thoughts on 0AP/ Discounted Abilites

Tommorow we are getting our 2nd 0 AP ability of the year and i wanna see everyone’s thoughts on it? Should discounted abilities be year round, Only after a certain time, or not in the game at all.

It’s bs because they’re going to keep giving them to LTD’s and make the game even more p2w

So far the abilities that are free are the ones the positions should already have by default.  Lbs should have lurk artist built in and dbs should have pick artists built in.   These are standard ways for players to play. 

When they start adding abilities for free that actually matter we will know we're in for a ride.

BeeWinz said:

It’s bs because they’re going to keep giving them to LTD’s and make the game even more p2w

yep, this 100%. I‘m prob in the minority here, but I strongly dislike abilities in general. Makes things so unrealistic.

madden is p2w ability trash pokemon arcade boo boo

Moderator Sevein131 said:

So far the abilities that are free are the ones the positions should already have by default.  Lbs should have lurk artist built in and dbs should have pick artists built in.   These are standard ways for players to play. 

When they start adding abilities for free that actually matter we will know we're in for a ride.

I like this take. Hadn’t thought about it that way. 
 

I’m for it. Makes the game/players more interesting.

Generally, I'm against free abilities. The only abilities I'd be ok with being free are the bad ones that no one really uses anyway. But personally I think if EA is going to have an ap cap everything should have a non zero cost.

I get that some abilities like pick artist are almost necessary for DBs to function correctly. But if that's the case maybe EA should just change the code to essentially give every DB the catching boosts from it by default.

I'm ok with discounted abilities that aren't free as there's still a cost associated with that ability. Though I would still like them to hold off on them until later in the year when the meta has had time to develop.

I know there's plenty of reasons why it will never happen. But part of me thinks discounted abilities would be more interesting if only the lower ovr items of a promo got discounts.

EA figured it out halfway through M23.  Why keep raising the AP cap when they can take the alternative approach and offer discounted and free abilities which will force people to turn over their teams more frequently?

Everyone knows that abilities are far more important than attributes on cards so if you want to be competitive (and I mean against the top players)... you have to eventually move in this direction.  You don't need to pay 2 million coins for cards either... wait 1-2 weeks and pay half.  

Also... the MUT Seasons is more than half over.  Many players quit after the Super Bowl.  So yeah I think we should be getting these now.

How about a novel set of conditional 0 AP abilities, like:

Red Alert: If your opponent called three or more instances of RPO Alert in their last win, the opposing offense's play art is visible for the duration of the game.

Cheesers would have to learn to win a football game playing football, not AI Wars.

I love it. My wallet is open.

Was already said…

Pick Artist and Lurk Artist should already be in the game. Justifiable move by EA.

As for discounting KOs…

they’re needed cause of velocity abilities cause DBs don’t move otherwise. Then velocity abilities become needed cause of KOs. It’s a slippery slope they’re already heading down.

phatalerror said:

How about a novel set of conditional 0 AP abilities, like:

Red Alert: If your opponent called three or more instances of RPO Alert in their last win, the opposing offense's play art is visible for the duration of the game.

Cheesers would have to learn to win a football game playing football, not AI Wars.

I like the idea of 0 ap abilities being very conditional. If fact, I think your idea is very similar to  if not same as something already in the game in the form of unstoppable x-factors.

I think you would have to change last win to this game for it to even have a chance at being a thing. It's very similar to film study. I know you can lie to film study but I still think most people would take it for 0 ap.

I think people are heavily advertised all this bullsh*t that doesn't even really work too much, I get picks every single game and have zero pick artist players on my team, the games are determined by dice rolls and momentum, I play many games daily and nobody w/ ray lewis or marshall faulk have been even remotely succesful against me, it's the guys with the sh*t squad that always get crazy stuff, I was using puka and he would make good plays then fumble or something stupid would happen...... I have been absolutely torching people with 88 slim reaper, none of the stats in this sh*t show make any sense, if you keep working about how much AP stuff cost and abilities you just going to catch and L on your wallet, none of that matters. 

go watch some streamers w/ the god squads and all the latest players and see how they get cheated over & over & over....... it's like some type of dice roll thing they explained a while back, if your player makes 4 good plays the 5th play is going to lose you the game or something to that effect. 

tbh derrick brooks was way more dominant than anything or any play i've seen by ray lewis.

i like it because it makes cards actually worth getting but i also say this because i can get  any card in the game lol for a NMS person i can see the hate against it