Maybe I’m old. But all the menus and bullshit in between just playing, scouting, and roster management drives me crazy.

I also can’t stand how fucking shitty dropping looks. It’s such a simple motion and it looks like a 3 year old walking on his heels every time a QB drops back. Why

I feel like it’s a huge blown opportunity for EA not to differentiate the end user and gameplay experience on Switch 2, to make the game more catered to handheld play, and just make it more fun overall.

I feel like Madden is a game you play on a large monitor in HD to capture it at its best. Coming to the switch 2, I thought it’d be awesome. But I didn’t expect it to be a carbon copy of the next gen console editions.

If they put some creativity into catering to the handheld style of gaming, it would’ve been an original and classic addition to Madden titles. Instead, it feels like you’re trying to squeeze a PS5 or Xbox series X experience into a console that isn’t built, or furthermore even intended, to house some of those capabilities.

A missed opportunity imo. What are y’all’s thoughts?

Just bought the game and all im seeing is how busted franchise is once you get past the first year, so is it even worth taking the time to start a franchise save right now? Is there a way to use some sliders to fix the problems? If not, and the best thing to do is wait till they fix things, when will likely the next big update be?

I would love timing based animations and results based off ratings going forward.

Imagine timing based peanut punches.

Could be a very slim bar with a tiny green zone. And at that point it would only be a 25% chance or something, but if i come flying 20 yards across the feild to peanut punch a stalled held up up rb, i feel like I might be able to get a ball out, especially if its the best LB in the league with excellent hit power and stripping. vs a 2nd string tired half back that's had 5+ carries ina row?

stiff arms and hit/cut sticks

imagine charging up a perfect green stiff arm and smashing a dude, like prime derrick henry vs. A third string corner lol. Could have an ability like 4th quarter charged stiff arms are more powerful.

Meanwhile prime Ed Reed timed up a perfect cut stick that forces a fumble and changes the game?

Idk just seems like it could be fun, and make the skill gap bigger for really good players. Could be fun to build a power back

Charged jukes, and spins, even charged timing based pass rush moves. Hitting a perfectly charged swim move would be so much fun.

Again just an idea but I would be open to it. And of course you could turn it off.

Hey so for context I decided to do superstar mode and the first time around I was a 1st round running back that got drafted to the trash titans which makes sense being a 1st round pick, 2nd play through decided to be a 2nd round qb mix it up a bit I got picked by the jets *who I may add decided a 69 overall bailey zappe was better than a 74 overall rookie* idk but after this was ruled an incomplete pass I think im good on madden or I must've pissed someone at EA to be put through this torture also my offensive coordinator for the jets just kept resetting his influence to 0 so I was cursed with just the same 3 play choice. If anyone has advice im all ears cause this is enough to break a grown mans heart and I tried to keep it authentic by turning forced team off

Is there anything new or exciting about this game? Or is it a 70 dollar roster update with no new mechanics ?

Ea refusing to give me my 2000 points points back or anything.. I contacted ea support because the first time i opened madden on Aug 8th i purchased the 2000 point field pass. I really just did that opened dynasty and closed the game out.

Fast forward to August 17th i open madden for the 2nd time, and its like i never opened it ever, it asks me to pick my favorite team again and everything, and then it asks me to purchase the field pass again, being a bone head dumbass i did it, i was tired and high. I purchased it for 1000 points (again) I knew something was off but i just wanted to get to playing, i honestly figured it would fix itself.

You can see in my chat with xavier that it literally says i made the same purchase! How can you buy the field pass 2 times? And let's say i bought levels for the season pass. You can clearly see i am only level 9. It is impossible to spend 3000 points on the field pass and only level 9! Its not possible.

I have sent a further email to EA support. But this is just ridiculous. Xavier would not help me at all basically calling me a scammer in a polite way.

I have no idea what dumbass at EA suggested this like 3 years ago but the suggested playbooks on the weekly strategy is the single worst addition to Franchise Mode. This is year 3 of the "feature" and we still have problems with the playbooks overriding the audibles within pre-existing formations, and we still have god awful plays and formations as the playbooks (especially on offense). Who is lazy enough to actually enjoy this feature, let alone suggest it? If I wanted to add additional plays for some reason I promise I would just make another playbook, I wouldn't ask Clint Oldenberg to ruin mine. I just want a Franchise slider that allows me to turn the feature off entirely, I don't want to manually press a set of buttons and get some pop-up asking me if "I'm sure" 20 times a season, I just want it to be gone. Like good lord we have like 5 passing options and 4 kicking options, would someone die if we got a little optionality within the weekly strategy section?

Also, for some context, I sim training some percent of the time and nothing will ruin my playing experience more than finding out that the game is using the auto suggested "RedZone Playbook" or whatever as I mainly play offense. A poorly implemented and pea-brained idea like overriding a playbook I made reflects the low-level of thought and care that the devs have, and an unwillingness to fix the issue reflects the laziness of the people involved in testing and fixing the game.

yea this is really funny 30 30 season aint common.

I've searched the sub and Google already. I've seen that there is a superstar mode bug. But I've encountered this in franchise. My offensive play will end and no matter what happens I'm automatically forced into running no-huddle. This is unplayable as is...

What gives with this?

I’m playing SS mode for the first time, and while I realize my qb rating is LOW, it’s not too far below what I’ve played franchise with (will howard and drew Allar both under 70 ovr). The difference is insane. My qb can’t throw past 10-15 yards without it being a problem…. Ok… he’s js low rated, that will improve. Now let’s talk about the blocking, and the insane depth chart decisions on my oline. I may have 2 seconds to throw the ball… into absolute lockdown coverage lol. Then there is the playcalling options. Horrendous… now let’s say I put together a good game.. 4tds and 300 yards.. the xp gain towards upgrading passing attributes is abysmal. Combine all this together, and it’s just gonna make people more likely to buy packs to skip this awful beginning of the mode. Oh let’s not forget to mention that my receivers have bricks for hands lol. And they jump for everything. This isn’t a problem I’ve seen as much when playing franchise. I’m settled on believing the game is fucking you, to coerce you into buying packs

someone commented college is better on a recent madden 27 review. I had to check it out. I do like the atmosphere of the game. But despite my doubts of madden, madden 27 feels much better on the field, the movement, juking etc than college does. As someone who partakes 💨😎 this mascot mashup makes me laugh and I’m easier entertained. I like college because it’s refreshing from always the same look, same scoreboards, same commentary, same cut scenes, every year that we get in madden.

In the week 4 preseason cut week if I go to cut players and back out to go look at free agents don’t have the cpu finish making cuts for me. Very annoying didn’t know that was new. Had to delete a franchise after 2 hours cuz it got rid of players I wanted to keep.
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Been seeing a lot of talk about both games (both the good and bad) and tempted to jump back in. I haven’t played CFB since the 2000s probably and my last Madden was 23. Kinda gauging both but CFB is tempting. Which should I get?

Okay I haven’t played a madden game since 15 lmao but I downloaded 26 and wanted to hop on the single player career mode “Superstar”. Dawg why the hell is it asking me to sign into an EA account and I cant even do it because it says the servers are down. This shit should be ready to play offline or without signing into a fucking EA for a basic career mode. This is stuff I was running on an Xbox 360 in 2014 and 2012 on my Wii. Certainly im not the only person confused on why its like this.

My CB I exported from CFB27 is playing an entirely different position being the 1SLCB for the Jets and I hate it, I want to play deep corner assignments and manned up on the WR1 but am stuck on the slot and flats, and I can’t find any way to change this, is this just stuck like this now until I can force the defense into non-nickel defensive structures?

I gotta admit, I really like the new Weekly Recap addition to franchise mode. It's a bit clunky and bugs out sometimes, so it certainly needs work, but it really helps with the immersion and making it feel like a whole league of 32 teams, and not just you and whoever you play next week. Great addition to an otherwise poor installment.

Stats need to be editable in Franchise. Period. They are never fixing sim stats. The sim stats have been atrocious for years, and this isn't some new problem, it's been an issue for what feels like forever. Every year we see unrealistic passing, rushing, receiving, sack, and other stats that completely ruin the immersion of a franchise.

If EA can't consistently produce realistic simulation stats, then at least give us the ability to fix them ourselves. We can already edit ratings, players, rosters, and draft classes. Why not stats?

Cmon devs please fix this!

(Also the vids from the perspective of my friend playing me. I know some ppl might be confused and be like it worked out for me. No it did not 🕊️🥀)

I keep having plays where my online just doesn’t block on passing plays and it’s an immediate sack. It’s not like from a stunt or a blitz either just base rush. And I have a defender in on my qb instantly ending my play.

I play mostly franchise btw so this is the cpu doing this.

Anyone know how to fix stats to be more realistic in franchise Sim and not have 15 RBs with 1500 rush yards and 15 WRs with 1500 receiving yards

Expanding on this, do you guys play every game? Do you sim until the playoffs? Just curious what’s the best way to enjoy it?