OK, i'm not going to do the same complaining most do yearly (ie. "it's the same game with new rosters"). That's just not true. The gameplay, visuals, audio..it's all much improved. But what Madden developers did to the franchise mode is a sin.
It's now called, "connected careers". I'm not going to go into all the details but the major problems I have with it pretty much make it unplayable.
1) Sim a game and it doesn't even immediately tell you the score. You have to click through multiple pages to get it.
2) You have to go through multiple pages to view the box score and stats.
3) Can't sim more than one game at a time.
4) Practically impossible to make a trade.
4a) It doesn't tell you the contracts of the players when making offers so you don't know until after the offer is sent and after scrolling through pages if it was accepted and if the reason it wasn't was because of the cap.
4b) After making an offer you have to go to a separate page to see if it was accepted. Makes the process extremely tedious, no counter offers or easy negotiations.
5) Absurd draft changes. Just prior to the draft the game gives you points to do your own scouting of the hundreds of players in the draft. As if the teams don't have anyone doing scouting for them throughout the entire season, you know nothing about any player in the draft until you scout them and it's a long tedious process which can truly only be done fully for a few players before you run out of points.
These are IMO a few of the major f-ups done by Madden developers that makes their "connected careers" unplayable. I like online play, but I buy the game to play offline franchise mode and they have effectively killed it.
