Dom Gronk Glitch?
This morning people got up to 5 Dom Gronks each for a bronze trophy. I know the sets were removed, but people still have the player. And, a lot of them used one for the New England captain set. I'm l...
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EA Game Leads, Developers and Comms team,
There was clearly a major mistake yesterday as the Prestige test sets were inadvertently rolled out, and available to Madden Mobile users for ~30 minutes yesterday. As you should obviously be aware from every Madden Mobile message board, the online community is outraged. Many have worked for hours and hours (and paid cash for stamina) in pursuit of one of the best cards of the game, and you accidentally made in available to anyone playing at that time.
When hackers found a way to get OBJ for free, you responded quickly and banned those players from the game. This was great and an appropriate response! It also allowed gameplay to return to a competitive level where those cheating to get OBJ were eliminated from the playing field. However, when the mistake was on EA's end, you have been silent and appear to be ignoring the issue. With many players getting Domination Gronk for the price of a bronze trophy, many people have received a substantial upgrade and competitive advantage... while others efforts (& cash) have gone wasted, and you should address this.
You owe it to the community to issue a statement on what happened, how extensive it happened (was in 1000 users or 500,000 users), and what actions you'll be taking to repair the competitive landscape. If you don't know the compensatory actions yet, you should say what is being considered and when you plan to decide and enact.
Shame on you for ignoring your customers and not having a basic communication strategy!
-WSK
@WSK1 wrote:EA Game Leads, Developers and Comms team,
There was clearly a major mistake yesterday as the Prestige test sets were inadvertently rolled out, and available to Madden Mobile users for ~30 minutes yesterday. As you should obviously be aware from every Madden Mobile message board, the online community is outraged. Many have worked for hours and hours (and paid cash for stamina) in pursuit of one of the best cards of the game, and you accidentally made in available to anyone playing at that time.
When hackers found a way to get OBJ for free, you responded quickly and banned those players from the game. This was great and an appropriate response! It also allowed gameplay to return to a competitive level where those cheating to get OBJ were eliminated from the playing field. However, when the mistake was on EA's end, you have been silent and appear to be ignoring the issue. With many players getting Domination Gronk for the price of a bronze trophy, many people have received a substantial upgrade and competitive advantage... while others efforts (& cash) have gone wasted, and you should address this.
You owe it to the community to issue a statement on what happened, how extensive it happened (was in 1000 users or 500,000 users), and what actions you'll be taking to repair the competitive landscape. If you don't know the compensatory actions yet, you should say what is being considered and when you plan to decide and enact.
Shame on you for ignoring your customers and not having a basic communication strategy!
-WSK
YES I AGREE SO UNFAIR!!!!! How will we even have a chance to win a h2h match when everyone has Dom Gronks?!?!?!?!!?!? Remove Dom Gronks from everybody who did the prestige sets! If you can't because the only way you would be able to do that is to remove Dom Gronks from everybody, then do it!!!!! Just give everyone the Dom collectibles as a sorry gift, so everyone can have Dom Gronk. Or, give them 1,000,000 Madden Cash or coins. DO SOMETHING!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOW!!!!!!!!! I haven't even gotten 1 Dom collectible, yet everyone gets him for a bronze trophy?!?!!?!?!??!?!?!?!?! FIX THIS NOW!!!!!!!!!
- Ha! Don't hold your breath. Remember last season's issue with the out-of-position players glitch and the Kam Chancellor Gauntlet glitch? EA didn't do squat about those glitches and my guess is they won't do squat about this one either. An acquaintance in EA told me they do this on purpose to let preselected and prenotified users take advantage of the "glitch."
@janosfia wrote:
Ha! Don't hold your breath. Remember last season's issue with the out-of-position players glitch and the Kam Chancellor Gauntlet glitch? EA didn't do squat about those glitches and my guess is they won't do squat about this one either. An acquaintance in EA told me they do this on purpose to let preselected and prenotified users take advantage of the "glitch."I don't know about those glitches. Never happened to me. BUT ON PURPOSE?!?!?!?!?!?! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?!?!?!?!? THERE IS NO WAY EA DOES THIS ON PURPOSE!!!!!! NO WAY!!!!!!!!!!! If they did, do you think they would still exist? NO! EVERYONE WOULD HATE THEM!!!!!!!!
@Herobrine3958 wrote:
@WSK1 wrote:EA Game Leads, Developers and Comms team,
There was clearly a major mistake yesterday as the Prestige test sets were inadvertently rolled out, and available to Madden Mobile users for ~30 minutes yesterday. As you should obviously be aware from every Madden Mobile message board, the online community is outraged. Many have worked for hours and hours (and paid cash for stamina) in pursuit of one of the best cards of the game, and you accidentally made in available to anyone playing at that time.
When hackers found a way to get OBJ for free, you responded quickly and banned those players from the game. This was great and an appropriate response! It also allowed gameplay to return to a competitive level where those cheating to get OBJ were eliminated from the playing field. However, when the mistake was on EA's end, you have been silent and appear to be ignoring the issue. With many players getting Domination Gronk for the price of a bronze trophy, many people have received a substantial upgrade and competitive advantage... while others efforts (& cash) have gone wasted, and you should address this.
You owe it to the community to issue a statement on what happened, how extensive it happened (was in 1000 users or 500,000 users), and what actions you'll be taking to repair the competitive landscape. If you don't know the compensatory actions yet, you should say what is being considered and when you plan to decide and enact.
Shame on you for ignoring your customers and not having a basic communication strategy!
-WSK
YES I AGREE SO UNFAIR!!!!! How will we even have a chance to win a h2h match when everyone has Dom Gronks?!?!?!?!!?!? Remove Dom Gronks from everybody who did the prestige sets! If you can't because the only way you would be able to do that is to remove Dom Gronks from everybody, then do it!!!!! Just give everyone the Dom collectibles as a sorry gift, so everyone can have Dom Gronk. Or, give them 1,000,000 Madden Cash or coins. DO SOMETHING!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOW!!!!!!!!! I haven't even gotten 1 Dom collectible, yet everyone gets him for a bronze trophy?!?!!?!?!??!?!?!?!?! FIX THIS NOW!!!!!!!!!
Just give everyone two 99 Domination Rob Gronkowskis. Just about everyone has him except for me. So there you go. 1 for their lineup and 1 for the captain set and be done with this. All accounts of Madden Mobile should get this no matter when they are created during this season cycle. As for future problems, just do not release something like this again. Don't give away your best cards in the game in these stupid sets. It is the second straight year of this and this time it is on an even bigger scale than the first. Releasing the NFL DOMINATION set early in the game was not smart EA, but you can fix it with the above ideas. Do not sit back EA and do nothing. Do what is best for the people, either remove Dom Gronk from the game or give everyone 2, there you go.
