EA Sports FC 24 - Ultimate Team

Judging by the reaction on here and elsewhere so far, I think this is the year where many who say "this is the last year, never again" will actually stick to it.

It probably won't go down too well, but I'll be honest and say the introduction of mixed teams has really put me off.

I know some will say it's hardly realistic to play with dead icons either, or Cech up front (and I agree entirely with the Cech stuff, I HATED that and similar) but I just don't think I can put up with losing games to the likes of my VVD being bodied by Sam Kerr and co. 😅

EA has only added female players to further dilute pack quality and increase EA Points spend but yet are marketing as something very different of course.

Add to that the amount of mistakes EA made (and continue to make even as recently as this week) this time afound and how poor the beta was (it was essentially an exact replica of 23) and I can't bring myself to buy it.

It's just too much of a time-sink and commitment also. You can't dip in and out. You go away for a few days or have a very busy week in work and you are miles behind. It's basically a full-time job keeping up to speed with it.

I'm usually a pre-order way before release date person, but I genuinely won't touch it this year. I think I'm finally done.

About the same chance of Beyonce knocking on your door and bringing you up to bed in terms of packing one of the good ones.

The poorer ones in-game are easily enough accessible but early into the game will still cost a significant amount.

Add to that brilliant players such as the likes of Henry are unusable in game because of the way their body types and stats are created.

So basically no chance of getting a good one unless you're unbelievably lucky and/or are willing to spend a lot of real life money.

Cantona is one of the more unattainable ones early on, having 5 star skill moves.

Bergkamp and van Nistelrooy are very attainable but by the time you get them into your side they are already miles behind the power curve.

Have the Ultimate Edition ordered, I'll give it a bash anyways.

They initially had the Advanced SBC's offering tradeable packs.

Content Creators were on yesterday and blasting through those and getting the tradeable rewards.

They've since been turned back to untradeable this morning.

The game hasn't even launched yet and they are at it already! 🙄

Katoto aka the Mbappe troll.

It's good you got her on the web app cos you'd have had a mini heart attack if you saw the pack animation on console!

Built this with web app so far, chemistry is overrated 🤭

Pulled the worst TOTW too, Bundesliga 80 rated ST.

The lack of starter packs is a pain, could usually start trading hard enough and have a decent chunk of change ready to go once the game launched, but you're really relying on pack luck straight off the bat now.