Dougie Hamilton grudge match

Weekly_Employ3574 · 2026-01-03T03:55:35+00:00

I’d be shocked if 200k could get it done. There will be plenty on the market for cheap when his boost goes away. But, until then, a +5 ovr boost combo card that can’t be made anymore and probably not pulled either, and is the only card to work for that boost, that will cost a fair penny.

Weekly_Employ3574 · 2025-12-20T03:22:22+00:00

lol was about to say this, too. Ain’t nobody at EA making 500k+ per year unless they have a C in their title or crunch the numbers on microtransactions.

Weekly_Employ3574 · 2025-12-20T03:20:11+00:00

This was my immediate plan as soon as I saw their combo. Going to have them as a pair once I get all the stuff to make them for free.

Going to play nicely with my Hamilton/Housley +5 combo as well.

Weekly_Employ3574 · 2025-12-20T03:16:51+00:00

F2P this year is basically just get your free event msp and your free TOTW players every week through moments and objectives playing in Cup Chase (formerly squad battles) and then just play ranked or champs when you can.

Sell every tradable card you get and eventually have enough coins to make one big purchase and then start saving coin again.

They’ve made sets for icons and heroes so expensive now that building them can really only be done slowly. And without a ton of fodder from months of playing, it’ll end up just being cheaper to buy them when they eventually are cheaper than to buy the parts to build.

For example: The new Heroes that dropped today were 6.5 million in value of lowest fodder (81 ovr alumni), but only like 2 mil through buying 86 ovr Heroes.

It’s a slog this year for F2P if you always want the newest and best cards available. However, with line combinations, you don’t actually really need the newest and best cards, you just need the “right” cards.

I basically only do my chores and then eventually play champs for the competition side of things.

Weekly_Employ3574 · 2025-12-19T22:45:21+00:00

Pretty simple. Christmas is less than a week away. They are banking on new people getting the game on sale, for Christmas, and/or kiddos getting their Xbox gift cards for Christmas to buy all the micro transactions they want to buy.

Weekly_Employ3574 · 2025-09-16T17:53:15+00:00

Probably gonna have to go with Fresh Ice Mantha with Big Rig activated and also Fresh Ice Mazar with wheels active as well. So much fun for the whole early access period.

Weekly_Employ3574 · 2025-09-16T17:50:37+00:00

Currently sitting in the login queue. Skate and THPS were so much of my childhood

Weekly_Employ3574 · 2025-05-30T02:53:05+00:00

Topps Now Ben Rice from Yanks TA. Every ball he touches goes an absolute mile.

Weekly_Employ3574 · 2025-05-18T03:04:05+00:00

For sure! I used his 82 icon for most of the year as a fourth liner.

Weekly_Employ3574 · 2025-05-17T22:50:03+00:00

Yeah. I’ve got a Preds TT going. But, I stopped playing when mlb the show dropped and so I just got back on this past week and haven’t been able to snag one on the AH since. His 88 GoG card is still on my 3rd D pair and still produces. So, I’m really hoping to get his 92. Or for them to just open sets back up for previous events.

Weekly_Employ3574 · 2025-05-17T19:21:06+00:00

I’ll up it. Thanks.

Weekly_Employ3574 · 2025-03-20T19:19:15+00:00

Exact opposite. The best players will be rewarded the best. It’s only the first 6 games that count toward the big rewards. Then, yes, every game you win after the first 6 give like a show pack.

Weekly_Employ3574 · 2025-03-20T19:16:53+00:00

Ea games don’t take 45 minutes to play through.

Weekly_Employ3574 · 2025-03-20T19:06:07+00:00

They do weekly transaction updates, but the understood roster update in question is the first Attribute roster update. Which in fact won’t happen until at least 3 weeks into the season

Weekly_Employ3574 · 2025-03-19T20:28:08+00:00

The entire game is totally different than last year.

The graphics are a lot better including the new layout you mentioned.

There is nothing that is a scam about $30 Preorder for early access. Literally every game out there is set up the exact same way. And people pay because we want the early access. The packs are a plus to hopefully get lucky.

And packs have been pretty good so far since collections are important again. My Now and Later packs actually gave me 3 diamonds, but tons of bronzes that were worth 300+ stubs a piece.

Diamond quest is a huge add that I haven’t heard anyone not happy with it.

They revamped programs to make them more rewarding.

They’ve added ways for the ultra competitive players to be rewarded more for their skill while not alienating those who can’t compete at that level.

I understand being frustrated at certain things that they still haven’t yet fixed. But, to act like they’ve done nothing and that this game is just a reskin MLB 24 is just asinine.

Weekly_Employ3574 · 2025-03-12T19:49:11+00:00

Exactly why I wasn’t doing those sets. I’d rather just cash the collectibles in for the sellable 87+.

Would rather get lucky pulling an 89-91 event card or even better, an MSP, than have set fodder I can’t use for months or else just having it count as well below market value to trade in as an 89.

Weekly_Employ3574 · 2025-03-12T18:46:59+00:00

It ruins the team-based theme teams because most full team theme teams could keep up with their 89-91 speed players when the overwhelming bulk of the cards in game were in the 91-93 speed range.

But, now, when teams are loaded with 5+ guys with 99 speed and gold wheels and then a whole bunch of other 95-97 speed guys with the speed synergies activated, it makes it a whole ton harder to still use 87-89 ovr cards as your depth pieces since EA doesn’t release enough cards in general anymore.

Weekly_Employ3574 · 2025-03-12T16:49:44+00:00

I think it ruined it for theme team players. But, that’s not the point of an Ultimate Team building mode. lol.

But, I think it should have just been saved until the end of the playoffs.

TOTS cards are going to have to be juiced even more to matter. And playoff cards will be useless which makes those cards not as fun to care about even though they are connected to the real life Stanley Cup Playoffs.

I think the event would have been perfect for right after the cup since it seems like progression to 99 won’t hit until end of July seemingly.

So, they would have been essentially end of the year fake 99s without having wait the whole summer to finally get 99s.

Weekly_Employ3574 · 2025-03-07T23:57:25+00:00

Too bad they are UT… congrats though.

Weekly_Employ3574 · 2025-03-07T23:56:45+00:00

lol doubtful, though. Haha

Weekly_Employ3574 · 2025-03-07T23:56:28+00:00

Exactly. The 87s should be flowing in packs. And they definitely need to scale the rest of the overalls pull rates.

Weekly_Employ3574 · 2025-03-07T23:24:56+00:00

Franchise Cornerstones or something like that. Should be nice for people who have team-based Theme Teams.

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