MUT Needs to Devolve

Personally, I think MUT needs to devolve a little bit. I know this is by far the easiest way for EA to make money so they won't change it, but all these physical chemistries that give you 3, 4, 5 ,6+ speed are kind of ridiculous and ruin the creativity of team  building. Everyone has to play a ton or spend money (by design) to keep their teams up to speed every month, or just be willing to be at a disadvantage when it comes to speed and acceleration. It leads to less skilled play, less creative team building, and feeds EA's greed in an unhealthy way.

I think physical chemistries should go out the window, no more speed, accel, agility, cod, strength ratings adjustments. Just more accurately built players, and a game that is balanced enough to value multiple different styles of play.

Love this. Just wish EA knew what the word ‘balanced’ means.

kalebcsimp said:

Love this. Just wish EA knew what the word ‘balanced’ means.

They know what balanced means when it comes to the Auction House.  But they want us to be balanced.  Not a demons on the Auction House like me.  I got banned.

I am old school Salary Cap guy so I always enjoyed the aspect of players having longer usage rate on my teams.

But we are at a point where many MUT players "need" the new content. When EA doesn't drop enough you hear the "EA is Lazy" comments, when EA drops new items but the content doesn't improve the cards in ability or stats  from previous programs you here the "Card is Trash" comment, and when EA makes new items better than the previous promo, you hear the "EA is GREEDY' comments.

You also have a large segment of MUT players who spends most of their time in Market stuff vs actually playing h2h. Pitchforks will start coming out if EA doesn't supply them with new content for them to be the middle man in making profits.

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With all the 32 chem players teams have few weak spots. Be more interesting if they did. NFL teams  dont have great players at every position. You would have play to your strengths and opponents  weaknesses.

Crab5 said:

Personally, I think MUT needs to devolve a little bit. I know this is by far the easiest way for EA to make money so they won't change it, but all these physical chemistries that give you 3, 4, 5 ,6+ speed are kind of ridiculous and ruin the creativity of team  building. Everyone has to play a ton or spend money (by design) to keep their teams up to speed every month, or just be willing to be at a disadvantage when it comes to speed and acceleration. It leads to less skilled play, less creative team building, and feeds EA's greed in an unhealthy way.

I think physical chemistries should go out the window, no more speed, accel, agility, cod, strength ratings adjustments. Just more accurately built players, and a game that is balanced enough to value multiple different styles of play.

100%. There is no creativity in the game anymore. Every skill player is 93 speed right now exc.  I remember way back in the day there were multiple versions of players released sometimes on the same month. For example, an older Cam Newton might be faster and more rare(expensive) than the new Cam Newton, which would be slightly slower but have better throwing stats. Trade block, trading presents/ selling present exc. The mode has been dead for a while now. It’s never going back, it’s all designed to generate money now. Pack prices are ridiculous and the toppers or bonuses are shit now.

Literally just get rid of the crystal players and we're better off

TecmoEagles said:

I am old school Salary Cap guy so I always enjoyed the aspect of players having longer usage rate on my teams.

But we are at a point where many MUT players "need" the new content. When EA doesn't drop enough you hear the "EA is Lazy" comments, when EA drops new items but the content doesn't improve the cards in ability or stats  from previous programs you here the "Card is Trash" comment, and when EA makes new items better than the previous promo, you hear the "EA is GREEDY' comments.

You also have a large segment of MUT players who spends most of their time in Market stuff vs actually playing h2h. Pitchforks will start coming out if EA doesn't supply them with new content for them to be the middle man in making profits.

Exactly I shouldn’t need to instantly worry about my players being ass 2 weeks later bc people want content to advance so quickly I should only rly replace them when im bored of them or there’s a new free card

keatoic said:

Literally just get rid of the crystal players and we're better off

I was definitely not on board with this mechanic in August. Stupid money grab out of the gate.

I do love me some chemistries. Trying to bend a crew of guys into a team with an overall 3 points higher than the average of the individual components is one of my joys in life. I wish there were more of them.

I don't like that the program chemistries are nerfed over time. There's quite enough inflation in the game already.

phatalerror said:

I was definitely not on board with this mechanic in August. Stupid money grab out of the gate.

I do love me some chemistries. Trying to bend a crew of guys into a team with an overall 3 points higher than the average of the individual components is one of my joys in life. I wish there were more of them.

I don't like that the program chemistries are nerfed over time. There's quite enough inflation in the game already.

I'm down for the temporary boosts because it makes new content fresh. I'd just like the whole +1 strat item to go away. Give us the +1 stuff for 20-30 program guys but let's stop having this +5 speed boost. If we had my changes we'd be at +3 and it wouldn't be so insane.

I’ve been saying this for years. Madden was at its peak when it was much more simple. 

Way to far gone at this point. Every year they add a new gimmick.

I wonder if this could be solved by having an "authentic mode" of online play in which sliders are set to neutral and all chemistry, strategy and ability boosts are disabled in that mode.

This way, those who want to play with all the boosts can and those who don't have an option to play straight up.  By having the mode disable the boosts there would be no need for alternative lineups - you could still use your team and the players you've acquired

I'm no developer but I have to imagine this is possible.