Controversial or unpopular take but next madden

Ea needs to get rid of abilities and theme teams. Go back to the days of mut 16 or even before that to how things used to be. My few friends who play mut always bring up how their team doesn't get a card they want every few days. As for abilities My first mut was 16 and there was no pa gs gw etc and game was fine to me as long as you knew how to beat mike scrape 3 or swerve catch.

Abilities need to go. I'm fine with theme teams.

ramsfanstl4 said:

Ea needs to get rid of abilities and theme teams. Go back to the days of mut 16 or even before that to how things used to be. My few friends who play mut always bring up how their team doesn't get a card they want every few days. As for abilities My first mut was 16 and there was no pa gs gw etc and game was fine to me as long as you knew how to beat mike scrape 3 or swerve catch.

if they are going to get rid of abilities, make us be able to catch the ball and defenders to play defense before that happens

Don't play mut go do another mode

Theme teams are one of the best things in this game, abilities to a certain extent need to be there to keep O and D balanced but there’s changes that could be made in that field for sure

EA wouldn‘t do that because people would be less incentivized to buy the next and new shiny pack offer if the only difference between programs is +1 speed, zone, etc

I like theme teams and wouldn’t mind a few abilities for balancing purposes. The abilities now are too OP because they’re trying to force people to upgrade.

I imagine it was meant to say Promo Teams. Team specific TTs are literally the definition of mut lol

Can’t put the genie back in the bottle

Hhtmarks said:

I imagine it was meant to say Promo Teams. Team specific TTs are literally the definition of mut lol

I would argue the opposite, theme teams are just essentially the normal team. The point of ultimate team is getting all these superstar players that never played together on the same team.

The entire MUT system needs to be rebuilt. It should be more like MLB The Show where solos and cards are never useless and you get XP just for playing. You can play Diamond Dynasty for hours and get some of the better cards in the game for free without spending. MUT sucks compared to DD

If madden 25 released and was the same gameplay as madden 16 most of the player base would quit within 2 weeks. You can't deny that gameplay has drastically improved over the past 10 years. However, what MUT needs is more depth and the removal of abilities and theme teams would make it a mores hallow and boring game.

Remember when madden 25 launched, everyone complained how TERRIBLE defense was the first 1-2 months of the game. You literally couldn't buy a stop unless you were a switch stick GOD. Even then, players felt too slow to do anything and games were either ending 50-49 or everyone was chewing clock.

Defense got a major buff when ZC launched because the abilities really helped stop the OP offenses, even now offense is much easier than playing defense, but without abilities defense would be unplayable.

I’ve said the thing about theme teams for awhile. Completely agree  

If you want to run a theme team…have at it. You don’t need attribute boosts for having one. If you wanna rep your team, rep your team. Once EA saw the amount of TTs, they overly placate to them and drop cards (or promos worth of cards) just to try and pacify everyone. Solid promos were replaced w/ crap theme team fodder. This has been ongoing since at least Madden 18.

Abilities are fine, but a non ability/xfactor mode would be great. I doubt EA would ever invest that much time or resources for it though.

RavensFlockLetsFly said:

if they are going to get rid of abilities, make us be able to catch the ball and defenders to play defense before that happens

thats why i said it needs to go back to how it was. players did everything they were supposed to do back than without x factors etc.