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Bug: Playlimit and Play Cooldown
Hey guys and gals! We were so excited when play limits and cooldowns were added so we could keep gameplay fresh in our 32 user leagues. But, we’ve noticed a rather annoying bug in it. if you call a play and audible to a new play when on the field, that new play will not count towards the play limit OR the Cooldown. This means that you can run the same play over and over as long as you audible to it. It defeats the purpose and is impossible to police in the leagues. Thank you!Franchise Injured Reserve Not Working
Earlier this year, you were able to finally remove unlimited players from IR much like real life. Now, I cannot remove anyone from IR (except 1 player this season) no matter when they went on IR, and no matter if they are fully healthy or not. I cannot field a full team because of this being an issue yet again. The only way to remove people is to add them to the practice squad (if they are eligible) and then sign them to the active roster. How do we fix this so I can use IR for what it is supposed to be used for? The depth charts literally automatically change and leave open gaps in the lineup when a player becomes healthy, even though the system is broken, and won't let me actually remove the player so he can play, so I'm guessing its a bug they added for some reason, but not sure.EA Gameface
I was wondering if anyone knew why EA no longer to their gameface? I recently purchased a Madden 2024 (I know it's a year old, but a lot cheaper that the most recent game) and wanted to create my own character in the game. The customisation seems to be severely lacking compared to the games of old. It used to be so much more exciting when you could actually play as yourself in sports games.Make Owner Mode stand out again
Owner mode currently feels like just playing coach mode with a few extra headaches. There need to be significant changes made to the mode if it is going to be worthy of continued inclusion. First off, as the owner, unless you are playing in Jerry Jones mode, you currently have far too much influence over exactly what your team is going to be doing on the field. Owners should not be able to change their team schemes and playbooks. Those should be determined by the coaches you hire. The ability of an owner to have control of this aspect of their team should be removed. When you are an owner, player personality grades matter a TON for your jersey sales, and ability to make the money you need to be able to offer signing bonuses, but there is currently NO way to know even a range of what a player's personality grade will be in the draft. You can't see it until they are on roster. Change it from being called a personality rating to what it actually is, a popularity rating, and make it something that can be evaluated as part of the draft process. If your coordinators are being offered opportunities with other teams, give the owner a chance to make a matching, or higher financial offer, with coordinators having motivations that impact their willingness to sign, just like the players have. Add a stadium development tree, similar to the staff development tree, with points being earned based on franchise on field and financial success. The stadium tree could have different special features similar to the old stadium upgrades, where you can add arcades, or specialty food kiosks, or facilities that help minimize injury recovery time, things like that. This would be so much better than just a constantly degrading stadium you have to spend money to fix every few years. When moving a team, bring back team and uniform creation. If the PS2 and original Xbox had the processing power required for it, the modern consoles certainly do as well. This has been a feature we have wanted back for a long time. Bring back players transitioning from retirement to being coaches, and add more coaching positions than just the primary coordinators. At minimum a QB coach, RB coach, WR/TE coach, OL coach, DL coach, LB coach, and DB coach. They don't need full blown trees like the coordinators have, but could instead just provide a 1-5 point boost to a group of 3-4 attributes for players in their position group. Position group coaches could also be hired up to be OC/DC, and eventually transition to HC as well. Allow the Owner to set promotional days and giveaways for up to 4 home games during the season. This could give you a significant attendance and financial boost if you own a team that is currently struggling, and is absolutely something owners do in real life. If you have more suggestions for making Owner mode worth playing again, add them in the comments below.Game doesn't allow me to save? Madden 26 (steam, PC)
My first issue is on normal franchise mode offline it won't allow me to save saying "File operation" "File save failed" I deleted and redownloaded the game but that didn't help either and I don't know what else would fix it. My second issue is... If I quit the game and come back it acts as if I have never played before and takes me through the settings set up and pick your team things everytime... I am assuming these are linked but haven't seen a fix anywhereEA SPORTS IS A JOKE
Anyone else having gameplay issues with any EA game?? Any game I try to progress in makes every team literally unbeatable. Cannot play road to glory in CFB because it says you can graduate early and then I’m stuck being in school for 5 years. EAFC I can barely complete a pass throughoutDid EA add back ability to switch teams during Franchise game? They need to.
For years Madden and even NCAA football allowed ability to switch teams during a franchise game. Not just an exhibition. Ever since online gaming became a thing, this function was removed. Can it be added back? Not everyone plays online for franchise. To add variety some of us off line gamers like the variety to be able to play a game as one team and switch it up each QTR. I control all 32 teams, and choose 8 (1 from each division) and I used to be able to switch teams when the ones I controlled met head to head. Now all I can do is SIM it and it takes a lot of fun and spontaneity out of the experience.Custom Playbooks in Madden 26
Hey EA. I am purely an offline Franchise player and love the fact I can create custom playbooks to use in it. I put a lot of time and effort in them, however this year there appears to be a bug. I've selected my custom playbooks in the Main Menu Settings and also checked that they're locked in before every game, however during the game either just the offense, just the defense, or neither of them, are my custom ones. This is really frustrating, but I assume it is likely a quick fix in an upcoming patch. Please can you look into this as many offline Franchise players are probably very frustrated with this bug? Thanks!Madden 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.Captains Patch isn't showing on the uniforms/Dallas pants isn't showing in yard
Product: Madden NFL 21 Platform:PC Which console generation do you have? XBOX One What is your gamertag/PSN ID? TR71777 Date/time issue occurred 10/02/20 What type of issue do you have? Gameplay Which mode has this happened in? Franchise Mode Which part of the mode? Offline What is your Franchise League Name? its offline Summarize your bug When I assign the players I want to be captain the captains patch isn't showing at all on the uniforms and this is always happening when I start a offline CFM and FYI I don't play online too many running QBs im old school but anyways is there a way you guys can fix this.? P.S. The Dallas Cowboys pants for the Yard character isn't there like all the rest of the 31 teams is there a way to fix this as well? How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? go to my cowboys roster go to the QB named Jerry Harris and WR which is me Thomas Reilly and inside linebacker Leon Johnson and CB Hanna Reilly (my Daughters player) and kicker Seth Baker What happens when the bug occurs? the captains patch don't show up and the Dallas Cowboys bottom pants isn't showing in the YARD portion of the game What do you expect to see? I am hoping that this will be fixed soon. PS4 Crash Reporting: Please copy the text you put in the crash report here. What is the AMD or Nvidia Model Number of your graphics card? Nvidia GForce GTX 1050 TI Enter RAM memory size in GB 12.00 GB of Ram I would be also posting this issue on your forums but due to a over baring moderator I am banned from the forums for something I didn't say or anything racial and is there a way to reverse this ban as well on the forums cause I was banned for no reason. I am sending my save files to be able to find the issue since its offline and not on cloud.Set took tokens no pack given "error '2"
So yesterday 9/11/025 around 9:00 p.m. Pacific standard time on a PS5 playing Madden ultimate team for Madden 26. User name Aszreal-SOTB I attempted to redeem three sets. The first of which was a signature series 25 token redeemed for a player between 85 - 87. Which worked and I did get the pack and I did pick a player. Then I tried to redeem the team of the week token exchange for an 85 through 87 player. Took all 25 tokens and never awarded me a pack. I thought maybe where there was a little lag so I went ahead and tried to redeem the Legends 25 token exchange set for a 85 to 87 player. Again took all my tokens did not award me. A pack was given a quick error message. It said like error 2 or something with like weird symbol in between. So now I'm out 50 tokens and didn't receive either of those two packs. This is really frustrating by the time you guys take care of it. These cards will be outdated.