$30 Lootboxes in EA Sports FC is causing the community to implode

[John Elden Ring]

While FIFA players are well used to EA Sports adding expensive and powerful card packs later in the year-long life of the annualised football game, with the launch of FC 24, the community has reacted in shock to a $30 pack available to buy before the game even properly launched.

The Elite Season Opener Pack, currently available in the store, cost 285,000 Ultimate Team coins (the in-game currency), or 3,000 FC Points (the premium currency). 3,000 FC Points costs around $30. In true video game monetisation fashion, FC 24 does not let you buy 3,000 FC Points exactly in one bundle.

his Elite Season Opener Pack is so powerful it's causing some players to call FC 24 pay-to-win right out of the gate. It contains:

• 45 Rare Gold players rated 80 or higher
• 1 of 2 Player Pick Loan Base Hero rated 87 or higher
• 1 of 2 Player Pick Loan Base Hero rated 88 or higher

It’s worth pointing out the cards included in this pack are untradeable, which means owners can’t sell them on the FC 24 transfer market.

And even though this pack offers buyers a better chance of getting one of the best cards currently in Ultimate Team, the odds are that you will not. It may well be the case that you get 45 players rated in the low 80s, or plenty of duplicates depending on how many cards you already have in your club.

“Knew it was bad value but figured I'd get something,” redditor Appearance_Deficit said. “One 85 fodder and 26 [duplicates] all below 83 rated. Put [duplicates] into gold upgrades and got nothing. Essentially got a poor 100,000 pack for three times the price.”

It’s £30, there is absolutely no way it should be normalised for people to spend that amount of money on a game which is already overpriced,

redditor towfoon said.

In two weeks’ time you won’t have any interest in any of those players you pulled unless it is an absolutely insane pull. Not to mention this game has a life cycle of less than a year. Realistically, spending anything over $30 to $40 should net you some of the best players for the rest of the game.

Obviously it's a good pack but please seek therapy if you're buying this. First week of FIFA and you're dropping £30 on an untradeable pack.

Some FIFA players think this pack this early in the life of FC 24 marks the continuation of EA Sports’ strategy of gearing content towards store packs, rather than objectives such as Squad Building Challenges. "LOL literally just getting pack content," Business_Ad561 said. "Where are the objectives? SBCs? Dead game man."

 

[Helios]

Looks like me stopping at fifa23 was the perfect time to stop playing "eafc" games, i've got friends that have also stopped playing now. The best thing about fifa23 is that it has the world cup mode which will still work even after servers shutdown, on top of this cause this game sold well ea only have it included in their ea play sub, other than that it wasn't given for free on any subscription.
Untradeable cards that you get from packs that you buy with real life money is crazy, all the people with brains have left and only the dumbasses remain that accept this dumb shit.
Making people accept not being able to earn coins from cards you get with real life money is the biggest robbery EA has ever pulled.

 

[Snes nes]

I dunno what the problem is just lower the price down to its original price and then they’ll stop complaining lol. Or they’ll just become complacent with the price either works in their favor.

 

[Would_you_kindly]

Still just as greedy as before when they were paying for that FIFA license

 

[Zzero]

You know, if they'd have cared to transition over these card pack scams over from year to year people really would be treating them like Panini cards by now. Didn't have the vision for it though.

 

[anonpuffs]

lmao you get what you deserve for buying this game every year

 

[Yobo]

Locking a purchase behind a bigger purchase is surely illegal somewhere

 

[Systemshock2023]

One thing I have heard its pissing people off is that drops have been reduced because you get female ultimate team cards that no one wants. So it costs twice as much time/money to build your team.

Master stroke from EA.

 

[Would_you_kindly]

One thing I have heard its pissing people off is that drops have been reduced because you get female ultimate team cards that no one wants. So it costs twice as much time/money to build you team.

Master stroke from EA.

If they grouped male & female together for ultimate team that's not going to go down well at all

 

[historia]

30 US dollars for Krunic, my god.

I don't think he even worth five cents.

 

[Systemshock2023]

I know I am from a different generation than folks raised on MTX but with 30 USD you can get 2 AAA games at a deep discount. Why would you go for ultimate team cards instead of games?

 

[Deleted member 223]

EA being EA. Limiting my exposure to this company over the years has been massively healthy as far this gaming hobby is concerned. Strictly speaking, I cut Battlefield out of my menu which was the problematic franchise that I had beef with. Even PvZ: Garden Warfare, highly monetized, didn't go to these lengths (Free PopCap). These days it's just Star Wars, and fortunately that is just one single package in the traditional model of old.

Fuck EA was a thing for a reason.

 

[Yobo]

Sony needs to get the FIFA license, fuck EA

 

[toadsage44]

Anyone who buys these sports titles year after year and expects to not be fucked over at every opportunity by EA deserves the pounding they get

 

[Would_you_kindly]

Sony needs to get the FIFA license, fuck EA

Nah there plenty better things they could spend billions on than the FIFA license

 

[ksdixon]

Just make WWE2K MyFaction and its ultimate team sports game equivelants into their own console/pc/mobile cross game, and keep the Dev times to actually needed areas of improvement in the main games.