What is the premium pass?

Natej8888 said:

Do you? I said some people whose jobs and life responsibilities keep them from grinding, are willing to spend money in lieu of dedicating time. You told me not to assume that.

Read very carefully. THIS thread is about the battlepass which you NEED to play to complete so there is no shortcut. This is about $15 for extra rewards. Got it?

peatrick said:

DON'T THINK.  JUST CONSUME CONTENT.  BUY MORE PACKS.  DON'T THINK.

Imagine the mental gymnastics it requires to arrive at a point where critical thinking is regarded as bad?  We all want the game to be better.  We all deserve so much better than this low effort, recycled bullshit.  EA has had every opportunity over an extremely long period of time to take the community feedback and apply it, they either cannot (through lack of effort or sheer inability) or simply do not care to expend the necessary Dev resources (skilled employees cost money), but to blame the community members or find fault with our reaction to the buggy ass mess of a game?  Are we even playing the same game?

Crazy isn't it? People have been programmed to just accept the garbage that EA dishes out.

peatrick said:

No real logic, just the rantings and ravings of a perpetually online lunatic.  Let's assume that a million coins is twenty bucks on most secondary markets?

Using those numbers, 225k would be roughly worth four dollars and fifty cents.  Better (in terms of exchange rate)?

How does the risk of getting banned and your coins wiped factor in?

And 225k is what I netted instantly. Plus the extra reward for every level the rest of the season

My intention was not to defend or even explain the value. But your condescending post about the logic of others that you backed up with your own (at best) questionable logic compelled me to engage.

MaddenIsTerrible said:

Read very carefully. THIS thread is about the battlepass which you NEED to play to complete so there is no shortcut. This is about $15 for extra rewards. Got it?

Rewards that in the end equal coins. Coins that you can get more of by playing the game more. If you don't want or need the extra coins, don't buy the pass? 

Don't call out a specific comment I made if you aren't prepared to back it up.

jimshredder said:

Its so EA can get more of your money, give you good players, then you still get dominated by 83 overalls in H2H

You crack me up 😆

Surgical0ffense said:

You crack me up 😆

A good moisturizer will prevent future cracking if caused by dry skin

jimshredder said:

Its so EA can get more of your money, give you good players, then you still get dominated by 83 overalls in H2H

this is true. i sold my team off and S1 Ray Lewis can still run with Cheetah and Olave across the field.

The simple fact that the product EA delivers is so terrible, the introduction of yet another pay wall should have every customer who owns this game outraged.  It doesn't really matter the cost of it, it's the principle.  They are intentionally bleeding this community dry one small cut at a time, all the while each year putting out the worst madden yet for as cheap as they can possibly do it.

If you don't hold them accountable nothing will ever change.  Every credit card swipe perpetuates EA's greed and reinforces their strategy to put out the lowest overhead, buggy, piece of shit game.  Any business, in any industry, is not going to suddenly invest more in their product if they have an idiot fanbase that continues to open their wallet for shit sandwiches.  And right now there are way too many of those kinds of people supporting EA for them to do anything different.

Natej8888 said:

How does the risk of getting banned and your coins wiped factor in?

And 225k is what I netted instantly. Plus the extra reward for every level the rest of the season

My intention was not to defend or even explain the value. But your condescending post about the logic of others that you backed up with your own (at best) questionable logic compelled me to engage.

I got banned twice last year (FYI, they don't actually wipe yer coins, that's just a bullshit empty threat), NOT for buying or selling cards or coins on the secondary markets, but simply for profiting off auction house when Team Diamonds were in high demand -- i was getting 150-200k per 83 OVR Dak Prescott (and others) during first week of December.  Even playing by the rules, there's no guarantee that EA won't ban your account.

The min/max price ranges are so ridiculously tight this year, i doubt as many people are getting banned, but surely their bots are still running around dropping auto-bans.

EA doesn't need you, nor anyone else to defend them, they're a billion dollar company -- they can afford to pay people to justify them price gouge the user base.  I get it, man, i really do... i've justified such terrible purchases and behaviors in the past.  Whatever it takes to help you sleep at night, I've been there.  I probably had a ~thousand dollar MUT squad last year, which pales in comparison to how much a lot of whales drop on the game.  I'm embarrassed by that behavior and trying to correct things moving forward.

It's your money, do whatever you want, but expect push-back if you come into these forums trying to explain to us how much "value" you are getting from donating more money to EA.  For a $100 annually, all of these things should be included with the purchase price from that Deluxe edition.  MAYBE someone could argue that cosmetics (such as uniforms, etc.) are a worthwhile micro-transaction, but there is no universe where pay to win game mechanics should be part of an online H2H competitive game.

You're obviously entitled to your own opinions, but anyone suggesting that we should be able to pay for in-game advantages is simply wrong (unless you are the NY Yankees in professional baseball, but every other major sports league has implemented salary cap -- why?  Because it promotes fairness and competition).

I signed up for competitive simulation fatball.  This is anything but that, it is not competitive, nor anything closely resembling simulation football.  Good luck, my guy.  At the end of the day, if you are enjoying yourself and feel that you are getting value for your dollar(s), then by all means, go nuts.  You don't owe any of us an explanation.

MaddenIsTerrible said:

Idk. I expect to not have to pay for rewards i get for playing this horrendous game?

I get that completely understandable but from the looks of it their giving you the choice between 4 BND cards that are under 100k and some packs you MIGHT get lucky on is that really worth getting mad about? When you can grind the game and get better rewards from the field pass

Just upgraded to lvl 8 an the the Max training of 500 points in the premium pass gave me 25 training instead @ea this how u do ur players ????

I have been NMS for a few years now, as I do not believe in investing in packs since pack odds are horrible and there is no guranteed return, but I caved and bought the season pass. So far the rewards have been good, and if love grinding mut, I would I really recommend buying it as it is great value.

Z350Z said:

Not sure why anyone is surprised by this move. This has been prevalent in many live services games for many years. The concept itself isn't bad, but the implementation could be better. It doesn't stop NMS from getting the standard rewards as usual, but as expected does reward spenders with extras (which is perfectly fine). The main delta with this premium pass versus say Call of Duty, is that Call of Duty allows for the earning of in-game currency (COD points, which are the equivalent of MUT points) throughout the pass. So in that implementation, it's a one time buy and you can freeroll all future passes (and even stack some extra points each season for other items if wanted). I think if EA made this change and put 1,500 (or maybe 1,700-2,000) MUT points in the path, then this would be significantly more community friendly.

This is something I hope EA does in the near future. With COD and 2K, it’s nice to be able to get the actual game currency through the game instead of with a wallet. I’d love to be able to just play offline franchise and stack points to later use for MUT.

I get the route they’ve been going and are going, but not having currency be available through other modes is lame as fuck.

Natej8888 said:

Rewards that in the end equal coins. Coins that you can get more of by playing the game more. If you don't want or need the extra coins, don't buy the pass? 

Don't call out a specific comment I made if you aren't prepared to back it up.

5k coins is not making a difference, come on man