 Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Foot Account, and welcome back to the channel. I feel like most of us can agree that Footies this year just hasn't been good enough. From Footies being in packs, that was unexpected, to Team of the Season cards still not being in packs. For the best of re-releases, there's a couple of big reasons why our favorite end game promo just isn't hitting the same. So we need to have a conversation today and talk about it a little bit and look forward to how EA can potentially make it a little bit better with Footies content today on Sunday. So if you're excited for the video, drop a thumbs up on it and of course subscribe if you are new. Let's look at yesterday's content as we always do to start things off and then we'll get into the conversations. But first of all, a Joe Cole SBC dropping yesterday, I mean that was expected, right? A hero SBC dropping on the last couple of Footies of Saturdays has been the common theme. And guys, I'm going to say this right now, this Joe Cole is kind of like the budget Ronaldinho. If you look at the stats, they're decently comparable. I know Joe Cole is not 5-star, 5-star, but he's 5-star, 4-star and he's basically just like the budget Dinho. Right, he can play on the right, on the left and at center attacking mid. He's got great stats all around, great dribbling stats for sure. And Joe Cole earlier on this year, some of his other cards have really, really been pretty overpowered at different stages of the game. I have to imagine that this version is going to be pretty good as well and it's only 360,000 coins, but you might be like, Nate, isn't that kind of expensive? Again, the way that I look at it is, if this card was on the market, he would probably be a little bit more than this or at least right around this price point for the stats that his card has and for the linkability that he has. Right? Primarily card of course with the links, the English links as well. Man, that's a really, really solid card. I would say if you're not doing Ronaldinho, at least consider doing this Joe Cole card because he is probably going to be really, really good in this game. And yeah, it's only three squads, which seems really easy to do with the batch two that is in packs right now. Seems like opening player picks and packs the special card since there's 150 specials in packs. Like we mentioned in yesterday's video, there's a really good chance of you hitting a special card. And of course that just means higher rated fodder to go in to put it into an 86, 88 or an 89 rated squad for Joe Cole. So I'm not going to gas up the SBC too much because yeah, I know there's a lot of great players that have been released during footies, but that one right there for me is a budget Dino option. Don't overlook that one. If you're like, I can't do Dino, but maybe you can craft something along those lines during this next week, that might be a good SBC for you. Now, speaking of another SBC to craft, but for different reasons, this one being if you want to take a little bit of a chance, have a gamble, have some fun in August. You've got a really cheap 90 plus icon player pick. Eighty one, eighty four, eighty six rated squads. You do have to have a team of the weak player in here, but those are some really low rated squads and that shows with the overall price a hundred and fifty K for an icon player pick. It is only a one of three, I believe. Yeah, it's a one of three, but it's full birthday trophy, Titans team of the year and shapeshifters. So you might be lucky enough to do a one of three player pick like this and hit a shapeshifter icon. It's really OP liked here on re or something along maybe Pele if you're insanely lucky. So I mean, to me, this SBC looks cheap and I have nothing against it, but I just really don't have any motivation to do this SBC. Yes, maybe it's because Dino is out right now and a lot of people are trying to craft that and just seems like if I'm going to start doing this Dino, all of my focus is going to go on to this and like the 85 times tens and ways to get fodder to craft that one. So for me, this one, I don't know, maybe it's just because we've had 90 plus icon player picks for a while. Maybe it's just because I've seen the cover star icons like Ronaldinho and Roberto Carlos and know they're even miles clear of basically all the icons that will come out of this pack as well. And they're not footies cards. I don't know, maybe this SBC is one that you like. But for me, I'm just kind of like, man, I wish we had a little bit even better like 92 plus EA. Why not 92 plus? Why still 90 plus? Why a one of three? Why not a one of five? Because again, it is August. So I don't know, that one for me is just kind of it's nice that it's a cheap price. But I can't imagine that the pack weight on that is going to be that amazing either. And it's more just kind of a fun SBC and at least it's cheap. We'll say it that way, right? Now, speaking of SBCs, fodder is going up because, of course, when you have two SBCs like that dropped in one day, that's going to make some fodder prices move slightly. Now, in the early morning hours today on Sunday, I would say there is another small buying opportunity. But you can see this preha went from about 8.7 K to 9.9 about 10,000 coins. All of the 86s were yesterday right around the content drop. I think 85s were seven and a half K as well. They had a bit of a spike. So your spikes are smaller on the weekends. Oh, eight and a half K for DePie. That was a really good one. Obviously, we have weekly rewards. We have tradable supply hitting the market on the weekends. That's why we talk about investing in fodder on the weekends. Prices go higher on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, on all of this stuff, most likely. So if you're not involved, then you want to get involved in some investing investments. Watch squad battle rewards this morning that should bring some tradable supply to the market. And just like you saw yesterday, some of your 86s last night on the video, they were like 9 K, I think. Yeah, they were like right around 9,000 coins and they dropped a bit yesterday in the morning to about 85, 8,600. That's an amazing entry point for 86s, especially since we saw those go up so much already. You know, that's a really good spot to be, I think, 84s, 85s, 86s all doing bits on the market. So I would invest there. And then you take a look at the high tier fodder and you notice the price of the Dino SBC, right? This is going to be a really good barometer for the fodder market. Back down to 6 million coins. Look at this, crazy that a couple hours difference. He goes from 6.6 mil all the way to 5.8 as some of that middle to high tier fodder, not really middle. The middle tier was going up, right? We just looked at that. But the high tier on the fodder actually dipped down a little bit. 94 rated, it's 54,000 coins. 93 rated is a 45 K. I'm pretty sure these are all 50 K plus at one point. Yeah, 53 K for Bruno Guimures. Back down a little bit now to 45. So a little bit cheaper to get Dino done if you have to buy a few players off of the market because those 92s, 93s, and 94s have dipped down a little bit in value. But really, if you're trying to make coins or even just prepare, the best place once again, 83s even to 86s, 87s, and maybe even a couple 88s, chuck a couple of those in the club, those prices will be increasing throughout the rest this week. And we did have a couple store packs, actually guys. I'll say this, right? I know some of you guys right now might be considering a store pack. Whether you're going to open it with coins or FIFA points, I spent, I opened three of the 250 K packs in the past two weeks, or sorry, the 400 K pack with 250 players. If you're going to open any of these massive store packs, I would just say the best one in my opinion, value-wise, is this one right here, the super ultimate pack with 250 gold players, all intradable, just because it gives you so many players. And if you look at the percentages too, you have a, what is it a 9. something percent? Yeah, 9.6% of a premium footies and a 19% of a real footies. Some of these 500 K packs, if you look at the odds, you have a basically the same amount of a chance as packing a footies in that 400 K pack than you do is this 500 K, 18% chance versus 19, but it's a hundred thousand coins more and you get less players, a hundred rare gold players versus 250. So definitely go with the 250 one, I think for the value. That is the best door pack that is available right now. The 83 times 100 still has not dropped yet, which to me almost makes me think that might end up being an SBC guys and that would be crazy if that were to be dropped either today or tomorrow and Monday or anytime as an SBC. That would be absolutely crazy to see the SBC being released there. Now, that's kind of all of yesterday's content. Let's get into the conversation a little bit, right? Because we are now in the third week of footies, right? Team three of footies is out, we got the Neymar, the Jesus, the Alawarun. We've gone through two full weeks and now we're into the third. Why is footies not as great as previous years? Kind of the elephant in the room, right? We've been talking about footies content, all of this, that and the other, watching it drop. Of course, we had some strong feelings early on when footies started that was like, man, is this promo actually not gonna be as good as footies of years past because it's just different. And I think there's a couple of reasons why footies just is not hitting different like it has before. First of all, the obvious point, footies cards are impacts, right? I don't remember a footies where the cards were impacts. Footies of old, especially at the very beginning when we were getting excited for footies team one. It was all about, is that actually Ronaldo on the loading screen and the league said Ronaldo and all that, Ronaldo still extinct at 15 mil. Before footies started, we thought we were gonna get that as an SBC because footies was SBCs and objective promos are cards only from the way that we knew it in the past few years. EA changed up this year to put cards in packs and that's why I think a lot of people are disappointed because it just makes it seem like a money grab and it definitely killed the hype right away to have cards like this impacts and to not have all of them available via SBCs or objective. So that's kind of the biggest thing in terms of a footies card specifically. Now I will say with having the cards in packs, we're probably getting more footies cards in total since we still have a lot of SBCs and objectives dropping. So there is kind of another side of that as well with all the players we can get right now through objectives and of course, you've got like the weak and the reward ones that we've had plenty of SBCs. So there is another side of the coin there but again, having those cards in packs just makes it feel like another promo and it makes footies just seem not as exclusive as a promo type as it used to be in the past. And the second thing is the best of cards in batches, batches, right? Batch one and batch two, like man, why do we not have team of the season cards in packs? Yeah, team of the season right now, are they still like 45K? I mean, 45,000 coins, they're about 42K, right? That tradeable supply hitting a little bit yesterday as they were not in demand as much, right? We had a team of the week requirement in the icon pick but there was not a team that, I guess Joe Cole had a team of the season requirement but that's a player SBC, right? Tots cards are 42K a piece and that's a problem. They need to be in packs. Let me just take you guys back to last year. It's not even just with like the fodder Tots cards. It's just with the best of batches in general. This was the loading screen last year for FIFA 22 footies. Batch number two, we've got a 98 Benzema, Cristiano Ronaldo team of the season, Salah team of the season. We have a couple of team of the years in there as well, Neymar, Vinny, Jude Bellingham and like team of the season cards that are legit and really, really good team of the season players. Think about this year if we had some of those players in the game like ultimate Tots cards, if we had Bellingham, if we had Mbappe, Messi, Holland, even just a handful of some of these best of the team of the season cards in packs, that would be so amazing. That'd be great. That's kind of what we're asking for. Even though they're not the most meta cards in this game, some of them are still super duper overpowered and super usable at this stage of the game. You just look back to last year and it feels like we're taking a step backwards with what cards we have in packs right now versus what we had in packs last year during batch two. And last year, batch one was only one week, batch two was two weeks. We just had a batch one with worse cards than last year and it was in packs for two weeks. So that just feels like another step backwards from the footies of old. But guys, there's one real big problem with footies that I'm seeing with all of this kind of combined. EA is just not treating footies like an end game promo. That's the vibe that I'm getting. It does not feel like we're getting the same level of content that we have in previous years because it feels like EA is holding out and just like not giving us all the cards that we could be having right now in the end game. It's like, hey, we're gonna withhold a little bit of this hype of content because there's more to come and we have to save a little bit in the tank for what's to come. Man, it is August, okay? Like the Premier League is starting up next week and we've got still 97, 96 rated cards. Yeah, we have a couple of 99s, but they're not in SBCs. They're not craftable. Like some of the cards we had like the 99 Usman, the Bailey that we had last year, the 99 Veran. I mean, last year even in early August, we had this 96 Furlan-Mendi which was a very overpriced SBC. Of course, it did end up dropping down a lot in price but like look at that card, man. I mean, yes, we just did have the Lamar objective which I don't think you can compare Lamar objective to this Furlan-Mendi, but we had this last year in the beginning of August. I think it was during week two of Furies. Right now we're in week three, of course, in this year in FIFA 23. And then like this Rafinha card that we had at the very beginning of Furies last year, like that was an insane, insane Furies card to start things off and it was such a great value. I think there's just a couple of pieces like that with the way things are going and the way that SBCs have been pointed this year. Yeah, we had a great Sinaldo SBC. Yeah, we have had some other great SBCs, especially the cover star icons. That's a positive of Furies this year. EA, including that in there, has been really, really nice but it just feels like EA is trying to, I don't know, like milk this promo for what it is with cards and packs, milk it and not release the best content that they could formally of what they would do during Furies just so that they can maybe extend the game a little bit longer and keep us maybe just a little bit more excited. We haven't had a transfer, actual transfer player SBC with besides McAllister and Carvalho in a week or two, right? I know we've had some transfers like the Culebali, the Ruben Neves, we've had some of those but it's just not exactly the same as it was last year and it just feels like EA is kinda milk in this promo. Even with the best of batches, both being for two weeks, these team of your cards and all the cards we have in packs right now get used to seeing them and get annoyed with packing foot fantasies because they're in like every other pack for the next two weeks still because it's gonna be another 12 days before we get different cards and hopefully team of the season cards in packs but with cards like the Ronaldo and the Messi and the Neymar and so many of these expensive footies cards, especially the premiums, it just kinda leaves us with a sour taste in our mouth because that is not how footies of old worked and that is not how it went. It was all SBCs and objectives and that's again, just making this promo seem a little bit lackluster. So I wanted to have that conversation today. I have hope for better content. I really do guys but knowing what footies has brought before I wanted to kinda have that conversation today because content yesterday, although it was okay, I guess with the Joe Cole, like that is a nice card and with the 90 plus pick being decent at least and we do have a ton of SBCs. It is still definitely footies, right? But it's just not the same. I don't know what you guys think down in the comments below. Like yes, we've had good SBCs but like Rodrigo, 800K. Like what did we just look at here with this Rafinha? 110,000 coins. Yeah, we've had a couple of SBCs. It had been super duper cheap. Like the Kula Bali was maybe one of the better SBCs during this promo for the price that is just because that was 150,000 coin SBC. A lot of the other SBCs have still been pretty expensive, right? Even Joe Cole, 300K, Kunde, 550K. Harry Kuhl was like 200, I think 300,000 coins as well. So it's just not quite the same as years of old but hopefully EA can turn it up a little bit today because still there's cards that they have me wanting to grind for in this game. It's not all bad. There's still good content that is out. We just know there's another level and they haven't gotten to that level yet and we're disappointed and we wanted to get to that level. Now today on Sunday, let's talk about content today because today might be an L day. Today might be a little bit of an interesting day as well. One of our SBCs that actually gives us some hype to actually pack the best footies players that are available. Yes, the ones that are in packs. The 93 plus shapeshifter or footies player pick is refreshing today guys. So if you need to stock up some fodder, make sure you get, I would say once again, maybe you have a couple high ratings in the club. Make sure you get some 83s, 84s, 85s, maybe some 86s as well just for a club stock because this SBC coming back today probably means that that fodder range is gonna go up even more because again, when this SBC released on Wednesday, the fodder market went boom because you have a chance of packing a footies team one or team two player. Now Neymar and the guys that are in packs right now, Gabriel Jesus Alawarin, they're not gonna be able to be packed from that player pick but still you have the likes of Messi and Ronaldo and plenty of other great footies cars that we will be potentially able to pack from that shapeshifter player pick today. And then also, Sundays have brought player SBCs. I think it's been both of the last two weeks we've had a player SBC on Saturday and Sunday. So we had Joe Cole yesterday. I don't know who we had last Sunday but the Sunday before that we had St. Jude's Day. So keep an eye for a player SBC today whether it's a premium, non-premium hero, whoever it could be. Watch out for one of those today and as well watch out for more XP or at least opportunity to get XP through the week three objective, the daily bronze and daily silver upgrade are gonna be dropping today which is interesting they're called daily SBCs. We're used to daily SBCs for like daily log and upgrade or daily whatever. A daily bronze or silver upgrade SBC which we all have to do one time to get the XP. I'm really wondering what that is gonna allow us to craft what packs are they gonna give back for that because right now even as it is I know a lot of you guys don't wanna spend a ton of time grinding the menus but with the ultimate bronze and silver upgrade that are here it's actually a pretty good craft if you have time and you wanna get motivated to grind the menus rinse your club of your bronze and silver cards into these packs before you know do all the icon bronze and silver squads that you need to do to get those done right so that you're not completely out but those upgrade packs can actually get you gold cards through the ultimate silver upgrade which you could then rinse into an 80 plus player pick which you could then get special cards and get fodder to do all the other SBCs. So if you're in the end game like Nate I'm just sending my club one of the biggest tips I can give you right now is do the bronze and silver upgrades and maybe wait until we get those daily upgrades today to see how much better or just to see what the rewards of those SBCs are and then that could take that kind of like value crafting proposition in this game to a whole another level. So that's kind of the thing there that I would tell you to watch out for today it might be a bit of a slower day. I mean, again, player SBC the refresh of the 93 plus I'm not entirely sure what else could drop again there's that outside shot for the 83 times 100 that feels more like a Monday type of SBC to me or maybe sometime during the week but if EA really wanted to make some waves I mean guys we talked about the potential that being a thing is an SBC yesterday the more that I think about it, it seems wild but it really could be an SBC that is dropped instead of it being in the store because usually by the time we get to usually by the time we get to Sunday all the store packs have been released at least recently and I think the store is so full now with 400 and 500 K packs and 83 times 100 would just be mental in the store but it'd be more mental in the SBCs. I'm gonna keep grinding through the week in league I'm still not 100% convinced on Dinho guys I was reading through some of your comments yesterday there's people that are doing Dinho there's people that are not doing Dinho I'm leaning towards doing it a little bit right now but again I think I might end up waiting until Monday just to see what that 85 times 10 grind looks like because without an 85 times 10 for me I don't know if I'll be able to do it, right? I need this SBC to get a little bit cheaper so that I can craft it each and every day two different times or maybe even more than that and of course hit some good fodder from it and be able to craft it with other SBCs like PlayerPicks and stuff like that so hopefully EA do some madness today do the business and drop some Sunday content we'll be streaming today that link is down below in the description I will see you guys in the stream today if you enjoyed the video drop a thumbs up on a comment down below if you have any questions or thoughts about the footies promo as a whole and of course subscribe if you're new it's been Nathan Ford Count, see you guys there peace