I Buy Madden Every Year… and Quit Franchise Mode After 2 Seasons
Every year it’s the same cycle for me. I buy Madden, get excited to start a Franchise, play a ton that first week… and then I slowly stop. A few weeks later I’ll pick it back up, start a new franchise, play a couple seasons… and then lose interest again. It’s not because the game is bad. It’s because it doesn’t feel immersive enough to stick with long term. After a couple seasons, everything starts to feel the same. There’s no real story, no pressure, and no reason to stay locked into one save. I know I’m not the only one who feels like this. This isn’t about small fixes anymore. Franchise Mode needs more depth. It needs to feel like we’re actually running an NFL organization, not just controlling a roster. Front office should actually matter Let us build a real front office. GM, coordinators, scouts… and even a true cap specialist (CFO type role). Give them real traits that impact gameplay. A great cap guy should let you structure deals creatively. A bad one should leave you stuck with bad contracts and dead money. That’s how the NFL actually works. Also bring back something older Maddens did right… Former players becoming coaches. There’s nothing better than drafting a guy, watching him retire, and then bringing him back as a coach. That kind of continuity is what makes a franchise feel alive. Contracts need to be realistic Right now contracts feel way too simple. We should have: Void years Backloaded/front-loaded deals Restructures Extensions during contracts Real dead cap consequences One bad deal in the NFL can set you back years. In Madden, you barely feel it. Let contracts actually matter. Scouting needs a full overhaul Scouting right now just isn’t fun. It feels repetitive and I honestly just computer control it because it doesn't add any immersion and feels non authentic. Make it feel like real scouting: Regional strengths Relationships with programs More uncertainty and risk Combine and pro day actually matter Right now it’s just bleh Add real NFL dynamics (media, leverage, pressure) This would take Franchise Mode to another level. Let us: Leak trade talks to the media Create pressure during contract negotiations Influence player morale and value Teams do this in real life all the time. Let us play that side of it too. Let us run the business side (bring back OWNERS!!) If I’m the owner, let me feel like it. Let me: Set ticket prices Run promotions and giveaways Manage fan happiness See revenue change based on performance Make market size and success actually matter. Stadiums and team identity should evolve If I upgrade a stadium, I want to actually see it change. Let us: Remodel existing stadiums Build new ones Customize over time Same with uniforms. Let us update, rebrand, and build an identity over years. That’s part of what makes a franchise feel real. Add an era system (HUGE IMMERSION REPLAY VALUE) This would be a game changer. Let us start in different years and rewrite history. I’d immediately start in 2012 after the New York Giants last Super Bowl and try to fix everything that went wrong after that. Draft differently. Hire differently. Build a completely different future. That alone would make Franchise Mode way more replayable. Final thought Franchise Mode is for some reason now the red headed step child for Madden. Once a foundational piece of the game, it was pushed aside for the dang UT BS. I get it, it makes money but Madden has strayed far from it's roots. The foundation is there, but it’s missing the depth that keeps people invested long term. Right now, I want to keep playing… but there’s nothing pulling me back after those first couple seasons. If Madden focused on real in depth immersion like real contracts, real front office decisions, better scouting, and long term storytelling this mode could easily become the best part of the game again. Curious if anyone else is in this same cycle. What would you want them to fix first?A Change Has To Be Made For Us Players Switching Consoles
cross‑platform progression would help a LOT of players, especially people like me who invest time and money and then switch consoles. I shouldn’t feel punished for upgrading or changing systems.Now I have to spend even more money and time trying to get my character back where it was before I switched consoles EA should really consider changing this in the future Im pretty sure I’m the only one who thinks this.New Game mode on madden
Hello, I was thinking that in one of the next madden games they should add a career game mode. Nothing like the superstar, but something kinda like road to glory. You choose if you are either a first round prospect, second or third round prospect, later round prospect, or a Undrafted free agent. From there you create your character and you can insert an age 21-24. Depending on what you picked with your prospect rank, you can either do your colleges pro day or combine. The later round prospects and undrafted free agent prospect can only do a pro day. You use a he combine and/or the pro day to build up your draft stock. You start off with no traits. Once you are picked up, you have to climb up the depth chart based on your training camp performance and how you played in preseason games, this with ultimately lead to either you being cut, making the practice squad, or making the 53 man roster. Based on performance on practices and if you get snaps in the game, you can rise up the depth chart until you are a starter. Throughout the season you can be traded at random times during the offseason and before the trade deadline and you can be cut. You have to overachieve to stand out as a leader.Madden 27 ideas
These are some things not only i but others want in madden 27 we want realistic ai calls i mean i was winning by 7 10 seconds left they have no timeouts they throw i chevkdown mid field fix this i want suoer bowl reactions fr i want my superstar player to have a life out of football more game modes like street i want my superstar to have more realistic things to happen and i want realistic ctach and throw animations amd interceltions beacause i threw a hail mary it got tipped rashee rice had it in his hands and dropped it!!!! Ea please add theseMadden 26 Real Disscussion
The first Madden I played was Madden 98 or 99. I have been playing Madden games for a very long time. Over the past few years Madden is not as enjoyable as its use to be in my younger days. WHY? I feel like EA developers don’t care or put in any effort to game modes like Franchise mode, and focus more on a pay to win mode like Madden Ultimate team. At first I thought the mode was cool until every game I played in with my 79-81 overall team I was playing against a 90 plus rated team, and to me that was unfair. So in order to get a better squad you had to spend hours grinding or pay for packs. I chose to do neither. But that’s where all the effort is at when it comes to this video game and most sports games in general. Franchise mode is the only mode I really care about and it’s not the same as it was in the early 2000’s. The one thing that I hate is they took out Owners mode. Why would they do that? Why ?????? It makes no sense to do that. Before I go on about franchise mode, the gameplay needs a major overhaul. This animation based game needs to be over and done with. I say this because there is no control over your player. No. When you try to go for an interception.. you get this weird animation to where you knocking the pass down or some other weird bs. When you run the ball with your RB or ball carrier .. when you steer/move the defense reaction to it asap. On break away runs it’s more Noticeable to be. I zig and zag and the defense or person who is chasing me is doing the same thing I’m doing. It’s weird. When I throw a short pass, to an open receiver and he catches it and falls to the ground, what is he falling down for when no one is near him. Get rid of the engine it is terrible. Feels like the games be scripted . Ok back to franchise mode. I feel like more can be done to franchise mode but EA Sports does not want to put in the time and effort to improve the mode. The scouting has been the same for 4-5 years now and that needs an upgrade. Big one. Copy and paste ahh game. It’s sickening to keep seeing that. For one, in scouting it should be, I scout a player, who does it compare to… is he the Next Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes, Saquan Barkley, or NFL LEGENDS like Randy Moss, Tom Brady, Ray Lewis, etc. What’s his ceiling, is he a HOF type player or is he bench player or role player. Does the player compare to a Devin White, who’s career starts off good then falls off a cliff…player college stats. That use to be in the older Madden games but haven’t been in it since the PS2/Regular XBOX days. Player college awards, all-American should be displayed but like I said there’s no effort. Storylines. Madden 26, feels dead with the lack of storylines. When I say storylines, training camp battles, player contract issues, coaches on the hot seat, unhappy fan base, player morale, hold outs from training camp, players approaching certain mile stones, rookie of the year battles, mvp battles, players facing former team, when you win a superbowl, the quest for going back to back, the creating of a dynasty, when you drafting a top prospect, if he’s not doing well in 2-3 years is he a BUST? wasted draft pick. Players nearing retirement, etc. Those are real storylines that’s needed in the game. WHAT would be the point in playing the mode without any story lines. So if anybody from EA sees this please make this something to improve on. PRESENTATION for this year is decent. Like the pre games, intros, and presentation packages. But with that said there’s commentary is absolute trash. That KATE SCOTT OMG.. the most annoying announcer in the history of sports games. Commentary needs a major update and needs to discuss teams current record, players approaching milestones, MVP races, rookie of the year battles, whether your team should make a change at head coach, whether fans are unhappy, franchise success, etc. The commentary lacks excitement especially for long plays, TD’s etc. Keep the intros never remove that again, keep the different broadcast packages, and keep the outside views of NFL stadiums. SCOREBOARD in NFL stadiums. One this I wish to see, how like in MLB THE SHOW 25, and NBA 2k GAMES is the actual score and stats show on the titiantron instead of just seeing the logo. I been in plenty of NFL stadiums where that’s shown but it’s not shown on current MADDEN titles. But it did in past MADDENS. I’ll show pics below in a minute. Creation of players.. OMG why do we have the same generic faces for prospects for the past few years and its faces of someone’s granddaddy. Let’s be real. Most players coming out of college are 20-23 maybe 24 years of age. But these faces they have for your prospect are horrendous and that needs a major update. That reason alone is one reason why I don’t want to play the game. People be like well what you complaining about it’s not like you’re going to see their faces etc. They are missing the point. It’s been the same for years and it’s faces of 40 plus year old men. They need to allow more customization for one, then two remove the faces and add new one. Some of the faces on college football 26 are nice until you get to scouting on dynasty mode then you see players with full beards, brown hair and brown beard or yellow hair and yellow beard, and those incoming freshman look like 30 plus year old men. It shows the lack of detail and effort that EA put in these games. It’s terrible. In CFB 26 I avoid recruiting players with the brown hair brown beard, or yellow hair, yellow beard, heck some of the players be having grey hair. It’s terrible. So I would like to see updates faces or they can use the AI generated faces they use for the college players on CFB 26. I’ll show pics below. Overall team stats, achievements in franchise mode. Trophy case or something. So as a franchise overall wins and losses should be shown, overall win/loss vs division rivals, but overall every team as a whole. Again what’s the point of you can’t track your success. I would love to keep track of the number of times I’ve beaten the brakes off the Dallas Cowboys in my franchise mode but I can’t. Why because EA doesn’t care about anything like that. Yes the history tab keeps track of Super Bowl winners but overall I feel like as a franchise you should keep track of your overall success especially against your rivals and other NFL teams to see when you measure up at. In NBA 2K it shows overall record against rivals and other NBA TEAMS in franchise mode. Why can’t EA give us something like that ? Again I’ll show pics below. Jersey retirements, tracking of players making the Hall of fame. Again as a franchise jersey retirements, and tracking the number of players making the HALL of FAME for my team should be tracked . Power Rankings, I would love to see that added and the only sports game that has that is NBA 2k. It was in NFL 2k5. Would love to see that, to see where my team is each week in my franchise each year. But for some reason it’s not added .. locker rooms.. show players in the locker room interacting with coaches, trainers, other personnel on the roster. So locker room cutscenes like on NBA 2k25 The weekly recap show in Madden 26 is well, terrible. 3 highlights, and the commentary is very delayed. No talking about what’s going on around the league, playoff battles, trades, injury reports, nfl draft updates, nothing. I was very disappointed and it was one thing EA kept highlighting but the effort was bare minimum. EA if they are planning on keeping the NFL license needs to do better. The only way to go is up but yet EA takes a few steps forward and then 10 steps backwards. I really wish the NFL would allow other companies to make football games because EA just doesn’t care what the fans really want in the game. I just want a better football game and the ability to enjoy the mode I love and that’s franchise mode. I hope the rest of y’all feel the same way. Franchise mode once again is a big disappointment.Uniform realism
We are living in a new generation of football! Can we please catch up to College Football and have the option to make the pants shorter and add the double leg sleeves and socks that we see these NFL players wear every game!? Let’s bring the hanging mouth piece, let’s bring the customized sneaker cleats, new accessories, open world story mode like 2K MyCareer. EA is so far behind, let’s make it happen in Madden 27!Filters for redundant same team play
I have played Madden ever since the first Madden has came out and I still enjoy the game. There is a redundancy of alot of player using the Eagles, KC, Baltimore and Buffalo which are great teams but I do not want to play these same teams all the time, I have experienced this redundancy for years now and it make me not want to play as much because I can barely play any other teams but those I have mentioned. There should be a filter or frequency setting as to what teams I would like to play against or teams I do not want to play as much. The Madden developers have always found a way to raise the bar and make Madden enjoyable and I honestly do not know how they can top what they have done with M26 but developers always find a way to make it better. Thank you
