Feedback: The Ongoing Power Curve Collapse & Broken Evolutions
The Ongoing Power Curve Collapse: How Overpowered Packs, Endless Upgrades, and Broken Evolutions Keep Ruining Ultimate Team
Since publishing our initial breakdown on how early rewards fracture the game's progression, virtually nothing has improved. The power curve continues to accelerate at an alarming rate, driven by an oversaturated stream of accessible packs and relentless content pressure.
1. Easy-Access High-Tier Packs & Unbalanced Objectives:
Even with potential pack weight adjustments behind the scenes, throwing high-value packs into the game via overly simple objectives breaks the pacing entirely. A prime example is earning a high-tier pack containing 7x 82+ Gold Players simply by completing objectives that require purchasing a cosmetic t-shirt for 25,000 coins. This cheapens the grind and floods the market prematurely.
2. Store Pack Inflation & Redundant SBC Overload:
Store promos remain relentless, operating 24/7 without slowing down. Meanwhile, upgrade SBCs continue to clutter the menu, running multiple heavy upgrades simultaneously. The cumulative effect is devastating: standard Gold cards have completely crashed, losing all value and usability in less than two months since launch.
3. The Absurdity of Repeatable Campaign Mix Upgrades:
To make matters worse, introducing content like the Campaign Mix Upgrade—which repeats up to three times a week—is completely unnatural for this early stage of the game cycle. It forces an artificial power spike that ruins the natural progression of team-building.
4. Black Friday & The Premature Leak Crisis:
As traditions dictate, the arrival of Black Friday shatters whatever remains of the power curve. EA releases an overwhelming wave of content that permanently locks the game into an accelerated high-end pace. Compounding this issue, as discussed in our previous leak reports, the entire Black Friday and Thunderstruck agenda leaked a full week in advance, completely stripping the community of the organic element of surprise.
5. The Evolutions Dilemma: Promise vs. Market Destruction:
On a somewhat positive note, EA recently announced plans to improve Evolutions, which is a welcome step since current-stage evos have felt largely unusable. However, these upgrades must be handled carefully to avoid repeating last year's mistakes. Evolutions need to boost cards to ratings that remain slightly below the top meta tier—maintaining a healthy gap. Otherwise, it breaks economic logic: why would anyone spend 500,000 coins on a top-tier promo card when they can replicate a near-identical version through an evolution costing less than 150,000 coins? If evos are mishandled again, the market balance will collapse completely.
Conclusion & References:
Pacing high-end content, controlling leaks, and balancing upgrade paths are vital to keeping Ultimate Team engaging. For a deeper look at our ongoing archive and previous discussions regarding these exact systemic flaws, please check the following referenced topics:
Broken Promises: Season 1 Rewards Break the Power Curve
Rampant Leaks Are Killing the Magic of Ultimate Team
For all previously reported bugs and feedback, check our main archive here:
Years of Unnoticed Reports: A Comprehensive Feedback & Bug Archive
