BillWalton

Quote from Winston457 >> The issue isn't the here & now, the issue is trying to get banners when a promo is going on.  With how infrequently Banners drop, most players are not going to drop 1-2k stamina per day when they need to be grinding the current promo.   For example, the Combine promo is coming up and if it's similar to CR then I would rather grind the promo for 3+ 98-99ovr players than spend all my stamina praying for banners to drop. When there is a new promo, your goal is to get 1500 tokens so that you can exchange 2 banners per day. You still do weekly live events. You still get all first win for extra packs. But you are not going to put 2k stamina on UL anymore.

Quote from layd2rest >> Quote from bLu >> Quote from Java >>

Did you see what EA did to Legend program?  It was the front runner for the highest overall every week.  Then, it failed behind quickly because how people would skip everything and just grinded Legend.   Same for UL.  When it is the only thing that people saving for, EA will kill it.    UL 99?  Maybe in April..... when Easter Masters are 102 overall.

Of course it is F2P.  It just matters when.  You take 2 weeks to get a UL while people who spend $$ got them 2 days ago.  It is the banner problem.  With luck, you can get a few from live events.  Otherwise, you could only get 2 banners per day from set.

Let's be honest here.  Even if it is 50% discount, people would not even play MS if they skipped most of them before.  You guys are asking for a free ride, not a discount ride.   For the stamina that you did not use on MS, you mostly used them on Madden Mint or Legends.

I would even go further and say that Power means nothing individually or for an indivual match. You can be +5 and still give up 24 points in lvl or still lose to someone in OD in gold tier mode.   But when your whole league has an average of 2700 power vs a league with average 2500 power, that 2700 power league will win more often.

Keep up the thread.  There are a few days before SB sets are done.  Very high chance that EA will do something in store. 1k MC!

Quote from doctorjsh >> There are some unexplained aspects of power and boosts (I think) that should be very easy to clarify if EA so chooses.   For example, if I am maxed out at 99 THP and have a +5 OVR power advantage, my THP cannot increase past 99, right? What if my opponent has the QB mobility stat reducer which gives -4 THP? Does my THP stay at 99? Or since my THP could not go beyond 99, then a stat reducer applied, would my THP be 95? The order (if any) of how OVR and boosts are applied is important. Are all boosts added up at once, or is there an order where boosts are applied, then OVR power advantage?

Lamar is not GOAT.  The curse will continue.

MS is 102.