Why only 12 games for Squad Battles?

I agree, 12 games just isn’t enough for non online players. There are objectives to play 10 games before completing them with certain players from many leagues, I am having to play so many squad battle games that I’m no longer being rewarded for. 

I agree 12 games is not enough. Another reason I don’t like it is that it’s harder to get into the top rewards since the low limit on games. I’ve also ran into the problem of ea randomly kicking me out of my games and with the small amount of games it screws me over for rewards.

Agree, I thought reducing it to perhaps 20 games would've been fairer. Likewise, I don't agree with the move to typically needing 15 wins for weekly Division Rivals rewards; that could've been increased from 7 to 10. For us PlayStation players, getting to 15 wins before Thursday morning given the current PSN outage....

Exactly. This small number of games rewards the pros and/or players that spend hundreds of $ loading their teams up from the start who can jump in and play 12 games all on the hardest difficulty level to grab easy rewards and then spend the bulk of their time on what they prefer which is the various online games.

For others who don't spend any $ and only play offline but love to grind away each week gradually making their teams better and consequently attainting one more level each week, it's pretty much a lost cause now.  I got to Gold 1 in the first week but definitely could have made it to Elite 1 with more games. And maintaining Elite 1 would have still taken lots of gradual improvements in my team each week. That's fun and rewarding.  For me Gold 1 is likely as good as it's going to be for several weeks.

EA just inexplicably ruined something else for many players.

We need more squad battles games. I can Play online but it is also so fin to Play squad battles but not anymore because there is only 12 games  we need more games. PLS

The rewards this year with 12 matches is better than prior years even if you don't reach elite 1. And more people are playing SB after this change because 40 matches per week was too long and boring. Now it's more worthwhile for many people to play SB who would have otherwise not done so in the past. So overall 12 matches is a positive change in my opinion. 

I think the number 24 will be great for all 

@Born2BWild007It doesn’t matter if you play 12 or 800 you would still get the same rewards.

I could see if people liked playing squad battles but everyone says they hate this game so it would be silly for ea to make anyone play more than 12.

Also it seems like more are playing it now that there is less games so it looks like a positive change. Really no reason to bring back more games. 

@Born2BWild007 You are correct, others do not seem to see the logic in what you're saying but I do.

Obviously if the number of games was increased again then less of the people who didn't play before this decrease wouldn't play now, then it would be easier to get the higher ranks for SB players and would result in an increase in rewards for those who favour the mode.