When it comes to exchanges, EA should look at the "daily upgrade"-SBCs to see how it should be done. These are indeed upgrades. Right now it feels like rather than being about upgrading, in many cases exchanges is just a matter of prioritizing one thing over another. In some cases it can even be negative to do an exchange. For example: I was almost completely new to HUT when it came to Game Pass a short while back. The first few days I did the gold player exchange. Coming from EAFC/FIFA-series I thought the two cards were certain to be guaranteed upgrades from what I traded in, which it absolutely should have been. Instead, in most cases, I ended up with worse cards than I traded in.
An auto updating auction house or revamped auction house. The one in NHL is abysmal compared to Madden. Madden even has a phone app for their auction house. That means players can interact and make their team better while not being at their console (lunch or break at work for instance).
Maybe updating the lower MSP’s to one overall upgrade per month… say you have the HH’er ones they’re max upgrade overall is 86! Maybe being able to upgrade them 1 overall per month to where they will be 94 overall items at this time of the year so they’re not just garbage now? Like who uses their 86 Overall HH Adam Fox at this time of year?? Just my thought
First of all it would be important that something changes in the gameplay and not just in the ultimate team gameplay which is the be-all and end-all in the game
Packs are an addiction, especially in the shop. Anything that increases odds could impact pack sales. If customer that buys packs pulls a purple after opening 4, when it use to take say 7. That a loss of potential revenue. I agree with everything you mentioned, but those ideas are common sense and benefit the customer. EA is only out to benefit themselves. There is also no thought put into these events which is most likely due to lack of resources (people) and sticking to basic rinse wash repeat. The reason why the imbalance occurs with the collectibles later in the season is to simply push customers to packs. There direction is "How can we maximize revenue at the tail end of the games lifecycle". It is not "how do we make the game more enjoyable and players more easily accessible for customers going into the summer"
When it comes to exchanges, EA should look at the "daily upgrade"-SBCs to see how it should be done. These are indeed upgrades.
Right now it feels like rather than being about upgrading, in many cases exchanges is just a matter of prioritizing one thing over another. In some cases it can even be negative to do an exchange. For example:
I was almost completely new to HUT when it came to Game Pass a short while back. The first few days I did the gold player exchange. Coming from EAFC/FIFA-series I thought the two cards were certain to be guaranteed upgrades from what I traded in, which it absolutely should have been. Instead, in most cases, I ended up with worse cards than I traded in.
An auto updating auction house or revamped auction house. The one in NHL is abysmal compared to Madden. Madden even has a phone app for their auction house. That means players can interact and make their team better while not being at their console (lunch or break at work for instance).
They had that in nhl 13
Maybe updating the lower MSP’s to one overall upgrade per month… say you have the HH’er ones they’re max upgrade overall is 86! Maybe being able to upgrade them 1 overall per month to where they will be 94 overall items at this time of the year so they’re not just garbage now? Like who uses their 86 Overall HH Adam Fox at this time of year?? Just my thought
First of all it would be important that something changes in the gameplay and not just in the ultimate team gameplay which is the be-all and end-all in the game
Packs are an addiction, especially in the shop. Anything that increases odds could impact pack sales. If customer that buys packs pulls a purple after opening 4, when it use to take say 7. That a loss of potential revenue. I agree with everything you mentioned, but those ideas are common sense and benefit the customer. EA is only out to benefit themselves. There is also no thought put into these events which is most likely due to lack of resources (people) and sticking to basic rinse wash repeat. The reason why the imbalance occurs with the collectibles later in the season is to simply push customers to packs. There direction is "How can we maximize revenue at the tail end of the games lifecycle". It is not "how do we make the game more enjoyable and players more easily accessible for customers going into the summer"
Will never happen. They (EA) needs the game to feel stagnant in order to push the next year's game.
Great vid burty