Listen Up Waterchickens31, You Too Can Be a Quitter.....
I finally did it for real. In the past when I was fed up and wanted to quit, tried to quit, needed to quit, here is what I did...
The first time I wanted to quit was when 99 million coins was a snipe and MHC could still be traded for coins (member those amazing days?) I held a giveaway and a man who would become my future league mate, friend, and just an all around great guy wprichard55 won inheriting roughly 30 million coins when I cashed in all of my MHC. Yet I kept my team linked to my device and Fb knowing I could come back whenever I wanted. Of course, I did. I failed at quitting.
When I was ready to bail again, but this time I didn't want to see my hard work go to waste so instead I gave my entire team to Rshoots (another league mate, friend, and tremendous guy) so that his son could play my account with him. Well, inevitably his son wasn't dedicating much time to it and around the FOJ promo, I re-inherited the team and took it back over in time for the reset.
At the start of this season I thought, ahhhh I will just login and see what it is all about. Initially I was having fun again, coins were easy to make and with very little hard work I scraped together my first million coins of the season and was off and running. Then the glitches started. The unfair advantages started. The lack of communication/compensation started. First few promos were alright, but by the time we reached the October Field Pass and MF, it appeared it was going to be copy/paste and things that needed dire attention were going to be put on the back burner.
Then came Thanksgiving/Black Friday and the final straw. It wasn't the Martin glitch, those things happen and I always miss them so that is no big deal. The first straw was the set requirements for Calvin Johnson, even though I hated them, I built him. The second straw was Black Friday and the ridiculous idea of needing to spend 1K tickets and gather an additional 2K tickets for NTL. I mean it is the one player you can count on and after so any hiccups this season, you would have thought they might have extended an olive branch in the form of just a 1K ticket build. The final straw was seeing players popping up for 15-60 million coins meaning the AH cap had been raised. What?! After so many issues plaguing this game with no fix, an AH cap becomes a priority and is lifted. No thank you. I promptly went to the AH and sniped a NTL for 8 million on Thursday evening and rostered him. I grinded tickets to do the NTL chest a couple times using the gems received to get more stamina, to grind more tickets, to open it again.
At that moment I realized that all this has ever been is a vicious cycle. Grind. Spend. Roster. Upgrade. Rinse. Repeat. So around 9:45 am on Saturday morning I took a step I had never taken before. I unlinked my account from Facebook as well as my device making it impossible to recover and I put on my big boy pants and uninstalled. To make sure I reinstalled right away and when the game loaded and the verify your age slider came up, I felt sadness and a sense of relief all at once.
It has now been 78 hours and 10 minutes since deletion and I feel so much better than I thought I would. I always had a hard time not finishing promos, not getting masters, basically not completing things. I couldn't leave it unfinished. MF, TG, and UF are my favorite promos of the year, so to leave before UF was a huge step for me. Not having the safety net of account recovery was a huge step for me. Now, a few parting shots:
The game is definitely geared towards spenders BIG time. this is no longer a game a kid can pick up and play unless he really just loves playing season modes and doesn't want to build a competitive roster. There has always been a P2W advantage, but it is no longer an advantage, it almost a requirement now and I am a spender. Not a whale, but maybe a baby Narwhal.
The number of items that are rolled out that need recalled, fixed, or have glitches is mind boggling. To think that the product is rushed or isn't beta tested (which I don't know to be true) boggles my mind. It is also embarrassing how many things do not get fixed or paid attention too, but the things that actually benefit the players are fixed in minutes.
I have zero issue with any of the moderators, they are all good guys, but the EA Discord is terrible. It is my belief that they achieved what they wanted, a site they could control and manipulate while wonderful places like Muthead slowly started to die. Remember how amazing this place used to be. Rocketz is the man, and Discord submarined this place big time.
I miss just good old fashioned Madden football. Like Sega Genesis Madden football. Just football that was fun to play with your favorite team's roster. Not 500 currencies with parts for build A that are exchanged for build B with the hopes of obtaining player C which will undoubtedly be exchanged for player D; but you can't even get player D without doing all of that and also building players 1, 2, and 3. I just miss football.
So this past weekend I dusted off my NES and popped in Tecmo Super Bowl while the fam was asleep. I chose the Lions as always and rolled off a 13-3 season. I am a bit embarrassed that I lost three games, but I was a little rusty. I immediately remembered how innovative the game was in it's time. Tracking stats for the season, cut scenes, an NFLPA endorsement. It is still my favorite game of all time and in case you were wondering, I won the Super Bowl. My offensive MVP was obviously Barry who rushed for 4K yards during the season. My defensive MVP was Jerry Ball who finished with 90 sacks.
I know Madden Mobile is never going away and I wouldn't want it to. It has been very good to me and I have very fond memories with my sons and friends playing. I am happy that I finally found the means to delete my account in a way that it can't be recovered, but I truly hope for future players that it finds it way back to what it used to be instead of an ATM in shoulder pads.
I finally did it for real. In the past when I was fed up and wanted to quit, tried to quit, needed to quit, here is what I did...
The first time I wanted to quit was when 99 million coins was a snipe and MHC could still be traded for coins (member those amazing days?) I held a giveaway and a man who would become my future league mate, friend, and just an all around great guy wprichard55 won inheriting roughly 30 million coins when I cashed in all of my MHC. Yet I kept my team linked to my device and Fb knowing I could come back whenever I wanted. Of course, I did. I failed at quitting.
When I was ready to bail again, but this time I didn't want to see my hard work go to waste so instead I gave my entire team to Rshoots (another league mate, friend, and tremendous guy) so that his son could play my account with him. Well, inevitably his son wasn't dedicating much time to it and around the FOJ promo, I re-inherited the team and took it back over in time for the reset.
At the start of this season I thought, ahhhh I will just login and see what it is all about. Initially I was having fun again, coins were easy to make and with very little hard work I scraped together my first million coins of the season and was off and running. Then the glitches started. The unfair advantages started. The lack of communication/compensation started. First few promos were alright, but by the time we reached the October Field Pass and MF, it appeared it was going to be copy/paste and things that needed dire attention were going to be put on the back burner.
Then came Thanksgiving/Black Friday and the final straw. It wasn't the Martin glitch, those things happen and I always miss them so that is no big deal. The first straw was the set requirements for Calvin Johnson, even though I hated them, I built him. The second straw was Black Friday and the ridiculous idea of needing to spend 1K tickets and gather an additional 2K tickets for NTL. I mean it is the one player you can count on and after so any hiccups this season, you would have thought they might have extended an olive branch in the form of just a 1K ticket build. The final straw was seeing players popping up for 15-60 million coins meaning the AH cap had been raised. What?! After so many issues plaguing this game with no fix, an AH cap becomes a priority and is lifted. No thank you. I promptly went to the AH and sniped a NTL for 8 million on Thursday evening and rostered him. I grinded tickets to do the NTL chest a couple times using the gems received to get more stamina, to grind more tickets, to open it again.
At that moment I realized that all this has ever been is a vicious cycle. Grind. Spend. Roster. Upgrade. Rinse. Repeat. So around 9:45 am on Saturday morning I took a step I had never taken before. I unlinked my account from Facebook as well as my device making it impossible to recover and I put on my big boy pants and uninstalled. To make sure I reinstalled right away and when the game loaded and the verify your age slider came up, I felt sadness and a sense of relief all at once.
It has now been 78 hours and 10 minutes since deletion and I feel so much better than I thought I would. I always had a hard time not finishing promos, not getting masters, basically not completing things. I couldn't leave it unfinished. MF, TG, and UF are my favorite promos of the year, so to leave before UF was a huge step for me. Not having the safety net of account recovery was a huge step for me. Now, a few parting shots:
The game is definitely geared towards spenders BIG time. this is no longer a game a kid can pick up and play unless he really just loves playing season modes and doesn't want to build a competitive roster. There has always been a P2W advantage, but it is no longer an advantage, it almost a requirement now and I am a spender. Not a whale, but maybe a baby Narwhal.
The number of items that are rolled out that need recalled, fixed, or have glitches is mind boggling. To think that the product is rushed or isn't beta tested (which I don't know to be true) boggles my mind. It is also embarrassing how many things do not get fixed or paid attention too, but the things that actually benefit the players are fixed in minutes.
I have zero issue with any of the moderators, they are all good guys, but the EA Discord is terrible. It is my belief that they achieved what they wanted, a site they could control and manipulate while wonderful places like Muthead slowly started to die. Remember how amazing this place used to be. Rocketz is the man, and Discord submarined this place big time.
I miss just good old fashioned Madden football. Like Sega Genesis Madden football. Just football that was fun to play with your favorite team's roster. Not 500 currencies with parts for build A that are exchanged for build B with the hopes of obtaining player C which will undoubtedly be exchanged for player D; but you can't even get player D without doing all of that and also building players 1, 2, and 3. I just miss football.
So this past weekend I dusted off my NES and popped in Tecmo Super Bowl while the fam was asleep. I chose the Lions as always and rolled off a 13-3 season. I am a bit embarrassed that I lost three games, but I was a little rusty. I immediately remembered how innovative the game was in it's time. Tracking stats for the season, cut scenes, an NFLPA endorsement. It is still my favorite game of all time and in case you were wondering, I won the Super Bowl. My offensive MVP was obviously Barry who rushed for 4K yards during the season. My defensive MVP was Jerry Ball who finished with 90 sacks.
I know Madden Mobile is never going away and I wouldn't want it to. It has been very good to me and I have very fond memories with my sons and friends playing. I am happy that I finally found the means to delete my account in a way that it can't be recovered, but I truly hope for future players that it finds it way back to what it used to be instead of an ATM in shoulder pads.