[Offline Franchise] saved game doesn't load
Product: Madden NFL 23 Platform:Xbox Series X Which console generation do you have? Microsoft Xbox Series X What is your gamertag/PSN ID? Date/time issue occurred 08/16/2 at 6:00 What type of is...
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Currently testing out the patch that was just released. Knock on wood but it seems to be working on my offline franchise thus far. I simmed a week in the part of the season that would normally crash/corrupt, saved a file, exited out and tried to load that save and it's actually worked multiple times instead of corrupting the file every time.
Still have to play a game and try to exit at the end and see if it stops crashing there. Anyone else wanna share feedback?
Just tested with importing draft classes. Still has saves crashing around season 5. Haven't tested without draft imports yet. Curious if anyone finds any different results. Looks like this wasn't addressed at all.
@EA_Kent care to chime in, or are we still the ugly step child that you ignore?
EA_KentCommunity Manager
Thanks for the updates on this, everyone.
I appreciate you testing this to see if it's still happening for you after today's update. Has anyone else seen any changes on their side? Do you still run into any issues at the same spot as before, or have any different issues cropped up?
Hi EA Kent
Thanks for checking in.
I can confirm the franchise bug is still present. The game will let you play multiple seasons. But the game will then crash at some point in the future after you have completed a played game.
There appear to be two triggers
1. Not enough league coaches after a period of time.
2. Custom draft files.
Here are my controlled experiments I ran today after the patch.
1. 32 team control and Coach Firing OFF. I advanced the game by 10 seasons and played the superbowl. Game was fine and allowed me to carry on. Although it's not very immersive to see the same 32 coaches there after a decade and defeats the purpose of coach firing etc.
2. 32 team control and Coach Firing ON. I advanced the game by 10 seasons and could not even play the SB. All 32 coaches had been fired and the moment I went to select one to retire him, the game crashed.
3. 32 team control and Coach Firing OFF and I used a custom draft file from the community for the 2023 draft. I advanced the game by 10 seasons. Played the SB to the end. Finished the game. Game immediately crashed. It gave the chance to submit a bug report which I did. I named you EA Kent in the description. My PS profile name is Joneseythecat044. I submitted the error log about 10 minutes ago - 2335 approx UK time, which is 1835 Florida time.
You and your devs should be able to recreate this problem fairly easily. Just run the same controlled experiments I did.
Please fix this as soon as possible. It is not fair to offer players the chance to play multiple seasons and then watch as the game crashes and they loose a franchise they have been working on for ages.
Thank you.
- @EA_Kent nothing has changed... everything that triggered the corrupted saves before still does. This is such a phony PR response to the thread. obviously no attempt was made to adjust this issue. nothing in the patch notes even mentioned offline franchise. such a fraud
- @zboehler9 damn, so even offline franchise has severe bugs????? bruh, you can't be serious... there is literally NO PART of this game that isn't pure bug riddled trash... EA should be embarrassed by the half-assed effort and result they put out this year... absolutely shameful...
@EA_Kent just to be clear, the update did NOT FIX offline franchise mode. Offline franchise is still crashing and corrupting save files. And it is not JUST an issue with custom draft classes or coaching shortage... my franchise CRASHED and ALL 3 save files were corrupted in the year 2027. I did not use custom draft classes and there was not a coaching shortage. For anyone saying those two bugs are the lone factors in this much larger issue, that is not the case.
Madden 23 offline franchise is BROKEN.
I was on week on week 7 or 8 of the regular season, and after I played a game the game crashed and all my files were corrupted. So unbelievably disappointing. I have spoken with multiple gaming media outlets to update them about the lack of progress with the new update. I got so excited yesterday to play the game mode that I love... and all to just be let down again. Super bummed. Not surprised.
@EA_Kent PLEASE send this message to the people that can make a change, please try to elevate this.
Madden is broken and tons of people will be getting their money back if this bug isn't fixed.
- @Creamchild1234 it's amazing that even offline franchise mode is not safe to play this year...
this is, by far, the WORST madden in history.... don't know if they just tried to do too much, or they were just worried about their MUT microtransactions (my money is on this one), but they have absolutely, and utterly FAILED this year... between the bugs, technical issues, lost rewards, etc, i really don't think there is anything they can do, at this point, to keep me as a customer from here out... and i really do expect many others will feel the same way...
