I thought last year was bad....

LTD prices for CBs are 2M+. Who is buying these? No card should be worth more than 1.5M IMO.

LTDs have been up there this year for sure. Pack odds seem way worse.

I think they've intentionally shorted Sneed this go around. The LTD prices are enough to drive people away. I don't see how it's sustainable.

they opened up pandora’s box. EA realized people will pay top dollars for the best card regardless of what part of the game cycle were in.

Copen said:

I think they've intentionally shorted Sneed this go around. The LTD prices are enough to drive people away. I don't see how it's sustainable.

Not affordable for me, but I am seeing videos of people that play head to head and it sounds like they are getting boatloads of coins for each win.

I would be curious to find out the average coin stash of regular Madden players.

joemainey said:

LTD prices for CBs are 2M+. Who is buying these? No card should be worth more than 1.5M IMO.

market people with 20M coins and all money spent players that constantly have 6-10 million coins. They aren't for the average player or the weekend warriors.

TheNickSix said:

market people with 20M coins and all money spent players that constantly have 6-10 million coins. They aren't for the average player or the weekend warriors.

They're gatekeeping content for profit at the expense of their players and the community has allowed it and accepted it unfortunately. It's a real kick in the nuts to people who want to enjoy this mode but can't due to greed. Even when reduxes finally come out those cards are much less relevant and still overpriced when they do. Take Vernon Davis AKA The Duke for example. He's the only real tight end for the Washington TT in the game to date. He's been overpriced beyond exorbitant for months and even the redux cards are being sold at a ridiculous markup. If people can't enjoy the mode why play it? That's where we're at. Every year people are being priced out of the mode and EA seems to believe they can sustain it with just Whales & streamers. When that's all that's left the mode will tank and nobody will use it.

Copen said:

They're gatekeeping content for profit at the expense of their players and the community has allowed it and accepted it unfortunately. It's a real kick in the nuts to people who want to enjoy this mode but can't due to greed. Even when reduxes finally come out those cards are much less relevant and still overpriced when they do. Take Vernon Davis AKA The Duke for example. He's the only real tight end for the Washington TT in the game to date. He's been overpriced beyond exorbitant for months and even the redux cards are being sold at a ridiculous markup. If people can't enjoy the mode why play it? That's where we're at. Every year people are being priced out of the mode and EA seems to believe they can sustain it with just Whales & streamers. When that's all that's left the mode will tank and nobody will use it.

100% agree. I feel like they have been generous with giving us good cards for free this year. But the premium cards come at a premium cost. And making coins this year is tough.

joemainey said:

100% agree. I feel like they have been generous with giving us good cards for free this year. But the premium cards come at a premium cost. And making coins this year is tough.

I actually found coin making easier this year.  In years past, I would look for snipes to resell or buy a bunch of one card when they were released and hold until later dates (like Rising or Schefter's Stars).  This year I've found that completing sets is the way to go.  Snipe a bunch of 82 OVR legends for 14k or less, make a Larry Little 85 OVR, sell for 108k, rinse and repeat.  Last Saturday I bought Dickerson for waaayyy too many coins, so I just made sets a large part of the day and my coins were back to pre-Dickerson amounts.

CBs are pretty scarce and expensive for sure and it's been a tough position to deal with so far this year with how important it is. What I personally did was upgrade Dejean as far as I could asap, got Surtain cheap and he plays lights out and often come out in 3-3-5 Penny, 3-4 Odd, or alternatively you could use BNOG. Formations that use other positions more or come with built in alternatives to nickel CB etc. Simpson, Dodson, free Derwin James, blah blah. I'm NMS so it came down to where the deals landed.

joemainey said:

LTD prices for CBs are 2M+. Who is buying these? No card should be worth more than 1.5M IMO.

Correct, but you are assuming that EA is creating a game geared towards the most amount of people -- sadly, that is just not the case.  The top 1% of people spend the majority of the money on this game and EA has decades of data on how to best cater to these customers, to whom money is no object.  They want what they want (or are straight up degenerate gambling addicts who simply cannot help themselves) and don't really seem to care if EA is exploiting them for thousands of dollars per year.

I once suffered from a similar affliction.  Heck, EA nearly got me late last evening, i was close to having a weak moment -- wanted to check out the new 95 OVR Kyle Hamilton, but EA locked the ridiculous amount of upgrades behind some steep paywalls.  My smooth monkey brain wanted that card to zoom around the field as my new USER, but unless/until they release content or cards that are capable of giving actual blow jobs, well... probably not worth the $100+ it'd cost to attain.

You'd almost have to hand it to EA, if these microtransactions weren't so nefarious.  Pay to win game mechanics have zero business being part of a truly competitive H2H game.

Mut.gg says PS5 market 290ish Matthews sold and 250ish Sneed sold. So roughly 86%

Odog123 said:

Mut.gg says PS5 market 290ish Matthews sold and 250ish Sneed sold. So roughly 86%

Wish we had hard numbers on the LTD pull rates per promo. Without that it's hard to glean too much out of what data we do have. Unknown is how many people keep their pulls to use or sell later. No way to know really. EA is okay screwing the many for the very few because it's profitable.

It’s because of the various pack-to-coin glitches. The economy is broken, so the prices are way up, and people who missed the glitches find these prices unaffordable.