The State of MUT

Having built up a 60/60 TotY lineup and achieved a 99 OVR lineup, I am effectively off the MUT Lineup Hamster Wheel. With that, I had imagined I would still find engagement with this game, but I am starting to reach a level of frustration that doesn't seem to have a release point.

I just finished the CPU Event after kneeling six times and then having to throw a hundred swing passes. I got a bunch of Karrots. No Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie. Why? Because of the glitch that might have gotten me DRC without the monotony? I don't know.

There isn't a single item in this release that has me excited. There wasn't one with RoH, either, apart from Ed Too Tall Jones SS, which I will probably finish grinding for over the next week. I feel sorry for the guy that stayed up all night playing the CPU grind and finished getting him with ten minutes to spare. Brutal.

I'm told the Eggs are bad this year. Even if the program chemistry boosts didn't expire, they're not near as interesting or beneficial as TotY. The true end-game is still two months away, and it just feels like there's nothing left but mindless grinding to no particular end.

I went to play the "Tug of War" mode, because it is literally my favorite mode in all of MUT. Except it's not. You don't get Tug of War unless you tie your opponent on drives.

EA has a tremendous opportunity to do amazing things with this game, but it ends up feeling like a ball-and-chain.

Had to do the event 2x times to get drc for me earlier when the glitch was active.

I read this and got depressed

I definitely believe in taking week long breaks or so from this game. They want you addicted and constantly experiencing FOMO

GameAce92 said:

I definitely believe in taking week long breaks or so from this game. They want you addicted and constantly experiencing FOMO

On this, and it's way off, topic, I feel like the formula to maintain engagement with limited-time access to certain players or modes is the thing that inherently makes us play it when we could find something to do with our time that we would enjoy more. Throughout my life I was totally fine playing one game almost all the time, and every couple or three years, I would switch to something else. RPG's were one type of game I played, and so the MUT grind was familiar and not terribly objectionable when I stumbled on it three years ago. But the toolbox that EA is reaching into to make this system work for the health of the game, which depends on user engagement, is the thing that punishes you when you spend a week away, at least if you're like me and don't want to miss something cool.

I don't like that when I need to go out of town and there's a solid release, I feel like I'm missing something. I didn't like playing more than ten games of BYOT against the CPU in a twenty-four hour period. But here I am. They could maintain engagement with daily releases and rotating modes, but they've chosen a model that incentivizes playing the game for the wrong reasons. I feel like MUT is playing me.

Ea when you don’t want to grind 5 hours for a virtual card that will be outdated in two weeks

phatalerror said:

On this, and it's way off, topic, I feel like the formula to maintain engagement with limited-time access to certain players or modes is the thing that inherently makes us play it when we could find something to do with our time that we would enjoy more. Throughout my life I was totally fine playing one game almost all the time, and every couple or three years, I would switch to something else. RPG's were one type of game I played, and so the MUT grind was familiar and not terribly objectionable when I stumbled on it three years ago. But the toolbox that EA is reaching into to make this system work for the health of the game, which depends on user engagement, is the thing that punishes you when you spend a week away, at least if you're like me and don't want to miss something cool.

I don't like that when I need to go out of town and there's a solid release, I feel like I'm missing something. I didn't like playing more than ten games of BYOT against the CPU in a twenty-four hour period. But here I am. They could maintain engagement with daily releases and rotating modes, but they've chosen a model that incentivizes playing the game for the wrong reasons. I feel like MUT is playing me.

Yeah I'm the same way, I typically try to just play MUT long enough to get on, accomplish what I need to accomplish and then get off. I play squads occasionally, but my grinding is basically reserved for offline stuff..inbetween what I'm playing at the time. For me, been back into Elden Ring for some reason lol

I took the last 2 years off and it was awesome. Kept playing 23 and was having fun. This year was fun, but now I'm to that feeling like I was back in 23. The players this year are horrible. 80% are just running some you tube nonsense. They act like they are good, and try to convince everyone that there is no glitches in this game.  Cheats and glitches are 100% in this game. I don't care what Swat and Dro say.  Call it what it is fellas.