Who was the genius who thought of tracking stats only on wins

Charmingjmor said:

No point in even turning this game on anymore. Just got matched up against the same sweat with 3 89s in his top 3 - all LTDs. Not sure how my 83 OVR team gets matched against that TWICE. This game is so ridiculous - guess what, I turned off my console when I saw the same team for the second time. Great system EA. Neither of us got anything for that other than he progressed the one 7 win objective if he had it - if you can’t play Champs, you can’t progress the Comp Pass, since they decided to make almost all of the CP come from that source. There is absolutely no reason to even attempt to play this trash until they fix rewards, they fix the only getting CP during wins and they fix matchmaking.

I have an 80 OVR team and I win more than half my games against those god squads. Why not stick through?

alsoran said:

A few years ago I found myself delving into the world of loot boxes & micro-transactions and ended up researching video game design. This led me to reading a book by Celia Hodent who was a Director of User Experience [UX] at Epic Games called "The Gamer's Brain: How Neuroscience & UX [User Experience] Can Impact Video Game Design".

The section that always to stood out to me about how developers react after a game goes live, was laid in a paragraph towards the back of the book:

“As soon as the game starts being experienced by players from the outside world without you watching over their shoulders, you need to begin making sense of analytics data, helped by UX insights from tests. Difficulty balancing, progression balancing, monetization, and so on, will then be the main focus, assuming that most critical UX issues discovered by user research during the previous stages are already solved. (Although that’s often not the case.)

Watching the health of your live game can be nerve-wracking. Without solid hypotheses, panic can take over and reactive decisions that could damage the user experience and revenue might be made instead of carefully analyzing where predictions went wrong.

Although being responsive is important, drawing hasty conclusions and rushing to act on them could very much cost you more time in the end (and potentially more money) than carefully considering all the factors at play. Remember that identifying the right problems that need solving is what counts.”

It really is going to come down to what EA's internal analytics are showing around player engagement.

This was an interesting read, but truth be told I don't think it applies to madden. People are going to engage in the game for the next few months no matter what, because its football. And this is their only choice currently.

The truth is no one likes the stats. Not the good players, not the bad players, and not anyone in between. It leads to awful play patterns like letting an inferior player feel like they have a chance so you can run up stats, leaving the inferior player with a bad taste in their mouth because they just felt like they were duped for a half hour while not really learning anything since their opponent was letting them score, and the superior player not feeling like they are playing madden to progress, but rather working the system to get it over with as fast as possible.

If that alone is not cause to panic about your set up, then the analysis of what's going on is severely off.