Online play is not as fun nor exciting as it used to be

Reading all of this only confirms that our educational system is broken.

The00 said:

Reading all of this only confirms that our educational system is broken.

Reading your comment reminds me there is ignorance everywhere at anytime 🤪 good job proud of yourself 👏 now GFYS 😎

I'm old. I played before Mut was even in the game. I miss GameDay a college game. Back then everyone used Dal or whatever team was the best. It sucked  playing the same teams but it was evenly matched. It was still much more fun playing online. People actually played real football. They called different plays. It was exciting and difficult not knowing what type of play was coming next. No YT to ruin it by telling everyone some spam cheese game breaking plays. No meta. Those were the days. 

Now it's just awful. I played M17 and made top ten online in h2h. I overcame the spam cheese and try hards. I quit madden after that as it was boring being forced to run only a few plays to beat the meta blitzes non stop. I tried it again on m20 on controlled the AH buying up all the Calvin's and other GTs. Setting the market. I pulled my first GT ever in a pack. I had nothing left to do in mut. I was done. Game sucked online. Nothing but same play cowards everywhere. 

I now tried m24 only because I got it on sale for $12. I got most of the top cards like Ltd Lott GT Jones etc with NMS. It's easy to flip cards now. No trades is bogus. Online there are really three types but only two you usually get. Someone who just sucks and soon quits who is probably a kid, or a spam cheese maggot who runs the same play all game like Mike blitz 0 or rpo stretch cheese. 1 out of 100 maybe actually plays real football. I was going to get college football but what's the point? To play one play schmucks? Naw Elden Ring DLC instead or even 1980s tetris would be more fun then this bs

Seekster said:

Let's be honest in football your main goal is to build the best team and then dominate as long as you could afford the players or grow again. Online play is not like that and it used to be and until it comes back to reality I give up. Look my goal in any sports game is to build the best team and beat the league and build till I can. Online every player is a 99 even if the depth chart shows them not ?? Marvin Harrison Jr should only be beat by a few corners not every GD one of them ? I checked depth charts and see players 96 97 and teams with no super stars but 2 or 3 be just as good as my team of 99's across the board ? So until online play goes to who can build the best to be the best not be online and have the best ? Naw no need to spend another dime on this game as the cards are just skins in my mind like Fortnite all are the same why worry about 1.8 mill for a TE ? Heck a 45k will do the job lol anyways online is a joke and hopefully they change MUT to levels or it is becoming a joke as well.

I think part of the confusion stems from the simple fact that the magic OVR rating is purely cosmetic.  It's to offer some general guidance, but in no way is indicative of how well the card / player will perform on the field.  EVERYTHING, i mean, almost literally every aspect of MUT revolves around abilities.  Especially now that we're in the end-game.

All 99s are not created equal.  Not even close.  The Team Captain TE, Jordan Reed is NOT equivalent to Travis Kelce.  Not even in the same universe, despite both being 99 OVR and both at 99 SPD.  Perhaps not the best example comparison, but not sure how to get this point across.  It's an extremely common misconception, that the OVR ratings on cards actually mean something.

Rather than looking at cards, players or even position groups, I would encourage everyone to match up abilities to areas of the field and go about building your squad in that manner.  If you prefer to run Man coverage on defense, that will require one set of players, if you are more a Zone guy, that's something else entirely.  Right now, with all the Vanguard / RPO cheese, you'll want to get as many Reinforcement players on the field as possible.  Just my two cents.

Marvin Harrison Jr. while an extremely good card, lacks the specific abilities (Double Me, RAC `Em Up or Max Possession) which are basically a requirement to counter all the Bottleneck Man Press.  He's better than most at beating defenders off the release, but Ceedee Lamb (or even free Puka) will be vastly superior when encountering all that Bottleneck nonsense.

SpamCheeseRuinedMut said:

I'm old. I played before Mut was even in the game. I miss GameDay a college game. Back then everyone used Dal or whatever team was the best. It sucked  playing the same teams but it was evenly matched. It was still much more fun playing online. People actually played real football. They called different plays. It was exciting and difficult not knowing what type of play was coming next. No YT to ruin it by telling everyone some spam cheese game breaking plays. No meta. Those were the days. 

Now it's just awful. I played M17 and made top ten online in h2h. I overcame the spam cheese and try hards. I quit madden after that as it was boring being forced to run only a few plays to beat the meta blitzes non stop. I tried it again on m20 on controlled the AH buying up all the Calvin's and other GTs. Setting the market. I pulled my first GT ever in a pack. I had nothing left to do in mut. I was done. Game sucked online. Nothing but same play cowards everywhere. 

I now tried m24 only because I got it on sale for $12. I got most of the top cards like Ltd Lott GT Jones etc with NMS. It's easy to flip cards now. No trades is bogus. Online there are really three types but only two you usually get. Someone who just sucks and soon quits who is probably a kid, or a spam cheese maggot who runs the same play all game like Mike blitz 0 or rpo stretch cheese. 1 out of 100 maybe actually plays real football. I was going to get college football but what's the point? To play one play schmucks? Naw Elden Ring DLC instead or even 1980s tetris would be more fun then this bs

Wow sounds like we are on the same wave length as I came from 15 to 24 for the 12 buck special built a limited team in 2 weeks and now either tired of Lynch runs as cheese blitz never dies  and no one to get except Caleb Jones and Burrows lmtd just nothing else to do no reason to want to turn on Madden and that after 20 plus years of Die Hard playing speaks volumes 😒

Seekster said:

Wow sounds like we are on the same wave length as I came from 15 to 24 for the 12 buck special built a limited team in 2 weeks and now either tired of Lynch runs as cheese blitz never dies  and no one to get except Caleb Jones and Burrows lmtd just nothing else to do no reason to want to turn on Madden and that after 20 plus years of Die Hard playing speaks volumes 😒

GTs aren't even special anymore. Now they sell packs with a GT in it but not for coin, only cash. GTs used to be able to pull from any pack that could be bought with coins. Now too many GTs. Most GTs are awful choices and way too many. Even the best ones aren't even that good. GTs used to be scary. Now they are like any other 99 besides maybe 2-3. The game is dead. It's my last ever. Please 2k save football

Seekster said:

Wow sounds like we are on the same wave length as I came from 15 to 24 for the 12 buck special built a limited team in 2 weeks and now either tired of Lynch runs as cheese blitz never dies  and no one to get except Caleb Jones and Burrows lmtd just nothing else to do no reason to want to turn on Madden and that after 20 plus years of Die Hard playing speaks volumes 😒

I had fun doing solos, farming and making my squad, but after all of that I played h2h and the spam cheese maggots ruined it. I also made a nice team in only a few weeks NMS. My friend who played all year and bought many packs has a worse team than me. It's hilarious. I tell him how my Ltd Lott is a beast and he tries to say the free nat Clark is better. Sure buddy. He doesn't even get cards of his favorite team, instead he get his most hated team's rival team cards because they are better. He doesn't get cards for stats or his favorite players, but for the fake abilities they have. All the fake abilities will never make any card better than my favorite players card because those are my favorite players. These guys are sellouts nowadays