 Hey guys, it's Nate, A.K. The Photo Count, and welcome back to the channel. We are so close to EAFC 24, releasing to us all. And what I wanna do today is take a look at all the dates and times that you need to know to get ready to get on EAFC as soon as you possibly can. There's a lot of stuff upcoming. I don't want you to miss any of it. We're gonna talk about it all today. If you're excited for it, drop it thumbs up. Subscribe if you're new. Now one thing that's gonna help us out today as we look through all of these dates and times is a cheeky calendar. Why not put it all on a calendar? And we are here currently. Today is the 12th. If you're watching this video, the day that is posted, this is Tuesday the 12th, and we're gonna start by looking back at yesterday with the ratings and talk about that through the rest of this week before we get into a lot of the craziness. So let's start there with what happened yesterday. Of course, we've had ratings, right? For the past couple of weeks, honestly, there's been leaks, there's been news and information. We've known some of the ratings of these cards, but officially EA dropped them yesterday, the first 24 players, the top highest 24 rated men and women's players in FC24. The best part and the most interesting part about the ratings we learned yesterday, though, is EA told us the play styles and play style pluses on some of these cards and even some of the work rates and some of that stuff that we didn't know from before. And Boppe, with the quick step, play style plus, that's very interesting for his card. Lionel Messi is a center forward item and it says on here that his work rates are medium, medium. I'm not entirely sure if that's accurate. There's been issues before with EA's database right away when they've dropped it. There have been problems with it. So I wonder if the Benzema and the Messi work rates were flipped because Benzema was medium, medium last year and on here he shows us low, low and that was Messi's work rates last year in FIFA 23. So maybe there's some issue going on there, but a lot of great ratings that were dropped and also a sleeper thing that not a lot of people are talking about but it's actually massive. If you go under the ultimate team tab here, you can see play styles. All of the play styles have been unveiled and play style pluses kind of tells you what each one of them does for the scoring, passing, ball control, defending, physical and goalkeeper areas of the pitch. So make sure you kind of click around on their website and look through a few of those things because there's actually some really good information and kind of learning the new play styles as they get dropped into FC 24. Now of course we don't have all the ratings but Foot Squirrel Board's database does have a ton of these ratings. So if you wanna still look through that, this is a very useful website but we'll be waiting for the full database guys coming on Friday. Yes, that is one of the next big dates we have to look forward to. EA confirmed it on the ratings website right here. September 15th at 12 p.m. Pacific time which is actually two hours after the content dropped. So that'll be 8 p.m. UK time that'll be two, or sorry, 3 p.m. Eastern time. That'll be two hours after the content dropped. That is what that time is and that'll be coming this Friday. Now I've got this arrow in here. What do I mean by this ratings release that's gonna happen all week? EA love to drag out this whole ratings reveal process guys. They absolutely love doing that. I would not be surprised if we saw ratings releases and reveals since EA's been tweeting out a lot of this stuff every single day this week. Watch their Twitter, watch a lot of news. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised that they tweeted out like the top dribbling cards in the game or the top cards with pace. Maybe the top five star skillers or something along those lines. That sort of information, I think they'll kind of milk it out through the rest this week and maybe drop a few more players here inside of this ratings website list as we move on. But Friday's the big massive day for that because we get the full official EA database with all the cards in it. That's gonna be very, very exciting. Now also I've got a couple things here about the web app. We'll talk about that in a second. But what I wanna move on to talking about which could be coming on Friday are the launch pitch notes. And maybe you remember what these are, maybe you don't. But this is one of the biggest pieces of content that we look forward to every single year because it gives us so much information about the beginning of the new Ultimate Team cycle. And this was dropped last year, I think like a day before or maybe even on the day of the web app. The date varies. It could be sometime this Friday. It could be later on on the same like the week or the day before the web app potentially drops. But this launch pitch notes update guys is something that we learn about so many different aspects of early game content. The early access content, ones to watch, new team of the week cards. Last year they talked about featured team of the week cards, player of the months, heroes which we know some about already, icons which we know some about already. I think last year this was the first time that EA actually posted Gerd Muller, Javi Alonzo and Jarzino as the official new icons come into FC24. And this year, or sorry, that was FIFA 23. For this year in FC24, what I'm most interested about is we haven't heard much at all about ones to watch. And what I'm really looking for with this launch update pitch notes is for EA to tell us a little bit of something about ones to watch. I mean, we've got a car design that people have been posting. I don't know if this is a true leak or not but man, this transfer window has been absolutely insane. One of the craziest I can ever remember. Messi, Neymar, Kane, Benzema, Kante, and Kudku, Diaby, so many players have moved clubs in this past transfer window period. Ones to watch promo could be banging this year. So I really hope that we have that promo upcoming. And I really hope we get some information about that inside of this launch update pitch note. So that is an unknown date. That's why I have a question mark decided here on the calendar. Dates with a check mark are confirmed by EA or one of their websites. And dates with a question mark are technically not confirmed dates. So I'm really looking forward to some launch pitch note updates guys. We'll be discussing them here on the channel when they do drop because we'll learn so much about FC24 Alternate Content when that is released. Now, moving to our next big date. And this is a big one guys. The wait for the web app from Friday to Monday it's gonna be a long wait, right? From the 15th until the 20th, right? It's that 20th date on a Wednesday that we expect the potential drop of the web app. But it's in question marks guys because we really don't know. And that has been the timeframe they have dropped the web app in years past. You can see last year they dropped the web app on September 21st, which was a Wednesday. And that coincided with the drop of team of the week one. That is oftentimes how they do things. They drop team of the week one and the web app at the exact same time. So I feel like this could almost be a check mark, like confirmed, but it's really not because we don't know yet if we get the launch pitch notes here in the next couple of days then we might know that information before the web app drops. Honestly guys, September 20th is an expected date but it's not a guarantee. That's what really what I can, the message I wanna convey to you guys is it is not a guarantee. This day is officially called the spam F5 all day. Until we have the web app actually dropping. And when the web app does drop, it usually drops at content time. Think about it, right? The team of the week is released. The team of the week is released every single Wednesday throughout the year at 6 p.m. content time. That is around when the web app starts to open up as well, sometimes 6, 10 p.m., sometimes 6, 15 p.m. I'm talking UK time zone, sometimes 6, 7, 8 p.m. That's when we're usually all able to get on the web app for the first time. I mean, obviously one of the craziest times on the game. Now one thing I will say, as we look forward a little bit more into the calendar and actually as we look back for a second too, will the web app close on FIFA 23? It actually will. I don't know when that's gonna actually happen but usually EA takes five, six, seven days. So sometime between tomorrow and Wednesday and maybe Friday, they will actually shut down the web app on FIFA 23 and they will kind of take it down for maintenance, take it down for updating and they'll update everything inside of here and it'll turn into the FC 24 web app. So watch out for that if you use the web app a lot. That's maybe something you have to watch out for of course but guys, we're gonna have a ton of videos and content and basically how to help you guys get started on the web app when it does come out. So some very important videos coming soon on that information but not yet because we're here today to look at some more dates and that we are gonna continue to do. Now, the big date and we have a lot of confirmed dates of course, towards the end of the month because we know what's happening on the official release days. When are we actually gonna be able to play the game, right? It's September 22nd, that's the big day. Early access and pre-order access. Basically, if you bought the ultimate edition of the game, you are going to be able to get onto the game at this date and that is a date that has been known for a while. It's on EA's website. We looked at it just right here. When can I play EA Sports FC 24? It launches worldwide on the 29th of September but the ultimate edition EA Play Trial and EA Play Pro will be able to access the game on September 22nd. So that's the fine print on EA's website just so you can see it there. And of course, a lot of us have seen this page on the EA pre-order website where it shows what you get up to seven days early access. Now the question mark that I have on this and I believe this is how it works but it's a little bit different every single year. The time that you're able to get on the actual game for early access, sometimes it's midnight in your certain time zone. So I know on Xbox, this has been a thing of the past where people will set their time zone to like New Zealand or Australia so they can get on the game a few hours before everybody else. Again, I don't know if that works. I do not recommend doing that. Honestly, what I would say is when it reaches midnight in your time zone, if you have the pre-order early access, I think they should allow you to pre-download the game. This isn't the actual game right here. This is just the beta that I had. But I think you should be able to pre-download the game so you don't have to just wait until the game is downloaded to actually play after that. Hopefully they allow us to do that. But at midnight in your local time zone it should be available right around then. So that's big, big news of course for actually being able to get on the game for the first time. Now if you haven't bought the Ultimate Edition of the game you can actually still get on the game on the 22nd of September with the EA Play which we're not talking about as much this year because before EA Play would drop at the same time as the web app or in years past it did, not last year but in years past it would drop almost at the same time as the web app and then you could run your 10 hours or try to extend your 10 hours or glitch them as long as you could until the actual Ultimate Edition release. But this year, which by the way this year I love the schedule so much better than last year guys. Remember last year when we had the web app on a Wednesday and then we didn't get early access until the next Tuesday it was like five, six straight days of web app and it was painful. There was nothing to do except try to flip bronze and silver cards for like five or six days. It was honestly terrible, it was tough to grind but this year it's gonna be a lot different and a lot easier because we're gonna be getting on the game only two days after the web app is actually dropped. So one thing I will say though is if you don't have the Ultimate Edition, consider EA Play because you do get that 10 hour trial where you can get on the game and start playing the game early. Now the only thing I don't know about EA Play is I don't know if you get access to the Nike Promo which I don't know how this is gonna work but nothing on this EA Play website mentions that you will get access to the Nike Promo. EA Play Pro is PC only I do believe and that does mention that you'll get the FIFA points, you'll get access to the Nike Ultimate Team campaign as well. It says that in your access to the Nike Ultimate Team campaign but it does not say there's a check mark there for those who just have EA Play. So if you do the EA Play 10 hour trial, I don't know if you're actually gonna get access to the Nike Ultimate Team campaign which is completely interesting to see how that'll work out inside of the game but that's the way that it looks so you can actually get on the game with a 10 hour access if you haven't pre-ordered the game but that is big and then of course for all of us on the game for this whole entire next week we have seven days of early access which is amazing. It's such a short wait to get on the full game this year like I mentioned, so amazing for that. We will be grinding on this 20 seconds gonna be insanely hype day, we'll be streaming, we'll be opening our pre-order FIFA points that we of course get for pre-ordering Ultimate Edition as well. Again guys, so many videos upcoming, how to spend your FIFA points, how to start this game the best way possible so make sure you get subscribed and ready for a lot of those but for this whole next week we'll be grinding the game, playing games, trying to get rewards, trading, trying to work the market to our advantage so we can build up coins, build up our team and also invest for when the full game is released on the 29th of September and that is the big, big day when everybody will be on EAFC 24. Now the real question is, what's this Nike promo gonna look like and is it gonna somehow sustain itself after the Ultimate Edition release is out, right? We don't know if these cards are objective only, if they're SBC only or if they're on the market through impacts or not, we have no idea. We still once again do know that in that week of timeframe for the early access, Enzo Fernandez and Federico Chiesa are two of the confirmed Nike, Mad Ready is the name of the promo, the Nike promo, Mad Ready. Those are two cards, two players that we know are getting cards during that promo, but that's really all that we know about this Nike promo and then it also somehow might be related to the different types of Nike boots that these players wear. So we'll be talking about that in a video upcoming soon as well, but that's kind of the calendar, guys. We get on FIFA for the first time on September 22nd and actually get to play the game however you do that with 10 hours or through the early pre-order access or of course, well, it counts as the web app, right? The web app is when you first get to actually get on the game and start grinding your account and stuff like that, but we're almost a week away from the web app, which is crazy, man. So we're gonna be doing a lot of preparation to get ready for FC24, guys, in a very, very short amount of time coming up this week. But if this video helped you out at all, make sure you drop a thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you do have any questions and of course, subscribe if you're new. I'll see you guys in a new video here very soon. It's been Nathan Foot Accountants. See you guys there, peace.