Community ManagerPlayer System/Choice: I think it was a good attempt at introducing draft system but I agree that it can't be the main one a player has to work for. If I work hard and be lucky in a shard system atleast I can assure myself of 2 max ovr cards of my choice. Irrespective of your efforts it's a luck based affair in draft.
It was poorly communicated as well.. there could have been an event with both systems before replacing.
Packs: people r hurt including me at not having the variety of packs as for years people planned according to that system.
Player ovr: league tokens and star passes both used to give a maxovr-1 card but this time it's maxovr-2
26 phase 2 token is a great idea as they don't expire but the exchange is too low. I don't see many takers for that.
You hit the nail on the head! Shard system may not have been sexy, but it offered grinders a clear path to one or two meta players per event. In other words it provided a serious “carrot” to play everyday and to think we had at least a semblance of a chance (after toiling for a month!) of remaining relevant/competitive amid the P2Pers. This new system destroys that carrot and replaces it with a not too thinly veiled stick — spend or have ZERO certainty of obtaining meta players that can help out your squad.
My league is almost entirely composed of F2Pers, and folks are really upset and dejected about this event and what it portends for the future of the game. And what flummoxes us most is how EA goes through this performative “listening” routine in here but then blindsides us with a change we weren’t asking for. It really highlights the need for a two-way conversation where someone from EA replies periodically to summarize what they are hearing and what they intend to do about community concerns and points of pain. Enough of this “give us your feedback” where it feels like we’re shouting into a void. If the concern for customer satisfaction is truly earnest then the communication needs to be significantly more robust and it needs to be two-way.
