EA has responded to Madden NFL 21 Franchise Mode concerns.The new video surfaced on the games accounts many fans took to social media with the hashtag, #FixMaddenFranchise. Hey Franchise Fans. We are making changes, including dedicating a higher percentage of team bandwidth, to deliver a greater investment in core Franchise features through Madden NFL 21 post launch support, Madden NFL 22 launch, and beyond. There may be a bit of a disconnect on this one. We look at every new feature reveal and live service update in the following way:We look forward to the start of the Madden NFL 21 season on August 28! In Madden NFL 21, we’ll expand our dedicated live service team to allow for more focused delivery of Franchise improvements based on your feedback, while continuing to evolve the broader game for our wide cross-section of Madden fans.Our current plan is to deliver the Madden 21 updates in two or three title updates over the course of the coming months. Madden 21 Franchise mode brings high school, college, and NFL storylines. This is great news, as long as EA doesn’t get detoured. That said, we’ve been actively discussing some of the areas we’d like to focus on, stemming from your feedback and player engagement. Last week, EA had a special Twitch stream online with a discussion of gameplay and a brief tease of an upcoming Madden 21 beta.On Tuesday (June 30), EA presented a number of tweets regarding the upcoming Madden 21 Franchise mode. Here is our list of the top 5 rebuilds in franchise mode for Madden 21. Here are few of the areas, while not fully committed yet, we are exploring creatively:Plus other key additions that we’ll reveal as we get deeper into the year for Madden NFL 22 development season.So that is where we are at. It was great to see so many people share the same passion for something that wasn’t negative.It looks good on EA to encourage its fanbase to continue to share their opinions. The target time frame for our next communication update is just before the NFL Season kickoff in early September, where we hope to share more specifically the roadmap for projected improvements for future title updates.The last thing to cover is how you, as the community can stay involved.During the Madden NFL 21 Closed Beta the team utilized a feedback platform called Madden Voice. Not only is it important that we collect your feedback, it’s important in how we communicate to you about new features and updates coming to our game. There are four key things we’d like to update you on regarding Franchise mode in Madden NFL:As we said in our video update in July, to better deliver on community feedback, we are reshaping our Franchise team to increase our focus specifically on the direction described ahead. We will share with the community as the list evolves.Commissioner tools is a large bucket of items with a lot of opportunities and a lot of work. Madden NFL 21. In EA Sports’ Madden 20, college football fans got a taste of the NCAA in the ‘Face of the Franchise’ mode. This is an online forum where community members are able to share feedback and upvote priority topics that our teams are able to review, investigate and identify the best way to address them. EA Sports announced new “changes” to the beloved Franchise Mode last week and fans are beyond disappointed. It’s been about four weeks since we last spoke and we wanted to share some of the progress and the path forward for Franchise improvements. We have to first acknowledge that this work requires a lot of planning. We are at the very beginning of the planning and pre-production of next year’s product. To be honest, I’m impressed EA dedicated an entire section to Madden 22 before Madden 21 has even gone live. YouI cover sports video games like NBA 2K, Madden, MLB The Show, FIFA, NHL, EA UFC, Fight Night, Super Mega Baseball, DIRT, F1, NASCAR, Forza, and everything in between. The notes let the community in on EA’s process for rolling out a new feature to its community:Again, all of this sounds wonderful, but the first proof of what has been done to Fix Madden Franchise will come shortly after the game is released when details of the first title update are shared. We are passionate Franchise fans, just like you and we’re placing some of our most-passionate Franchise voices to lead the creative path forward.We operate Madden NFL as a true live service. Our current plan is to deliver the Madden 21 updates in two or three title updates over the course of the coming months.”This is reasonable, and franchise fans should be eager to see what these improvements include, but moreover, what to expect from Madden 22 and beyond.There is no timeline given for the updates to franchise in this year’s game, but here’s the preliminary idea shared in the notes:Player progression as well as the escalating, deescalating and acquisition of X-Factors are important.