 Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA the Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. In this video today, we are gonna be taking a look at things that you need to know, heading into Black Friday, coming later on this week in this game. Content to expect, SBC's, objectives, just basically what you can expect as we head into the biggest promo of the year so far inside of FIFA 22. Last year, they changed it up big time and that's what I'm gonna talk about a little bit. Black Friday last year, didn't actually start on Friday. It started a day early on Thursday. So I wanna look at how EA did that last year and how it could potentially happen again this year and also just kind of put, if they do the same content as last year, this year on this game, it's gonna be absolute craziness once again, especially with the PACs, right? So we're gonna talk through PACs in the store. We're gonna talk about SBCs and objectives all in this video today and we're gonna be looking a lot at last year to see how they did things because usually EA just build on what they did in the prior year. So I would expect it to be run similarly to the prior year. So without further ado, let's get into it because we're actually going back one year ago, FIFA 21, the day before Black Friday, they dropped this loading screen. I don't know if you guys remember this, the pre-Black Friday loading screen with the Team of the Week card. And of course, people kinda knew what this was right away because always on Black Friday, we get the best of Team of the Week re-released back into PACs, right? That is something that they almost always do. They've done it for the past couple of years and they did exactly that. Last year as a part of Black Friday, which started on Thursday, the day before, they released a lot of content. Now I'm looking through some of EA's tweets from last year. Last year, on Thursday, basically Thanksgiving, on the day before Black Friday, EA dropped all of these Team of the Week cards back into PACs, right? Your best of Team of the Week and if you can't see it behind my face here, Mane is the card that's right here. But you guys remember this best of Team of the Week, it was released into PACs. There were no promo PACs. There were no promo PACs. There was literally a flash SBC. There was these cards released into PACs and then they had a objective player, DeLoFeu. I'm sure a lot of you guys remember this and also brand new icon player SBCs. These were released last year on the day before Black Friday, right? So they had this whole promo called like pre-Black Friday, which it was the day before and they released the best of cards into PACs. And then, of course, they had more plans, which we didn't know yet, but they had more plans for the actual day of Black Friday. So as we look into that stuff this year, right? Is that sort of thing gonna happen this year on the game? I mean, I think there is potential. Well, let me start with this. I 100% think that they are going to release the best of Team of the Week cards. I think that they're gonna be included back into PACs. Now, we've been talking about this and we've wondered this. Is it gonna be called best of Team of the Week or is it gonna be called best of, right? Because I could also see since there's no special Ronaldo or special Messi that have in forms yet and usually there's at least one of those two, of course, your number one and number two kind of players in the world, usually they're included in some way, shape or form as a card going back in PACs. So I don't know if EA's gonna drop one of those guys in PACs like their wants to watch card or something like that, but they also could go with just a best of, right? And then they could put some Adidas numbers up cards back in PACs. They could do rule breakers or maybe some of the road to the knockout cards. They could put back into PACs. Now, how likely is that? I feel like it's less likely than of course, just getting a normal best of Team of the Week but there's potential, right? There is potential and that's kind of what we're talking through in today's video. So that happened last year, the day before Black Friday, it started to get crazy. So everybody started open, they're like, they're saved Team of the Week PACs and they're saved Team of the Week upgrade PACs and stuff like that last year for the best of Team of the Week. So that was actually crazy. We had Icon SBCs that were just priced okay and then also started the Flash SBCs which last year, that's a big part of the Black Friday promo are the Flash SBCs because it is number one, constant supply for the market and number two, it is constant demand for, these SBCs that get dropped, they have all sorts of different, like here's one, Flash Challenge Rare Mixed Players PAC. They have all sorts of different requirements, right? These Flash SBCs sometimes they're out for one hour, sometimes out for two hours, sometimes like three. They sometimes make non-rare silvers or bronzes explode in price, right? It just depends on the requirements from those SBCs but as we're gonna look through a lot of these tweets in here from EA, there's some pretty good Flash SBCs that are released, a Mega PAC Flash SBC available for one hour, five Rare Gold Player Pick Flash SBC, Prime Gold Players PAC SBC, the Rare Mixed Players PAC, Jumbo Premium Gold PAC, there's some that aren't that good, right? An 80 plus midfielder PAC, there's some of them that aren't that good in here 81 to 84 player pick available for the next two hours. Not all of these Flash SBCs are gonna be like insane value, some of them are gonna be a little bit less value, right? And you're not gonna wanna do them but there's also gonna be plenty of them, they'll be like, okay, I probably wanna get involved with this, this might be a good SBC to do. So there's gonna be plenty of those that I would imagine drop again. Now last year, the very interesting thing as well is that the Black Friday promo, this actually started at two PM UK on Black Friday. It did not start at six PM UK. Now what we're gonna have to watch later on this week is stuff that expires early. So like promo packs in the store, that was one of the giveaways that we saw last year is that the promo packs that were in the store, I don't know if I can find it here, I knew I looked at it in this video at one point. But the promo packs that were there, they expired early. And that kind of gave us the clue that Black Friday was gonna be starting early, I can't find it. Oh yeah, it's right here. I was looking at this, right? Cause these expired at two PM UK on Friday. So I would almost expect that to probably happening in this year. I mean, we'll have to watch in the store and look for that. But that is one thing that was kind of interesting last year. They dropped the record breaker cards. As you can see here, Black Friday is here. They tweeted this 9 AM my time, which is 2 PM UK. And they were in packs early. So that was very, very interesting that EA started the craziness early last year too. That was kind of the theme, right? The day before they started early and the day of they started early. Now, speaking of the actual day of Black Friday and this is where I wanna talk about this year's game and stuff going on with this year as well is the packs, the promo packs and the supply that we had on the game last year. So of course, this year we have preview packs and I would 100% expect to see preview packs make their way into a part of this promo this year on this game. Absolutely, we are gonna see preview packs during Black Friday. But the thing is last year, and this is one major point that I'm gonna keep talking about over this next week. There's gonna be tons and tons and gobs of tons of packs applied this Friday. Maybe even Thursday as well, but this Friday for sure, tons of packs apply because this is how EA make their dough on Black Friday. Last year, they released 50K lightning rounds, 100K lightning rounds, 125K lightning rounds. Then the hour after that, they put 50K packs in the store and had no limit for one hour you could open as many 50K packs as you wanted to on this game. The supply last year was crazy. It was crazy. There was also a lot of prices that rose on rare cards and really popular out of pack stuff, which again, we're expecting this year as well. But there were so many coins put on the market last year, but there was also so much supply from those packs. And if you think about again, how the pack weight is this year and how we've already seen supply absolutely destroy this market, it's gonna be a bloodbath on Friday because here's my thinking, right? EA is not gonna release less packs in this game because they know the market is so dead already, right? No, they're gonna go after the bag, right? They're gonna release these lightning rounds, they're gonna release preview packs, they're gonna release regular promo packs as well because they know that is income, right? They're making a lot of money off of those transactions and off people buying FIFA points. So they're gonna release those packs because they know that they're gonna sell out if they put good cards back into packs. And if there is a brand new promo team, we'll still talk about that in a little bit as well. But all I'm saying is there's gonna be 50K, 100K and probably 125K packs on Friday. The supply is going to be stupid and that's why we're talking right now, if you wanna buy it, like I wanna buy Marquinhos, Campembe and Akimi for my team, right? The PSG back line, I wanna buy them for the squad. I'm not touching them until at least Friday, maybe even after that because the supply this weekend is gonna be really, really insane. So that was one point I wanted to make about SBC supply, we're gonna continue talking about that. Or not SBC supply, pack supply. We're still gonna talk about that later on this week. Last year on Black Friday as well, they dropped record breakers into packs. Five cards, only five cards right away. So I think this was a little bit of a, I mean, we still had Mbappe, we had Assancho, Dobbin Silva with a really nice boost. Like all of these cards were kinda usable. But Mbappe and Assancho were the ones that were like interesting right away last year when they dropped these cards into packs. So that was one thing that was a bit interesting as well, we had brand new cards in the game for the first time on Black Friday. It just wasn't a re-release of old cards. I would be very expected this year as well that EA would do some sort of promo around Black Friday and release best of Team of the Week and other cards in packs at the same time. We also had our first ever week foot upgrade of FIFA 21 last year at Black Friday with Rodrigo getting a four star week foot upgraded, I think for me there are three or two. And you know, that might be something we see now too. If they open that door of upgrading a week foot or a skill move on an objective SBC card, then that would be something I would expect to see throughout the rest of the year. Now, we didn't get Alessandro on the Friday. We got Alessandro on Saturday, but we got a flashback Aguero on Friday as well. And interestingly enough, when I was looking through these tweets, you're gonna see something interesting. So November 27th on Friday, Aguero's flashback SBC was released earlier in the week for the, what is it, the featured squad battle squad. They featured Aguero squad like four days beforehand. So we're gonna have to watch and see who this week is the featured squad battles team. And then maybe that will give us a hint on who our flashback or maybe some of our content might be this Friday. So again, there was actually a silver star, record breaker, stopple camp that was included. It wasn't just SBCs. It was, there was a couple of cards that were available as well. There was a SBC for Memphis DePie on the weekend of Black Friday as well. And these flash SBCs that you're seeing, they literally went through the whole entire weekend, right? Friday, Saturday, Sunday, most of them run Friday and Saturday, then they cool off a little bit into Sunday. And then also on Sunday, they released five more record breakers, Van Dyke, Vardy, Donnaruma, Carlos Vela and Fabregas. So there was just so much content last year, so many SBCs, so many packs, so many objectives. And I really think that it's gonna be the same way this year, there's gonna be just an overwhelming amount of content on this game. And that's not even to mention like the upgrade packs, right? There were icon SBCs that were live last year. I think they re-released a base icon upgrade last year as a part of the promo as well. There were tons of player SBCs and there were upgrade packs. 81 plus upgrade packs, actually that's something I did not show you yet. I wanna go back to this YouTube video from last year and show you guys this. There was a couple of upgrade packs that were very interesting last year too. There was an 83 plus double upgrade and they also released an 81 plus triple upgrade. Yeah, as you can see here. So those weren't live for a very long amount of time, but they released a lot of upgrade packs because think about it, think about it this way, right? There are going to be a lot of SBCs available this weekend, right? Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, all through the weekend. There's gonna be tons of SBC content. It's gonna be banging content again, kind of like a couple of weeks ago or like the end of rule breakers. There's gonna be SBCs every day. It's gonna be exciting. It's gonna be fun. And it has to be that way because if EA is allowing people to open so many packs, then people are getting so many coins. They have so many cards in their club that they gotta do something with them, right? They have to do something with them and that's why they put a lot of these SBCs and objectives out. There's just gonna be tons and tons of stuff to do on this game. I would expect 100% to see more icon player SBCs, icon upgrade SBCs, you know, literally everything. You can literally expect everything on Black Friday. So maybe our first party bag of the year, who knows? Maybe, I don't even know what that had to be added into the code and we would probably have a little bit of a heads up on that, but that would be something that you could think about expecting in this year's game as well. So it's gonna be crazy, right? Tons of packs are gonna be opened. There's gonna be so many market movements on all of these cards across the entire market. Now today as I'm recording this, there's actually been some market movements up, right? And I think this happens every year on Black Friday and it was happening today. Some people just kinda get like, they're like, oh my goodness, these cards are just so low and you see periods where cards get bought up. As we go throughout this week, there are gonna be cards that kinda rebound back in price. Ginola was actually down at like 1.56 at his lowest in the past two days. He's back up over 100,000 coins. There might be some pro players involved in this buying up their teams for qualifiers. And there's just, there's a lot of still, people think that cards get too low and they go buy them, right? I bought a Robbie Keen last night at 279,000 coins and he rebounded back to 300K where he is right now. I took the profit on that. So you're gonna see continually these fluctuations throughout the week. But again, as I mentioned, with the cards that are impacts with the exception of your really meta hero cards and your icons, I mean, I'm really worried about like a guy like Campembe. I know there's so many people in this game that are going to want to buy Campembe, but that's not what EA wants you to do. EA wants you to say, man, I've used Campembe. He's 26,000 coins. Yeah, he's really good. But EA is gonna start putting out more and more special cards on this game every single week with promos to try to get you to upgrade to the next thing, to the next card and sell this Campembe or maybe get bored of using Campembe and he's so cheap that it's like, man, it's not worth using and then they're gonna drop new promo cards every single week to try to get you interested in that sort of stuff. That's why with the way the market is this year and the market is so low with everything, I think that's why EA is gonna drop a whole new promo team this Friday. I would expect it. If it's just best of team of the week, I would be surprised. So that's why I think there's gonna be a new promo team. I don't know what it's gonna be. I don't know if they'll do record breakers again. Of course, last year, they had record breakers and this year, we've already seen record breakers. So this could be a part of Black Friday once again, just like it was last year. They've already released the Anaki and they said that these cards should be available through SBCs, objectives or packs, I'm pretty sure. So really, anything could happen this Friday but one thing we do know is the packs are gonna be insane. There's gonna be a lot of movements on the market and we're gonna cover it all here on this channel but hopefully this video helps you guys out kind of getting ready for Black Friday, little double upload day on a Monday, just kind of talking through what to expect with this game content-wise and how it's gonna impact the market. I mean, there's gonna be things to do. There's gonna be an overwhelming amount of things to do and everybody's gonna be happy because it's gonna be content-central on the game this weekend for Black Friday. 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