I thought last year was bad....

Copen said:

Wish we had hard numbers on the LTD pull rates per promo. Without that it's hard to glean too much out of what data we do have. Unknown is how many people keep their pulls to use or sell later. No way to know really. EA is okay screwing the many for the very few because it's profitable.

Agreed. EA has teams of both data engineers and data analysts to generate and interpret those numbers. More transparency here would go a long way to rebuilding trust in a community that seems to feel increasingly exploited by EA.

Interesting reads on the subject:
 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772503022000214

What’s the Matter With Madden? - The New York Times

When Sports Games Feel Like Casinos, Players Rarely Win - The New York Times

I personally wouldn’t put EA manipulating Sneed’s card on an individual basis anywhere near the top of my list as to why his market availability is currently lower. I would lean towards factors like CB being, in most players eyes, a more valuable position than LT, the MCS tournament, etc.

To completely derail my seemingly intelligent rant

Everybody needs a Sneed

A fine thing that all people need

Everybody needs a Sneed

We all agree

We need the Sneed

Limited availability products are not always by design. They can be result of scarcity as well. Some have made an argument that this has been the case with the reintroduction of College Football this year but I would call it a shortage and it is certainly by design.

We may have a supply shock coming.

Let it grow!!

Let it grow!!

No Dr. Suess fans?

A smart man doesn’t get hung up on canning air. He starts a tree nursery.

Copen said:

They're gatekeeping content for profit at the expense of their players and the community has allowed it and accepted it unfortunately. It's a real kick in the nuts to people who want to enjoy this mode but can't due to greed. Even when reduxes finally come out those cards are much less relevant and still overpriced when they do. Take Vernon Davis AKA The Duke for example. He's the only real tight end for the Washington TT in the game to date. He's been overpriced beyond exorbitant for months and even the redux cards are being sold at a ridiculous markup. If people can't enjoy the mode why play it? That's where we're at. Every year people are being priced out of the mode and EA seems to believe they can sustain it with just Whales & streamers. When that's all that's left the mode will tank and nobody will use it.

I see what you're saying and ya, the cards are kinda of gatekept, but even for the smarter casual fan. I play maybe 2-3 times a week and constantly have 2-3 million cards. If not being able to use one or two cards in the game for a couple months ruins it for you than I just kind of feel bad for you. There's a lot wrong with the game but quantity of other content isn't a huge issue

I won't pay ever pay more them a million for anything. Especially this early.

CUT with EA play $13.50 you get 4 packs one guaranteed 87 plus yes they are BND but you can quicksell enough of the cards you can't use to roll and make some coins. Every year Madden breaks the gameplay implementing something new by the time it's patched your looking at OCT.

Dirk26 said:

I actually found coin making easier this year.  In years past, I would look for snipes to resell or buy a bunch of one card when they were released and hold until later dates (like Rising or Schefter's Stars).  This year I've found that completing sets is the way to go.  Snipe a bunch of 82 OVR legends for 14k or less, make a Larry Little 85 OVR, sell for 108k, rinse and repeat.  Last Saturday I bought Dickerson for waaayyy too many coins, so I just made sets a large part of the day and my coins were back to pre-Dickerson amounts.

How are you doing thst we can only post like 6 catds a day on the market lol

wilsonandrew777 said:

How are you doing thst we can only post like 6 catds a day on the market lol

I've heard people talk about what you are referencing, but I never experienced it.  I was able to post cards with no limit from the 1st time I posted.  Some have said it's tied to your season level and the higher your level, the more cards you can post at once as well as an unlimted daily limit.

Dirk26 said:

I've heard people talk about what you are referencing, but I never experienced it.  I was able to post cards with no limit from the 1st time I posted.  Some have said it's tied to your season level and the higher your level, the more cards you can post at once as well as an unlimted daily limit.

I am a very high level so that ain’t it lol

wilsonandrew777 said:

I am a very high level so that ain’t it lol

Wow!  This is news to me.  I only heard about the AH limits early in the year, but thought that had died.  MUT has always had a 20 post limit at any given time, but as soon as one card sells you were able to post another one to stay at the 20 cards posted.  I probably sell 20-30 cards/day in total when I'm working the AH, but usually have between 1-5 cards posted at any given time.

Dirk26 said:

Wow!  This is news to me.  I only heard about the AH limits early in the year, but thought that had died.  MUT has always had a 20 post limit at any given time, but as soon as one card sells you were able to post another one to stay at the 20 cards posted.  I probably sell 20-30 cards/day in total when I'm working the AH, but usually have between 1-5 cards posted at any given time.

That’s insane I literally am only allowed to sell like5-6 a day lol

Supply and demand. People always complain about the folks who spend, but they are essential for the NMS folks. Last Madden the Market ways split, it affected all consoles all gens. Your not getting the big money spenders obviously opening packs on the old consoles so in general all supplies dropped. But this also made an impact on current consoles, since the contributions of the old gen grinders did not add to the current gen market, so stuff like LTDs prices stayed higher than previous years.

This year you now add in the College Football factor. A lot of the money spenders dished out a lot of cash over there early. It was noticeable at the start of M25, when the AH wasn't as full as the past. Didn't need to filter much in the AH. We have folks trying to play both games, we have folks who declared they are staying with College Football and done with Madden thus effecting the market.

I personally never had problem with the money spenders, without them I wouldn't have my team. IMO, they only have the advantage in the first month or two of each Madden.