This pay to win model in hut is not fair.

Why cant you developers etc give us back our rewards from nhl24 and prior? These 78+ packs aint it. You're right about HUT being a monetized mode, but NEVER to this extent. This is absurd levels of greed. All you EA people who are responsible for content and rewards should be constantly asking the higher ups to revert this change. If we had old rewards AND the xp path? Game would be 10/10 but unfortunately it isnt. 

This is actually such a gross reply to the player base in regards to monetization from a community manager. We realize theres microtransactions in HUT. There's been micro transactions in HUT for years. Telling players if they dont like the current money grabbing systems and strategy, then we should go to versus is just straight up disrespectful to the loyal player base who has supported this mode for years. There's been monetization, and thats fine, but there's been a clear decrease in earnable rewards, and a sever importance on buyable content. It's become just crazy levels of greed in forcing players to feel like they 'need' to spend money to keep up. There will always be money spent teams but I've never had a singele issue icing a good team until NHL 25-26 (and 26 is far worse). You and the content team or whoever makes these decisions need to have a hard look in the mirror of the direction of this game, because you'll likely lose a large portion of your player base going forward if this continues.

Monetization is fine - if it’s done properly. EA hasn’t done this. There was literally no way for the average player to get multiple 96 TOTY cards (which will tip the balance). Add in the fact that the LTD packs only had a 40% chance at dropping one, and even F2P players who took the chance to drop coins on the pack were likely to miss out, and it becomes even worse. 

Find a better way to monetize, or start dusting off your resume, because it’ll be the death knell of HUT if things continue like this.