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Issue came aft EA said players "should present beryllium capable to play... without issue."

Kyle Orland - Jan 3, 2023 9:34 p.m. UTC

Enlarge / Not precisely a large bequest for the archetypal post-John-Madden Madden game.

EA says that a impermanent "data retention issue" led to the corruption of galore Madden NFL 23 players' Connected Franchise Mode (CFM) prevention files past week. What's worse, the institution present estimates it tin retrieve less than fractional of those corrupted files from a backup.

The contented started past Monday, December 26, erstwhile EA tweeted that it was "aware of players experiencing transportation issues erstwhile trying to link to CFM." That occupation lasted until Wednesday, December 28, erstwhile EA announced that consequent server attraction meant that "users should present beryllium capable to play CFM without issue."

But users who attempted to log successful to play online franchise games during a 22-hour play ranging from Wednesday day to Thursday greeting saw their franchise prevention information corrupted by the aforementioned "data retention issue," arsenic EA confirmed implicit the weekend. And portion EA says immoderate of those corrupted prevention files tin beryllium recovered from a backup, it adds that the improvement squad is "currently projecting astir 40% of leagues to beryllium recovered."

Players that didn't log successful during the outage play past week should beryllium unaffected, EA says, adding that CFM is present "up and running" and is "safe to log successful and play." But the institution offered a akin connection connected Wednesday afternoon, conscionable earlier the play that led players who logged successful to suffer their prevention files successful the archetypal place.

Since its instauration successful 2013's Madden NFL 25, Connected Franchise Mode has fto users power a azygous player, coach, oregon proprietor crossed online leagues with friends oregon strangers who are doing the same, and adjacent alteration who they power mid-season. The mode has been a fashionable enactment for the decennary since, with 1 Deadspin writer going truthful acold arsenic to say: "If I can’t play connected franchise mode, I’m not playing their unspeakable game."

Madden NFL 23 players were already facing respective salient Franchise Mode bugs earlier this high-profile prevention corruption snafu. One, which threw online players backmost to the NFL draught aft a fewer seasons, could beryllium fixed successful immoderate circumstances. Another, which caused offline franchise mode saves to beryllium corrupted aft respective seasons, contributed to instrumentality tract Operation Sports outright saying in a November article that "Madden 23 Franchise Mode is Actually Broken."

To those who person had their online Madden franchises wiped retired by this issue, instrumentality solace that it could person been worse. In 2004, a PlayStation 2 Holiday Demo Disc for Viewtiful Joe 2 ended up erasing every prevention game connected immoderate representation paper inserted successful the system.