Post your impressions of Madden NFL 10's Online Franchise Web here. This thread is for these web impressions of the game only. The best way to do this might be to post 3-5 things you like and 3-5 things you think can be improved. This thread isn't for asking questions about the game, it's for impressions only. EA folks will be reading this thread, but not responding here Feel free to post as many impressions as you like, but try and keep them as organized as possible to everyone can read them.

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Dewiel's Thoughts:

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WHen I made a fantasy draft, I wanted to see how it would work drafting from the online franchise website. When the draft begins, when you try to loook for the best overall, you have to sort it at best overall and then look at the "age" tab, so that probably needs to get fixed. But the big problem is, I couldnt draft anyone, am I suppose to click the players names or what?

The site constantly disconnects and gives database errors.

On the draft page, all stats that you sort by show up under age instead of the listed space.

Names don't appear correctly on the draft profile tab.

The draft player button needs to not be at the bottom of a list of 50 players. Put one up top too.

The formatting of several graphics on the main page and throughout do not work properly.

All of these errors I had on both IE and Firefox. Doesn't seem ready at all.

It seems like on my online franchise the comp is so easy to play against even though it is on all madden. Not nearly the same level as off-line. Don't know if it is a glich or what. Wondering if anybody else is having the same problem?

Yea, seems to be super easy!

All of the main features to franchise are missing from online franchise.. salary cap,, trade logic.. so forth.. what gives... this is no fun... can't we make it first rate like NCAA Dynasty mode.. lol, this is a joke!!

I'm loving the concept of the online franchise and its the feature I was most excited about but I cant even enjoy it because the site constantly disconnects and gives me errors.

No Team stats? Wow...

Things I like about the Online Franchise Web Experience:

- Great Web Features
- User Friendly
- Awsome Video Feature
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Things I think can be improved:

General notes about Online Franchise Web Experience:

- Easiser way to access the online franchise
- upload photos
- A better front page so you add a headline and have a summery of each game recap.
- Coach Contact Info when you click on their name

Other then that you guys are doing a great job, ian,donny,ryan keep up the good work

-MaxPayne2k

Hi there,

First of all, the only thing I'm said when I try to play online franchise on my PS3 is to go to the site onlinefranchise.easports.com and enter my e-mail and password. I was asked for no code at any time.

Once in the site it seems I can join franchises that still have open spaces and that are public (I haven't signed for any of them yet since I can't find one with my favorite team available)

I decided I wanted to create a franchise and let people to join it. Sadly there is no button that says create franchise.

Can anyone tell me if I need to register my code, which at the moment I can't since I'm not at home, in order to create my own franchise?

Or is it that the beta site is not working right now?

Sincere thanks for any help.

ProphecYslaymob's Thoughts:

Things I like:

-Nice interface, I like the quality of the layout
-Easy accessibility to main league essentials

Things that can be improved:

-Forums customization for admins: Instead of having just one generic forum for every single thread posted throughout the entire season, allow admins to organize seperate sub-forums for specific discussions to make it easier to locate a particular thread.

-Allow us to connect to the servers: Pretty simple, server seems to go up/down by the hour, I understand it's a beta, but the game is released and people are paying full retail for a product and expect to get what's advertised. For many of us, (myself included), online franchise mode was the ONLY reason we bought the game, and to not have accessibility to this portion of the game makes me want to return it because I didnt by it for offline modes.

-Owner contributions: Allow us to post headline articles regarding various ongoings throughout the league, complete with Madden highlight embedding into articles (not all video formats but simply uploaded EASports Madden '10 highlights specific to the league), in addition to game photos.


-Disable Free Agent Access to any owner in league: Some leagues like to play by rules and guidelines, and it should be an admin priveledge to access free agents and assign them to a team, when anyone can do this it makes things a little lobsided and unfair, especially when half the people in the league can't access the site.

Things I like
- Looks good, feels good.
- Depth Chart changes are awesome (ability to drag around is cool)
- Overall functionality is great
- Ability to see Stats, etc. Awesome!

Things that can (should) be improved:
- Overall sorting: When looking at Stats they shouldn't be sorted alphabetically. "Blocking" stats shouldn't be the first thing I see, I mean really, who cares about blocking stats? Should be sorted in the following order: Passing, Rushing, Receiving, Defense, Kickoff Returns, Punt Returns, Blocking (look at any game's stats on NFL.com for guidance on sorting) Also sorting player positions in menus. Left to right your player position by position select menus should read: QB, RB, FB, WR, TE, LT, LG, C, RG, RT and RE, DR, LE, ROLB, MLB, LOLB, CB, FS, SS. i.e. by position groups and it's how it's expected by any football fan.

- Allocating of table sizes when looking at stats. It's hard for the eye to read stats and compare them side by side when you have stat groups that have more playes, then you get this weird situation where you have stat groups below beginning later than others so it's difficult to find and compare stats. If one team has a stat category that has more players, expand both boxes so they're the same size, even if one has a big empty space it'll tell the story that the opposing team had more players involved in that group.

- Expand the ratings in Rosters/Depth Chart. The reason folks look at Rosters/Depth Chart is to make decisions on those players and you can't make franchise decisions just on the 'Overall' rating. I understand that in some cases the player stats are revealed in the bottom of the page however it's imperative that they're all available in a list form so that you can compare/contrast versus other players on the team. For example, if I'm deciding who to start at KR, I personally go for the fastest player. So I'd like to be able to sort by SPD and compare my top 5 players in speed, find out who has the best CAR rating and select that player.

- On the 'Overview' page, when viewing the recent threads please let us be able to click on those threads from that page.

- On the League News feed: it says "Trade Alert" whenever any transaction takes place, regardless of whether or not it's a trade.

Let me know if you'd like more feedback directly by e-mailing me.

Things I like:

-The idea that everything, short of actually playing the game, can be done from a computer. Means I dont have to constantly be sitting in front of the console.
-Server based so that improvement can be made without serious patching.


Things to be improved:

-Lack of salary cap/player contracts.
-Lack of offseason mini camp.
-Amount of time between week advancing too long
-The inability to be fired/hired by a team, but I guess this depends on the number of users.
-Ability to import draft classes.
-CPU trade logic flawed. Too easy to get a lot for nothing.
-Trade acceptance/rejection w/ CPU not immediate.
-Inability of owners to release and sign FAs (from computer)
-The inability to cancel a trade in the game screen, rather than having to go to a computer and cancel.
-Not having the message board accessible on the game screen, but just by computer.
-Lack of commissioner control, i.e.: Number of game replays allowed, ability to reset games, overrule unfair user trades, max time allowed per week, advance time length, actual "franchise start" option to allow users fair entry, etc.


To be honest I'm just happy to have an online franchise available. Considering this is the inaugural year, I can live with the idea that its not perfect...so long as history is made and a trend is continued.

Personally I'm unable to login to the website and haven't been able to. I've been trying for about 12 hours.

I keep getting the, "Server connection down. Please try again in a few moments." message popping up.

Things I like about the Online Franchise Web Experience:

- ability to upload video highlights
- easy to navigate webpage
- nice overall look



Things I think can be improved:

- No tab to view league stats, or league leaders
- problems with the depth chart (defensive positions don't provide proper players to fill in spots)
- problems with individual player stats and scoring summary
- iphone app?


General notes about Online Franchise Web Experience:

The problems with individual player stats is mostly that in my franchise, two out of the three games played so far show the opposite teams logo with the actual teams players. I have no idea what is going on with the scoring summary, but the scores don't match up with the plays described, nor the final score of the game. Is there an iphone app? if so I can't find it in the itunes store.