In madden 08 franchise mode and in the 4th season.I am trying to go into the off season and it is stuck in "loading". I have tried to save and start over but it still freezes at that piont in the game

how long you had the game

I think your lens may be very dirty. And alos please tell if the problem is only with this gamne or all the other games as well?
moreover, if your lens is dirty, you'll have to clean it using a lens cleaner, OR get it replaced lens).
I got my PlayStation's lens replaced when it was giving me trouble and all was fine after that.
Best of luck.

try a new memory card or erase some that u dont use on the old one!

EA are working on a patch for both XBOX LIVE AND PSN. It is a known issue. propossed rollout for the patch is mid march im afraid

This sounds like you might have a dirty lens. clean your ps3's lens with any CD/DVD cleaner kit and then try to play the game again.

maybe the game is a x box live game not a x box 360 game

When I first started the game I think remember downloading a update. But I think it was a roster update. How do you download the up date?

This is a three man franchise league. When we got to week 17 of the first season and played our games, that was the last time the franchise would save. After reaching the playoffs playing my game the franchise would not save at all. It would freeze up. Then if you try to simulate the playoffs. It would freeze up. After playing with it we were able to get to the end, but when advancing to the off-season it would freeze up. Finally, figured out when we got to pro bowl to save it and it worked no freeze-ups. We were able to advance to the off season after that, did all off-season stuff and got to the preseason. Now when trying to simulate preseason it will freeze up. What the heck.

This sounds like you guys have discovered a bug, or glitch ... whilst i know this is very annoying if you love your console and games as much as i do, you want a fast easy fix ... and you want it yesterday.

Due to the nature of your complaint, and the fact that one other person has discovered a similar problem with the same game, i would firstly contact the software developer ( the guys who made it ) and ask them for a fix or as we say "patch" to help iron out this problem.

Get online at easports and register and perhaps take a look at the forums.

http://www.easports.com/maddennfl/home.jsp



Games will always have glitches and bugs, ea have been around for ages so their support team should be "on the ball" with problems like this =)

go to the XBOX desktop and cleared all my Madden 08 history out and then everything started working great again. That really sucked though because 5 franchise years and probaly over 75 hours of time GONE. Thanks for the reply and the xbox site was on the right trac

yeah, that happens on mine sometimes. IT happens on both the ps2 regular and my madden 07 for psp. I thin it's probably just trying to do too much at once, and slows down because the processor isn't powerful enough.