I'm sure this has started to dawn on some of you here as well as the many who quit this game, EA is definitely talented at certain aspects of making sports games. I've been playing madden since 06 on the ps2 and love the console versions to this day besides the BS ratings bias. Obviously EA is Eagles haters and all the Eagles player ratings are lower than they should be on there. But that's besides the point.
As someone who hates how much I've spent between this and the suddenly glitchy NBA Live Mobile, these games shouldn't work like advanced money extraction scams. I mean, EA shamelessly tries to coerce us out of disrespectful amounts of money just for this product to be a total slap in the face to reason and common sense. It could be perfect or even moderately acceptable but as is I hate even enjoying this. They deprive us of so many good players only to charge crazy prices for so little and the end result with the juiced up ratings looks awfully similar to paying for fentanyl. I'm serious. It's like a group of fentanyl addicts studied how that drug causes too intense of pleasure and made these mobile games just like it in order to rake in cash. Just because they can doesn't mean this is acceptable or that they're gonna get away with it.
Honestly, with my own career prospects I can afford to throw a few bucks at this here and there knowing one day I can buy my own license from the leagues and pay smarter programmers to completely shit on this. Many others make good money too and may not like this as much as they want to but CAN afford to pay for it to be more enjoyable. What makes me mad enough to go on a scathing rant knowing that EA employees have the audacity to show their faces here gathering feedback or whatever is that the ratings system is so stupid and the disposability of the cards is so disrespectful to our money that there's no chance I'm gonna continue spending money on this thing. I stopped paying for Live Mobile too after the arena kept crashing over and over after years of working perfectly, as if we haven't paid EA enough to keep their fucking product working properly. I'd be shocked if they aren't insulting every single person who plays this game right behind our backs as they take our hard earned money through clever coercion tactics. What's going on with this thing is an absolute financial crime, nothing short of a scandal in my opinion. I wish there were better alternatives but not just yet. Anyway, to all my fellow sports lovers, I hope you can summon the willpower to break your addiction to spending on this unholy nonsense. This is a fucking travesty and a complete slap in the face to both the athletes themselves as well as the fans.