josephbobby

once you hit it you can't demote back to ELITE right? just confirming so I can try new stuff in OD

if you lose one of those games, do you get to keep retrying until you win or do they disappear like when you win one?

I can see it already - all madden cash bundles (since they said no coin packs intended) and then live events will get you maybe at most 10-20% completion of master, with no way to grind it out. and you probably need to spend MINIMUM 200 dollars for 2 large bundles to finish the set.    What would you do if they are like this?

Quote from jawabomb >> i dunno. I bet you can still work the programs and build cards. really? after everything EA has let you down for you really going to believe this? REALLY? i guess you haven't been playing that long but you'll meet disappointment soon

On coins: The current design is to have coins be pretty much only for the Auction House. As others have opined, the broker being there at the start of the season should allow coins to flow once you've earned players that you can sell on the AH, but of course, design and reality sometimes don't match. And of course, we're opening to altering the design of the game as needs arise, though I wouldn't expect there to be any more coin packs or program packs that are purchasable with coins.   solid, no coin packs for programs = madden cash only to build and get masters. this is the tipping for those who hoped promos would be good. now we know they will be GARBAGE, UNGRINDABLE, and PAY ONLY. RIDICULOUS!!!

I tried to get hype for this season. I tried to get hype for the new format/graphics/overdrive, but have been met with nothing but disappointment.    Here's some thoughts so far: 1) Events - going through all of the events will get you not even 10% of the way to the "85 weekly elite" or whatever for TOTW, and same works for the other set. Blitz tickets - you have to play 2 full overdrive matches just to play one of these token events once? And that gives you 25 tokens for something that you need 1,000+ tokens to get a decent elite for?  2) Blitz Tickets - this is 1000000000x worse than stamina. You are so much more limited than stamina. It's just unreasonable to play so much overdrive straight just to get a few wacks at a live event that pays you basically 1/1000th of what you need to complete the set 3) Overdrive/Gameplay - this is just whoever can hit the hail mary faster wins. Running is a little weird. It's something "we need to get used to" but this is not really that big a deal.

Based on videos, it seems like everything will be only pay and no grinding.    1) Events - yes you can repeat but they cost 50 blitz tickets to play again (and they ramp up) and on the store you pay 250 madden cash for 200 blitz tickets... so you theoretically can play events a lot less than with our stamina limits last year    2) Packs - legends - events give you 10 tokens per win --> 5 events --> 2 legends per week --> 100 tokens, you need 1800 to unlock the full 89 OVR legend (and based on dhitman, that would cost nearly 10,000 madden cash to buy in store), blitz you can probably play again --> but again, its 50 blitz tickets for another try for 10 tokens.    3) Looking at store, it seems like the coin value you get has been significantly diminished --> you get for 10,000 coins, 3 silvers and some tokens, and for 50,000, 1 gold and 3 silvers and tokens.    I really hope this isn't the case. Anyone have thoughts on this? I could see a lot of early people quitting fast if it's literally impossible to even finish maybe like 10% of a set for promo or ultimate card set for free and need to pay for 90%.

so they have events next season, but NOT REPEATABLE, so basically you can't grind for any promos. you play the fixed number of events.    I'm sure they'll make it so that even if you do every event, you'll be a short a lot, which you make up with madden cash and buying with money   so basically rip grinding and f2p and only p2p?

I quit madden around super bowl time, and it's the time of the year when i come back   Up to the super bowl, the events were pretty decent to be fair, just an incredibly high amount of cash I had to pay to get what I needed and then there was the auction house and banning that caused a lot of veterans to quit.    Is it worth it to come back this season? Has EA improved their events and promos since then or are they still the you need to pay 200-300 bucks per promo to get the master (maybe 50-100 if you really grind hard) ?   Just wanted to know state of game from those who stuck it out this season, and if it's worth buying the 24000 madden cash bundle right now so i can get a value head start next season