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10 years ago
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Re: Madden 16 offline Franchise stuck on loading screeen

Yo, EA...you guys going to get on this at some damned point? Game's been out for how long, now? 60 bucks?

Been buying from you guys a loooong time. But if this isn't fixed in within the month, you've lost me. Your games are good, but they're not so good that I'm willing to give an hour of my day to a game that freezes as soon as it's over, making me play the same game over and over again, hoping that this one will be the time that I'm "allowed" to advance.

But, hey! At least they have new updates to player facial-features! Now we can see each individual droplet of sweat coming out of Beckham's upper leftmost forehead pore! Technology!

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago
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    Just going through the previous posts, and found this from EA:

    "We have identified the cause of this and will make the fix available to players ASAP."

    That was four days ago.

  • Anonymous's avatar
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    10 years ago
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    This is absolutely ridiculous.  I buy Madden to play franchise mode and this has made every single one of my franchises literally unplayable.  Even if you restart the xbox, no matter how you load the franchise, the spinning football of death will still come up and ruin my franchise all-together.   It's not even that the last game i exited just wasn't recorded, it's that it literally ruins the franchise and every time you load it, it just comes back to the spinning football.  The fact that it's taking this long to fix makes me think it isn't going to be fixed.  This game has 2 days to put out an update or this will be getting returned for sure. What a waste of money

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago
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    Good luck trying to return it as many have tried and failed in the process. Game stop won't even take it back for a reasonable price and the game just came out last month
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago
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    All it takes is for someone to put out a lawsuit on EA for putting out a faulty product. Then hopefully we could all get our money back.
  • sean_cory's avatar
    sean_cory
    10 years ago
    Gentlemen, there is no reason to continue to post on here to let EA know that you hate their product, that you want your money back, and if they don't release a patch in "x" amount of days you will stop becoming a customer. EA knows that you will continue to buy the game or at least be interested in it because you love football and video games. EA has a contract with the NFL as the only officially licensed game through 2017. So if you are really tired of putting up with it, stop buying it. At this point there is no need for any more posts on this thread other than people continuing to ask when the patch for a problem that has already been solved will be released. The EA representative has said ASAP, but of course that is a chicken @#$! answer. I am as frustrated as you all are because I only play the offline franchise mode but outside of starting a new franchise everytime the spinning ball of death appears, we are at the mercy of EA. For those of you still in school and your teacher preaches about why Socialism is better than Free Market Capitalism, you shake your finger at them and say "No, when companies achieve monopolies, their product quality decreases because there is no competition. I know that because EA stopped properly beta testing it's games to save money and/or meet a timeline. They have no competition in the marketplace so there is no need to spend more money to properly test."
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago
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    Wow, a civics lesson on a Madden forum. I have seen it all. Great points. Truth.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago
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    I would  advise anybody who has not purchased madden to not do so unless you plan on just playing on-line or single game mode. i occasionally play on-line but love the franchise mode,unfortunately i am the third of my friends to encounter the dreaded  never ending loading screen where it appears all of my franchise data has been erased.i refuse to start a new franchise and waste countless hours to only have this happen again which according to others here is a very good possibility.even more disappointing then EASPORTS releasing Madden 16 with this issue is their LACKLUSTER response time to fixing the problem and leaving a countless amount of their paying customers with essentially no game  and In doing so show that customer satisfaction is not much of a priority on their end. p.s please make me stand corrected.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago
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    I have also been hit by the spinning football of death. I seem to have found the problem on my own.

    I play with the raiders, and I always like using other play books. Half the time I use another teams playbook, I get the spinning football of death.

    If I use the raiders playbook I never get it and it loads back to the franchise screen fine.

    Now maybe it's a coincidence and you guys just use your default teams playbook but through my tests this seems to be the issue.

    Get with it EA, it's ludicrous you guys let this issue through the testing phase.

    Please fix it soon.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago
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    Yeah the response time is pretty poor. Franchise mode is the only thing that attracts me to madden. Not a big online player, and don't really like ultimate team.

    What has it been now, a month? What if they don't fix it??
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago
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    HELLO EA, DO YOU PLAN TO SUPPORT YOUR *TY GAME OR JUST BETRAY YOUR CUSTOMER BASE?

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago
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    There needs to be more people pissed about this on here. Posts date back a month. I picked up the game a couple weeks ago and am just now having this issue. 

    I ask this question if its an online franchise does it still freeze and what is the difference? 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago
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    Have you experienced the players stuck on the injury list? I played one season with jags with Arelous Binn on the injured list with 0 weeks. I can't release him in season 2. This is total * EA!
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago
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    EA Sports is such a joke. I cannot wait for them to lose this damn grip they have on the NFL rights. This is totally unacceptable. I have always went to bat for EA but I am done. 

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