AP Shake Up

Offense and Defense now will have ONLY 6 AP!

From GMM

Double 0 AP so far
If you didnt play during GC you can only get 1 token via set. 
ROH and maybe GT are the only ones people will be able to get reliably.

I don't know whether I'm excited or not. If the game worked the way it should, abilities wouldn't be necessary. But now we might be reverting to an early-year meta, with more agg catches.

This is cool. I might be the only person on the planet that will have all 6ap on offense be allotted to the offensive line lol.

They needed to increase it and they slashed it by half in May. Awesome game

QB283 said:

I don't know whether I'm excited or not. If the game worked the way it should, abilities wouldn't be necessary. But now we might be reverting to an early-year meta, with more agg catches.

yep  back to hi-point agg catches will be the new meta.  

my initial reaction was i guess i won't be playing game anymore.

Well I can you right now, my initial reaction was wtf. After a few min to think about it, my reaction now is WTF

Hmmmm. Crap. I’m using 4 AP alone on Joshy for offense this is gonna be a struggle for me

This is the wrong solution, to a not huge problem. I personally didn't see any issue with the current cost, but now 6 AP just specifically benefits already strong God squads. Newer players or NMS players are now screwed because the best discounted abilities are really expensive. What they should have done instead is less discounted abilities and more AP like Madden 22. This is ridiculous.

They are probably going to release multiple zero ap bucket players soon so they decreased the ap limit to put a premium on the new players, devalue the old ones and increase their $$$$$ near the end of the program. It sucks but think that may be their reasoning.

I think they backed themselves into a corner with the AP discounts and this was their only way around it. 

I agree with Nab were gonna see a lot more double 0 buckets now and theyre going to be dumb expensive.

This is not for anything other than getting more money. I’ll probably stop playing out of principle of it. I already have a 99 team and pretty much bored anyways.

Here come a ton of 2-3 0 AP bucket-having cards so they can sell packs. @nab33333 is correct imo.

No one is buying points rn with the best cards out of packs. They have to figure out a way to level the playing field for all the new players who haven't dropped a dime on this game (which is a pRoBlEm for EA). Rather than increasing engagement, they are trying to squeeze their player base's collective wallet.

Tradeblock gatekeeping + this = EA's solution to their own incompetence (AKA fire sales AKA flash sales)

jakezze01 said:

Here come a ton of 2-3 0 AP bucket-having cards so they can sell packs. @nab33333 is correct imo.

No one is buying points rn with the best cards out of packs. They have to figure out a way to level the playing field for all the new players who haven't dropped a dime on this game (which is a pRoBlEm for EA). Rather than increasing engagement, they are trying to squeeze their player base's collective wallet.

Tradeblock gatekeeping + this = EA's solution to their own incompetence (AKA fire sales AKA flash sales)

Exactly, I was already leaning towards skipping the next Maddens over how this year  went, and this confirmed my decision. I think this will backfire. They just keep pushing players away to get more money.