But users who attempted to log in to play online franchise games during a 22-hour period ranging from Wednesday afternoon to Thursday morning saw their franchise save data corrupted by the aforementioned "data storage issue," as EA confirmed over the weekend.And while EA says some of those corrupted save files can be recovered from a backup, it adds that the development team is "currently projecting around 40% of leagues to be recovered."But the company offered a similar message on Wednesday afternoon, just before the period that led players who logged in to lose their save files in the first place.Madden NFL 23 players were already facing several prominent Franchise Mode bugs before this high-profile save corruption snafu.Another, which caused offline franchise mode saves to be corrupted after several seasons, contributed to fan site Operation Sports outright saying in a November article that "Madden 23 Franchise Mode is Actually Broken.""