Franchise is a mode where focusing on the offseason would be most important. The offseason in franchise has been about the same for years. Recently we got to see a complete rework of the offseason in “March to October”… but during the stream they mentioned it wasn’t in franchise due to the complexity of reworking the Franchise code.
I would love to see so much added to so many different areas to include the draft (international included), offseason, contracts, trades, budgets and even some more fun and complex ways of building a team.
For example, imagine being able to pick your core group of players or a core player you want to build around? There are so many possibilities to work from that and it would be at the core of franchise. It would bring life and more fun outlook to this game mode. I bet if they re-worked it, they could get a lot more people playing franchise and could even make a lot of money with micro transactions even in offline modes.
I am at the point now where I wouldn’t care if they added micro transactions to Franchise if it meant that the mode would get a completely new look.