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That he fathered a child out of an affair? Bro, if that is your equivalent a “criminal” act 😂 , you gotta do better than that. You could at least say Roethlisberger, but then you’d actually notice he isn’t in the game either.

They are the stars that EA touts annually in their promos. The common denominator is their convicted criminal histories. Who did I leave out? Michael Irvin or maybe Jimmy Smith?

DV charges are serious, doesn’t matter if it was him or Drini, defending anyone without knowing the specifics based solely on race is pretty crazy. All I saw anyone say here is EA knows more than we do. Second, Favre? He’s not even in the game, wth are you talking about? Did EA just drop him as a Zero Chill champ or something? Meanwhile Vick is a convicted animal abuser and dog killer. It’s not “ganging up” on him or LT (pedo) or Tyreek (DV, Child Abuse) to strongly question EA’s moral compass featuring them so strongly in their marketing the game.

Having no “Community Manager” role let’s you know exactly what EA Tiburon management thinks of the community.

It's not an allegation of DV. DV charges were filed the allegation is that they were dropped. We don't know why, I haven't seen the court docket. Again, EA has the info here and made the decision. I doubt they would remove him if this was simply a dropped charge. If you want to look at dropped DV charges, look up the kicker Josh Brown who never played again in the NFL after the "allegations". As you noted, Vick, LT, Tyreek, Kareen Hunt, Malik McDowell, etc. EA has a long and noted history of supporting and glamorizing felons, even those that have been convicted. The only two instances I can think of where they took action to remove someone from the game was Jon Gruden (within 48 hours of the NFL leaking his conversations) and Kareem Hunt back in '19. Even Ruggs who quite literally killed a woman and her dog, remained in the game the rest of the year. My point being if they took this action, they did so with a significant amount of reasoning to do so.

I strongly suspect there is more to this story. Has anyone besides him confirmed the DV charges were dropped? Were they dropped because he agreed to a diversion? A lot of unknowns. The amount of people supporting him in this thread is pretty wild without knowing the facts. Then again we had people legit supporting Ruggs two years ago, so I’m not shocked.

I’ve been thinking about AC Mirage, it can’t be worse than Valhalla, but I know it won’t be as good as Origins or Odyssey. Probably will be my next move, but I’ve also never played RDR2 and people swear it’s one of the best games of all time.

Noted. This will be my New Year’s resolution.

It's not complicated because I believe we can agree on two things. First, the game has gotten progressively worse year after year. That's the whole point of this thread. Yes? Secondly, EA's revenues continue to climb, 80% of that is attributable to Live Content (point purchases from the store). Agreed? Ok. Then just simple deduction, whales are the ones spending the copious amounts of money on this game. It's not the NMS players who simply buy the title. Again, you can look at their earnings reports to prove this out.

It's weird, because it's like you play MyTeam, but don't really play it. On the surface, what you said is accurate, the Clutch Time, Domination, and TT rewards from the progression are trash. But the vault, wheel spins, and doors, are anything but. Bank the MT, and buy yourself Tournament Battle players for 10k each. Here's where MyTeam has a massive (and fun) advantage, EVO cards. You can get 4x 92 players, 8x 90s, and a host of 88's just from that program. - The Pyramid of Power had an easily obtainable 92 D-Wade, and 2x 90's for a small amount of MT. - Freaky Rewards for Halloween had 3x 90's including the hog himself Shawn Bradley who plays well above his stats. NMS I've pulled 10x 90s from packs and a shit ton of Rubies. Spend the MT wisely including the sales to lock in the sets for amethyst cards. They just had a free 90 OVR Bill Walton yesterday for doing the most basic of tasks. I get what you are saying about game play, I hate online as well because it's god awful mismatches, and offline sucks above All-Star, but as a card collecting and rewards based game, I think you need to give MyTeam a little more time to grow on you. There's no way you are fielding a 91 OVR team as NMS right now, that's easy in MyTeam. I agree with you on the coins though, but I attribute that to the Auction House more so than the rewards. Once MUT takes it away (and they will) it will be even more clear how god awful BND and other trash packs are for the mode.