Recent Packs!

Opened 12 packs of cards ranging in value from 40,000 which I purchased 5 of, up to 100,000 coins having purchased 2. The others were 55,000 and 75,000 respectively. And the best card I pulled. Was an 85. Actually 2 85's in total. Now to say these packs are a joke and complete rip-off, would be an understatement. And in the Elite pack  which is 1800 points ( or roughly $ 22.00) it states greater chance offer. Greater chance of pulling any Hut Elites player (week 1). You have a 4% chance of a 92+ player. And a 32% chance of an 86. How does this make it a greater chance. 50/50 would be a greater chance. But those odds. Laughable.

Feb 23/2024. Has anyone seen packs this bad in previous editions of this game. Currently 15 packs available. 5 packs can be only attained by purchase. And 6 packs untradeable. Plus the cost has now seemed to escalate from previous years. Not sure if EA is sending this game in the right direction.

its going in the right direction for ea.. more expenisve money only pack.. * servers.

Is it me. Or has EA gone from bad to worse. The pack costs in $ is absolutely ridiculous, and here's hoping no one buys into that trap. But the coin cost of these packs is becoming outrageous. There is a trade deadline pack for 97500 coins or roughly $22.00 in actual money. 1 player. Odds 92+ 2.2%. 90+. 13%. 86. 44@ and 85. 100%. So you are not guaranteed to pull a purple card 86+ and your chances of doing so are less than 50%. And. It's untradeable. What I don't get with all these untradeable cards is. EA you own them all. Players are only renting them. You are not losing money by giving out better cards. But I guess on the flip side. The $ payment is way above lucrative for you. How you can charge the $ you do for packs, and the chances of getting something worthwhile are slim, is beyond me. Thought this game was created for player enjoyment. But I guess something else has changed that trend.

These packs has gone from bad to worse to plain garbage! My teams of recent years used to consist of untradeable players that i grinded out via packs that i got in rewards or packs payed with coins. Mostly anyway. This year it consists of players that i bought from coins. I tried to buy some really expensive packs (with hard earned coins. NEVER with cash!!) but when the reward is zero i stopped doing that. It is useless. I do not understand what EA would lose by spicing up the packs? And all of these upgradable players every week... jeeez!!! And now just as the year before and the year before that, i'm thinking, this is my last year with this game... This time it might be because what the game has turned into. Especially this year.

EA. Suggestion for you. As the year progresses, why not loosen those purse strings and put better players in packs and rewards. Already 6 months into the season, and we are still getting 75-79, 80-81 cards. Yeah I know someone will say that they can be used for fillers And such. But the object of any game is to improve as you advance. And being limited to cards that were good 6 months ago. Do nothing now in helping players build better teams. The value of the cards has reduced drastically, that they at times are not worth putting on the trade block. This is not a lottery, where your chances of winning the big prize is astronomical. It's a video game. But you treat the cards and packs you make available, like it is a lottery contest. It's not like you are actually giving away anything. As you own everything in the game. It's a rental company that you run. And paying actual cash for a pack of cards, which you then deem untradeable, is truly benign. If someone is actually using their own money, should they not have a say as to what they want to do with what they just purchased. I hope that next year's game can take a different approach, and be more open concerning making cards and packs graduated as the months pass, and curtail the obsolete ones that have no worth now, lwhere in the beginning they did.

And as a follow up. Please delete that 5% tax. It serves no purpose, only to sellers, who as months pass, actually lose coin value from the original purchase value. What purpose does it serve the community?

The packs that have been put up for purchase in the last several months, are truly unbelievable. In so much that the cost is no where near the content of the pack. Take for example. The elite nhl awards boost pack. 230,000 coins, with only a guarantee of an 86 card. 10 items in the pack, and its also untradable.

Now! At the beginning of the year this pack might have been worth taking a chance on. But the season is almost over , an EA is still charging 230,000 coins for an 86 card. As I'm sure the rest will be garbage. An an 86 card right now

, is pretty much useless to anyone, as its value is probably around 9000 at best. EA  the season is over. Stop being so damn cheap. The cards cost you nothing. So reduce the cost, or increase the value of the content.

The packs when you check the odds, have a brief statement at the bottom. Stating packs are dynamically generated and probabilities are verified using a computational simulation. For more details go to the site mentioned. Went there to check out this dynamic generated device they use in computing odds. And guess what. Just states a bunch of wording on what the so called system is about. But NO odd calculus. Have to wonder, is this just a random system they use, or is there an actual odds break down which represents the odds. So EA how about divulging this computational system you supposedly use. Because the way I have seen packs. There is no way in the world that with the odds you state,  you would at least pull one or more of those cards. 30 card pack with a 69% chance of pulling an 83 (as an example), and you don't. Packs have always been bad  but recently they are getting worse

My whole idea of how they should do it is like so.  As we go by each season the rate of cards need to go up to match the increase in overalls.  Like around this time I'd say pulling 85s should be common (35%), 87-88 uncommon (30%), 89-92 rare (15%), 93+ rarest (10%).  When it comes to player packs.  Instead rates stay terrible and people just rely on their Squad Battle or Online packs from now on.

I'm fully expecting NHL 25 to have the Season Pass stuff that EA FC has that took it from Madden.  Which will provide cards in it.