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Interesting thoughts regarding EA College Football. To piggyback off your question, or will EA take a different direction and: 1) Use the same engine/logic as MUT to keep development costs low? And 2) Develop lower cost content that can be used cross games, so they can sell more in game items to maximize profit? Would college theme teams interest anyone (I’m thinking YES—just imagine how CFB Legends could drive profit and loyalty; kinda makes me sick and jealous of EA business plan at the same time)?

Doing dailies to get XP and coin pack used to be a thing, until EA nerfed that…. Also used to flip cards on companion app, no wait people getting banned for that. I know, maybe I can make a few coins off the new strategy items, uh oh you can get banned for that too??? Now I just make $ at this thing called a job and buy bundles in the store. So much easier than wasting time playing a game that doesn’t grant most of the advertised rewards. Sorry, not trying to take my frustration out on OP. However, it feels like we need to spam every forum post, EA help, twitter feed, etc., with messages to EA that they are failing their customers. It all starts and ends with the customer, and they’re taking a dump on the head of their golden goose!!!

Been there, done that. Still not awarding for daily Field Pass progress (shows all complete with overall 2/3 status). Also shows ~5 Daily stacked in MF Field Pass, which gives me hope that will help EA track “make rights” when it comes time to award XP and coin packs.

Interesting thing might be the stacked 2/3 Daily that I see under MF Field Pass (I think I have ~5 now). Wonder if EA DEVs are stacking those, so they know how much XP and coin quick sells to give out when they finally fix the code???

Yes, they’ve tried different lineups, and even logged into each other’s consoles to play daily objectives. Their experience is the same on both consoles (doesn’t change).

Interestingly in relation to above “EA user account configuration” comment I made: 1) 16 year old’s PS4 does NOT accumulate monster stats…. But does get daily coin pack 2) 14 year old’s PS4 does accumulate monster stats…. But does NOT get daily coin pack If they log into each other’s consoles they have get the same results (doesn’t matter which console they are on—experience is the same) EA DEVs need to work with server/middleware engineers to figure out what is misconfigured across different user accounts.

I can confirm it is NOT PS4 hardware. I know this because my 14 & 16 year old sons both play Madden. 1) 16 year old’s PS4 logs daily w/coin pack 2) 14 year old’s PS4 does NOT log daily coin pack AND when he logs into 16 year old’s PS4 it still does NOT log daily coin pack There must be something wrong with how EA configures user accounts.

More change = greater opportunity to break things…. Feels like a double edged sword because when changes effect more users DEVs can no longer deny the bug exists. Developers and Ops Support teams are often at odds on such things: Release #1: OPS “We’ve got a problem.” DEV “Code tests fine. Prove it.” Release #2: OPS “Here are 5 examples.” DEV “It’s gotta be a config/console issue, because my code is fine.” Release #3: OPS “Here are 5,000 examples!” DEV “Oh $#!%”

Little background here: 1) I have 2 teenage sons and both have PS4 2) 1 PS4 is tracking daily objectives; while the other is getting stuck at 2/3 progress 3) I have an application development background (not at EA or w/video games—thus my reference to various EA/Madden services not working together as designed) 4) I’m testing a few theories on each console to see what works, and what doesn’t I’m getting close to figuring out some things—will update thread later w/findings

Yeah, I’m not a developer, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. If some users are still getting rewards the DEVs haven’t isolated the “bug” in the code yet.