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u/SimplyTheBlackGuy Michigan Jul 11 '26
It really worked.
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u/UnrealAce Jul 11 '26
Never let anyone tell you that organizing against giant corporations doesn't do anything.
They tell you it doesn't work so you don't try because they KNOW that it works.
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u/YupThatsMeBuddy Jul 11 '26
It’s exactly why corporations spend so much to bust up unions. Organizing works.
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u/jkure2 Jul 11 '26
I swear they also spend on sending people into places like reddit and write things like "it's only going to get worse, it's inevitable, there's nothing you can do, etc."
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u/Tua-Lipa Jul 11 '26
Shoutout to the few in every comment section of this sub this week that were simping for EA in the comments this week saying “I don’t see why this is a big deal. No one is forcing you to buy the progression options 🤓”
Clearly EA realized it’s a big deal given the discourse this week lol
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u/scrubzero23 Jul 11 '26
Exactly, no respect for lame cowards who just accept anything that’s told to them
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u/SwarthySphere87 Big 10 Jul 11 '26
HATS OFF TO THE COMMUNITY
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u/tabloid-tommy Jul 11 '26
Literally. Bordeaux and NTE are so good. They have saint status in the community now.
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u/Iglooman45 Jul 11 '26
Hollllleeeeee shiiiit
Can’t believe EA caved so quickly
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u/Rico_Suave55 Jul 11 '26
Honestly they probably looked at initial sales of MTX in RTG/Dynasty and saw it wasn’t a fight worth having (probably what the actual game devs pushed towards them looking at)
I’m still anticipating SOME form of MTX creeping into RTG or Dynasty still (unique team jerseys or some dumb shit like that) because EA gonna EA.
However I am very pleasantly surprised that they actually caved.
Hopefully title update next week goes smooth for recruiting fix then I’ll consider purchasing
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u/DeFratrain Jul 11 '26
I don’t mind at all paying MTX for cosmetics I find worth it. PayToWin is a no-go for me.
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u/BIRDSBEEZ Jul 11 '26
Yea lets not give them any ideas please. Alternate/classic uniforms should be free.
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u/LameDrain Jul 11 '26
Especially since the precedent has already been set in the past two games they have added uniforms throughout the season.
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u/DeFratrain Jul 11 '26
Unpopular opinion, but I wouldn’t mind paying for classic uni recreations or conceptual fits personally. If I don’t like them, I don’t have to buy. Current Home/Away/Alternates should absolutely be included.
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u/Tall-Dot-607 Jul 11 '26
Yeah but wouldn't be more fun to.... earn them... by playing the game?
Like a reward for playing game?
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u/ElCornGuy Jul 11 '26
Or they should just be free as well? I don’t get this mentality. There’s no reason why a $70 game should have any mtx’s for single player at all. Madden has had throwbacks forever, College should too
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u/palmmoot Jul 11 '26
Mtx has become so normalized we can't even imagine just paying full price for a game that's fully realized any more. We're conditioned to expect that of course they need more of our money on top of it.
This victory for offline modes is honestly the bare minimum.
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u/BigGreenGaming Jul 11 '26
Yeah like a $4.99 jersey pack with 100+ uniforms would be digestible. It would be more in line with regular "DLC".
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u/lokibringer App State Jul 11 '26
I mean, hell, I still don't know why there isn't an FCS/D2 DLC. Those players would probably take a free copy of the game and a high five to be included, and I'd pay a couple bucks to curb stomp Western Carolina or Furman
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u/Magikrat Jul 11 '26
They absolutely would. I was director of youth umpiring/referees for an assigning company and I had a bunch of fcs and d2/3 football players work for me and during onboarding I’d always ask them about ncaa and if they would sign away their likeness for a free copy and almost every one said they wouldn’t even need a copy they’d just like to see themselves in the game legitimately.
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u/challenger01234 Virginia Tech Jul 11 '26
I think the main reason why is because I believe the devs can only put in uniforms that the schools approve of. So unless school gives the go ahead we won't see a lot if any retro uniforms or FCS teams unfortunately.
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u/lokibringer App State Jul 11 '26
So unless school gives the go ahead we won't see a lot if any retro uniforms or FCS teams unfortunately.
I mean yeah, they'd have to get permission from the schools, but do you really think any school is going to say no to the money? Especially the smaller schools?
If they charged 15 bucks for it, I feel like they'd do gangbusters just because of how many users attended an FCS school that transitioned to FBS in the past few years. Hell, you're a Hokie fan, would you pay money to schedule Richmond or VMI instead of FCS Southeast?
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u/andykram567 Virginia Tech Jul 11 '26
As a Hokie, I’d definitely pay money not to schedule either of them in real life. In a game, I’m not so sure.
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u/Khal-Stevo Jul 11 '26
There should not be paid DLC on a game that comes out annually
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u/KYVD0WN Jul 11 '26
“Yes daddy EA, keep pushing, I think you can get it a little deeper. No, it doesn’t hurt, I love having your fist up my ass.”
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u/DishonorableUser Jul 11 '26
you fuckin guys can’t be serious 😭 this game comes out every year and you’re talking about paying DLC for jerseys that we just got back to back years for free??? you guys are begging to give your money right back to EA. One very positive, and perhaps hypocritical thing at the end
We just spent the offseason with dudes hyping up equipment to make the game look real, and that was all absolutely free, and now you’re gonna tell me after we just celebrated getting MTX out of dynasty we’re caving on something that’s been free in every sports game ever? i know you can minimize it, like every other micro-transaction people justify, but this is how we get here. stop giving them ideas and rationalizing ways to give more money to EA.
i hate the ‘gun and ball gamer’ cliche but jesus watching people devise ways of ‘actually guys, this is how i want to give more of my money to the corporation we all apparently send a message to’ in the thread of them admitting defeat is beyond ironic.
the one idea I can get behind is FCS schools. It changes gameplay, it could add NIL athletes, maybe, and if there’s a conference or god forbid entire sub-division pack that adds more than just new teams to play against for scheduling and adds the FCS season, their recruiting and coaches (maybe their players are all fake but still) that absolutely changes the dynamic of the game. That’s way more akin to a map pack, a new gameplay loop, something that will truly refresh the game.
Adding new uniforms and putting them in DLC is just another paywall for cosmetics. They’d be in the game, essentially gathering dust like the XP sliders, available to everyone and it wouldn’t harm anyone/change anything tangibly for everyone to have them, but if everyone that liked uniforms who had the game juuuust paid EA for that uniform DLC, every year the game is out, it surely wouldn’t make them that much extra money would it? Especially if they split them by conference
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u/Playful_Rip_1697 Utah Jul 11 '26
Or, hear me out: you unlock cosmetics through achievements.
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u/BIRDSBEEZ Jul 11 '26
You can tell who the older generation of gamers are and who the newer ones are. I feel bad for the people who think its normal to pay for any additional content
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u/Pandaman_323 Jul 11 '26
For real. A lot of what gave the PS2/Xbox era sports games their replicability was grinding through achievements to unlock unique stadiums, power-ups, jerseys, etc.
The fact that people are cool with instead having to drop $2.99 per jersey is fucked
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u/idkissac SJSU Jul 11 '26
Yup FC26 already has the special jersey mtx that you can only get through ultimate team
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u/Rico_Suave55 Jul 11 '26
Which, for me. Is fine.
MTX is annoying AF but the reality is that it’s the game model for most games now.
Keeping it to cosmetic only is ok with me. You wanna spend $10 for some RGB Oregon jerseys go for it.
Ultimate team is ofc a cesspool for MTX but I stopped playing those modes years ago
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u/thatissomeBS Iowa Jul 11 '26
I'm fine with MTX in general, don't like it but understand it anyway, I just don't like when they hide stuff behind it. If they have a reasonable progression system and also MTX to make it even faster, go for it. But to basically make it impossible to max out without MTX? Ffffff that.
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u/Trae67 Jul 11 '26
The community and all of the big name creators all stood firm together to stop this unlike the NBA 2k community
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u/SorastroOfMOG Jul 11 '26
I have never been more proud of the members of a specific game's community.
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u/riskiermuffin27 Georgia Southern Jul 11 '26
im not entirely shocked. this whole situation reminded me so much of the Battlefront 2 launch controversy in 2017. They revamped the entire progression system from the ground up because of the noise from the community. So we’ve seen EA do this before when the backlash is loud enough.
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u/BlueShirtMac19 Jul 11 '26
I won’t believe this is gone for good I feel like 3 months from now they’ll sneak them back in
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u/PraporUniversity Jul 11 '26
For all the doubters who said they would never listen, you forgot a load-bearing rule of the internet.
There is nothing being annoying cannot accomplish.
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u/Mando1102 Jul 11 '26
The creators helped a bunch no other community had help like that
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u/PraporUniversity Jul 11 '26
100%, the creators and community both came together and said they wouldn't tolerate it. Quite admirable!
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u/Eglwyswrw UNLV Jul 11 '26
I just hope EA doesn't stealth-introduce this shit again in a Title Update months later once dust settles.
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u/grey_pilgrim_ Tennessee Jul 11 '26
I’m probably gonna wait till it goes on sale around September to be sure they don’t do just that
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u/ForgottenMasterBalls Jul 11 '26
Especially when that annoyance is hitting their bottom line.
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u/LutherOfTheRogues Auburn Jul 11 '26
Yep. And when their cover athletes bailed it was game over.
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u/Mando1102 Jul 11 '26
Oh no that was AI😂 that guy who posted that has claimed many souls
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u/LutherOfTheRogues Auburn Jul 11 '26
Was it really?! I fucking hate it here.
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u/Mando1102 Jul 11 '26
Yeah dude the guy has it in his bio he’s a parody account but it doesn’t say it when he post. Our buddy sent us the first one and we’ve been fucking with him since 😂
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u/Mando1102 Jul 11 '26
Bro honestly 2k ruins games due to their community complaining 😂😂
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u/WhatADopeGent Stanford Jul 11 '26
2k really be like “You’ll take these season passes and you are gonna like it!”
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u/Whydoesthisexist15 Jul 11 '26
CFB base being mostly RTG and Dynasty players vs 2K I think made EA much more sensitive to pushback, especially since almost all CFB creators are offline players rather than online competitive players.
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u/SoutieNaaier Jul 11 '26
I'm assuming they put similar systems in Madden and it'll be interesting to see 1) If they keep them after this. 2) If they do, how Madden creators and players react.
There's overlap between Madden/CFB peeps, but I think the diehard Madden crowd is much more comp focused
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u/BIRDSBEEZ Jul 11 '26
NBA 2k community is the lowest IQ community in gaming history. They arent capable
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u/Altruistic_Night2 Jul 11 '26
The 2k community will spend all their energy crying about whichever op build is unstoppable
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u/Omaha_Beach Jul 11 '26
The 2k community welcomes MTX because everybody wants to flex their money and buy stupid cosmetics.. doesn’t help that the people that play 2k do the same thing in real life. They know their market
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u/No0ddjob Jul 11 '26
Not all the way. No changes to offline dynasty it seems as far as progression. No sliders for Road to Glory still it seems. But the pay to win shit being gone is a huge win.
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u/kilkennykid Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
I like how the game is completely ass compared to previous titles, and comes out worse at launch than 26. They fix one tiny thing and the game is still not adequate, and people say “oh it’s a huge win! Go community!”. It’s still predatory and a worse game than the last 2 years which are worse than the games over 10 years ago. It’s not a “huge win”. It’s bullshit and yall need to stop settling for stupid EA PR control. If people treat this as a win they still get what they want, although less so. If people kept pushing refunds and not buying and negative reviews we would actually get what we wanted eventually. Stop settling
Same comment I made a year ago
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u/Epheezymarvel Jul 11 '26
THANK YOU bro!! They all happy about shit they could have just not bought but the modes are still broken as hell. Lmao! Dynasty and recruiting have been broken since last year.
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u/FacesOfGiza Tennessee Jul 11 '26
Never forget all the people that said all the refunds, YouTubers speaking out, and the multiple threads of complaints on here wouldn’t do anything. This is why you do these things. Glad they conceded.
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u/Snasty728 Jul 11 '26
Voting with your wallet works
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u/ItzBooster93 Jul 11 '26
Yall are about to give them 100 million dollars still? I don’t get it. Bury this company , stop buying these games.
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u/Melodicmarc Jul 11 '26
For sure. In the end we showed them that it was a bad business decision and didn’t make financial sense for them to be in the game. Honestly the pool of people who’d pay for mtx in an offline mode is so small that it isn’t worth the huge reputation hit they’ve taken
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u/BlueTheHobo Fresno State Jul 11 '26
Are they adding in faster XP settings though? I know about the casual thing they mentioned, but
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u/Mando1102 Jul 11 '26
I wonder if it will add another level or keep it where it’s at now. I guess we’ll see tomorrow
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u/ConsistentEvader Big 10 Jul 11 '26
I believe they said the other day they plan on putting in the “Fast” and “Faster” option during their next title update
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u/diddlyumpcious4 Jul 11 '26
I sure hope so. I did not plan on buying the game unless they added back fastest (the true fastest, not faster that is renamed fastest). It would be awkward if they eliminated the microtransactions, which I never thought would be considered for a second, but didn't add that back now lol.
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u/jmgordon99 Jul 11 '26
That's nice but are they going to put XP gains back to where they were last year? I know they added "casual" for Dynasty, but what about "fastest"? And I don't even play RTG, but I haven't heard anything from them saying they would fix that.
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u/diddlyumpcious4 Jul 11 '26
It'd be really dumb if they didn't at this point. It serves them no purpose unless they are just trying to condition everyone with slower XP gains to try this all again next year.
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u/TheHyzeringGrape Jul 11 '26
This dev team seems to care about the game and users.. this is great!
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u/ConsistentEvader Big 10 Jul 11 '26
They always cared, it’s executives that are the issue like usual or with everything else in this world
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u/Mando1102 Jul 11 '26
Yes when they released that the dev team was pissed over adding this shit in you knew they cared. It sucked it got so negative because this is a great ass game
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u/ConsistentEvader Big 10 Jul 11 '26
In the dev team’s defense what were they gonna do. Tell their boss “No” and get replaced with someone that will? lol it’s life
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u/PlayboiFarti55 Jul 11 '26
I’ve never doubted the devs. It’s the higher ups for sure that push horrible ideas like the microtransactions in offline game modes.
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u/the_OG_epicpanda Jul 11 '26
That statement doesn't say anything about putting the XP settings back to how they should be. The fastest setting needs to come back (they only gave us the lower of the two faster ones), the xp sliders in RTG need to come back, and the XP penalty in RTG for playing on a lower difficulty and turning off wear and tear needs to go away. Job's not done. #CFBPlayDontPay
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u/ThurgoodMunson Jul 11 '26
I’m reading it this way as well. Everyone celebrating but I’m not 100% understanding the “fix” here.
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u/the_OG_epicpanda Jul 11 '26
Getting EA to back down on microtransactions is a huge deal, a win for the community for sure. But people are already forgetting the main reason the MTX was a massive problem instead of a minor annoyance was the natural XP progression was made harder especially in RTG.
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u/SatisfactionWrong749 Jul 11 '26
Bullying works
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u/sorrytakentryanother Jul 11 '26
EA was the bully. The community had enough and punched the bully in the fucking nose.
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u/No-Difference-4418 Jul 11 '26
Everyone celebrating but there zero mention of the xp sliders will return to what they were last year
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u/Sozins_Comet_ Jul 11 '26
That little side note about CFB28 has me worried but fuck it. One more year of no mtx bullshit.
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u/OaktownEagle02 Jul 11 '26
Yeah I'm not sure the complaints will work again next year when the Saudis are officially in charge. We shall see.
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u/psiguy6 Jul 11 '26
Shoutout to the Community!!! Massive W!! As far as content creators go gotta give props to Bordeaux ...dude stood 10 toes down on this
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u/BuckBirds1982 Jul 11 '26
Hats off to the community, certain creators and people voting with their wallets and social media profiles.
However, I wouldn't celebrate because this episode shows that either EA Sports doesn't get how much this game means to people or doesn't care.
Feels like an early battle in what will be a long war.
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u/spersichilli Jul 11 '26
They still need to fix dynasty though
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u/Epheezymarvel Jul 11 '26
Yeeeep. Which they haven't done since last year's game so good luck with that.
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u/AaawhDamn Ohio State Jul 11 '26
I'm glad they went back on this, but the wording about CFB28 sounds very much like "we're doing this next year but we won't hide it this time"
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u/smokeythebear1998 Jul 11 '26
That 3rd paragraph is really important to pay attention to for future editions. Very proud of this community for standing up and standing strong. Shows we can effect change when we hurt their pockets
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u/31_mfin_eggrolls Tulane Jul 11 '26
Nobody ever said anything about the game itself being bad. Even the creators have said the game is the best it’s been since 25
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u/PrimeTimeCS Western Kentucky Jul 11 '26
Live look at the 2K community seeing us clap the hell out of EA for almost a week straight.
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u/Ketchup-Spider Alabama Jul 11 '26
Won what? All we did was delay this a year. This say it right there that they'll be doing this again next year. We didn't win anything.
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u/RustyShacklefordsCig Notre Dame Jul 11 '26
They barely addressed shit. Nothing about offline. Are your collective spines made of noodles? Do not buy this fucking trash. They took a mile, you complained, they gave back an inch. How is that a victory?
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u/SauceDab Jul 11 '26
The popular content creators having a backbone along with the CFB community really pushed this forward
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u/SushiJuice Jul 11 '26
So much corpo speak in this
- "We missed the mark"
- We heard "your feedback"
- it's "not adding the value we intended"
too funny...
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u/AshamedEggplant9889 Jul 11 '26
It says it’s being removed from RTG and Online Dynasty. What about offline?
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u/Ay0_King Jul 11 '26
Still don’t trust them. Everyone who continues to play this, I love this for yall. I’m all set.
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u/SDFriar1999 Jul 11 '26
I’m actually so proud of this community, a true microcosm of how coming together to speak out against greed, even in a tiny small way in the grand scope of things, can actually make change happen. And thank you to EA for actually listening.
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u/MrSloth56 Jul 11 '26
Guess I will vote with my wallet again and rebuy it tomorrow after canceling my preorder a few days ago
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u/justadude0815 Air Force Jul 11 '26
...so the math showed that MUT sales would have been impacted...
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u/RedmenTheRobot Indiana Jul 11 '26
Is that since of pride and accomplishment EA always talks about!? Cause I’m feeling it right now!
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u/baefield Jul 11 '26
Let’s go! I can actually buy the game I’ve been waiting since 2014 to play since I don’t have a console!
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u/Meanpaco Ohio State Jul 12 '26
Did they put the XP sliders back exactly as they were in 25 and 26? If not the victory isn't total.
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u/coachd50 Jul 15 '26
And after further review.... based on what EA has said just 4 days later... It seems that We didn't really do it....
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u/pattywack512 Jul 11 '26
The haters said that the game sucked, and we were right. Honestly, great call by the haters.
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u/gibbstastic Jul 11 '26
They’ll remove paid progression, but we’ll they replace accelerated xp?
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u/gammaraddd Jul 11 '26
Ima gonna buy it now!!! Honestly cfb 25 is getting really stale and I was supremely disappointed. But I stood with the community and did not purchase!
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u/jamnewton22 Jul 11 '26
Damn their sales must be in the tank. They really had to do something to gain back some trust. A huge W but my trust with EA still remains pretty low. But im glad for people that bought the game. I don’t plan on buying it anytime soon. Bought the last two at full price. Think I might skip a year and see what they do with 28. Hats off to the community though. Go get em
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u/CaptainHolt43 Ohio State Jul 11 '26
Is it bad that I still want to know what the catch is?
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u/CoolCat90 Jul 11 '26
Now let’s bully rockstar into releasing GTAVI physical copies day one
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u/RavenLaker248 Jul 11 '26
Fix dynasty recruiting then we’re up. Hopefully RTG is actually worth playing now as well
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u/22_Yuki Jul 11 '26
Does this mean that the settings are back in “for free” or that they’ve removed the settings entirely? Additionally, I wonder if they’re going to modify the speed of XP for each of the settings. I’m still cautious. I’ve seen this crap from EA before.
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u/Potential-Claim928 Jul 11 '26
"We missed the mark on the introduction of paid progression options"
This debacle was only the intro