Video summary
The video focuses on the current state of Ultimate Team's endgame content, specifically addressing the lack of motivation players feel when grinding packs due to insufficient Special Squad Builder (SBC) rewards. The host argues that while he is currently engaged in player picks and unlimited repeatable exchanges, these activities lack progression because there are no significant SBCs to complete with the resulting high-rated cards. He contrasts this experience with past years where massive SBCs requiring dozens of squads were released for legendary players like Ronaldo or Messi, which provided a clear goal and excitement. The host urges EA Sports FC to reconsider their approach and release similar large-scale player SBCs again, noting that such challenges previously drove community engagement even late in the game cycle.
A significant portion of the discussion revolves around recent Evolution (EVO) releases and their pricing structures. While Friday's EVO successfully boosted players to five play style pluses for a high coin cost, yesterday's release was criticized for being overpriced at 175,000 coins while only offering four play style pluses instead of the maximum five available in this season. The host expresses frustration that EA seems intent on draining player resources rather than providing value, suggesting that players with large coin reserves are essentially paying to have their currency removed from circulation. He acknowledges that for some, spending these coins is a way to cope with having too much wealth late in the game, but he personally feels the price-to-value ratio is poor and believes better alternatives exist on the transfer market.
Looking ahead to Sunday's content drop, the host anticipates several key updates including potential new SBCs featuring high-rated players like Dejan Ljubičić or Rutger van de Ven, though expectations are tempered by recent leaks showing only 96 and 97 rated cards rather than the desired 98 or 99 ratings. He also speculates on the possibility of receiving a fifth play style plus consumable within an SBC objective to help maximize footies card potential before the season ends. Additionally, there is discussion about upcoming icon packs that might replace expiring ones and daily EVOs that could range from expensive stat boosts to free training camp evos, all aimed at providing final opportunities for players to optimize their squads before FC 27 launches.
The video concludes with an analysis of the current transfer market dynamics following the release of Footies Team Three cards. While some specific player prices have dropped significantly due to squad battle rewards and general supply increases, others from Footies Team Two are seeing substantial price hikes as players sell off duplicates or upgrade their squads. The host highlights that this volatility creates easy opportunities for profit through bidding on common items or flipping upgraded versions of popular footies cards like Pedro Porro. Ultimately, he emphasizes that despite the frustrations with SBC design and pricing, there is still enough high-rated content in packs to keep players motivated if EA can restore a sense of meaningful progression by dropping those nostalgic, large-scale player challenges they once loved.
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Hey guys, it's Nate aka the foot
accountant. Welcome back to the channel.
I'm missing one of the biggest parts of
the old footies promos that we used to
look forward to every single year.
Something that motivated me and you to
grind packs at this endgame stage of the
game. And even though I am grinding
packs right now, doing player picks,
doing the unlimited repeatable exchange
grind, when I'm packing the same players
over and over and over, it doesn't feel
like I have anywhere to put them.
There's no progression with all these
special cards that are in packs, except
for a couple like this Latan that we're
trying to get for EVOs. What we used to
get and have a lot of fun with were
these big SBCs that it would take us a
while to chip away at. A lot of squads
required like this crazy 99 Ronaldo that
was 42 squads back in FIFA 23. The Mia
Ham in FC 24. And even I remember where
I was and what I did exactly the moment
this 99 footies winner Messi dropped in
FIFA 21. But we don't get SBC's like
that anymore. And we know why. EA told
us in a tweet a couple of days ago. But
there's still time to change that EA.
There are still time. There is still
time to give us SBC's that we actually
want to do. So, if nothing else, we're
going to look at some nostalgic footies
SBC's today and maybe just tell EA to
fix up and drop one of those SBC's
because hey, it would be nice to
actually do another 99 rated player SBC
besides the Unai Simone goalkeeper card
that we had a while back. Now, speaking
of SBC's, we're going to find play style
pluses on footies cards through
objectives. I wonder if that's going to
happen in SBC's today as well. We're
going to take a look at that and maybe
some new icon packs and player picks
that are coming and maybe another place
to put our fodder. Plus, what is going
on with EVOs? We had a great one on
Friday. The one we got yesterday's
pricey, but only goes to fourplay stop
pluses. Let's discuss, guys. If you're
excited for this one, drop a thumbs up
the video, hyped the video, and
subscribe if you are new. Now, we're
going to start with yesterday's Saturday
content, which if you need SP to finish
out the season pass, there's a footies
SP and packs objective that dropped,
giving, I believe it's 3,000 total SP
that is very nice and very easy to do.
you score in 10 games and you got
yourself 3K SP. Now, let's go to EVOs
and talk about that EVO that I mentioned
because on Friday we had a 250,000 coin
landlord evolution that took us to five
play stop pluses. I thought this is the
beginning. Maybe not every EVO, but a
lot of the EVOs, especially paid ones,
we're going to now take us to 5PS
pluses. And yesterday, we get fullback
force. We've had a lot of defensive,
even right back and left back EVO
specific ones released recently. And
this is a good evo. Look at the stats on
these cards, right? Doru, the footies,
Manchester United card going up to 94
and above in every stat. 96 defense pace
and 97 physical. Kafu, very good looking
card as well. Gets bruiser plus goes to
96 defense, 97 physical. I'm putting
this one on my Pedro Porto who goes to
96 defending and 97 physical as well.
But it's 175,000 coins. and you are only
going to four play style pluses. And I
mean, yeah, 97 rated, so maybe you can
evo them again in a couple of weeks. But
I like the stat boost. I don't like the
price for the stat boost. Sure, this
could have been like 50k and I would
have been okay with it. But I think the
price being 175,000 coins and not giving
that fifth play style plus, I think you
can find a card almost as good as this
on the market and maybe create other
evos just as good as that without
spending 175,000 coins. So, I think that
one is a bit overpriced, but also at
this stage of the game, I hear a
counterargument already inside of my
brain, Nate, I've got a whole bunch of
coins. What do I spend them on? Evos.
So, that's probably why EA is trying to
do that right there to take some of our
coins away. Or maybe even for some
people that are spending FC points at
this very late stage of the game, take
some of those away as well. Let's go to
the SBC's though where the conversation
really begins because we had two footies
player SPCs yesterday. The first of
which is Debia. And no thanks. 98
dribble, 97 pass. That's good. 94 pace,
93 shooting. Again, no thanks. Sure,
fully customizable up to five play stop
pluses. We like that with the third week
of footies allowing us to take cards up
to five PS+es, but I'm good. Even though
this is only two squads and are pretty
cheap, I'm good. Now, this SBC I might
end up doing. Rutiger, he had a footies
SBC last year, by the way, and I think
it was better than this. But 98
physical, 97 defending. That's really
good. He is lengthy. He has 94 pace
which is good. Not amazing. His other
stats look very fine. And you can of
course take him to five play stop plus
is 88 89 90. Fod's free of course as we
all know right now. And this is 83%
upvoted at 145,000 coins. Still though
at the same time I think this could have
been a little bit better. Or maybe a
center back's not the card that we want
to have as a 98 or a 99 rated SBC. But
I'm still left a little underwhelmed as
I have defenders that are just that
good. Maybe they just don't have 98
physical and 97 defending. They have 97
defending and 96 physical. So I think
that one for me might get completed with
extra fodder because again fodder is
free and it's everywhere. But I don't
necessarily love it. I have my mindset
and I want bigger SBCs. I know a lot of
you guys do as well. Now, one of the
ways we could craft a bigger SBC is with
the 85* 10 going to 10 times per day.
GG's EA. I'm glad they didn't go to
seven. I guessed seven or 10 for this
SBC yesterday. And I'm glad that they
went to 10. Does that mean, by the way,
that we are maybe two weeks away from an
unlimited repeatable 85x10? I mean, I
think since this SBC refreshes every
Saturday and also since the 84x10 is 20
times repeatable right now and this
refreshes next Friday, I think the 84x10
would go unlimited repeatable first.
Maybe it would be this upcoming Friday.
That would be a very nice change for the
pack grind that we have right now.
Instead of just chasing gold commons and
gold rares with exchange SBCs, if you
threw an unlimited repeatable 84x10 into
the mix, that would make things pretty
interesting and it would allow us to do
some bigger SBCs. And that's again what
I was feeling after I looked at content
yesterday and we've been talking about
this a bit, but the footies SBC guys
that we've been getting, the player
SBC's have just been lagging behind so
much. What happened to the big footies
player SBC's that we used to love? No,
I'm talking like 20 plus squad SBC's for
an unbelievable player. I know this 42
squad Chris Shannon Ronaldo when he was
released as an SBC late in FIFA 23 was
one that got so many people frustrated,
but it was easy to do because you were
opening packs, getting all the high
ratings, and you just needed a place to
submit all those players. This was a
very exciting SBC because it was almost
a challenge in itself in the endgame to
put a little bit of extra time in to get
this very unique and expensive card. By
the way, like he was really expensive on
the market when they dropped him still
as a 5 million coin SBC. Same thing
happened in FC 24 the next year. I did a
race real OG's remember I guess only two
years ago. So is it really OG? I don't
know. But I did a race against Zback. We
had a challenge of who could complete
the 99 Mia Ham SBC faster in terms of
hours just from our club and from
grinding the unlimited repeatable grind
that we had. And this was released on
August 10th. So tomorrow, one year ago
or two years ago, we had a 99 rated Mia
Ham. I don't think this was the first 99
rated card, but it was a 99 rated SBC
with stats like way better than some of
the cards we're getting in SBC's right
now. And then of course you think back
to some of the other big marquee player
species we had back in older FIFAs. Like
I said in the intro guys, I remember
where I was when this SBC dropped. I was
at my old setup like three setups ago,
three bedrooms ago, and I panic sold
this 99 Messi on the market because I
had them tradable because this SBC came
out. I think this was one of the first
99 SBC's ever. And it was the first 99
Messi SBC ever. That was absolutely
unreal when that one came out. The Chris
Shernaldo that came out in FIFA 21 as
well when he transferred to Manchester
United, that was a crazy one. Sure, it
was dropped at the very beginning of
September, but this one was dropped in
the middle of August. And I mean, we're
we're right there, man. And we haven't
even had 98 rated SBC's dropped right
now. War power curve for us. Even last
year, right along this same time, August
1st, we had a five play style plus 98
rated Wayne Rooney dropped at FC25. Now,
I brought up the power curve
conversation. That could be something,
of course, that EA would point to and
say, "Well, we slowed down the power
curve this year, and you can't compare
things back to FC25 and FC 24 like you
used to be able to and go for a onetoone
comparison there." Yeah, that's true.
And we do have a I don't think we have a
um what's it called? Like a bad
awakening. We have a rude awakening
upcoming in FC27 about the power curve
in terms of SBC's because we're going to
be expecting certain things, but we're
not going to get those higher rated
cards. We're not going to get the five
play style plus cards at the end of the
year. That's going to take some getting
used to and getting adjusted to even in
the early stages of the game. But right
now, throw the curve out the window,
man. Like, we're getting five play style
plus cards now. It is the last one month
period of this game. Just let it rip.
Okay, the 98s, the 99s, it gives us
motivation to grind, like I'm motivated
to try to pack 99 rated cards, but I'm
also wanting to be motivated to know
that while I'm putting the time in doing
these player picks, while I'm using the
third party extensions to get these
player picks done, because yeah, I'm not
spending the time on this game right now
at this stage to do all these player
picks by hand. Wouldn't recommend you to
do it either. um will reconvene with
that whole pale tools foot genie
thirdparty extension situation uh at the
start of FC27 depending on what EA do
about that sort of thing. Um but it
gives us extra motivation to grind in a
different way and it makes it feel like
your time is worth it when you're kind
of automatically progressing toward
something good that you know is there
and you make progress on that. Right? So
I got two 95 plus picks here that I do
want to open. This is what I'm chasing
at the moment. This is my number one
grind piece to the game because we could
again key word there is could pack 99s
instead I'm packing two duplicates.
Well, how motivating is that? Well, we
know why SBC's haven't been as good as
even looking back to previous years or
even close, right? Power curve
conversation aside, this is the viral
tweet, guys. Almost up to 5 million
views on Twitter. I think this is going
to go down as a top five most remembered
EA tweet of all time. Like a lot of the
tweets have come from EAFC direct.
They've come from the EA Sports FC
official Twitter account. This one from
Jamie is going to go down as a legendary
one just because the audacity of EA to
even come out and say that they have
made SBC's worth this year because of
the fact that those extensions are in
where I think all of us say we would
disagree with the way that they handled
that. They handled that in a way that
made us as the community not happy and
then coming out and talking about it and
revealing that to us made things even
worse. Again, I rate the communication,
but also at the same time, now that I've
had a couple days to think about this, I
almost kind of wish that I didn't know
and just could say, "Oh, it was the
power curve." Well, now we know it was
the power curve plus what they thought
about the third party extension. So,
there's really not too much else to say
along those lines except EA, throw that
thought out the window. Who cares now
about people falling behind significant
unfair advantage. It's the endgame. We
can all get five play stop pluses. All
these footies cards have pretty good
stats anyway. Just let it rip. Let it
go. It is the last month of this game.
So, that's my thoughts on the whole SBC
situation and uh what I'm proposing
there with EA finally giving us a 98 and
a 99 rated player SBC. We will see if
that happens for this fourth and final
week of footies, but it doesn't look
like it's happening today. That's for
sure. Cuz we do have the Marcus Urente
card who was leaked. He's still a 96. We
do have the Kiver card who was leaked.
Oo, he's a 97. Yeah, that's not a 98 or
a 99. So, not expecting too much else
there in terms of players VCs as of
right now. I will say this though, the
leakers aren't even leaking some of the
players that are coming out like Deina.
It's kind of nice surprise to not have
leaks for some of these SBC players and
to be surprised with them even if
they're not that great in terms of their
stats. I think the leakers aren't even
tweeting about this stuff right now
because it won't get clicked. So, it's
not even worth it for them to like post
about it. But, I'm kind of liking the
surprise aspect here. So, yeah, EA again
leaks. If they could go, that would be
fantastic as well for the surprise
aspect. And I think long-term it would
bring a lot of people's enjoyment,
including some of my own back to this
game, the mystery, the unknown, and all
that. But that's a whole another
conversation. Guys, what else should we
be expecting today for footies content
on a Sunday? Well, I think we are going
to get another SBC Evo. The Creative
Spark Evo was released last Sunday. It
expires today. I might just get it done
because, you know, FOD. But before that,
we had the Aura Farming EVO that was
released on a Sunday. I wonder if today
they give us a fifth play style plus
footies evolution consumable like we can
get inside of objectives inside the
missing piece evo. I'm talking about one
of these five play style plus boosts you
can put on a footies card. I think they
might give us one of those today inside
of SBC. So, watch out for that. That
would definitely be one that you would
want to complete because taking footies
to five play style pluses right now is
the bee's knees, if you will. And then
also today in SBC's, I think we're going
to get maybe two icon pack or player
pick situations. We have a one of five
95 plus encore icon pick that is in the
code that includes some older icons like
Team of the Year, Thunderruck, Winter
Wild Cards, Future Stars, and stuff like
that. That could be good for some EVOs.
So, this could be today. It also could
be next week. The one that I think might
be today and has a higher chance of
dropping today is a 94 plus great of the
game footies team one team 2 icon and
hero pack. And I think that because this
prime heroes or festival football great
of the game icon pack is expiring today.
So, that one expiring at 93 plus. I
think a 94 plus would come back to
replace it. But I do not think that is
anything super duper crazy. Now, also
today we're getting daily evos. So, will
we get another expensive evolution like
a 175,000 coin for play style plus only
boosting EVO or will we get a nice free
chain evolution? I would really like one
of those that doesn't boost the overall.
Um, I think we have a training camp evo
that expired recently as well. Or maybe
I just did it so it's not there anymore.
A cheeky training camp evo wouldn't be
too bad either. But other than that for
today on Sunday content, it's just the
SBC stuff there and the EVOs. I wouldn't
expect too many other things on this
game. Any surprises? Of course. EA are
always appreciated. Now, last thing I
want to talk about is the market. Yep,
we're going to talk about the market a
little bit here at the end of the video.
Footies team three cards, they dropped
as you'd expect. Not all of them though.
I mean, take a look at uh Girude. You
had some nice rises into the early hours
yesterday on Saturday. Darude going from
360 up to 480 and then hanging around
400,000 coins. He's now up just a little
bit. Other cards like Celiba definitely
dropped. Celiba was 17, dropped all the
way down to 13. He's at 14. You do have
squad battle rewards today. How much is
that going to move the market? Probably
not too much, but I would imagine that
these cards do continue to just fall
down a little bit in price in the next
couple days. The opposite is happening
for Footage Team 2 though. I mean, I
sold Modric yesterday for 1.15. Bro is
almost 1.2 million now. I sold my Kimage
for 670 680. He's like 690,000 coins.
Pyor is cooking as well. As you can see,
she's up to 570K. So if you got cards,
Woo, she's almost 600,000. If you've got
cards from team two of footies that
you're holding on to, enjoy the profits.
You can sell whenever you want. I kind
of just sold up to take the cash on uh
everything there. The Pedro Porro 99
rated that I flipped as well brought us
some good coins. So, there are coins out
there if you want to get on bids, if you
want to get on flips and snipes and
trades. It is very easy to make coins at
this end game. If you need to go afford
an EVO for uh a player like in the 175k
Evo or the 250,000 coin Evo from Friday,
there are easy coins that are out there.
Just get on bids for literally just
about everything. Anyway guys, that is
the video for me today. Let me know in
the comments what you feel about the SBC
grind right now and what you feel about
the pack situation. Do you wish there
were more SPCs to grind? Do you wish
there was a 99 rated player spec with a
lot of squads to grind to make it feel
like it's worth going after the packs
right now? Or do you think non that's
not worth it because it just feels like
that's too many squads and too much
work? We're going to end with an 88 plus
times five left mid. I mean, too bad
that can't be Goku because he's an SBC.
Wait, Hazard? That's not as Yeah. Okay.
And then uh Van Deique. All right,
that's par for the course there for an
88x5. I'll take a footies. I'll take
some more dupes and I'll go do more of
those 95 plus picks to try to pack the
99 rated players. Let's do one more.
Guys, I am motivated to grind packs.
I'll be honest. There's a motivation
there. There really is because there's a
lot of 99s in packs. I've already
sniffed one. So, that's fun. But also,
at the same time, I know there would be
more of a motivation for me if there was
actually a player SBC that I could go
after for a like semi bigname player as
well. you know, like it can't just be
some random person as a 99 rated footies
card. Like, make it kind of worth it and
we could be there for that. I'm still
chasing Zlatan as well. Um, wow. I
didn't even realize that could have been
Zlatan. That was the team of the year
icon. So, whenever we see the team of
the year animation, we need to be on
alert. Still chasing Zlatan. Um, stream
today up in the air. Not entirely sure
on what's going to happen there. If you
see me live, I'll be here. If I'm not
live, then you'll know that there is no
stream. So, that's that. Um, and yeah,
guys, that's the end of the video today.
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