Free agency bug

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Free agency bug

★★★ Apprentice

Product: Madden NFL 23
Platform:PlayStation 5
Which console generation do you have? Sony PlayStation 5
What is your gamertag/PSN ID?
Date/time issue occurred 2022/08/17
What type of issue do you have? Gameplay
Which mode has this happened in? Franchise Mode
Which part of the mode? Cloud
What is your Franchise League Name? Can’t remember
Summarize your bug After year two high overall and franchise players for all teams do not renew contracts and the y all go to free agency
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Start a franchise and sim a couple of seasons
What happens when the bug occurs? High rated players can’t renew contracts and can be acquired in FA for minimum contracts
What do you expect to see? AI should realistically renew their best players offering contracts
PS4 Crash Reporting: Please copy the text you put in the crash report here.
What is the AMD or Nvidia Model Number of your graphics card?
Enter RAM memory size in GB

Please fix this 

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Franchise Free Agency Bug

★★ Novice

Product: Madden NFL 23
Platform:PlayStation 5
Which console generation do you have? Sony PlayStation 5
What is your gamertag/PSN ID? xRGIVx
Date/time issue occurred 08/17/2022
What type of issue do you have? Gameplay
Which mode has this happened in? Franchise Mode
Which part of the mode? Cloud
What is your Franchise League Name? N/A
Summarize your bug Teams are not re-signing their big name free agents. It is really noticeable after year two with players like Justin Herbert, Trevon Diggs, Nick Bosa, Justin Jefferson and many more becoming free agents. These players would never hit free agency in real life.
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Actually play franchise.
What happens when the bug occurs? It ruins the actual emersion of franchise because it immediately becomes unrealistic.
What do you expect to see? Teams re-signing their star players.
PS4 Crash Reporting: Please copy the text you put in the crash report here.
What is the AMD or Nvidia Model Number of your graphics card?
Enter RAM memory size in GB

Teams are not re-signing their big name free agents. It is really noticeable after year two with players like Justin Herbert, Trevon Diggs, Nick Bosa, Justin Jefferson and many more becoming free agents. These players would never hit free agency in real life.  It ruins the actual emersion of franchise because it immediately becomes unrealistic. 

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Re: Free agency bug

★★ Novice

This is game breaking!

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Re: Free agency bug

★★★ Novice
@descoyuntao Makes the game absolutely unplayable
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Re: Free agency bug

Community Manager

Hi everyone, 


We appreciate the reports on this. 


Could you please reply with the platform you're playing on along with your PSN ID, Xbox Gamertag, or EA ID so we can pass this along? 

Thanks! 

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Re: Free agency bug

★★★ Newbie

Please fix this. Do you think it's safe to start a Franchise if I only play a few games at a time?  Or will it be like that one year where I had to completely start my franchise over to get over a game breaking bug?

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Re: Free agency bug

★★ Novice
@EA_Kent LynchVonTrier on Xbox
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Re: Free agency bug

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@EA_Kent PSN ID is mikiross and I’ve currently set up a league to reproduce the issue (cloud franchise mikiross_5), after year 2 there are 16 players in FA with overall over 88, players like Nick Bosa, JJ and Derrick Henry
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Re: Free agency bug

★★★★★ Newbie
@descoyuntao EA doing what they do best. Franchise mode is unplayable until they fix this.
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Re: Free agency bug

★★★ Apprentice
@DustinHough12 Clearly there’s too much talent in FA after year 2 and it’s not realistic. Probably the CPU is not handling well resigning players with the new motivations system
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