Unpopular opinion, money team

jholiday77 said:

What is the deal with bragging that you are NMS, and hating on people who spend money on the game? Why do people get bothered about what others do?

I bought the game to play h2h ranked, thats it. Not to complete sets, not to spend hours and hours playing the auction house. I dont have time for all that. I want to log in and PLAY MADDEN. I dropped about $500 on the game so far and I love it. My teams isn't even great, but at least I am competitive in ranked h2h.

I synched my binder today, and realized that despite spending a significant amount of time grinding and putting together a solid team, it would take another ten million coins to have a team on par with users like you. So for the reason that you spend $600 on the game while I spent $100, I have to be much better than you at football to have a chance to win.

Never mind the fact that users who spend money on their lineup for the sake of their MCS fantasies are willing to resort to cheap tactics because, well, they’re that invested in the game. So therefore you are exactly the user I’m trying not to engage with. You most likely won’t challenge me with football acumen, but you can sure give me a headache with your overpowering lineup and dedication to winning at all costs.

Not to paint with too broad a brush: Maybe you’re a cool guy with more disposable income. There are plenty of wealthy people on this earth, and I don’t hate them for being wealthy. It sure sucks being late to work when traffic is jammed due to an accident. Then you have dudes zooming past you in toll-paid Lexus Lanes. You’ve paid for the right to win without having to be better than your opponent, and it’s not fair or sportsmanlike, regardless of what your reason is.

I understand that there are NMS guys that will have 20 million coins in a month or so. But guys like you shortcut that, and you get to enjoy a gaming experience that is favorable when compared with what NMS players are enduring. It used to be the case that everyone played the same game. It used to be the case that when your opponent played chess, he had the same number and types of pieces you have. MUT is different. And while there are guys that will spend $100 for one player that will help them incrementally, you’ve just told everyone that you bought a Super Bowl roster. No hate here. Just shaking my head at you for your failure to understand why people hate you: You advocate against sportsmanship. There’s no getting around that.

jholiday77 said:

What is the deal with bragging that you are NMS, and hating on people who spend money on the game? Why do people get bothered about what others do?

I bought the game to play h2h ranked, thats it. Not to complete sets, not to spend hours and hours playing the auction house. I dont have time for all that. I want to log in and PLAY MADDEN. I dropped about $500 on the game so far and I love it. My teams isn't even great, but at least I am competitive in ranked h2h.

$500? 🥀💔

not a thread defending EA's scam... yall are sad.

I have an 88OVR hurts, an 89 OVR Surtain, and 87 OVR Barkley with NMS as my team name just to laugh at people immediately swearing into their mic the second it loads in

bathbwoy27 said:

you can spend all you want but i´ll still giggle when i beat your ass with well choosen cards who play maybe 1-10% worse than your cards which are 4x to 100x the price of my players

you do not need absolute top cards to compete in this game, you should rather spend the money on a good ebook or learn to use your brain

The fact you even mentioned buying an Ebook says enough about you 😂

I've always been NMS. I consider it a badge of honor with EA trying so hard to make MUT Pay2Play. It adds a difficulty slider to compete with NMS. I have also embraced challenges/hardest difficulty when playing games. I have no problem with players spending money. It's yours do with it what you want. Just know with EA they will take it as far as yall are willingly to pay. I wouldn't be surprised if in the future EA locks Timeouts behind a paywall lol.

jholiday77 said:

What is the deal with bragging that you are NMS, and hating on people who spend money on the game? Why do people get bothered about what others do?

I bought the game to play h2h ranked, thats it. Not to complete sets, not to spend hours and hours playing the auction house. I dont have time for all that. I want to log in and PLAY MADDEN. I dropped about $500 on the game so far and I love it. My teams isn't even great, but at least I am competitive in ranked h2h.

From what I've seen after so many years playing this game is the "NMS" crowd is often players who fall on the worse end of the spectrum as far as gameplay skill goes, but they use the fact that they are nms to typically either talk down upon other players or use the fact that they are nms to shield themselves from blame after a loss.

coop540 said:

I would say it is less of the fact that you are willing to spend $500 on the game to find enjoyment (no shade. I went in with the return of ncaa 25) it is more that people who do that, should not be playing against nms players. Now, I know nms people that stomp people even if they spend thousands on the game, but for the average person that doesn't/can't spend the money. It just ruins the experience for them. EA could fix this and seperate the 2 groups but they don't because they know that the whales would probably stop paying like they do. I game share with someone, so I have spent some cash, but i will not be spending over $50 this year because the deals will start going away and become less of deals and more mass trash pulls. They did it in college and will likely do it here. I like that they did make grinding more of an option this year for solos. I usually play squads and dont want to be forced to play h2h or solo gauntlet to get coins at a decent rate. The cpu event challange gives you about 30k after 9 games and a player that can be an 82 sometimes. I've made over a mil doing that, but I know people would rather pay a quick 20-30 to avoid that and just play against real people.

do you not feel like coinmaking is a skill? why can a dude like ijoebruin have the most valuable account every year whilst not dropping a dollar on the game?

I hear everyone's arguments/comments. Listen....I've been playin madden since it was created. Back in the day, my skills were all that. That was before any abilities, MUT, etc. I was constantly playing with a mediocre Redskins team and servin everyone I played. Now, that i'm older, my hand-eye coordination aint what it used to be. So with all that being said, yeah, I'm gonna pay for certain players for my team. I have a job and a family to support, so I don't always have the time to "Grind" the way some of you describe. But If I can afford to do it, it's gonna get done. But fellas, stop hatin just because you win or lose to people with better players. Like all of you say......It everyone's individual journey. I've played and coached this game. So I enjoy being able to see how much madden has evolved in creating each position and to see how each position is played on the game. They still got some work to do, but at the end of the day.......We are just playing the game to entertain ourselves. The best part is that you go on to play another game.

LunatiK said:

do you not feel like coinmaking is a skill? why can a dude like ijoebruin have the most valuable account every year whilst not dropping a dollar on the game?

Not going to lie. Idk who that is. Getting coin is def a skill. I wish I were that good at the game or even being able to play the market effectively to make the coin some people do.

coop540 said:

Not going to lie. Idk who that is. Getting coin is def a skill. I wish I were that good at the game or even being able to play the market effectively to make the coin some people do.

hes a dude on youtube that makes videos about the mut and cut markets. defo recommend. if its a skill thing though we wouldn't need to seperate the two player groups lol

I think they should allow you to opt in to play against both money people and nms or sperate them. That way if you are just really good then you can have that bragging right. Either way. I have fun with it. I usually play squads and want to get into solos but defense is still not my bag. I can user well enough but picking plays is rough.

dougk said:

Someone’s got to buy packs to keep the auction house fed 🤷🏻‍♂️

My thoughts, exactly!  In fact I welcome all the money spenders (myself included)