Matt - you're completely right. The lack of competition means they have a monopoly & know they can get away with things, because we all want to play a decent football game. What are the alternatives? The downside is, realistically, we're years away from a viable alternative. Even if UFL came out this year, its going to take a while to get the game to a good standard. I agree striking won't help. Really the only way to hurt EA is through their profits. I do think there should be a collective strike against FIFA points. No direct criticism of you, as 95% of your content is zero spend rtg based (main reason I watch) but we need to stop glamourizing these atrocious store packs & encouraging people to spend. It only takes one crazy pull on a stream & people will be spending £30/£40 on a single pack in the hope of something good. If EA see their profits dip, they'll see were not content for them to keep churning out any old game and have to address at least some of the issues.

“Unintended rewards” basically saying none of us should be getting these cards. But it’s okay for the sweats who played all 20 games in one day to have these free endgame cards. That’s me done lmao

No creator should open paid store packs on stream or in video and we should unsubscribe from anyone who does.

Nick should never have apologized. Period.

I had to delete the game. Its not right to change the odds during weekend league. Its not right. Killed my motivation.

Boycott this game. The community should not let them get away with this

This vid has turned into “don’t blame content creators”. I personally think content creators who work with/for EA should be boycotted too. They are part of the problem pushing pack openings. The data is clear, this game is creating addiction. This isn’t even debatable. However, personal attacks are silly and childish but absolutely guys who are in bed with the devil need to be held accountable.

“Unintended rewards” so the intended ones are supposed to be Donnaruma or Lala? Awful company

Remember when KSI spoke out about the inconsistencies and down right incompetence at EA ? So much so he actually quit the game and left, this stuff has been brought in to the light and nobody cared. I hope now that people will finally see that all EA care about is cold hard cash, they don’t care about the community.

the fact that ea intended to give us bad rewards says so much about this company

Wild because FIFA 20 was the proper beginning of the end imo. Between 18-20 they figured out the DDA aspect correlated with pack sales and that they could code a game to not only have addictive packs mechanics but also devalue the competitive aspects so much that lead players to do whatever it takes to improve their teams based on what they were seeing in game. Genius by them really, they succeeded in monetizing the world’s game but also ruined one of the most beloved sports franchises ever. It’s in the game!

It's just shambolic. Guys like me found out just a little bit late, scrambled to get bare minimum rewards, and get guys like Medina and Dante in our rewards bc we finished just after they changed the pack odds

I genuinely think ea should refund everyone who have spent money on a universal rated game. It’s gambling and people are addicted to opening packs. Most likely won’t happen though

The only thing, in my opinion, that can help is this: to stop open packs with FC points. You buy FC point with your own money. So by doing this, you hurt the company where it's hurts a most - revenue in the end of the quarter. This way you also stop gambling, 'cos packs in general are gamble. And the last point. Why spend real money on the game that won't allow you to use its online feature after the end of game's cycle?

Most casual players aren’t buying FC points. And that player base number is across all players that downloaded the game. Lots of those people are just playing Kick-off, career mode, or pro clubs

Don't buy points don't buy packs don't pre order new game we need to hit them in the pocket

nick is right though, only way to get to these scum companies just like cod is stop buying the game stop playing stop streaming stop buying packs and bundles. take money out of their pockets and you will see how they change so quickly

Nonsense. A protest would absolutely hit their bottom line. “The casual player” is irrelevant. EA released their Q4 results and a majority of their profits come from “live content” which is packs from EA FC. Read their financial report to get a better understanding of the company. The end of the day, a boycott is very much going to hurt them. A boycott by content creators will make no difference. It takes the community.

Ea should give everyone a 97mbappe

Guys as A fifa Community can we PLEASE NOT PLAY THE NXT WL (the seriea a) we should protest not playing the weekend league untill they fix the game

£50 a pack and still shit

I stopped playing Ultimate Team 2 years ago and now only then and again dip into career mode. I don't understand how so many people complain yet keep playing and keep giving EA money. I do not miss playing FUT whatsoever. The game is an absolute state and people keep playing

EA won’t care, as long as people keep gambling their money away on packs.

Communication is key. I honestly believe a blackout of the store and ea points content is the way to go. Rtg prove pointsxare not needed. There's a way to influence behaviour imo.

They are saying unintended player as if we got Laliga TOTS in league 1 player pick, aren’t Mbappe, Dembele and Zaire Emery part of league 1 TOTS and they are supposed to be in pick, common EA😂😂

Ea are going do to shit like this until and making huge mistakes because for some reason people still play this game, if everyone left they would make a much better game

As a man of principle. They won’t get another dollar from me. I’ve been playing since fifa 08. They would have to change EVERYTHING and their attitudes to get me back.

Finally more creators are talking about this big up matt

everytime a game breaking glitch happens i always sleep through it😭😭

Even when they fix the pack weight they making worth the PL the odds was so good after PL something change !! Also alot of pack store for fifa point game become pay to win 10000000%

The problem with content creators is they have the platform to voice out unlike normal casual players and only some of them are sticking their necks out at the issue. You can still open packs, play the game but at least be a part of the community to voice out concerns of the game. If EA doesn't care, then stand up collectively and voice out more till the bigger media outlets take notice of this and it then becomes a movement for answers. No company will like bad press.

I don’t play weekend league but once I heard you can actually get good rewards I started, I don’t see point on playing for 4/5 hours for crap fodder in a competitive game mode, what pissed me off was I got my rewards at 3.10am 15 mins after they had altered the pack weight, they shouldn’t be allowed to alter the pack weight in the middle of playing at the end of the day it’s May so just leave it and give everyone the same chance everyone else had at the start of weekend league, imagine betting on a horse and when it wins they say sorry we won’t give you 10/1 you can have even money it’s just wrong

Can someone explain to me how the hell suddenly my team starts playing like shit and cannot exchange a single pass after i get 5 or 6 consecutive wins. This happens every time i have an undefeated streak. Can someone explain what is going on here?

I’m sure it will be the usual radio silence from EA , the communication is non existent or laughable like the 0.7% messi post , some people are spending £100s if not £1000s and get crazy mistakes what other company would get away with this service.

“We’re sorry we gave you good player rewards” 😂😂

Saturday a Icon Pick came out, it apparently gave out base icons. They took it off the store and I did one before it went away. Keep in mind Icon picks/packs refresh every 2 weeks usually on Sunday. Its mistake after mistake

Imagine starting a video of this nature with a coin farming ad…

as someone who studies economics a 10% drop in fc points bought will cause ea to fix up. that’s 100-150 million lost in revenue and you think they won’t care. people who make that excuse are just lazy

I come from the madden side of EA and it’s the same thing over here. Nothing changes, even when there biggest madden creator MMG constantly criticizes and gives proper feedback, EA just decides to block him on everything from Twitter to instagram even on twitch. Nothing will change

This exact same issue has happened with FIFA 23 Mobile in the TOTS event I'm wondering if this is even a mistake anymore..

People are not realising that when they changed the pack weight of the player pick there was no server maintenance , no stopping champs for a few hours it was literally like nothing happened then boom pack weight changed which is scary reality because is that wt they do for every pack and player pick which literally supports the whole theory how it’s not even a gamble they can just change the chances any time they want.

This is what happends when you dont have a direct competitor so for us that what to play a fun fut game we are pretty much stuck to this greaddy game and they know it

The mistakes are strange like you said, especially because the mistakes are to give the best players and not the worst players. This sounds something like: "We will make a mistake for one, two or three hours, just to make them come to play the game and speak about the game." The game is not important, the person that is playing the game is not important, the only thing that matters, is that the game is spoken about. And the next year, everyone will buy it again, and when the game will be dead, the mistakes will begin.

As a former beta games tester EA nearly launched FIFA Street 2 with a bug I found that not only blue screen of death'ed the PSP dev kit it would brick the PSP itself and they went into denial mode to meet a deadline. I know how much they don't care first hand. They kept trying to deny they could find it.

The fact that they fixed this mbappe and dembele mistake and now we all get booted in Champs when we are up or we get DNF reports to our games and get booted out of the UT menus every 10 mins now is a joke.

Where is Bateson's vid abt something like this? Surely he would say something and you can tell they (EA) want money as they said "Unintended results" so you were supposed to get something bad so they can promote packs to buy for a 'tiny' better chance at something good. I like playing the game for the fun but I think we need to stop buying fc points (including me) and they need to stop patching things that should stay the same for the same odds for ppl who couldnt receive it straight away..

lets not ignore the fact that EA is so money hungry that they dont even release cards under 80 pace under 85 OVR or for example giving TOTS cards to players that dont deserve just because they are more marketable

This game is like no other. We spend 100+ dollars on a game. Then whatever on fifa points. To get the ultimate team to then reset it and start again. Year on year. It’s crazy. I stopped after fifa 22 and best decision ive ever made

Why does ea do this I am quitting and not buying next year

The highest rated card you can get now is tots Donnaruma

Rough to see that the Gamechanger program always was an advertisement for the game instead of a good chance to really change the game by getting feedback from content creators and their communities, sadly that’s not new to most of the player base because they already could have thought of that 😕

EA is all about shareholders. Nothing else matters. Until people stop buying packs nothing will improve. There is no incentive for them to do so.

Your intro gave me Fifa Myth vibes lol

Generally speaking, the lack of competition is one of the issues. Sadly, we all want a great football game, whereas EA is just taking advantage of us and pushing the limit of strategies and optimisation tactics with a focus on making money, increasing attention span and squeezing out of year-long game money as much as possible. The tactics that are used are to increase the "need" to upgrade your team within a couple of weeks, or you have a disadvantaged team. This pushes people to spend hours of time for menu grinding or casually just pay extra money every month for some promo packs to get those better players as people just don't have time to spend 70% of their time grinding menus and 30% of gameplay. With all the strategies on top of how fast the players improve with each promo, the market and coin-making strategies are also affected with a goal to have that "first-owner" squad-building element more valuable, which benefits more time in menus or spending money in promo packs, especially real casuals who would like to prioritise just some gameplay and build a squat in shorter time. Sadly, realistically, it is a squad-building game first and then a bit of gameplay.

Matt old subscriber here. I think you are missing an important point, the fact that EVERYONE (streamers including) should STOP buying FC POINTS. While watching your video I ended up with the feeling that we as a gaming community, are basically fuck3d until there's another football game, and that's simply not true, we can force EA to change a few things.

WHO is EA ? This "EA" thing is to much cover for everybody that is responsible. So you and others have to adress the Person direct in any way - So who is responsible? Who to turn to and ASK in ways to get up work - WHO? Michelle Liao? John Reseburg? Emily Raso? Sebastian Enrique? So its not "EA" It is one/many human they have to change and that can only be done by adressing them

Well the logical ea thing to do would be to give everyone who had the glitched picks a compensation set of picks with the correct bad odds.

Let’s go OG Matt back

I agree with both of you.. if we do nothing then we will continue to be treated like dirt.. maybe a good compromise is that everyone stops buying from the store packs and maybe they don’t pre order the game?

The only way ea will ever care about the player base and improve the game is by people not buying the next edition of the game but you and I know this will never happen and people will just keep buying it no matter what due to the lack of competition

My frustration with this game is beyond comprehension. How can a billion dollar company have so many "mistakes" that seriously affected the whole community. Last year it was the heroes store pack and all of those compensations and the icon trading. The fifa 21 the 99 rated neymar guarantee player pack.

Hey Matt my dad is actually a worker at EA and I asked him he said that he can’t say anything, all that I know is that it’s something to do with electricity

8:00 Yeah 30% percent of players on Xbox has got enough points to play weekend league it says in achievements. This is why the change of the rewards is so absurd too. You change the rewards for less than 1/4 of the all time players assuming that people stopped playing this game. It could even be a lot lower. This is exactly why we shouldn't say that we as a small amount can't force change because EA still thought it was to many players getting good rewards.

Thank's for this video Matt , you talked about the problem with such a maturity i hope things will change because we all love this game , we grew up playing it and it's sad to see how bad it is now.

Bad PR is more powerful than their bottom line, imo. The Battlefront issue was terrible PR, but they'd have probably still moved a metric tonne of game copies either way. The title of most disliked post was what embarrassed them in to change. Creators can be blamed too, if their content is centred on FP pack openings then they are pushing packs for EA. At bare minimum this needs to stop. However, creators just playing the game and making fun RTGs etc are definitely not to blame - although it would be nice to hear more speak out more often, not encourage FP buying and also not encourage coin buying.

They need to focus making a good game for casual players like us who just wanna have fun and not be sweaty

"The gameplay is frustrating, with a pay-to-win model where dedicated players rarely obtain top-tier cards, while those who spend money often do. As an elite player from Belgium, FIFA points are prohibited here, and I achieve an average of 16 wins every Weekend League with my average team. It's simply unjust."

They need weeks or even months to change some bugs, or gameplay issues .. not to mention the hackers are still in game for 2 years now, disconnects, lags, shitty servers.... but they can " fix " rewards within hours. The only reason they fixed them is because those players are supposed to be only in store packs , and that is mad, community should unite and all the content creators also, to make a stand, at least to now spend fifa points for a month, and for sure EA will see the downfall in their income, the fact that they don't even apologize is just crazy... they don't deserve this community and our money, because first of all we pay for the game 60-100$ , unfinished game, buggy menu and probably one of the shittiest menu in modern games, and all the crappy stuff.. + people pay for fifa points to be able to pack something good . That should not be the case, I love how in 2 years they updated the store packs more than the game itself... Things need to change or they will add even more crap in the coming games.

I don’t play FIFA like 1 year or 2 because the game serie is not the same as the time when al my friends played them en everyone was hyped for everything in the games was a thing. It can be me but the hype on the game is becoming very small if you compare it to 5 years ago? Or is that just me because I don’t see anything from the game. Is the player base smaller then before and is the game getting smaller and smaller?

Can’t even play weekend league it just kicks you out saying communication error

I was legit 10 minutes away from finishing champs on Friday night at like 3am just because I saw the pack weight and boom they changed the weight of the pack. 10 minutes. 10. I give up on this games. There’s no point of me putting money and my hard work for this bs.

The positive I can say man is that I don’t know if you’ve heard but fifa are in talks with 2k for a game to be made so we could hopefully see fifa 2k25 it’s good too see but like you said can they compete against ea is the question

@MattHDGamer I really hope the UFL Game is gonna beat FC 24

BOYCOTT FIFA POINTS. BOYCOTT STORE PACKS. THIS IS HOW WE FIGHT THIS BATTLE WITH EA.

They may not care about the player base, but they do care about green. If we join together and don't buy fc points they will see revenue decline. I agree with Nick!!!!

Such a complicated situation. If only EA had more of a conscience

As a longtime fan of fifa/eafc I can't bring myself to go anywhere near ultimate team anymore. I don't need packs and new cards pushed in my face every day, especially when I personally can't agree with the gameplay. Goalkeepers are my main point as they are terrible, but in general over the last 5-6 years the gameplay feels like it has taken a real downturn. I'm waiting to see what UFL is like when it releases, or goals when that finally comes out. Hopefully people give them the time and help on release to make a football game that fans actually care about again, not some overpowered meta bullshit gameplay.

Unintended that part hurt

Your right. We should all just do nothing. Pfft. 👎

They need to find the right balance and not have “meta” cards. That way people can play with their FAVORITE players and still be able to compete. Thats really what ultimate team should be about .. building YOUR ultimate team. I been wanting to play w Ronaldinho for years … I only ever packed one icon one time after spending $200 (total for the year) on packs and it was Luis Figo and I played with him all the time ! And it was best !

At least they gave us the “intended” rewards in donarumma and lees melou

#boycottEA #DeleteFC24

I posted it on Itshaber's video so I repost it here REPOST. I feel gulity for spending money on points, but I got an RTG England team, that I love and at times enjoy, but the past month, since TOTS started, the game hasn't being enjoyable, gameplay is everywhere, I was surprised I got to Elite 1 in squad battles the weekend just gone because I had so many disconnects last week. I prefer Squad battles and solo, better then stressful rivals and that, please don't judge me. EA every year, brings out a game and features micro-transactions, and more companies are joining them, us public people who as Haber says, we spend £70-90 nearly on a standerd edition of the game. It is WRONG, it isn't an opinion, it is out-rightly outrageously wrong. The world must come together to stop these cooperates from cash-grabbing so much shit. I had to buy points just to for example get packs to do 93 Chloe Kelly..or... 91 Dier... (Showdown) or.... 92 Wan-Bisakka... we shouldn't be doing this.... we should be earning it all at our own paces or... grinding easily for it. I hope actions will be done, but nothing seems to work at this point.

Only competition will drive a company to innovate and build a better product. Until then, there is a cow to milk and zero reasons not to milk it.

I have been grinding the menus like crazy cant pack anything decent its all about the store packs

I agree with you but why should we have to wait for competition to get a game where the player base is treated fairly??

They have fired sooo many people working on the game to cut cost. The result is what we are seeing. You would be a real mastermind to be able to sabotage within all of these different instances in the company…

EA as a whole needs a HUGE revamp, because the things that goes around this company is just gross.....Starting with the alleged DDA and the way they manipulate human emotion to keep them hooked to the game...The complete absence of communication and feedback between the player base and the developers....The lack of effort developing their most popular game and avoiding creating meta playstyles...and the way that this game is easy to hack and disconnect other players.. These are problems that has nothing to do with football and you can project them on any game/company....imagine if a debuting company with a new game and it has these problems....that just means EA are living and feeding from their past glory and it's the only reason they keep getting away with everything.. The only way I see them lose is if another company makes a decent game of football. UFL is still missing for over two years , and there are rumors FIFA want to make their own game, until then, no boycott or PR can stop EA🤷‍♀

It is shit when you open 86+ packs and the 83+ x10 the 84+ packs and you get the lowest player of al tots that came out 24:17 on friday or monday Now i think when i see mbappe on a special card ( i will not get that one )

A lot of these situations would be easily nullified if EA were actually transparent with what’s going on. If they released a statement saying ‘X happened because of Y’ then although it’s a ‘mistake’ at least we know why it happened and how they can potentially stop it happening again (🤣)but we get nothing from them

Imagine them not responding to the numeruos feedback that you left in the Gamechangers discord along with other creators, but then they immedietely respond to 1 video you put on youtube. Thats so funny.

I'm a hardcore FIFA player but I'll never play in their casino,I play seasons. As I said I never played FIFA's casino so I don't know how competitve it is (handicap or not) but seasons is not that competitve I play mostly against the handicap and still win, even against players that has a record similiar to mine, I'm current W1012 D108 L270 the few matches I'm not handicapped I win by 10-0 or close to it. I wish more good players would not play that cards thing.

I have been a Fifa fan since Fifa 97 , Fifa 98 Fifa 99 e.t.c. which i first played on my pc (and still have for my Nintendo 64) growing up throughout my childhood. I have stayed loyal to EA sports until now and i can happily say , I'm done with EA and their stupid FC25 and other so-called garbage, toxic , gambling stressfest of a football game they call a game. I have already preorder the new boxing game " Undisputed Boxing" (PS5) which is not made by EA thankfully because that would be another gambling, toxic , money grabbing, stressfest , but my time and effort will be enjoyed playing that new undisputed boxing game aswell as other games i have gone back to such as " Red Dead Rededempiton 2 ( whjch i have already completed on ps4) but I'm playing it again on ps5 this time and will continue spend time playing that on my PS5 aswell as "GTA V online" until GTA 6 is released, Spiderman 2, Hogwarts Legacy, Avatar frontiers e.t.c. games like that which are not toxic, gambling, stressfest , money grabbing games like past Fifa games and FC24 e.t.c. It's obvious EA doesn't give a 💩 about their fan base , but they only have themselves to blame as fans since fifa 97, fifa 98 ,fifa 99, fifa 2000 are now boycotting fc25 and not giving them support and a 💩anymore about their stupid,ridiculous, pathetic money grabbing company. It's game over for EA and FC25 onwards as i won't be giving them no support and definitely none of my own (hard earned) money. I will put my time , money and effort into other decent games with gaming company's that give a damn about their fan base and are willing to listen aswell as do something to help us gamers out by improving their games unlike EA who do sweet F.A. Instead of playing the joke of a game mode like ultimate team and having to stress about playing rivals , fut champions and completing stupid sbc's and objectives to receive packs of samedp duplicate players over and over again e.t.c. i will be improving my fitness and health to make a better version of myself instead of wasting my time , money, effort and feeling stressed and under pressure to receive pointless pack rewards. EA don't care about their fanbase well they only have themselves to blame when fans ,like me are boycotting their game and they aren't getting the support they require from us gamers. Two can play the game of not giving a 💩 ,but that's their problem, not ours dirty money grabbing, gambling addiction scumbags 😤🤬.

Had a bit of time to reflect on ea We cannot tell EA to improve the gameplay. They made playstyle changes, made it so that you put players in with certain traits that work for you. I love lofted pass pluses on defenders and whipped pass plus on the left wing, and trivela on the right wing. I like a striker who has finesse shot plus. Yes, some are more overpowered compared to others (flair versus incisive pass for example) Ea even put evolutions in the game, they are trying to improve gameplay. Also, people complain about packs in store, I have a 193 squad, I’m in division 2, my whole team is untradeable, I do sbcs and challenges, and I have packed toty ribery when toty was out and battle, players worth 4.5 million combined and they are untradeable. Do I think that EA should maybe reduce how often they bring out huge packs? Yes, absolutely, the credibility of the game goes that way. But is it possible to be a good player without spending money, yes. Nick obviously was sick of the game, but for the love of god it’s a game, there’s flaws, there’s good aspects. If EA never brought new things to Fut I’d back him, but Ea do things for the game, they don’t just sit back and do nothing

Wanting to still play because of finances that’s fine but saying all we need is a competitive game is not it. Everyone’s been saying that for years for people playing FIFA Madden 2K but unless someone appears from thin air to make one capable of competing it’s never going to happen. PES went backwards and I can’t see UFL competing either. At the very minimum everyone can do is not buy points because then it affects the only thing they care about, money. You can’t be one foot in one foot out. I want changes but don’t want to compromise at all.

i remember watching manny and mmt for a long time but because of how bad the gameplay was he stopped making fifa content as much like cuz of their greed we miss out on great creators playing what used to be a good game (for me it was fifa 12-18

It's the scripting that needs fixing, the developers need to be put in jail and we need a fully manual football simulator

Ever since the first year of playing fifa ultimate team back in fifa 12. Every single year it gets worse. Feel the last 3 fifa's I've said this will be the last one. I'm barely a casual now. It sucks how little EA care

They make promos everyweek or maybe everyday to get more money from pack opening they don't care about us who played they game for +10 years anymore so they decided to ruin it for more money

The game in general is made to make you addicted. Not only packs, but the game itself is designed to make you become an addict like gambling addicts. EA is the Casino and the odds are against you, always. Regardless, you know that you'll lose everything when you go the casino but you will still go, because you're addicted. The same goes for playing this game, the odds are against you always. Question: What do you do when you get disconnected from the game? You will play it again. Or how do you react when you have input delay and desyncs? You will come back and play it. What I'm saying is, no matter what happens, and you know that every problem could reoccur while you are playing, but you keep coming back to the casino... That is why I believe every single issue, bug and glitch is intentionally built into the game