Welp, it’s looking like the custom draft classes are the culprits. If you used one at anytime it will cause this file corruption. I did a test Franchise with no classes and it let me get into year 2025. I played a game, saved it and it reloaded fine.
@SfNiners816 What about editing a draft class yourself would that be fine you think??
@megablackk1d i didn’t try....I’d probably steer clear though or at least test it on a practice one before you do it. The whole draft class/edit feature seems bugged a bit. However, if you’ve already just edited in your own Franchise just save a new file and sim to year 2022, 2023, 2024 or so and test it. What I’d did was set the quarter length to 1 minute and play a real quick game and then when thru the whole save process and tried to reload it.
Community ManagerThanks for your posts, they will help us while we continue to investigate this issue.
Community ManagerGreat news, the fix for franchises crashing in later years has been identified and will be made available in an upcoming patch.
I know this has been a lengthy and painful issue and we want to thank those of you who posted the specifics we requested, those posts have been of great help to us in finding the fix.
After the fix goes live, we will post here again asking you to confirm if the issue is resolved for you.
*marked as resolved for visibility.
Thank you EA berry
Thanks for the update @EA_Barry and to the dev team.
Thank You @EA_Barry and the Dev team for not forgetting about this.
@EA_Barry finally thanks can we load up old saves or do we need to start over, will the patch work on live franchises that have not reached the point of corruption, and when will the patch go live?
Community ManagerNot sure if corrupted franchises will be usable, probably not but not 100% certain.
Patch will be live soon™
Keep checking daily or a few times a day for the update.
Ok I’ve been able to test it. The already corrupted files WILL NOT load and I got a blue screen(not really surprised but I wanted to try it). Now I had saves in the off season prior to 2022 that included customs draft classes. I was able to use these and play, save and load in both the 2022 and 2023 seasons. So it looks like the patch snuffed out the problem. I hope everyone has a save close to 2022-2023 so they don’t have to totally start over.
@SfNiners816 Yep I had a save a week before the corruption. I tested by simming to the week of corruption and then backing out and loading back in and it worked!!!
I can confirm that this works now!
After installing the patch, I loaded up my save from before the crash and am happy to report that I was able to play past the point where it crashed and have verified that I can load the save again.
Thank you @EA_Barry and the dev team for addressing this. Great work guys.
Community ManagerPositive reports so far, can anyone else confirm the issue is resolved please?
Thanks a million.
It's also working for me on pc as well.
My game is freezing after playing the super bowl in the first season.
When I win the animations after time has expired doesn't play. The camera view is stuck and I just see players and ref's walking around. The gameplay freezes forcing you to “press x to skip”. Then after the game summary it gets stuck on a loading screen going back into the franchise mode main screen. I’ve played this specific game three times and the same result. I haven’t attempted simming past it yet.
I'm using a PS4 Pro with a live updated roster from before the season began.
I just bought the game this past week and I have constant crashing issues in franchise mode. In the first year of franchise mode. I'm not even through a full season and it crashes at least once per game. This is ridiculous that it's been an issue since release and hasn't been fixed.
Didn't try reinstalling it, guess I'll give that a go. But I have gone through a dozen or more of these threads and I don't think anyone has ever been able to play without just simming through more than five or six seasons... That's ridiculous!
Is it working for anyone?
