New updates are being added at the bottom of this story…….
Original story (published on August 24, 2021) follows:
Madden 22 was released just days ago on 20 August 2021 and players are unfortunately already running into issues, one of them being a Franchise Mode desync glitch that affects their final score.
This occurs on Franchise saves that were set up as offline and doesn’t seem to affect online saves stored in the cloud. The glitch causes players to lose games they’ve already played.
The desync occurs quite frequently too and causes a player to get booted along with their friends. Players have reportedly already tried basic workarounds like restarting the game, system, and the internet, to no avail.
Thankfully, EA Help has acknowledged the Madden NFL 22 franchise mode desync issue saying that they are aware of the error and that their game team is working on it at the moment.
In the meantime, you are free to try out a user-suggested workaround that has helped many.
Madden NFL 22 custom playbook issue
As if the franchise mode desync issue isn’t enough of a bother already, several Madden 22 players are also facing trouble creating custom playbooks in the front end outside of Franchise and during a match itself.
This glitch has been acknowledged as well. EA Support on Twitter says that the game team is aware of the problem and is working on a fix as a ‘matter of urgency.’
An ETA wasn’t given out but a workaround has been provided. Just try changing to default playbooks and/or All-Pro difficulty and see if that works for you.
Update 1 (August 26)
01:38 pm (IST): EA has confirmed that it’ll fix the desync issues in Franchise mode in the first Title Update that’s “coming soon”. Apart from that, they’ve shared workarounds via an official blog post:
Update 2 (August 27)
11:26 am (IST): MaddenNFLDirect now says that today’s server maintenance will come with some change to address the desync issue in head-to-head Franchise games.
Update 3 (August 30)
11:48 am (IST): Another day and another set of unfortunate news from EA as now, it is coming to light that while the issue is still under investigation, it is yet to be resolved, at least according to a community manager.
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