This announcement comes in response to a report from Sports Gamers Online that EA has decided to stop any further games with franchise-based modes in Madden 22. It partly cited IGN’s own interview with Madden 22 executive producer Seann Graddy Madden nfl 22 coins. She said this year’s content roadmap is “slightly less ambitious than those of the of the past” because the team is focussing on a couple of key areas rather than attempting to introduce features on the level of Superstar KO, a well-received arcade mode released in Madden 20.

“I think that the plan is] perhaps a bit smaller than the previous ones because we’re really focusing on a few key elements of Madden 22 and also getting started up on Madden 23 in a big manner,” Graddy said at the time. “So I’m going to stick with what we’ve always said in the past two years that we’re a live service, and we’ll continue to make improvements to the game, but there’s no way we’ll talk about a whole new mode.”

The announcement attracted attention due to the fact that franchise mode is a topic of contention with some Madden players. In actuality, the promised roadmap initially came as a result of the #fixmaddenfranchise hashtag that circulated Twitter during the second half of 2020. This started after reports suggested that EA wasn’t planning improvements to franchise mode in that year.

Since that time, EA has released new commissioner tools as well as other enhancements with a major overhaul of its scouting tools. Madden 22 also introduced an expansion of the scenario engine, as well as in-season cutscenes, and coaching trees. However, players continue to highlight various areas where franchise mode could be improved in comparison to the competition cheap mut coins, from the relative lack of customization to the myriad of bugs.