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Drizzt9922
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4 years ago

Is it intended that H2H losses do not provide any XP anymore?

From my own experiences and others, it seems like losses in H2H matches don't provide any EXP rewards whatsoever anymore. Is this intentional, or a bug that should be reported? [EDIT: slightly mod...
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4 years ago

Bumping for attention. I would really like to know the rationale for this change.

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4 years ago
@Drizzt9922 please do not bump your threads! it is against the forum rules. Unfortunately, I'm not able to answer your question myself. But if I had to guess, it might be the case because there had been a lot of reports from players in Madden 21 where bot accounts just ran the same plays in H2H all the time. Of course, they had been banned as soon as they had been identified (reported) but it decreased the fun for a lot of players if they faced a bot accounts. So, maybe this change has been implemented to avoid that some "players" exploit the fact that H2H losses got some rewards.

But as I said, that's just a guess.
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    4 years ago

    Thanks for letting me know, won't do so again-- but I was hoping to get at least a one word response from someone EA associated!

    I get that, but I feel like this is an unreasonable adjustment to that doesn't actually fit that problem. What i'm encountering now is that basically there is no reason to keep playing a game if it starts off poorly, because any more time sunk into a losing match is just a waste of my time. So i acutally find myself quitting matches earlier so I don't waste time on a losing game-- especially since the momentum seems to make comebacks even more improbable.

    Just seems like they're punishing people for being bad at the game, making me choose to get no awards/xp and practice online, or just not play H2H but never get better at playing against humans. It reads to me as very anti-consumer.

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    4 years ago

    If there is no bumping, what can I do to get an EA response? It's insane to me that no one is mentioning this fact and I can't even get a confirmation if it's intended or another of the plethora of issues that have come with this launch.

    • Neo_Novalis's avatar
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      4 years ago
      @Drizzt9922 thank you for your understanding! the only thing I can do is to ask you to be patient a bit more, please! most of the community managers are off for the weekend and will be back tomorrow. Since the game has been released recently, they have a lot of posts to work through. that's most likely the main reason why none of them managed to come back to you on Friday. I hope you will receive an answer soon.

      good luck!
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      4 years ago

      Disappointed that I cannot get a simple yes/no confirmation if this is working as intended, or any sort of update on if this will stay the same or change in the future.

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        4 years ago

        This forum should be named "EA (Doesn't give) answers!"

        I though this was a reasonable request, calmly posed. Why are you punishing players who want to get better at your game?

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