Yeah, this is NUTS to me. I bought a PS3 for myself and a buddy as well as Madden 16 so that we could play together after I had to move to a new state. I was thinking we might try a QB/WR combo, but if that didn't work, a QB/HB combo would be really fun.
But... no online co-op. I mean, it's a sports game. A *TEAM* sports game. Why is it that EA doesn't think we want to play co-op with a friend? Like... do they think I want to play as a different team every game against my buddy's franchise, or something? What's the thought process here?
Also, I'd LOVE a co-op Be A Pro... I can think of ways to make it semi-realistic, by setting a cap on player 2; say you both get to play a season in the CHL before being drafted, so the NHL season is simmed, with a lottery, so there's randomness at the top of the draft - and there isn't a duplicate #1 overall pick - and then the better player gets picked wherever he ought to go based on his performance, and his potential (assigned based on his performance, but with a bent towards a higher potential because it's a video game) and then the 2nd player gets picked with that team's next pick, wherever that falls, and his potential is assigned based on an optimistic, but reasonable, expectation for that pick. (With the ability to "cheat" and decide what team you go to, either if you prefer a certain team, or maybe a team has 2 high 1sts and you want to maximize how good you both are.
Perhaps any pick in the top-15 is "elite - med", the rest of the 1st round is "elite - low",
the 2nd round is "top 6 - high" (or "top 4 - high" for defenders"),
3rd round is "top 6 - med" (or "top 4 - med" for defenders),
4th round is "top 6 - low" (or "top 4 - low" for defenders),
5th round is "top 9 - high" (or "top 6 - high" for defenders),
6th round is "top 9 - med" (or "top 6 - med" for defenders),
and 7th round is "top 9 - low" (or "top 6 - low" for defenders? Maybe 7th is also "top 6 - med" for defenders too).
Something like that. (I can't imagine a player would go *that* low; even teams without a 1st or a 2nd ought to have 2 picks before, say, the 5th round, at worst. And of course, if you drafted like that, you'd be really, really happy with your draft, but it's not unreasonable to think a player of that caliber will come out of that round, by any means. It's just typically hard to find that player.)
1st player gets Franchise - High if he's 1st overall, Franchise - Med if he's top 5 (or maybe even top 10?) and Franchise - Low anywhere else. Might *seem* a bit cheap to get a franchise - low guy late in the 1st, even mid-1st (or if a team doesn't have a 1st, into the 2nd...), but... well, no matter where he goes, I'm guessing he'll change the fortune of the franchise; it's a video game, the player is set up for success. May as well have potential properly reflect that.
Something like that could be a blast, I'd think. Getting a deep enough story to fit in TWO players while being satisfying (or even a shallow story that's satisfying) would be a lot of work, and I can't imagine they'd want to put in that much work. But really, I'm not sure how much a story is needed. Just give us control of the character and the narrative of his career (their careers) will work out; most of that stuff is kind of read between the lines, I think.
(My big problem is that I don't see the point of Be A Pro when the GM AI is so terrible. I can't put my career in the hands of idiots who don't realize which players they need to build around, when they need to trade complementary players to maximize the return when they open up cap space to re-sign key, foundational pieces, etc. So I continue to do my best to re-create my Be A Pro from back in NHL 12 in my Franchise mode and Be simultaneously My Player and My GM. But it's a thought they should be exploring, I'd think, as long as they're going to have a Be A Pro mode.)
