The genuine problem is that traditional modes like Franchise are not necessarily huge money-spinners for EA Sports, with the similarity Ultimate Team riddled with microtransactions. Even the new Street-inspired Yard mode appears to be a means for the publisher to pitch possibly costly cosmetics. Fingers-crossed the firm is paying attention, and has big strategies for Franchise in next years game.
Madden NFL 21 is no place near as bad as its Reddit community would lead you to believe, however football fans are frustrated with the state of the series. The brand-new release drew in ire earlier in the year when it revealed that the updates for Franchise mode expand to X-Factor abilities and a prolonged Wild Card round. Honestly, the list of tweaks look like spot notes instead of a brand-new release.
EA Sports put out a video declaration to calm fans, declaring that its listening to feedback and has strategies to enhance the popular project mode in future entries, and while it wasnt especially well received– well, it did momentarily pacify gamers at least. Naturally, the reaction was constantly going to flare back up at some point, and it looks like the totally free ten-hour EA Play trial has actually shown the straw that broke the linebackers, er, back.
Practically every Tweet published by the Madden NFL Twitter account is filled with #FixMaddenFranchise actions. This is a similar project that happened to FIFA 20 in 2015, and to be fair publisher EA Sports does appear to have actually responded in principle, with FIFA 21s career mode looking like a considerable advance by the yearly soccer sims admittedly low requirements.
