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EA Sports FC 24 - Ultimate Team

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  • Registered Users Posts: 17,419 ✭✭✭✭Blazer


    its blatantly pay to win now which is the big issue…EA are just completely focused on getting as many people to spend money by offering guaranteed icon packs etc in store while letting the game go to **** completely.



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 42,429 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lord TSC


    it’s not even that aspect to me, cause I still have a super team.


    Im barely playing right now cause I felt all the casual fans left, which only left insanely good players, which isn’t fun to play against. Weekend league went from 9-11 wins a week, to grinding out 6-8. Everyone plays the same drab football, 5 at the back, run to the byline and look for drag backs.

    And honestly, the power curve was so insanely broken, I felt my team peaked months ago, and any changes since have been superficial. I rotate between some strikers for their name rather than their stats.


    It’s just…boring.



  • Registered Users Posts: 17,419 ✭✭✭✭Blazer


    yep everyone is giving out about the skill levels in WL..people are finding it harder to qualify and you have significantly less people giving away wins in both qualifiers and WL.

    Hell there's only 8 pages on this version…last year had 51 and Fifa 22 had 185 pages and 321 for Fifa 21.

    So you have older heads dropping out of it and younger ones coming into it.

    Hell not even the soccer players are bothered with it anymore. Remember seeing all those posts with player green cards etc back in the day…now you don't even see a mention of a RL player talking about fifa ie Ben Yedder etc.



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 42,429 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lord TSC


    I’m dropping in for the weekend that’s in it, but first two games and it’s still the same 5atb, cut back stuff. Except now everyone has 95 rated teams. 😂 Not even sure if playing through qualifiers will leave me actually wanting to do WL proper.



  • Registered Users Posts: 17,419 ✭✭✭✭Blazer


    a lot of players have switched to rivals only especially with tots rewards for div4 and higher as well.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,814 ✭✭✭dmigsy


    I don't see much 5atb tbh. Mostly face 4321 or 442. Div 2 and play most WL, 11-14 wins most weekends.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,357 ✭✭✭BrentMused


    I was the same.

    To be honest, I was just completely burnt out after hammering 21-23 inclusive. I literally spent hours every day playing it for about 3 years and if I wasn't playing on the console I was on the web app trading etc, then coupled with all the mistakes and nonsense from EA last year especially I decided I'd try to take a break and surprisingly I haven't missed it.

    It's just too much of a time-sink. You need to be active pretty much daily or you'll drop too far behind, especially in the early months.

    I genuinely thought I'd cave a few weeks in, but from dipping in and out of Reddit it seems to be much of the same with constant EA errors (e.g. loads of people getting a TOTS Messi if they happened to complete an SBC shortly after release, while anyone who straight on wasn't missed out) again this year and a even bigger move to P2W than previously.

    For those who have played it a good bit this year, how has the introduction of the female players gone down? When initially announced, I remember the reaction (from myself included) was largely about how ridiculous it would be to see a 5 foot 3 female striker bodying a massive male CB etc. Did things like that materialise, or has it actually been a welcome introduction? Are they usable?



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 42,429 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lord TSC


    I’m four games played this morning and three were 5atb 😂


    RE the women, tbh, they just were a different style of player. Not big and strong but usually quick and light. A lot of the moaning stopped when people realised they’re just mostly the same as every other player. Some are good, some are bad. At the end of it all, it’s the cutback meta that screws ya, whether you’ve women or VVD in defence.


    I’ve had TOTY Bright in my team for months and she’s amazing. Small but quick, a great compliment to bigger CBs. The Sawa SBC is considered the best B2B player so far in the game. There was a Bacha SBC that was my left back for ages too.

    I’ve had plenty drop in and out of my team. They aren’t broken, so it really comes down to personal preferences, I guess.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,814 ✭✭✭dmigsy


    Weird, 5 games in WL and not a single one played against 5atb! TOTY Bright is the only woman in myteam at the moment too. I think it's been fairly amazing from the perspective of promoting the womens game - I'm now aware of loads of female players I've never heard of before. Current team:



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 42,429 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lord TSC


    stormed to an easy 11 so think I benefited from the return of casuals.


    mind, my reds were…


    Watkins - Estupinan - Alison


    Watkins - Estupinan - Alison


    Same three options in both picks 😂



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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 42,429 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lord TSC


    And I packed Alison and Watkins from my packs too. Dupe theory is real 😂



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,357 ✭✭✭BrentMused


    Fair play to Nick. One of the biggest content creators in the world in terms of FIFA and he has absolutely gone in on EA here.

    Hard to disagree with anything he says on this one.



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,957 ✭✭✭Liamalone


    Pity he's a couple of years too late.



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 42,429 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lord TSC


    I'm menu grinding over the last 24 hours and….I genuinely can't remember ever having this feeling before that fodder can be generated infinitely.

    The high rated exchanges are ridiculously handy. I'm doing 20 player picks, getting at least one or two high rated dupes (Odergaard, Silva, Benzema, etc). Putting them into the exchanges, getting another 100 common golds back, and back into player picks. And repeat over and over.

    Mind, not pulled anything massively exciting yet. But I've got pretty much every high rated gold in my club now. Just need some SBCs that make me interested.



  • Registered Users Posts: 42,080 ✭✭✭✭Scorpion Sting


    Sawa was good, but Rolfo’s Fantasy card that came out as an SBC was way better.

    For me that’s the best value SBC of the game so far.



  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 15,228 Mod ✭✭✭✭FutureGuy


    I'm jumped back into FUT in the last month. All untradeable, 550k in bank. Can anyone recommend some upgrades?



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 42,429 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lord TSC


    Don't have any suggestions, but that's a super strong team. Outside of god cards, you're really just looking at very minor changes, or swapping names out to players you want.

    I hate coming up against Drogba. Can't think of a player with a stronger shot I've faced….



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 42,429 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lord TSC


    anyone get anything interesting from the PL TOTS then? Son and Kerr were my two big hitters. White, Gabriel, Watkins, Alison and a few of the ROTW people.


    Already packed Xhaxa and Kobel from German League one.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,814 ✭✭✭dmigsy


    Allison x 4, Watkins x 3, White, Gabriel, Nkunku. Couple of other fodder ones I can't remember. No-one good though. Got Kobel now too. FB VDS, Allison and Kobel for GK now.

    Son has scored about 70% of the goals against me this week.



  • Registered Users Posts: 7,983 ✭✭✭Unearthly


    Coming to PlayStation Plus in May. Might try it out then but I think my peak days are gone. Haven’t got the legs anymore for division 1


    https://blog.playstation.com/2024/05/01/playstation-plus-monthly-games-for-may-ea-sports-fc-24-ghostrunner-2-tunic-destiny-2-lightfall/



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  • Registered Users Posts: 17,419 ✭✭✭✭Blazer


    got Kerr and James, both are excellent but for me any version of Mbappe is still king.



  • Registered Users Posts: 23,563 ✭✭✭✭Frisbee


    F All. Watkins, Allison *3, Estupinian *4. Finally broke my 4 year streak of getting a keeper from the PL TOTS Guarantee SBC though and packed Nkunku.

    I reckon I packed that WSL keeper Keating at least 8 times untradeable.



  • Registered Users Posts: 19,781 ✭✭✭✭Cyrus


    im going to give it a few months now its nearly over and i can get decent players pretty quick, im generally a div 4 player. any tips for sbcs to grind early to get a few TOTS? im not bothered with the god tier players im sure a very usable team can be put together cheaply at this stage!



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,814 ✭✭✭dmigsy


    Don't do it to yourself!

    They throw packs out like confetti this year. It's a real grind to recycle all the fodder into upgrades/exchanges and lottery packs. You'll be able to put a decent side together easily enough. There's a weekly guaranteed tots but I got fodder from them. Power curve went high very early this year so you'll be facing unreal teams at this stage.



  • Registered Users Posts: 17,419 ✭✭✭✭Blazer


    Can't even get a win in rivals in div5 at the moment.

    Now that tots rewards are out for Div4 and higher all the elite players are climbing the ranks again.

    I just played a guy who made absolute mince of me. He was so far ahead of me in the game he was without a doubt an elite player or div 1.

    I've lost about 10 games now in row over the past few days all to much better players than me I have to admit.

    I miss the old days of rival relegation. The new system is far worse.



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 42,429 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lord TSC


    lol they did it again.


    WL picks were super weighted towards French PSG players, so loads of people got Mbappe. They announced they’ve “fixed” it now.



  • Registered Users Posts: 17,419 ✭✭✭✭Blazer


    huge uproar over it but it’ll all die down by Monday. EA blatantly showing they don’t give an absolute crap because people will throw money at them for packs.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,814 ✭✭✭dmigsy


    Meh, these things are overhyped. Someone having Messi or Mbappe rarely makes that much of a difference in a game. I beat people with better teams than mine and lose to people with worse teams than mine every day. I've packed FB Gullit and TOTS Kane. I'll keep getting my 14 wins every weekend just like I did when I was running a Liverpool P&P for a few months. The amazing thing for me is anyone finishing 20 games on a Friday night.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,357 ✭✭✭BrentMused


    I'd absolutely agree about it dying down, but looks like it might be the straw that broke the camels back for some.

    I see Nick is trying to get the content creators to come together and stop streaming/posting in protest at the game experience as a whole. He didn't get a whole lot of bites at first but now massive streamers like Auzio are committing to not using any Share Plays for those who are using FIFA Points.

    That said, they all know where their bread is buttered and getting people who are pulling in thousands a month from streaming to stop is a difficult ask, I can't say I'd do it in their position.

    Add to that and a point Nick makes is that the game is just not anywhere near as popular as it was even 3-4 years ago. You only have to look at this forum as a perfect example. The FIFA thread was busy all year back then and now it's a ghost town.

    The amount of mistakes EA have made in recent years is mind-boggling. Accounts being hacked, Herogate, the red picks this week, Messi TOTY, countless SBC's being pulled due to errors, Advanced SBC's not working at the start of the game. There's way, way more. Then there's the scummy stuff that has had an impact like making the Advanced SBC's untradeable, completely destroying League SBC's, Rivals being a waste of time, ruining Icon Swaps. Again there's way more and the list goes on and on.

    As Nick says, the only way for things to get better is to make EA lose money or give them bad press. They are losing player base but increasing revenue, so unless people take a stand, nothing will change as they'll be delighted with how things are going. Why will people not try?

    A long, but good watch below:



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  • Registered Users Posts: 19,781 ✭✭✭✭Cyrus


    team after a week, its handy at this stage of the year, not much grinding and no money spent (or will be spent!)



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