 Hey guys, it's TaneatAK, the foot accountant, and welcome back to the channel. Pre-season has gone absolutely crazy. What a wild day it was yesterday in FIFA 22 with the most unforeseen start to a promo like we have ever witnessed in this game, where we were sitting there ready for 6 p.m. content and then EA tweeted out saying that they were going to literally pause and delay the promo five minutes before it was supposed to release. That was crazy in its own right. But we finally have all the contents in packs. We've got all the objectives, the SBCs, they have been dropped, and I wanna take a look with you guys about how this pre-season promo is coming across. There's less special cards in packs, kind of as we expected, but still it's a bit of an L. And I really just have to talk about these FIFA 23 rewards that we can get. Are they worth the grind? I think some of them are, and I think other ones are not. But it is very similar to the pre-season promos of years past, except we have a couple transfer cards already. Actually three of them with the showdown and the Lukaku. And there's a leak of another one that could be coming today on Saturday. So we're gonna talk about all of that and more in today's video. If you're excited for pre-season and you're already wanting to grind these rewards, hit the thumbs up on the video. And of course, subscribe if you are new. Now, here's what I wanna start talking about first. Just a quick rundown of this pre-season promo and kinda talk about first how it went down yesterday because it was just crazy. It was crazy yesterday. We were on the live stream, ready for pre-season to drop. All of a sudden EA tweets this five minutes before content. Due to unforeseen issues, we have had to delay the launch of the pre-season campaign. This thread will be available or updated when more information is out. They said about three hours later that it was live. So I don't know what the issue was yesterday that made them not able to release the promo on time. But it was absolute chaos at 6 p.m. in the content drop yesterday on the market with SBC fodder with literally everything because the promo, we literally ended footies and there was nothing except for a showdown SBC. So that was just the craziest thing to start off with. But it is all out, all of our content is finally here. And I wanna go over it with you guys because we didn't have a chance to really do it on stream. Now, I like this screen here. It kind of shows us all of the rewards for week number one of pre-season. I do expect this to be three, four, five week promo. You can see that batch one is in packs for two weeks in total. There's only a hundred special cards in packs right now. And we'll talk about that in a little bit. But let's talk about SBCs and objectives because that's what this whole promo is about, right? Getting FIFA 23 rewards inside of FIFA 22. Now there's two different awards that you can get right now. There is one inside of this warmup to foot 23 objective which you basically do the very easy warmup foot 23 SBC. I'll take a look at that in a second. You get 85 times five packs every time you go and do it. And then you get an 85 times 10 at the end. And when you get one of these done, each warmup pack gets you two rare gold players packs and a gold rare contract pack. And for a second when I first read this description, when I read it, I was like, wait, a rare gold players pack, that's actually a really good pack. But not so fast. It is actually a two players pack. According to the website right here, it is a two players pack. It's like, you know, not two times rare gold players packs. It is a two rare gold player pack. So you get two gold players. That's basically it from the pack that you get when you finish this reward. So you have to do it all three times to get this reward here, which is not very good. But honestly, I mean, you get an 85 times five every single time you do it. So it's also actually kind of worth it because the SBC only requires bronze cards and 30 chemistry. So it's kind of a mix between, you kind of just might as well do it because you turn in your bronze non-rears, you get an 85 times five, you do it three times, you get an 85 times 10, and then you get a couple packs or you get one pack and some contracts in FIFA 23 upcoming. So that's the first objective. And again, like I said, to complete this objective, what you have to do is go into the SBC tab and you find the warmup challenge, which I did it yesterday, literally takes five seconds because it's so easy to do. It's this foot 23 warmup SBC, which you can't really see it's hiding behind my face camp, but we'll be able to do this again on Sunday, I believe. And one day 22 hours is a really random timeframe for this to re-up from where I'm recording this right now. But whenever this refreshes, we'll be able to do it again and that would give us another 85 times five pack from objectives and it'll get you one step closer to your 23 reward. So this one is the one that I think is not that great. Now the other one, foot 23 kickstart, this requires a little bit more effort, but it's not that much effort. These packs in my opinion will be the best of use in FIFA 23 when these rewards will drop. As you can see, you score in three separate matches in the live foot friendly kickstart, which is a max chemistry mode with very minimal requirements. If you have seven prem players in your team, you score in three matches, you get a Premier League, three rare goal players pack. Now this is a pack that could have some pretty good potential because if you think about it in the early game, three rare goal players from the same league, you might have a chance of hitting a team of the weak card. You might have a chance of hitting somebody halfway decent. I'm not saying that these packs are gonna automatically give out really good, but I think that these packs are better and the grind here is a little bit better than what you have to do for the foot 23 starter objective. So I like these a little bit better. And this way, let's say you do all of these objectives and at the start of the game, this next year at FIFA 23, let's say you get an insane pull out of your La Liga players pack. Like let's say, I don't know, you pack somebody, I don't know, like maybe a Furlan Mindy or a Militao, which at the start of the game is a really, really big pull. Then you can start to build your team around them and have that kind of like head start or an upgrade to your current team depending on how your rewards could be. So in reality, these packs aren't that fantastic. They're okay. And it's like, all right, if I'm playing FIFA 22 right now, I might as well go out and try to get some of this done to set myself a little bit ahead in FIFA 23. But if you're also like, man, I don't wanna grind this, it's not worth it. I completely understand that argument as well. It's kind of like just, you have to kind of pick one side and kind of go with it and it is what it is. So that's how I feel about this pre-season promo because the other thing I have to say about this is all pre-season rewards are untradable and the timing of this, foot 23 rewards must be redeemed by logging in by November, wow, November 14th. Okay, no, the granted date. Foot 23 rewards will be granted by the 13th of October. The full game releases on September 30th of this year of 2022. I believe it was last year, we got them one week or it might've been on the final date. These rewards will be granted by the 13th of October. They should be granted before then. But all I'm saying is do not expect to get these packs or to get like any of these rewards before you log into the actual ultimate team. Like when you open up the web app for the first time in FIFA 23, these packs will most likely not be there sitting and waiting for you. These packs are ones that we often get a week after the full game is released and out. So that also kind of detracts from the value that these rewards have because they're not available to you right away. I mean, imagine if you started the game and opened the web app or open FIFA Ultimate Team on console even for the first time with these rewards, they'd be a huge help. But it's after you've played the game for a week, maybe a week and a half where you actually get these packs, they're still valuable, but that makes them a little bit less valuable if you guys remember from past years. Also, this is maybe a small niche example, but if you're switching from PS to PlayStation, or sorry, from PS to PC or Xbox to PlayStation, your rewards will not carry over. So try to get these rewards. If you're starting a brand new account on a new console or a new platform, try to start that account now, which is good practice anyway. If you wanna get web app and companion app access, specifically, start that new account and even grind these rewards on that account if you can because that'll help you get those rewards there for the start of FIFA 23. So just some small tidbits there about the pre-season rewards. Again, like I said, it's kind of just up and down. It's whatever you want, right? On the video today, I did finish the warm-up SBC challenge because it's so cheap, it's so easy to do, might as well. I'm gonna probably try to get the Kickstarter one done, do all of the top five leagues, the E-Figs leagues and get those three player packs. Again, just because, why not? And I'm probably gonna do these as well just because they're so easy. Bronze players, boom, I look. I'm gonna get some Tots cards and that's what I wanna talk about next. The content that we had in game for FIFA 22, starting with the players in packs, right? We knew that it was gonna be, oh my gosh, that was a really good, wow. That was a really good 85 times five. I doubt that all of them are looking like that because we only have 100 special cards in packs right now in this game. We do not have the 200 that we have had for the past two weeks, right? The pre-season 100 squad run one is what is in packs right now. Now it does contain some pretty big name cards but it also feels like it's just missing so many. We were opening 85 times 10s yesterday. We were packing guys like Gold Van Dyke. I don't actually, I don't think he's in here. I packed him before they fixed everything up. Let me search really quick. Is Virgil Van Dyke in here? Virgil Van Dyke is not. So he doesn't have a special card in packs but like Marquinhos' gold card, Conte's gold card. You know, I believe there's not even a Messi. There's not even a Messi card that is in packs right now. His gold card is in packs and that just detracts from the hype of what is in packs at the moment. Only 100 cards, all Tots, Conte's old team of the group stage, shapeshifters and literally one fantasy foot upgrade with Usman Dembele. So that's the biggest L a part of the pre-season promo and we knew that it was gonna be a step down. That's why I was telling you guys all last week, open those packs during footies because it will not get any better than it was last week and that was kind of confirmed with the cards that are in packs. Now, speaking of the market a little bit, a lot of the cards that have not been re-released back into packs, for example, let's take a look at some of these shapeshifters that we thought maybe we're gonna be back in but we're not, shapeshifter, Messi or Marcelo, both these guys are great examples. Messi yesterday was 1.3 million coins. He is now upwards of 1.55, 1.51 and the next card is like almost 1.57. So 1.55 for Messi, he is up a lot. Marcelo was under 400,000 coins yesterday, heading into the content drop. He is now 490, 480,000 coins. A big rise on a lot of your shapeshifter cards that are not re-released back into packs. Kyle Walker was under 300K. He is now just over 420,000 coins. So a lot of those cards have gone up simply because they're not in packs. People went out, bought some cards for their end game teams and that's how a lot of the market reacted yesterday to the content drop because of all of the unforeseen circumstances that were going on. A lot of cards spiked instantly yesterday. Ronaldo's a good one to look at because he's actually in packs still, a part of this batch, but Ronaldo was low, spiked all the way up in that first hour and then kind of had a slow drop back down to where he is now like 2.2 to 2.3 mil. But that was the common theme is everybody yesterday with the content being lackluster, right at the content drop, went out and bought everything back. Look at this messy. 1.28, all the way to 1.5 and now has even gone higher up as he has continued to get bought up and people are going and saying whatever, I'm just gonna go buy some of my end game teams. So these cards that are in packs right now, this batch, again, it does say that it's gonna be for two weeks. There's probably gonna be another batch of even more special cards being in packs. Hopefully they add to this. Hopefully it gets a little bit better because yes, stuff is still craftable right now with, you know, like Ericsson, Darwin Nunez. A lot of people are still trying to finish, you know, guys like Salah or Dembele or Neymar. Those SBCs are people are trying to craft and get them done. It's just gonna be a little bit harder now with less cards in packs. Now, speaking about the SBC fodder just a little bit more, fodder actually exploded yesterday on the higher tier after content as well. I mean, take a look at some, I'm gonna look at the 96 rated cards. Remember like on, I think it was Wednesday or Thursday when I was looking at this Joe Cole and I was saying, man, 16, 17K for this is way, way, way too cheap. Thursday he was 23,000 coins, went down under 20K. But yesterday was the big explosion day for a lot of these cards because they went out of packs and people had fodder and still were going and doing other SBCs. They were going and doing the brand new Ericsson or the brand new Nunez SBCs which are great value. Going and finishing guys like Salah, the player picks that we have out icon SBCs, right? Neymar, Usman, stuff like that. People still were going and doing SBCs yesterday. They were going out and spending coins to get it done. So you saw fodder go up and the prices of these SBCs exploded. I mean, take a look at the Salah price from 1.5 mil before content yesterday. He went all the way up to basically 2.1 with the high rated fodder that was all getting supplied every single day in packs like the shape shifters and the Tots cards. A lot of those left packs and that fodder went flying up because there was no more supply and a lot of demand. So that was a really crazy thing that we saw yesterday. So the higher tier fodder is up a decent amount. Lower tier fodder hasn't moved. It's more of like your 93, 94, 95 rated players that these guys were like 15K and now they're 20K, right? 96 is again a great example. We're like 18, 90,000 coins. They are now almost 30K for most of these cards except for a couple of them that are still in packs like Suarez, 96 rated card, 23,000 coins. So that is why some of your SBC prices will look more expensive right now is because that higher tier fodder has gone up as well without the supply that it had before. Now the lower tier fodder I think still has opportunities to move. We're still getting the 85 plus times 10, repeatable twice a day. People are still going out and doing that because there are Tots cards in packs and you saw the 85 times five that I just packed. People are still out crafting. People are still out doing SBCs. I have to try to get the Salah going, right? I'm one out of 18 squads on him. The hardest part right now about crafting these squads and this is EA's fault, big time. They did not add any fantasy foot birthday or foot captain's cards. There's only one foot fantasy and it's Usman de Bailey, he's in packs, that's it. But they did not add any of these cards into packs. So right now people that are trying to do Mendy, Griezmann, Salah, Neymar that require these types of promo cards, they're in the mud because these cards are just going up on the market without any supply. The only thing you can say as well, EA Sports did give us a player pick that we can do that gives us batch one, two or three players. So you might have a chance at packing a captain's or a foot birthday or a foot fantasy upgrade. But that's a really poor excuse and EA Sports should be providing us other options than just having to go on in the market and buy these cards. I believe like foot fantasy upgrade cards are the cheapest ones, like out of all of those. And I think they're like 40K. I'm pretty sure they're like 40 or 50,000 coins for some of these foot birthdays, some of these foot fantasy cards are 45K for Alexandro. And some of them are actually extinct because their price ranges don't even go that high. Yeah, 50K basically for these cards. How much are foot captains? I wanna look, foot captains are, foot captains are a little bit cheaper, around 30,000 coins, foot birthdays are extinct. No way, how much are foot birthdays? 50, 60K? Nah, what? Foot birthdays are 95,000 coins with Danny Alba as being like one of the only ones on the market. That's actually crazy, EA. That's wild. So that's the problem that we have right now. And I think EA Sports needs to do something about it besides just saying that they have this player pick available for us to craft. But unfortunately, I don't think they're going to do anything about it. This is available for 22 days. But you shouldn't have to, right? You shouldn't have to do this or be forced to spend coins. They should have all these different types of cards impacts. So that's one thing right now that I'm really not happy with EA about because it doesn't make any sense. They're requiring those cards and not supplying them. So that's one thing I'm not super happy about there in terms of the SBCs in this game. Now, yesterday we had a great showdown. Darwin Nunez and Christian Erickson. Both these cards in my opinion are great. 5-4 for Nunez. I wish it would have been 5-5. High, low, work rate change. Incredible, incredible stats. Again, really cracked out looking item of course with the transfer card as well. The Liverpool, Darwin Nunez. They added finesse shot, power header and outside foot shot traits. 199,000 coins to get this card done is a steal of a price. A steal of a price in my 150k to get this done. Erickson's 190k. Both of these I think are fantastic value for the stage of the game. Very craftable. And of course, you know how it goes on Monday. The winner will get a plus two upgrade post game. And if there is a draw both will get plus one. So I went ahead and did the Erickson card. 199,000 coins. I thought his value was a little bit too expensive right away but after looking at it for a bit longer he looks like incredible value. Plus 25 defense on this card. This card is incredible by the way. Great long shots, great passing. He doesn't feel like the most meta card in game still but a really, really fun card with this plus three. Again, the physical defensive boost is massive. So I'm low key hoping that maybe Erickson gets a plus one or a plus two. But also I know that a lot of people would love Darwin Nunez getting a plus one or a plus two as well. So winner goes to 98 overall. If there is a clear cut winner at 90 minutes time on Monday's game between Manchester United and Liverpool. So it's a huge, huge game for showdown opportunities in this game. Now also yesterday it was actually funny because this Lukaku card was in concepts but with the whole delay of everything he wasn't dropped in the game and this Lukaku was dropped in objectives. He has a pretty high down vote percentage. I think it's because they didn't give him five star skills that would have been nice if we had a Lukaku with five star skills. But this is, if you're an Inter fan, if you're a fan you want this card go ahead and go grind it. It's not super terrible to get. It's just kind of there. But we've already had three brand new transfer cards added with Nunez, Ericsson and Lukaku. All three of those are transfer cards that have been added to the game already via this promo. And you know, that's got me kind of excited because that means that EA seems to like want to keep the ball rolling with these transfer cards. And I would love that. Drop as many transfer card as possible EA. Like just keep dropping it. Now I do think there is potential for us to get a new transfer card today on Saturday. You know how EA has liked to keep the player SBCs fresh and rolling at the beginning of these promos Friday, Saturdays and Sundays. We've seen a lot of player SBCs. There is a leak for another one. No date on this leak, but I really feel like this could be today. 99 rated Lewandowski Barcelona is added to come via a preseason SBC. Not entirely sure what card design they would use. Since they did the moments card design for Lukaku I think they might do that for Lewandowski as well. But this is the card design that they have used in previous years for the transfer SBC cards. That's just the start guys. Like ton of potential with this. I mean 99 Lewandowski would be awesome if it was five star, five star. I wasn't a huge fan of his team in the season card, but maybe with the five star, five star boost and even better stats, this could be a really, really cracked out card. So that's the only leak that we have right now. But I, in my opinion, think that that is gonna be coming today on Saturday as a part of our content. But really what there is to do right now in this game is slowly start working on these Kickstarter objectives because I really feel like these are the best ones to do. The warm-up objectives. I'm not expecting anything else other than this related to FIFA 23 content. Because again, if you look at the webpage it just talks about the FIFA 23 eFigs packs and it talks about the two rare gold players packs and the contract stuff. And it really doesn't say anything else. This is week one by the way because this is how they kind of do this. They do like every single week there'll be different rewards. You can see that some of these say and on the website it says like week one of preseason you get these rewards. So there will be more rewards down the line. You'll be able to get more packs. Yeah, right here it says week one, right? Some of these rewards will hopefully change up a little bit and they'll maybe be more worth it to grind a couple of weeks from now as we get even closer to FIFA 23. But put in the grind that you wanna put in. If you're still trying to craft footies cards put in that time, put in that grind. Hopefully today on Saturday as well we get the 86 or in the 82 plus player picks and the upgrade packs back specifically to 75 times five. Like that whole grind with BPM EA sports release that again, let people grind the menus because that's a great way to get SPCs done for a lower price. And the 82 plus player pick would be fantastic to have out in the game right now as well just to be able to try to pack some fodder cards with the special items that are in packs. That way you can go and craft just a little bit easier. But again, it was a crazy day of content yesterday. I'm glad it settled down. Just again, an absolutely wild day on the game. We still did not see that 83 plus times five pack in the game yet either. Only we have the 85 plus times five. I did not see an 83 plus times five. Of course, these were 85 fives here. So still kind of looking out for where that pack maybe dropped, whether it's in the store, whether it is in an SPC or something like that. Not entirely sure. That's something we didn't see yesterday that we maybe are looking forward to today or on this weekend. But still, preseason promo is rolling. I even started playing a weekend league because of how the content was yesterday. I think I'm like three and two or something like that. Just trying to get my 11 and dip, try some of my brand new cards that are in the team. Again, as I said, I did try out the Christian Erickson card. He is cracked. And I did finish the Allen St. Maximum SPC. This dude is absolutely incredible. Doesn't have a ton of goals, but he is fantastic for me. And I'm still on the quest for 1,000 games with R9. That's part of the reason why I'm playing a little bit this weekend. Try to get this R9 to 1,000 games before the end of FIFA 22 as we know it. But clubs and teams are looking stacked. The cards keep coming out. I'm gonna try to feature some transfer cards in my team as well. But if a 98 Erickson, 98 Erickson would be absolutely incredible. So I'm rooting for Erickson on Monday, guys. Not Man United, I'm rooting for Erickson. And I gotta wake up early on Saturday to watch my Tottenham Hotspur lads play against Wolves. So I'm gonna go get some shut-eye to get ready for that. But if you're excited for another day of pre-season, I mean, actually maybe you're not excited. Let me know down in the comments how you're feeling because it does feel like with the pre-season cards and packs, it's a step backwards. And we kinda knew that was gonna happen. That's what we talked about all week. So however you're feeling, let me know down in the comments. I'd love to hear about that. But if you did enjoy today's video, smash the thumbs up on it. And of course, subscribe if you are new. It has been Nathan Foot Account and I'll catch you guys later. Peace, out.