Swaps Feedback: Phantom Playgrounds Requirements Are Too Tedious & Long
Issue Overview:
The Phantom Playgrounds objective set—part of the new Swaps system for earning Ultimate Scream Tokens—features requirements that are so brutally tedious, it feels like EA took the Halloween theme a bit too literally. Is it because these are Scream Swaps that we have to literally terrify and torture the player base with these objectives?
The group consists of 7 grueling sub-objectives that demand an absurd amount of time and hyper-specific squad restrictions:
- Spirit Harvest: Score 50 goals with min. 1 Ultimate Scream player in starting XI.
- The Red Countess: Score a Chip Shot in 5 separate matches with min. 1 Hungarian player.
- Lost Your Head?: Score 10 headers with min. 1 USA player.
- Grýla's Cauldron: Win 13 matches with min. 1 Iceland player.
- Nessie's Deep Gift: Assist via Through Ball in 15 separate matches with min. 1 Scottish player.
- Tricks and Treats: Score from outside the box in 10 separate matches with 4* WF players.
- Gulyabani's Wrath: Play 7 matches with min. 1 Türkiye player.
Why This Objective Design Hurts the Player Experience:
- Unplayable Frankenstein Squads: Trying to combine these random nationality requirements into a single starting XI yields a squad with zero chemistry and absolute zero competitive viability.
- Forcing Boring Offline Grinds or Endless Losses: Players are forced to either endure hours of mind-numbing Squad Battles matches or take these unplayable teams online and suffer endless defeats.
- Severe Player Burnout: Turning token collection into an exhausting full-time job causes massive burnout, forcing players to neglect core competitive modes like Division Rivals and Champions just to finish these chores.
Recommended Adjustments:
Please respect players' time in future promos by lowering match requirements and broadening squad parameters so we can earn Swaps tokens while naturally playing with our main teams.
