The one thing I don’t like about starting ULTIMATE TEAM year
after year is the fact that you start off with nothing but bronze players. This
becomes much worse especially if you start playing Fifa late in the year
(couple of months AFTER its release) like I have done this year. Because by this time practically everyone
has a gold team and when you go play online, even though your team is bronze
there is a very high chance you get matched up with an opponent who has a full
gold team. I think that EA should let people get some decent gold players right
of the bat if you start off comparatively late, say Jan or Feb for example, it
would make things a lot easier in my opinion. I know that Fifa usually gives
you a few extra starter packs as part of its “Welcome back” thing if it
recognizes you have played a previous version of Fifa but that just doesn't seem to be enough.
I also know that the
original point of ULTIMATE TEAM is to start off with a crappy bronze team and then
slowly work your way up to a gold team and it is setup that way on purpose. The
fact remains that it takes a REALLY long time to get any decent amount of fifa
coins to buy even a relatively decent gold player, forget about the super rare
players like Messi or Ronaldo or even team of the year players.
In theory this system works well, except for that fact that
each game you win yields only 300-500 fifa coins. So say for example you would
like to buy a half decent player that costs around 50k fifa coins. Following this
model, you would have to play over a hundred games to have the required amount
of fifa coins.
Now there are other ways of getting coins, which is winning
tournaments both offline and online where the prize money is much greater, but
even that is a max of about 1000-3000 fifa coins. Playing the seasons mode in
UT yields a slightly better amount for winning the season like 3000-5000 fifa
coins.
This model in general though benefits EA the most, because
what happens is most people do not have the patience to grind out games and
save up coins so they look towards alternative methods such as relying on
buying packs or heaven forbid buying fifa coins which I believe is illegal now.
I think that EA have set up this deliberate frustration of
having people work their way up and therefore try and have ‘luck’ play a part
so they can get an awesome player in a pack that costs only 5000-7500 fifa
coins. Even the odds of these Gold Player packs are stacked against you and it
is very rare that you will get a highly sought after player, after opening
only a few gold packs and so you keep opening more packs in the hopes of
getting one and on and on the cycle continues.
The alternative is to play fifa games each day till your
eyes bleed and meticulously save up enough fifa coins to buy the players you
want.
Of course there is trading which can be awesome if done correctly
but even that methods takes time and the dedication of learning the market which
by the way is usually in constant state of flux and could potentially crash at any moment
given the new influx of coin sellers on the internet.
So the point is that I understand the model EA have set up
and it clearly works very well in their favor, but I wish that I didn’t have to
start over each and every year. There should maybe be a new system in place
where you get to keep at least one player from your previous years ULTIAMTE Team for 3-4 consecutive years or something along those lines.
I know that this idea is flawed as well as anyone who had a Ronaldo
or Messi or Bale the previous year would have a ridiculous starting advantage
and so all I can do is *SIGH*, grit my teeth and go back to the grind, trying
to play as many games as possible in the hopes of building my dream ULTIMATE
TEAM.
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