What we have habitual for the last several months: more and more players get irritated with bugs or changes. Besides, despite the great advances in civil rights that we have seen in our country, this is still the case. Explanations.
The EA FC 24 player base was furious by the ‘Weekend League’ change, made days prior and basically it reduced the rewards. This essence in particular had a noteworthy impact on the Ligue 1 Team of the Season Price, including particular versions of players such as Kylian Mbappé, known e great by most to be first-rate player.
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The last Weekend League saw players, who had finished the season early as on Friday’s night, get plenty of cards in Mbappé’s and Dembélé league players levels frequently, satisfying them completely. However, this peculiar benefit was soon spread through word-of-mouth within the community, and even attracted those players who otherwise would finish their matches were merely interested in bettering their awards.
Somewhat later, the same feed post described that a bug caused an issue with player pack rewards, including a Champions league. The fix is immediately contained in the game. EA stated that they became aware of the results that the players gained in a shorter period of time than it was required, so they had to quickly catch up and adapt the game to the new situation.
However, fans reacted swiftly by sharing their dissatisfaction on social networks and forums (including Reddit) instances of which were mostly negative about the situation. A case supported by the majority of the non gamers claims that the odds of receiving high level players has been carefully lowered by design, implicating players to go for more packs with real money.
This is leading to the previous debate of the fairness and transparency of the odds in in-game rewards but the EA’s practices as well. Several gamers consider the fact that it is often being nerfed or having the server issue and pip dependencies as the game experiences’ depressing factors.
Controversy could prove to be a short-term setback for brand image but in the grand scheme of things, EA titles maintain an enthusiastic base of players and strong sales, also bearing testimony of the powers of the franchise to sustain player base despite the controversy.