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I don't recommend you come back now unless you were the type to mostly play H2H (and win) and also spend a lot of money. Heading into Madden 24, I was one of the most optimistic MUT fans on these forums. I quit shortly after the Super Bowl (I'm a 49ers fan otherwise it would've likely been sooner) because I finally got tired of getting completely screwed over by EA. I played CFB 25 Ultimate Team during the 10 hour free trial and if MUT is anything close to that, it's even worse than MUT 24. The rewards are so bad that I can't even come up with a sentence to fully explain how disappointed I am/was. Sports gaming is in full monopoly mode these days and Madden and 2K are shells of what they used to be. Unless there is literally legal action taken against the micro transactions (NYT recently did a story on this) the games will continue to get worse and worse and worse each and every year. TLDR: If you're not a very good online player who plans to spend a lot of money on bundles, don't waste your time or money.

EA Play is included with XBox Game Pass which I am always subscribed to anyway. Most of the games I play are on there. Diablo IV has been my go to over the last few months and it's free on there. I'm also playing a game called Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 which is surprisingly fun. That's the good thing about it. I have tried probably 20-30 games and if I'm not feeling it within the first 20 minutes or so just delete and move on to the next one.

If you have Game Pass and/or EA Play they have a 10 hour trial. I just had to replay a challenge a couple dozen times to beat it. They wanted me to throw a lob pass for a TD from the 10 yard line lol. Obviously the people who design these challenges don't play the game. Then I realized that I had 9 stars towards the 79 OVR I can get for getting 36 stars. Bought a couple of the cheapest packs in the store. Got the minimum. Decided to try Solo Seasons, as it's "new". Server Maintenance error, booted to main menu. Then I logged back in and checked the season rewards, up through like level 30-40 I saw some levels awarded 1000 coins. The UI for everything is basically identical to MUT 24. The announcers are brain dead. I ran the ball, and they started talking about all the passing yards my QB had racked up. Then, while I was up 35-0 with a minute to go. They talked about how "this one ain't over yet". They just can't seem to get anything right. There has supposedly already been an XP glitch that had to be fixed in Solo Battles, so a lot of people who decided to play the game mode with absolutely no rewards were rewarded with like 17 levels. Of course it's immediately patched. This is a company worth 38.53B.

I'm worried that they're going to purposely water down the iconic NCAA dynasty mode in order to drive more people towards the Ultimate Team game mode. I mentioned on here earlier this year about how bad the Madden Franchise mode was compared to a decade ago and it didn't make sense, and then someone brought that same theory up with me and it made sense. I think the dynasty mode should still be great at first but I expect it to slowly go the way of Madden unfortunately.

This was a big issue when they implemented the "Deebo Package" a few years ago in 49ers playbook. Whatever receiver you had in that spot usually fumbled the ball even without a hit stick tackle.

I have millions of training on M23 that is completely worthless because they took away the TVP on one of the pettiest possible moves they could've made. Should've seen it as a warning sign and cancelled my pre-order.

I do as little as possible to get the rewards I deem worth it. Those have been more than usual recently since my favorite team was in The Super Bowl. I like the combine promo so far. The Rich Eisen card is cheesy but kind of cool because of his history with covering the NFL and his annual charity run, and he gets x2 chems once upgraded. I like the Nate Wiggins idea and the 93's getting all team chemistries make them worth getting for a NMS player.

2K got rid of the AH altogether in MyTeam this year. I expect that to be the case either next year or the year after in MUT.

I care deeply about The 49ers as I've been a huge fan of theirs since 1992 when I was 8 years old. I had season tickets for a few years when I still lived in the bay area and I consider the bay area, which The 49ers represent to be my home, and my people. Most people on most forums don't know the people they write about. I also type well over 100 WPM and I love stats and knew that all off the top of my head so that took me maybe 5 minute to type out.

Without being too political about this, I don't see how someone could respect somebody else for calling a team by a name that's no longer it's name. That's like me being proud of someone still calling The Charlotte Hornets the Bobcats. Names like Indians, Seminoles, Braves, Chiefs etc. are fine. Anyone who is offended by those names is just looking for a reason to be mad. I never personally had a problem with the name Redskins, and if I was a fan of there's, it would freaking suck that they had to change their name. But, they did. A lot of people were actually offended by it and IMO it's a perfectly reasonable name for someone to be offended by, unlike the names I listed above. I wish nobody cared and they were still The Redskins, but they're not.