Franchise Mode Initial Thoughts
In my opinion, the conversation system is one of the best additions to franchise mode, I think it will be great for everybody as I actually don’t think you have to use it if you don’t want to. Unfort...
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Beauts90How Has the Franchise Mode Been playing? I’ve Seen Lots say It Isn’t Worth it Because of All the Issues we’ve had in Previous Games that Are Still Present, Along With lots of Missing Pieces
I haven’t played around with it a ton as I usually wait for half decent rosters, so I’ve only got up to year 3 or 4. I don’t think anything was fixed from the last few games, everything I disliked about it seems to still be there. I would say the new features are very similar to the other additions they have made the last few years. Conversation system would be cool if it was more back and forth and I didn’t have to use it for things that I should be able to set elsewhere. It seems like most players don't actually request clauses, you just offer them and they say 'sounds good'.
The same thing has happened with everything they introduced lately. Scouting would be cool if there wasn’t so much useless information to see. Coaching would be cool if we actually had options for the coaches we want to hire.
Trade deadline would be cool if it didn’t cause twice as many bad trades during that time.
I still think having some sort of realism added to contracts is a great addition though.
I personally don’t find the new menus any better as I sim most of the regular season, so I would rather see more league info than game day matchup info and actually found it easier to navigate through the older menus.From what it appears when over at my friends and checking out his game, it hasnt really changed or improved much from my post above. Still crap prospects with no really changes and lower ranked teams not really getting better. My friend is now 10 years in. I stopped playing during hour 9 of the EA Play trial as It was not worth it to me. It doesn't seem like it has changed much from not just my views on the gameplay but look around the board, not many people are happy, The only real change to Franchise mode that i like is the New hub (whic still runs slow) and the Contract changes, everything else is just a carryover of issues from previous games. The conversation system my friend says gets really annoying after about 5 seasons of having to use it to develop players, etc. Choose X factor goals, etc. These are all things that could be done in a menu, Realistically the only thing that should be in the conversation systems is the morale / Contract talks
