Event structure is god awful.

When did EA become obsessed with this 10 in a row crap? Events were essentially casual-ish pick up and play H2H either in the form of quick house rules or MUT draft type modes with it's own mini pass with some pretty decent rewards.

 I don't know about you all but I grind ranked for that type of thing, there's gauntlet if I really wanted more of it. I don't need gauntlet 2.0 every single promo. If they really want they can still keep their 10 win run stuff for something extra.

 I don't know but I have to be in the certain mood/mind set for the full game ranked-like H2H experience and having the old pick up and play modes replaced with half game Gauntlet: On Ice! has taken away a lot of my enjoyment of this game on a day to day basis. Do you guys like this type of format being used across the board?

I miss when I could grind 25 wins or so to get the reward.  I'm not good enough to win 10 in a row so I can never complete these head to head ones now.   Haven't even bothered trying this one after losing first 2 games.

hotshotz03 said:

I miss when I could grind 25 wins or so to get the reward.  I'm not good enough to win 10 in a row so I can never complete these head to head ones now.   Haven't even bothered trying this one after losing first 2 games.

Yea, the same. I dont even bother anymore. I could get 10 wins, just not in a row.

rhyen51 said:

When did EA become obsessed with this 10 in a row crap? Events were essentially casual-ish pick up and play H2H either in the form of quick house rules or MUT draft type modes with it's own mini pass with some pretty decent rewards.

 I don't know about you all but I grind ranked for that type of thing, there's gauntlet if I really wanted more of it. I don't need gauntlet 2.0 every single promo. If they really want they can still keep their 10 win run stuff for something extra.

 I don't know but I have to be in the certain mood/mind set for the full game ranked-like H2H experience and having the old pick up and play modes replaced with half game Gauntlet: On Ice! has taken away a lot of my enjoyment of this game on a day to day basis. Do you guys like this type of format being used across the board?

I've been one of the most vocal about how this structure incentivizes the overall negative play experience for users. It's terrible.

With something like Tug-of-War or College OT on a Win-[40/75/120]-Games basis, if you played against evil users, at least it was over quickly and you moved on. Once they reached the featured reward threshold for their pass, they moved back to Seasons or Champs, and the experience was less sweaty. But now they just camp in these modes, accumulating rewards to the chagrin and frustration of decent gamers who came to play football.

It's terrible. Throw a bone to the ultra-competitive, sub-human gamers so they have something to gnaw on for endless hours, and leave a mode or two for the civilized users.

Yes, I meant that entire last sentence literally.

From someone who has completed all of the events thus far, I couldn't agree with you more.  While the rewards are much greater with this format, I feel like the spirit of house rules was always a pick-up-and-play for everyone type of quick game mode that didn't resemble a full game ranked or h2h seasons mode.  In saying that, the events on arcade mode are awful I firmly dislike those - but that doesn't mean they can't make them quicker like College OT rules, etc!

phatalerror said:

I've been one of the most vocal about how this structure incentivizes the overall negative play experience for users. It's terrible.

With something like Tug-of-War or College OT on a Win-[40/75/120]-Games basis, if you played against evil users, at least it was over quickly and you moved on. Once they reached the featured reward threshold for their pass, they moved back to Seasons or Champs, and the experience was less sweaty. But now they just camp in these modes, accumulating rewards to the chagrin and frustration of decent gamers who came to play football.

It's terrible. Throw a bone to the ultra-competitive, sub-human gamers so they have something to gnaw on for endless hours, and leave a mode or two for the civilized users.

Yes, I meant that entire last sentence literally.

Great post

When they switched to this model late in the year on Madden 25 I knew it was going to be a horrible experience all around. I LOVED when they would give us a house rules for college OT and make us grind for 50 or even 75 wins. Sure it would take a decent amount of time but at least I didn't lose my mind with every single loss. Now these events are just horrible sweat fests. This is the first event I've tried all year and that's because EA has made it impossible to earn snow without coins besides this mode. Even then, the event is still worthless unless you're winning at least 8+ games which is hard to do in this mess of a game.

Yeah agreed I give it one to two tries each time then give up. Arcade mode is god awful, rewards are good but there’s no guarantee. Wish it was like ranked and on a points structure.

I remember my first House rules, MUT 19, two week event

week 1: 10 wins vs CPU, not 10-0, just 10 wins for a 97 ovr (pick one of 3)

week 2: 10 wins H2H, again not 10-0, another 97 ovr

+ on top of that, for completing both legs - 99 Gronk

I agree, It's horrible. At least make it start in the 3rd QTR.

Buccs4047 said:

I agree, It's horrible. At least make it start in the 3rd QTR.

It does start in the 3rd. When it dropped it was full games but they changed it.

They should have the 10 win with only 1 loss event for the players that really want the good rewards and then they should have a separate event that’s like tug of war or overtime that rewards you with stuff every 5 or 10 wins. It can’t be that hard to have 2 different events at once. They did it before

droblunts313 said:

It does start in the 3rd. When it dropped it was full games but they changed it.

Oh, nice.  I'll give it another try.   Thanks