Who has all this money?!

Martyr1968 said:

Everyone is different.  I'm in my 50's with a job and a family and I choose to spend some of my money  on sports game.content like Madden and MLB. But when I was younger and had no money I would have been NMS or.LMS myself. 

There are more "old guys" like me.playing.Madden than you may think.  We are just at a different place in our lives that's all

It only takes a couple minutes in the menus in between games to scan and repost.  It's not as much work if you know the filters and are smart.

Jonnymagnum said:

well said. There is an uncomfortable truth to this game, that ea is exploiting addicts. And hiring psychologists to help develop methods to cultivate more addicts. For instance, the removal of the 500 coin pack, and replacing it with the one time 1 coin pack. The first hit is free, then the next one comes at a steep coin price or real dollars. Then you hop online, only to meet a fellow gamer who is $500-1k deep in micro transactions. And the gap between you players is so wide you Cannot compete. Now you are faced with the commitment to the addiction they want you to have. Do I spend to catch up? Or resort to YouTube scum to frustrate my opponent? either way you help further the addiction agenda by Ea. It’s a vicious cycle of addiction they have turned this game into. It wasn’t always this way. But it will never change because NFL doesn’t care if we have “fun“ playing the game. They see the bottom line and it’s fat.

Also well said. I wish we could change it but I think it's too far to change it. They would have to walk back quite a bit to put this game & the franchise in general back in some kind of balance.

OrenJuiceJones said:

1M for LT?

900k for Chase Young?

1.7M for JJ?

1.2M for Vernon Davis?

100-300+ transactions/day..

Who has this kind of money this early in the season?! Is there a part of the game where you get to rob a bank that I’ve just missed?

I mean seriously… I do the daily challenges every day and every week. And I’m rolling here with about 200k in coins. 

What am I missing?!

The big difference for me in my second full year of MUT was getting stuff out of my binder while it was worth something. With what I earned on sales, I could finally buy an LTD in August (Lane Johnson, a huge improvement over my Gold RT). In MUT 24, my first LTD was an Aqib Talib Legend from a Competitive Pass pack earned in October, and I didn't buy an LTD until after Patrick Willis Legend had been on the market for some time and was more of a rental.

You needed to be selling cards you earned on Day One. Now most of the 70's-73's aren't worth much (there are exceptions). Remember that anything not currently in your lineup and not projected to be in your lineup in two weeks should be sold for no less than market average, and usually you can ask a premium if there aren't multiple copies on the auction house.

Once you have enough coins, you can start churning sets or flipping cards as you prefer. You do need enough to do something, and that starts with selling pack trash to guys paying to fill out theme teams.

Not me, I’m broke af. ☠️

Made most of money with the pre-order packs and when the market was crazy high.

I’m NMS and just blew all my gold on an onchcinco card (bengals fan!) now I’m saving up for the next big bengals player. 😀

Dante88 said:

Scheme over team. I'm the underdog majority of the time but win more than I lose.

i pay for both of us, but also im better than you according to your mom

nitmatrix said:

i pay for both of us, but also im better than you according to your mom

Your dad begs the differ

Dante88 said:

Your dad begs the differ

begs the differ?????   california winning at edumication

Copen said:

Whales. When you run out 80%+ of the NMS or little money spent (which they have intentionally & with malice) they created a playground for the rich supported by the rich catering to the rich. As far as EA is concerned. Pay up or get out. You don't have a "spend level" worth their time. I take no joy in writing that but that's exactly where we're at. The community unfortunately didn't fight back when they should have. They accepted shit like 70,000 to 90,000 coins for a pack of cards with three cards in it. NAT's turned into BND's. Platinum packs went from 3 80+ coin cards to now include 78-79 coin cards and they're stacked with kickers,punters and FB's to limit our chances of hitting the max payout bcs there's less high level K,P,FB cards relative to other positions in the game. Now they're selling BND bundles in the store for real money. They'd love nothing more than to kill the AH all together. They hate managing it and they hate the fact that they have to give us coins for money. We do unfortunately have a subset of the community that are gambling addicts. That's just a fact. Nobody really wants to talk about it but it is a fact. EA could literally shit on their doorstep and screw their wife and they would still buy packs of cards knowing there's a higher chance EA put a bun in the wife's oven than them hitting a high card worth anything. The whales & the addicts ruin it for everyone else who wants a fair healthy fantasy football game mode. And they don't care. That's my 2¢.

This may be the most accurate statement in the history of Madden.  Top 5 at least?

phatalerror said:

The big difference for me in my second full year of MUT was getting stuff out of my binder while it was worth something. With what I earned on sales, I could finally buy an LTD in August (Lane Johnson, a huge improvement over my Gold RT). In MUT 24, my first LTD was an Aqib Talib Legend from a Competitive Pass pack earned in October, and I didn't buy an LTD until after Patrick Willis Legend had been on the market for some time and was more of a rental.

You needed to be selling cards you earned on Day One. Now most of the 70's-73's aren't worth much (there are exceptions). Remember that anything not currently in your lineup and not projected to be in your lineup in two weeks should be sold for no less than market average, and usually you can ask a premium if there aren't multiple copies on the auction house.

Once you have enough coins, you can start churning sets or flipping cards as you prefer. You do need enough to do something, and that starts with selling pack trash to guys paying to fill out theme teams.

This is excellent information.  It took me a lot longer to understand than it did you.

nitmatrix said:

begs the differ?????   california winning at edumication

Exactly.

Jonnymagnum said:

well said. There is an uncomfortable truth to this game, that ea is exploiting addicts. And hiring psychologists to help develop methods to cultivate more addicts. For instance, the removal of the 500 coin pack, and replacing it with the one time 1 coin pack. The first hit is free, then the next one comes at a steep coin price or real dollars. Then you hop online, only to meet a fellow gamer who is $500-1k deep in micro transactions. And the gap between you players is so wide you Cannot compete. Now you are faced with the commitment to the addiction they want you to have. Do I spend to catch up? Or resort to YouTube scum to frustrate my opponent? either way you help further the addiction agenda by Ea. It’s a vicious cycle of addiction they have turned this game into. It wasn’t always this way. But it will never change because NFL doesn’t care if we have “fun“ playing the game. They see the bottom line and it’s fat.

Somehow this thread has accumulated a lot of people that know what is going on.  

Is this a sign the game is so terrible this year everyone is having more fun in this forum than in game?  I hope so.

Wooooo said:

Damn. I got the same pre-order bundle (Madden 25 & CFB 25) and spent the 4600 on platinum packs, but I am NMS otherwise. I got my team to 83 OVR, but I only have 400,000 in coins from doing all the dailies and challenges and a good amount of Solo Battles & Solo Seasons.

Do you spend a lot of time building sets and flipping the players in the auction house?

I haven't gotten to flip much at all this year. I take the coins or sellable cards every chance I get, plus I spent my 4600 on the level platinum packs.

If I had time to flip, I'd probably be around 3M already.