Team Building in MUT

The way EA has monetized team building has ruined the experience for me and circumvented the point in the process.

They have done this with timing/placement of free items, the slow release of theme team players, team chems, every other player getting all team chems, an underwhelming chem and strategy card system. The results are promo drops with 4 cards instead of 12 and everybody fielding the same team.

I want a more intricate team building experience that allows me greater customization. I want to build a team that is uniquely mine. Then I want to see, feel, experience those customizations on the field. So to speak.

Anyone else feel this way?

Odog123 said:

The way EA has monetized team building has ruined the experience for me and circumvented the point in the process.

 

They have done this with timing/placement of free items, the slow release of theme team players, team chems, every other player getting all team chems, an underwhelming chem and strategy card system. The results are promo drops with 4 cards instead of 12 and everybody fielding the same team.

 

I want a more intricate team building experience that allows me greater customization. I want to build a team that is uniquely mine. Then I want to see, feel, experience those customizations on the field. So to speak.

 

Anyone else feel this way?

Yes, I feel that way also.

The rewards are terrible. They completely removed the Comp Pass which decreases the player and pack rewards substantially. It is no longer worth grinding solo seasons or solo battles because the rewards are terrible and do not help improve your team. The season field pass rewards are also too heavily controlled and they will not let you upgrade these players to their maximum until better players are in the game, so that makes these field pass players useless. There are so many people holding onto ticket currency because of this. They ruined theme teams by releasing so few decent useable players and holding the best ones for LTD ransom. They added seasons, so player OVR increases are in baby steps. Their formula seems to include inflating a player's rating but actually having these player stats/attributes contain immense weaknesses somewhere so that their shelf life is short lived and you need to upgrade very shortly after obtaining the player. They are not releasing enough competitively usable players for each team. I am finding that there are almost no new Steelers for me to earn or build through sets and I am not interested in the other players they are offering. So I guess I will just play less and complain more...Thanks EA!

I'm an admitted "card collector/team builder" MUT player (and it shows with my <50% win rate in any competitive games!), so I'm totally with both posters here.  There are ~1500 players in the NFL at any one time, not counting Legends and the like.  The fact that there are only ~100 cards in the game at any one time that are playable (and \<30 that are difference makers) at any one time is a reflection of EA's laziness and stupidity.

To ODog's point - if they doubled the number of cards in each promo, wouldn't EA actually SELL more packs/bundles?

I learned last year that being a 49ers fan doesn't mesh well with MUT: Most of the 49ers' cards cost a premium, either as LTD's outright, or as highly-sought Champions. However, I will say that with the adjusted theme team parameters where only twenty chems are needed for players to get a SPD boost favors me, in that I have a lot more versatility in my player choice. I'm not pushed to buy LTD's to get golds out of the lineup.

But I can understand why a MUT user would like to be able to play with scores of players from their team's current year and from their team's glory days.

One thing that would make MUT profoundly more enjoyable in this regard would be college chems for each player, as well as chems for players that played together for a long time. Not once-off chems like we would get with AKA Crews items or some Campus Heroes items, but chems persistently appearing with each iteration of each player item.