This May Be My Last MUT

I'm tired of getting killed by coinflips and not because I was outschemed. I'm tired of having to study the cheat plays instead of studying the equivalent of NFL game film. I'm tired of quarterbacks scrambling for decades in the backfield without ever having pursuit reach them, only to throw a slow-motion dart to a receiver fifty yards away without a defender in the same stadium. I'm tired of spending hours in the Auction House and yet still being 60 million coins behind guys with 87 OVR lineups. I'm tired of trying to get away from the nonsense by playing Solos only to find them monotonous, and after all that, to pull items that don't justify the time spent.

I like MUT in principle, but I hate the experience. It takes and takes, but it never gives back. Only cheaters win, and only thirty-year old children have a prayer in this environment. It's not a game, it's a way of life, and I just don't know how much longer I can fool myself into thinking that this is OK. Even if I'm better than the majority of my opponents, I will end up getting curbstomped by some know-nothing-about-football glitcher many games before I could earn anything of value. I either have to care and be angered by the environment, or I have to not care, and then wonder how I can spend hours of my life doing something I don't care about. Because there's too much to care about.

EA, fix this, or it will be my last MUT. This year started out promising, but we're accelerating toward the point where cheaters will dominate.

This shows like the duality. Last year i took a break didn't play madden at al played cfb cod other games instead and my gaming has always only been like an hour every couple days maybe a couple hours on a weekend if im not busy but ive rlly been enjoying mut. Decent free players and I mean im on Australian/Asian/ whatever how the divvy up the servers so theres not as many glitchers or super god squads but a competitive team and good coin stack is possible and yeah if you dont enjoy h2h thats what its built on solos always have and always will be pre boring there doable tho esp if ur watching or doing smth in the background but yeah this year almost feels refreshing for me can easily see how it wouldnt be tho

Why wait until next year, quit now.

Daddy said:

Why wait until next year, quit now.

Don't need your barbs.

SteelersFan19 said:

This shows like the duality. Last year i took a break didn't play madden at al played cfb cod other games instead and my gaming has always only been like an hour every couple days maybe a couple hours on a weekend if im not busy but ive rlly been enjoying mut. Decent free players and I mean im on Australian/Asian/ whatever how the divvy up the servers so theres not as many glitchers or super god squads but a competitive team and good coin stack is possible and yeah if you dont enjoy h2h thats what its built on solos always have and always will be pre boring there doable tho esp if ur watching or doing smth in the background but yeah this year almost feels refreshing for me can easily see how it wouldnt be tho

In MUT 24, the year started off with a 1,000,000 coin boost to a user that could run 25-0 in Champs. For the most part, though, you could earn some great cards eventually if you won enough games; things just took longer if you were a fair gamer instead of a career gamer. Later in MUT 25, EA adopted this model of Win-[x]-consecutive-games for the items that could really be game-breaking, and that's how MUT 26 has started. For this reason, a critical mass of users have poured cash into the game to win games off the bat, and so once again there are these strata of users, with users at the top routinely sending everyone else back to Start.

Until now, I've played very few Head-to-Head games in MUT 26, but I immediately found it as lopsided and toxic as MUT 25 had been for about the last four months (and all of Zero Skill). Either I'm getting stomped by goon squads that outrun my players, or I'm getting glitched to death. Perhaps being where you're at is where the fun is, but I'm not moving my family to another country so that I can play on servers with fewer toxic users.

phatalerror said:

Don't need your barbs.

Me too! Hopefully you’re less obsessed with your next hobby outside of madden. It’s safe to say this one ran its course.

Daddy said:

Me too! Hopefully you’re less obsessed with your next hobby outside of madden. It’s safe to say this one ran its course.

Was wondering how long i was gonna be on this site again until i ran into u, hows it going? A true legend of the forums

phatalerror said:

I'm tired of getting killed by coinflips and not because I was outschemed. I'm tired of having to study the cheat plays instead of studying the equivalent of NFL game film. I'm tired of quarterbacks scrambling for decades in the backfield without ever having pursuit reach them, only to throw a slow-motion dart to a receiver fifty yards away without a defender in the same stadium. I'm tired of spending hours in the Auction House and yet still being 60 million coins behind guys with 87 OVR lineups. I'm tired of trying to get away from the nonsense by playing Solos only to find them monotonous, and after all that, to pull items that don't justify the time spent.

I like MUT in principle, but I hate the experience. It takes and takes, but it never gives back. Only cheaters win, and only thirty-year old children have a prayer in this environment. It's not a game, it's a way of life, and I just don't know how much longer I can fool myself into thinking that this is OK. Even if I'm better than the majority of my opponents, I will end up getting curbstomped by some know-nothing-about-football glitcher many games before I could earn anything of value. I either have to care and be angered by the environment, or I have to not care, and then wonder how I can spend hours of my life doing something I don't care about. Because there's too much to care about.

EA, fix this, or it will be my last MUT. This year started out promising, but we're accelerating toward the point where cheaters will dominate.

Sniff sniff....

"I either have to care and be angered by the environment, or I have to not care, and then wonder how I can spend hours of my life doing something I don't care about. Because there's too much to care about."...is one of the best summaries of this game I have ever read.  Appreciate you sharing and completely understand where you are coming from.

I played M23 for 3 years, it was a blast. After the regular season ended there were only about 10 cheaters left. And about 5 towards the end of the 3 years. I only had 6 million coins going into the off season, I have 30 million now. Team building was still a thing, all the fun it's supposed to be, you just play football with your 99 team against the same type of player as you. I plan on doing that again this year, if they fix the leader board stats.

You should do what I do. Make the game last an hour.

I came back after 4 years break following getting really tired of how the game had changed. It used to be fun, the last enjoyable MUTs for me were 16 and 17, 18 was ok but after that they got rid of the good rewards from the solos, made all solos one dimensional. I didn’t play for a week last week, took me no more than an hour to catch up on all solos. The only things to do in this game is play H2H and spend money. 
So boring.

Daddy said:

Why wait until next year, quit now.

Lmaoooo

Who studies nfl game film to play a arcadey competitive video game? 

The game is nothing like an nfl game.  Mut is always pay to win (if you have skill, much less so) and cheap/glitch/cheese plays over and over. 

It will never change, so only play if you get some enjoyment out of MUT.