Do NMS players value their time?

DJONES13 said:

For example, there are solos you can play which reward you an 82ovr sellable card or an 84 ovr BND.  These solos probably take about 30 minutes.  

82 ovr players go for about 6-10k.  84 ovr players go for about 20-30k.

You can usually make an average of about 1 million coins for a $100 bundle.

 30 minutes of your time for a 10-30k return is about $1-3 per hour at that rate.

Yeah, you've got this all wrong. We might be grinding for Upgrade Tokens that the big-spenders are going for as well. We're not grinding for the petty rewards you just described, other than on release day when we're trying to get our prop planes off the tarmac.

You've extrapolated a scenario from an insignificant portion of the overall playing time NMS users expect to spend.

You have every right to spend your cash the way you wish. Just do so in a way where you're not painting NMS users as stupid. We might have obligations that prevent us from spending money like we won't need it for what lies ahead. If you want to spend hundreds of dollars a year on MUT because your economic fall-back plan is living in your parents' basement, go for it. Some of us don't have the luxury of mothers and fathers that don't expect us to excel at life.

phatalerror said:

Yeah, you've got this all wrong. We might be grinding for Upgrade Tokens that the big-spenders are going for as well. We're not grinding for the petty rewards you just described, other than on release day when we're trying to get our prop planes off the tarmac.

You've extrapolated a scenario from an insignificant portion of the overall playing time NMS users expect to spend.

You have every right to spend your cash the way you wish. Just do so in a way where you're not painting NMS users as stupid. We might have obligations that prevent us from spending money like we won't need it for what lies ahead. If you want to spend hundreds of dollars a year on MUT because your economic fall-back plan is living in your parents' basement, go for it. Some of us don't have the luxury of mothers and fathers that don't expect us to excel at life.

I think it's pretty clear how this is going that OP is not worth engaging here. This is pretty... different stuff going on at this point.

DJONES13 said:

Even though I'm not allowed to play in MCS tournaments anymore, I still love Madden and enjoy playing most of the time.

Although it is somewhat difficult to play casually after competing at a high level, I feel like spending a few hundred dollars a year on a hobby you enjoy is more than reasonable.

However, I will admit I have considered not supporting EA in any way after the way they have treated me, but I honestly don't think it would have much impact.  They probably wouldnt miss the amount of money they get from me as they profit billions of dollars per year.

It’s your money do whatever you want but if I was in your shoe. I would not give EA any more than just buying the game. I use to spend money back in 18 and 19. I chose not to spend other than buying the game because you can make coins easily by working the auction house. however I have been playing less and less. my peak was Madden 20 and 21. I don’t bash people for spending money however what EA did to you was wrong. Just imagine the Prize reward that you could have won. You are a good player you can hang with the best.

the message being lost is that you can make more money, you can’t get hours of your life back. 

saying this because i wasted 5 minutes of time i had slotted to play today downgrading and upgrading a captain and a season ticket player

DJONES13 said:

Tell us more about getting over on EA, I like the sound of this 😈

Lol ehh, just fun and games.. the moment i turned the fukn thing on,  EA "got over" on me, for the 28th+ consecutive year.. 💀💀  (missed one actuallly)

I play games for fun not to make a ”return”,  what a weird way to look at it, do you value your time posting on mut.gg?

guys guess what

NMS is the way to go this year the dda/equalizer is so over clocked that an 85 over all team plays just as well as a 90ovr squad in a h2h matchup.

i mean, I’m not broke, i have a good job which pays well, i just rather spend it on something that won’t expire in 6 months time ya know. 

ill spend money on games which don’t rerelease annually as i know ill have what ever cosmetic i buy for ever

also the grind makes it more fun in my opinion, i love watching my coin count increase by pure sweat and determination lmao

i think the nms player uses this game to offset some other worse use of their time like gambling or drinking

You kinda answered your own question.  It’s a hobby.   You spend time, I spend time because we enjoy the game.  I don’t spend more time because I don’t spend extra money.   In fact,  if I was spending money I would feel some sense of obligation to spend even more time.

this could go in circles for hours but in the end as long as it each person is enjoying the product they paid for who is anyone else to judge.

RyyoLurkedEm said:

i mean, I’m not broke, i have a good job which pays well, i just rather spend it on something that won’t expire in 6 months time ya know. 

ill spend money on games which don’t rerelease annually as i know ill have what ever cosmetic i buy for ever

I'm with you on this. Not broke by any means but it's not about the money for me. I did spend on MUT in M18/19 a bit. I just enjoy the structure of this without spending additionally, in part because when I did spend I got such garbage. Why would I keep putting money in there if the odds are against me? It's that simple. But also, there's a lot of fun in being the head coach/GM who turns a garbage team around and brings it to glory.

I’ll play challenges if the reward at the end of the tunnel is something I want. I’m getting sick of the multi-goal challenges.  You know the type…1. throw a touch while standing one leg without taking a sack while cooking a hot pocket. 2. Get a perfect hit stick tackle while high on crack and letting your cat lick the peanut butter off your balls.  This game……WTF