Lag

It’s so so bad. I have never seen it this bad. I had that happen to me as well in franchise.  You have to spam the buttons for it to register. What’s incredible.. is that even if you go offline with no internet connection, it lags. I’m not putting up with this again. If this doesn’t get patched asap, it’s getting returned and I’m moving on. Not the first time I have returned an EA product after a patch broke a game. So disappointing. 

EA_Aljo 

Sorry to reply to my own post, but after playing some more I have better observations of the damage this patch did to franchise mode.

First, I was wrong about the free agent and draft class screens.  They are sometimes fast, sometimes slow, as it was before the new patch.

The major problem is in the scout assignments, edit lines, and view contracts screens.  Every single time you scroll to a different player there is a 2 second delay before you can do anything.  This makes editing lines absolutely miserable.  It was laggy at times before, but now it's downright painful... move to a player, wait 2 seconds, select that player, move to the player you want to swap them with, wait 2 seconds, select them to swap, wait another 2 seconds for the line chemistry to update...  Assigning players to scouts likewise requires waiting 2 seconds every single time you scroll to another player.  Same in the view contracts screen.

I assume this is caused by this (from the patch notes):

• Added processing delay for the player card update that occurs when hovering over a different player within a spreadsheet and Edit Lines

Why would EA intentionally inflict this pain on their FM players?  Is this another ruse to force people over to HUT?