20 Card Max
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So considering sds finally responded and given the message they seem receptive. What I’m hoping for is an increase to 100. This won’t greatly affect the market and makes investing/fantasy aspect of the game fun. Going from no cap ever to 20 was way too extreme with no notice. Increase it to 100 and let’s be done with this
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@RealMessiah_XBL you could up to a few hours ago. It was a glitch in the app.
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This is the worst change ever!! Making it so that you just need to spend money on stubs or else you’ll never complete any collection. Favoring YouTubers is just a bad decision, one that has ruined madden ultimate team.
I don't invest and I don't spend money. Yet I've always managed to have live series collection done before the all-star break
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@Rhyno1986_XBL not everyone is the same, some people don’t have the time to grind or have the ability to win at high ranks to earn good rewards. Investing give those players another way to enjoy the game and earn the good cards.
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Seriously though, outside of blocking people from buying 100s of players, why is this a good idea... You cant say marketplace health, the people who invest are the ones who put all the stubs into the market later in the game. You cant say bots, people can still do what they want to with just multiple cards... How does this help the game... and why not say anything about it?
Putting stubs into a market is usually not good, you want stubs to come OUT of the market to theoretically keep prices down.
However, this year we are getting more packs which will drive inflation. Also if they handle the deluxe packs like last year and start giving them out like candy that will cause inflation too.
But investors probably do cause some inflation in the first couple updates, which does hurt people who dont utilize the market (those who quick sell/sell now everything).
This move is realistically more because its free, unlimited stubs for little effort. And people are making money off telling people who to invest (although its out there for free too....). Companies tend not to like that sort of thing. At the end of the day I don't care how people earn their stubs, but I do feel that online play > offline grinding > activities outside of game should be the order of stubs per time spent.
One of the most visible investors has said he estimates 300k stubs per update under the 20 cap, which is still a lot for not playing (although you need an initial bankroll). So its not like investing is remotely dead, and flipping is still alive and well. This move isnt cutting off investing and flipping, its just keeping it in check a little.
Its tough for me to have sympathy for the investing community. They can still make a lot of stubs investing, just not what they had in the past. However, a few of them have taken to misinformation to manipulate people, and thats never acceptable.
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@Good-Talk-Bud_XBL they responded?
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usually within 4 weeks, i'm 2 days behind right now because of the "unexpected server error issues". Last year it was about 3 weeks. I pulled Judge, Witt and Skenes big boys so far. I'm at 290k stubs. I think i'll be ok.
Same here, I am way behind myself because I've ibeen insanely busy at work but I still have almost 100k stubs from playing conquest maps, mini seasons and selling all sellable diamonds except live series and and all LS dupes. I am playing with diamonds earned from conquest, mini seasons and LS. Lazy flipping has become a monumental waste of time. I've made more stubs playing with a plan and intentionality when I play. But the keyword is play.
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The card limit has ruined the game for me. I loved investing heavily and making stubs then to gamble them on packs and lose 95% of the time. Wasn't upset the pack odds were so bad and more frequently under the ratios posted, because I could make it back, or spend a few bucks to get back to where I was. It also kept me involved with watching real baseball so I could track who was doing well and who wasn't, but with a 20 card limit who cares. I have historically spent a decent sum on EA games and quit Madden 2 years ago because they made any sort of lucky profiting on rolls obsolete and now I'm on my last year of MLB because of the 20 card limit that takes the joy of investing away. I'll let my wallet do the talking and as of now it is closed for EA business.
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@xero4019_XBL yes on a different thread. Seems like they are at least watching and monitoring these threads. They said there’s been some concerns brought to with the 20 care limit. They either bating the people with hope so they don’t quit or they actually are considering making a change on it
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However, this year we are getting more packs which will drive inflation. Also if they handle the deluxe packs like last year and start giving them out like candy that will cause inflation too.
It's interesting because in aggregate an increase in card rewards should slow inflation or even deflate prices relative to previous editions. However, the higher end cards that are scarce will see price inflation as people flood the market with more common cards (commons, bronze, silvers, etc) and allocate those stubs to the higher tier cards.
