Re: [Cloud Franchise] 32 Users cannot (re)join Online League

" It appears there is more testing needed for this but the team is hopeful to get it addressed in an update in the near future. "

Same message since Day1. We can't really blame Blueberry for giving us the same canned responses and going dark for over a month. But man, the fact that this has been a glaring issue since the very beginning and we just have to deal with it shows how much EA truly gives a crap about their customers. 

And yet, we'll still pony up $70 year after year because EA has a monopoly on the NFL product. 

What’s up Madden Lovers. Seems as I may have found a work around to the 31 man glitch and hopefully it helps everyone. Once you can determine which coach is causing the glitch you must go in as an owner with a different user that has not been a part of the league. That user must hire a generic coach and remain an owner. Once you sim you can then clear the glitch and allow for other users to join. I have NOT been successful with inviting the 32nd user so I send them the username and password to their dm (dangerous game I know). The most important part is ensuring you advance with that generic coach in place (Harbaugh in my instance because it was the ravens who glitched). Glad we didn’t have to start our league over!! *** one last note. We had the new user join as owner instead of coach. It allowed him to enter. You will no longer have the ability to have a coaches only league**

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@T2dajallday25 wrote:

What’s up Madden Lovers. Seems as I may have found a work around to the 31 man glitch and hopefully it helps everyone. Once you can determine which coach is causing the glitch you must go in as an owner with a different user that has not been a part of the league. That user must hire a generic coach and remain an owner. Once you sim you can then clear the glitch and allow for other users to join. I have NOT been successful with inviting the 32nd user so I send them the username and password to their dm (dangerous game I know). The most important part is ensuring you advance with that generic coach in place (Harbaugh in my instance because it was the ravens who glitched). Glad we didn’t have to start our league over!!

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Can we get confirmation from others this works?

Do you happen to have It on PS5? That’s what I was using. I wouldn’t mind adding you and seeing if we can walk through it t2dajallday25 is my PSN. I’ve posted this in PlayStation groups on Facebook and has worked 100%

Everyone does realize, if this doesn't get fixed this game it will exist next game. As the madden franchise engine carries over game to game, this issue will plague the next game and all that come after. Owner only leagues aren't the answer you run out of funds, and can't sign players in FA for losing teams ect. I would like to see the issue at least guaranteed to not be on the next madden. Or at least acknowledged that they are aware of the problem, addressed on a public level and not just hidden in some forum. I don't care about features at this point, a functional mode would be preferable.

@EA_Blueberry 

Can we please get some kind of assurance that this was looked at and tested thoroughly for the next game. Literally nothing matters to the CFM community as far as new upgrades to the game mode if we can't have full leagues. There is no workaround despite what people have put in chat, happened to a throwback league we made a month ago and not a single suggestion worked. 

This has to be addressed, if this happens again after a YEAR of us in here telling you guys and providing detailed descriptions, I don't know what you all are doing there...

just had this happen once again in Madden 23..........it looks like the devs tried to ignore this issue from the last cycle, hoping it would go away but now they can't ignore it and need to fix it.  

Yep, I've heard of others getting it too, but we haven't replaced anyone in ours yet because we can barely play the game with all the other glitches. 

@EA_Blueberry This has not been fixed from Madden 22. Do they plan on working on it this year or are we just punting to Madden 24?

Yeah it’s happening in my league as well! We continue to spend money on and time. If it ain’t MUT they don’t care. Year in year out. 

For this bug, which they are aware of , not fixed over multiple madden cycles and patches , leads me to believe there’s only one thing going on here

They actually can’t fix it 

@EA_Blueberry 

New patch notes just came out and there was no mention of this. This is and continues to be A REALLY BIG DEAL! Why does it keep getting ignored? It has been close to a year since this was brought up!

It is unreal that we all continue to be TERRIFIED whenever a user leaves and a new one comes in. How this isn't the top priority is completely beyond me. 

@EA_Blueberry 
It's been 13 months sine this was bought up and entirely new game. Please tell us you have an update for us. 

There's a myriad of gameplay issues, but I can deal with them gladly just to be told that there is a fix in place for this.

Look forward to reading your reply

Madden 23 is here, a month into its release and we are still having this issue

This is unacceptable. What kind of backwards, spaghetti coding did you guys do to have this happen??? CFM 32 man leagues worked just fine all the way through Madden 21, why can't you invest some of that billion dollar revenue back into this mess?

It's sad because this is one of the best Madden's I've played gameplay wise in years. But we can't enjoy it because we are stuck at 31 of 32 users in our league, still without a single fix or concrete workaround. This is a joke.

EA and the NFL should be ashamed of what has happened to this product and they should be ashamed that they are shilling John Madden's face and name, all in the vain of the "MOST POLISHED MADDEN IN YEARS"

Get disconnected from leagues every 3 minutes. Changes don't save. Can't get a 32nd user into the league, causing a CPU team and their awful FA/Draft Logic to ruin an entire division.

What's the point of playing this anymore? All they care and will care about is MUT and the kiddies.

@EA_Blueberry 

Well, the glitch just hit our league again. Made it through and entire season and now we have to start over from scratch. All the countless hours doing upgrades, devs worked hard to achieve, scouting and getting excited for the draft class, draft pick trades setting up the future of our teams, everything....just gone because you guys REFUSE TO prioritize this. 

I have been BEGGING for a fix for this for almost a YEAR now, just scroll back through the pages. I have impassioned pleas and have attempted to help you troubleshoot this. 

I'm completely at a loss for words. You have no idea what a disappointment this is to 32 separate human beings (in this league alone) that put their faith in your company and continue to get let down at ever turn. Just completely unbelievable @EA_Blueberry 

Hey Todd, what glitch hit your league? ☹️ 

Mine was ruined by the multiple teams being unusable/glitches out after a old user left/new user joined and also the franchise not saving our season 2 rookie draft. Heartbreaking 

@Born2ball20 

This thread is specifically about the 31/32 user glitch that prevents a 32nd user from entering the league. Think we should stay on topic so they don't get fractured.

I know there are a quite a few franchise breaking bugs out there, but they really have to fix this one first because it makes 32 man leagues unusable and I don't think they even realize it.

Not to mention we have been waiting a YEAR for a fix. 

I feel you though, have had a few franchises that have survived the 32 man glitch somehow get tanked by the draft glitches. It's like they actively don't want us playing franchise.  

When a new user joins/old user retires it can glitch a team out and make that team UNUSABLE. We had two teams that were basically unavailable even though it said they were. So dumb.

I also DM’d EA Help yesterday on Twitter and they ASKED ME for my account login to take a look at it. I was floored. It was as if they haven’t even seen this issue yet. They truly don’t give af about us or franchise. All about MUT, lamest thing ever

Exact same situation here. For the second year in a row, we're not able to fill our league (which has users on the waiting list as well), we were stuck at 31/32 without removing a player, now we've removed a user and it seems that we're stuck at 30/32. Madden 22 and Madden 23, same exact issue. Atrocious.