How's Your Franchise Progressing?
If you've been following the Bug Reports forum, one of the hot topics is the Franchise Mode Progression Bug. This post aims to do the following: Provide data points to help investigate the issue a...
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What if they went to a (cheap) subscription model for Franchise, since we know more often than not, it's not much more than a roster update each year? Do you think at a couple bucks a month, starting with a functioning game, there's a possibility that they could actually put time into FM bug fixes, logic improvements, etc., if they know they don't have to change much about the base game anyway?
I mean, honestly, aside from when moving to a new platform (i.e. PS4 -> PS5), they're basically doing this anyway, but charging us the full $80 every year. Would I pony up at $3/month? Maybe. I mean, I guess the thought is just more along the lines of whether something like this would allow EA to put a more dedicated offline team onto our issues?
I don't know... wild thought, I guess. After taking all the notes that led to my post, this bug, while super disappointing for the first season, if it continues to not be an issue as I go, I'm actually more concerned with the bad AI GM logic than this, and probably true for the terrible Chemistry/Coaching/Drafting systems not working together, too. I'd rather it all get fixed, of course... just, what will it take for us to ever see that...
I'm all for the future of gaming to be some sort of monthly subscription or something along those lines like pay smaller amounts for upgrades. I think it would be great not just for the offline modes, but the entire game. If they weren't obligated to release a new game every year, I think the product would be greatly improved because they could implement the quicker add-ons at any time and take more time with the major features and not have a set date that they would need to be done (rushed) by. This would put less pressure on the team getting these features implemented and allow them to actually make the new features well constructed.
I would gladly pay more money each month if it meant they made a better franchise mode and got a better roster agreement. Mind you, it would have to be significantly better than what they do now so they would really have to up their game which I just don't see happening.
I've tried a few times over the last couple of months to start up a franchise using Pittsburgh as they don't really have any prospects that are blue chip, but I just can't seem to get into it at all because of how everything functions knowing the bug is still there as well.
I think they are in a prime spot to release a rebranded "EA's National Hockey League", but that type of live-service is mainly focused on online; you'd almost need to split the game up into an offline and online only version and have dedicated teams working on each for everything to run smoothly, lest we just get more of the same.
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