EA Sports has lost the progress of a large number of Franchise mode save files in Madden NFL 23. While it’s possible to play the game entirely offline, it’s recommended you take advantage of the publisher’s servers in order to speed up certain activities, like simulating games. You can, of course, also invite your friends and family to participate in your league if you choose to play online.
But on 26th December, 2022, in the aftermath of Christmas, the publisher responded to connection complaints from users regarding the latest game’s Franchise mode. It subsequently revealed on 28th December, 2022 that the problems had been resolved, and fans could play “without issue”. Except, as it turns out, many couldn’t continue playing, as their progress had been corrupted.
Ultimately, the publisher has laid the blame at the feet of a “data storage issue”, and it’s estimating that it can only recover around 40 per cent of the files affected. Now, to be clear, if you didn’t try to play your Franchise between 2:45PM EST on Wednesday, 28th December and 12:45PM EST on Thursday, 29th December, then you should be fine. If you did, however, you may be out of luck.
Franchise mode is obviously a massively important part of the Madden NFL 23 experience, and because of all the unique permutations that can occur in a single playthrough, it’s effectively impossible to recreate the same experience twice. Players pour hundreds of hours into the mode, so obviously this will prove a bitter pill to swallow.
Mistakes do happen, and at the very least EA Sports is being fairly open and honest about what occurred in this instance. But with fans investing so much personal time and energy into Franchise mode, it’s clearly a disaster what occurred here.
[source twitter.com, via twitter.com, answers.ea.com, arstechnica.com]
Comments 7
That's why we need a local backup option.
Madden games are shockingly poor and the series would have either been a lot better - or dead and buried - had EA not strong-armed 2K and their superior series out of the market by convincing the NFL to sign an exclusivity deal.
1 word, that has been spoken ad nauseam since household PCs became a thing 40 years ago - BACKUP (EA servers not the home user). Though I'm sure the more techie among you know things like RAID redundancy and what not.
How they can store data without a backup is beyond me. It's no excuse. worse than a schoolboy error that.
Your save.
"It's not in the Game"
no wonder ive been having connection issues even on the older games as i dont have 23. but luckly didnt affect me, almost got the plat on madden 22 and 21 on ps5, that would give me 7 madden plats
To EA though Franchise isn’t an important part of the game, it has been stagnated for years while focusing on MUT. Same with most sports games now, it’s all about the player cards and micro transactions, most kids today are all about the cards. I don’t blame EA, it’s where the money is, but I long for the day of Franchise improvements, it’s all I play.
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