out to main menu as you stated in your reply...possibly a new bug?

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Sounds like the same issue. I think mine may have done it straight from the game menu like you described the first time it happened. 

So if you installed it in the last day or two I would assume it was installed from xbox live with the patch applied. Did the game prompt you for an update when you first started it? If not maybe try fully shutting the xbox off (hold power button on console) and then restarting the game to see if you get a prompt for an update. 

It would be nice if we could check game version numbers. Xbox one seems to do a pretty good job of hiding all that info from the user. Unless I'm missing something but I can't find any detailed info about whats installed. If you have the patch and are still getting the spinning football then the problem hasn't been fixed correctly by EA.  

Also maybe try JUNIOR097's suggestion of hitting the circle button (B on xbox) for around 30 seconds to see if it gets you past the spinning football screen. 

Maybe the button mashing works for some ? ? ? tried for a few games last night, didn't help. Have the latest patch running and still the spinning football of death.

4-5 mins to shut down the console and restart every time to get to franchise menu post game

So I had time to play a few more games this weekend and the problem is still happening. When I click finish after a game I get kicked back to the main menu and then the football is back. So far mashing the B button on xbox one has got me back to the franchise menu but the patch has not resolved the problem. This is a new franchise created after the path was installed. 

This was first posted late august and now here we are in October with out a fix. If it gets addressed again I'm sure it'll be rolled into a bigger patch so assume another month before another attempt at a resolution.   This might be my last madden for a while after this.