As a squad battle player this is ridiculous. If the goal is to force as many players to quit your game as possible, then good job! You claimed the goal was play how you want, this is the exact opposite. Even if you would have just boosted rewards for online players you would have gotten less backlash, but crippling rewards for squad battles is going to enrage a large portion of the player base and your customers. And I hear the defense from online players is that EA wants to reward based on difficulty, yet every difficulty in squad battles is now exactly the same, so that defense is as broken as this game is. The dev team this year for HUT is completely incompetent. We all support this game regardless of how we choose to play it, so catering to one playstyle and to one type of customer is an absolutely stupid strategy, but par for the course with EA.