Arena needs massive changes ASAP
First off it's the only competitive mode left with OD gone so making it pay to play is ridiculous but let's look past that for now. Just got a matchup on my first attempt that was me 2400 vs them 30...
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From Hawskee:
- Arena Changes:
Added validators to Team OVR matchmaking to hopefully solve the extreme mis-matches.
Updating matchmaking to have explicit factors around OVR and not just a weighting score.
Removal of the loss penalty for matches before hitting HOF (less than 475 Arena points).
Difficulty going from All-Pro before HOF and All-Madden in HOF to Pro before HOF and All-Pro difficulty in HOF (only for Arena I).
Restricting higher OVRs from getting into all tournaments. This is going to require a client update and further dev. work to push out, though.
Other Arena Changes on the Table:
Lineup locks where someone with a higher OVR cannot have any players over a certain OVR when trying to enter a "lower" Arena.
Take some leaderboard rewards and adding them to milestone rewards.
Just played a match up 800 overall below me and then 400 above me so the match making is still off. The other proposed changes are good but still don't solve the main issues. Improved match making should reduce the number of auto losses but it is still going to enrage players when it happens because you made the attempts cost soooooo much and made them cost madden cash instead of stamina. Players want to play and making the only competitive format pay to play does not make your product appealing. You need need to reduce the cost drastically, like to 10 MC if you are not going to fix the auto loss by allowing you to keep your attempt or to 25 MC if that is made a reality. Otherwise the attempts just cost too much especially if you only get to play 1 or 2 matches with them before getting an auto loss. EA, you have dropped the ball on this one, the community has spoken and the above changes do NOT address the main issues what so ever! DO BETTER!
