Auction hub distaste

Surgical0ffense said:

That is a good point.

However, is it me or have the new packs been having better odds?

Like the 99 Aaron Donald pack?

I've never bought a pack in my life, so don't know the odds, but it seems spending on a pack that could contain Donald had really great odds., no?

Maybe thats EAs way to force people to spend to land the new best cards? Increase the odds but make you buy packs to get them?

the 25$ pack offers (x2) has liek a 33% chance to pull an Aaron Donald, i think -- or maybe it's any 98-99+ i don't recall the exact odds, but yes, it's exactly as you stated.  Significantly higher odds, at least when directly compared with Kelce's Center tribute card that dropped and was much more difficult to acquire.  No pack offers existed that i'm aware of, heck not even sure he was added to the game when they said he was.

Surgical0ffense said:

Dont know why you were restricted. But if you play MUT next year  start with 2 accounts. 

A burner and a clean account?

I wish I could simply move on, the game isn't getting any better -- i honestly thought i was signing up for simulation fatball, oof.  I just want to theory craft my team and figure out the chess match of adjusting to my opponent before he's able to do the same.  Instead we've got this buggy ass mess, oof.

Now that i've got the basics in place (spare EA account, etc.) i may have to start with two.  It's kind of a pain, because i'm only able to share the PS5 game on one console, if i want to play Madden on both consoles (Disc & Digital Edition, one in my bedroom), i'd need to purchase a second copy of the game.  I know that there are bots running wild banning folks left and right, but i also thought if EA invested even ~5 minutes into manually reviewing my account situation, they'd see i wasn't doing anything amiss, but fat chance getting them to do anything.

I took screenshots of each and every auction i was posting after the initial ban period, so i had a record in anticipation of this... but the whole "Binding Arbitration" process is basically EA admitting from the start that they're going to bend us all over and screw us royally and there's nothing we can do about it.

it is terrible, but at the very least I can try almost any card for rental price. Just gotta wait 3 days for the mail in rebate lol.

Jhays45 said:

They certainly make some puzzling decisions and there is no to hold them accountable if mistakes are made on their end. It sucks that you found yourself in that situation I would have lost the will to play and waited on College Football 25 if I needed that football game in my life or like you said created a new account. They are the easy scapegoat though, in some cases people make mistakes and blame EA because thats easy and popular to do. I am not saying they are perfect far from it but I still get my dailies done every day at the very least so it’s still fun for me and I’ll give them credit for that.

Beyond keeping up with my Dailies, there's not all that much to look forward to -- i realize we're nearing the end of the season, but i knocked out my 100 Solo Battles, been doing 10-15 MUT Champs wins per week, which has become excruciating to deal with, heck the RPO cheese and Angry Runs is the least of my concerns lately.  All the teams basically look the same, everyone has the same Deep + Mid Zone KOs all the way around their defensive backfield.

It's getting tired and stale.  Did the Free Agency grind late last evening on my spare account and was disappointed to discover i couldn't fully upgrade Kendall Fuller.  I may try to cobble together a true budget squad (liek on literally zero coins, i think that account has maybe ~250k and is basically blank, or whatever cards i could acquire)... maybe competing against the n00bs will be a fun challenge, no abilities or anything.  I can't afford 2500 Training per ability, even on Pat McAfee, although nice to have an actual USER for part of the week.  Or maybe i just need to go start preparing for Elden Ring DLC on June 21st.  Unsure if i have the motivation to sink a ~hundred hours into that preparing a brand new character.