Please just listen to your community
I know I speak for almost the entire community of players when I say that Madden mobile has dropped off significantly since removing the auction house. One of the most enjoyable parts of the game was the card trading, buying and selling, investing in certain cards, sniping cards at low prices, saving up for that one card you wanted and finally getting it, the AH added so much to the game. I understand the coin selling issues that led to bots running the auction house (so our cards weren’t actually bought by eachother, but by an EA robot middle man), and then eventually the removal of the auction house altogether. There had to have been so many other options to fight that “issue,” though it was hardly a problem, instead of just eliminating the ah entirely. Seems like it was a cop out move, and an unfair punishment to the community, especially the entirely free to play players. It seems like each year since those golden years, the game has become more and more pay-to-win and less enjoyable. Not just because of the auction house either. The store is now filled with hard cash offers and lots of madden cash offers, some of which are locked behind other paywalls. So we have to buy a pass to be able to buy certain packs. coins are pretty much useless for buying packs, and of course packs overall have been entirely deincentivised and nerfed. that was another one of the great parts of the game that you took away, ripping packs was so addicting! Speaking of the store, that seems to be the only thing that sees any significant updating and tweaking with each yearly update. Gameplay got a single overhaul since I started playing 8 (EIGHT) years ago and that was pretty much it. One of the biggest issues is the change from a team and player overall rating cap of 99 changing to an abstract system of just adding player overall numbers to an aggregate total, rather than averaging them out. To me, this is just a lazy way to change gameplay to make it so player stats and overalls do not matter in the slightest. If I am playing a guy who is +200 or so on me, my wide receivers and running backs can’t outrun their line backers half the time. That just does not make sense. Things were better when there were certain cards that everyone wanted for their crazy speed or acceleration rating (and of course, they'd be able to hunt for that card on the AH!!!!). not sure when the last time any of you guys at ea actually spent real time playing the game was, but im sure it has been a while. Have you ever played the game with sound on and listened to the grunting noises the players make? its a good feature, except for when they make high pitched sqealing sounds!
anyways i know no one at ea will give the community the time we deserve, not to mention make any actual changes to the game, so my writing all this was probably a waste of time. on the off chance ea is reading this, just know this game's community and fanbase was so much bigger and stronger before you butchered the game we loved…
