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HR04172's avatar
HR04172
New Novice
6 months ago

Way to ruin the SBC grind...

So I'm sure we've all seen the Grassroots repeatable SBC x50 a day - great idea. 6 commons, 3 rares, it seemed like the perfect pack for repeatable upgrades!

That is, of course, until EA do what EA do best - ruin the fun. 78+ picks for a start, in Feb, is a joke. I don't care that you get to pick 2 useless 78 rated players instead of 1. Secondly, requiring 5 rares in itself is a joke, but doing so after giving us the x50 repeatable SBC is pure stupidity. We still have nowhere for our commons, and our rares will be drained after just a few terrible upgrade picks. 

It's pretty clear now that EA take great joy in making the player base feel they've changed for the better, only to become the usual scummy people once again. 

Should've been 80+ picks, 3 rares 5 commons required or something. 

10 Replies

  • Andrewrg2's avatar
    Andrewrg2
    Rising Veteran
    6 months ago

    My SBC storage was stacked with low rated players as I've been struggling tonget anything above an 85, so I'm sort of glad they did something. I'm basically out of bronze players to use, there is no way I'm shipping 750 coins at a time to get 3 bronze players so the grind is basically over. If they wanted to do it right they should have included more daily bronze packs.

    You are right though, it definitely should have been a better SBC that they put in, personally I would of preferred 81+ double upgrade packs or player picks. They may be slightly more expensive in terms of players, but at least I get a decent chance of getting something usable in other SBCs.

    It's all about driving people towards the store though, I've got 10 days to get four 88 rated squads and two 87 rated into the Mbappe SBC. Today I've opened around 75 players picks, 18 grassroots grinds, and the 3 84+ x 5 packs along with some of the objective packs available. The only things I got of any use were, one 91 rated, one 88, and 2 87 rated players. I'm not listening to any EA community manager or EA defender say that's just the probabilities in packs at work because it's bull to be honest. One of my 84+ × 5 packs was a full 84 rated duplicate fest.

  • HR04172's avatar
    HR04172
    New Novice
    6 months ago

    Yeah in my 3 84x5s today I didn't get an 86+ or a TOTW, had 2 with 5 84s in them. Clearly forcing everyone to either go to the store or just do nothing 

  • Andrewrg2's avatar
    Andrewrg2
    Rising Veteran
    6 months ago

    I get making it so we aren't all getting the best players all the time, but thinking that we aren't going to notice when packs start to seem low quality and calling it probabilities like they haven't altered something is just disrespectful.

    They honestly think their player base are dumb. It's like the unlimited 82+ packs they did for TOTY, I've seen multiple people say about the hundreds of packs they did and never once saw Theo Hernandez, it's not luck or probability that these players don't show up for multiple people in hundreds of packs with such a limited amount of players to choose from.

    I would say there is probably a few hundred players 82 and above definitely not over 1000, especially with promos dropping out of packs. I myself opened around 300 packs. That's 3000 times the system could choose Theo Hernandez from the few hundred players it has a choice of, yet they expect us to believe that it was just the probabilities that meant we couldn't get him.

  • I’ve been using the commons for the toty sbc. It’s helped me almost get it done. You need what 1,000 commons for it. 

  • Andrewrg2's avatar
    Andrewrg2
    Rising Veteran
    6 months ago

    Yeah only 1000 commons cause everyone just has that in their club. You're just unrealistic in everything.

  • I didn’t mean at one time. By doing the dailies and the grassroots I put them in the toty sbc. I usually do 5 a day and the grassroots is helping do that. If you have extra commons or low rares put them in that one. 

  • KiIiaN64's avatar
    KiIiaN64
    Rising Adventurer
    6 months ago

    The TOTY crafting upgrade?

    Most of us addicts completed that within the first week lmao.

    I’ve just been using my commons in the regular gold upgrade. Not ideal, but you get a couple of rares back and sometimes decent fodder.

  • You did 1,000 commons in a week?  Well it has 3 days or so left so you will probably get another one that will need 1,000 more when it’s done. 

  • KiIiaN64's avatar
    KiIiaN64
    Rising Adventurer
    6 months ago

    Your club wasn’t absolutely stacked after all the saved packs, league upgrades etc.?

    You were definitely doing the TOTY grind wrong then.

  • It was packed but I was doing the 84x10 more than commons. I usually save the commons for when we run out of sbcs for them during the week.  If you do those slowly over time you don’t waste commons. 

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