 Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Is pre-season bad value content? That's what I wanna take a look at in today's video because we have had some market movements, significant market movements on the lower tier and the fodder because of two packs that were added to the store. But we have upgrade packs. Yes, we have the 85 times 10. We have player SBCs that are out here that we are trying to craft and get done. But with those fodder prices going lower on some parts of the market and other parts of the market going higher because of less cards and packs, is it really just not that great of a time to craft SBCs or especially coming off of a really good footies batch three, is it just harder? And we're kind of comparing it to last two weeks where the footies promo is so great that now it just does not seem as good. I think that's part of the aspect of viewing this as bad value at the moment. But I'm gonna show you a couple things that you may not have realized with how much these fodder prices have moved. Like the 82 plus player pick is way not so good value right now. So I'm gonna talk about that in today's video. Of course, look at the brand new Lewandowski SBC from yesterday and talk about what in the world could happen today on a Sunday where we don't have any leaks. We have no idea what's happening today. We'll talk about some potential opportunities for content on a Sunday inside of preseason. Also a nice preseason cup yesterday. But I have some thoughts about that because EA I think is dropping some of those not just because they're giving us content because they're trying to make their company look good just outside of FIFA in general. They're trying to get people to buy stock. I'm gonna talk about that just a little bit. So if you're enjoying preseason, you know, hit the thumbs up on the video. I'm still enjoying preseason. I think it's good content. I just think it's a little bit lackluster. That's all we're gonna say. Also if you're new around here, hit the subscribe button. That's what I wanna take a look at first is the value of this promo and the content that we are getting. Now first of all, yesterday on Saturday we had the Lewandowski. We had the shapeshifter player pick SBC which I think are both decent SBCs but we had the upgrade packs return. The 82 plus player pick, it's nice to have it back. That's an SBC we've been seeing a lot of. We like it because it's easy to do. 30 chemistry requirements did not change but there are less cards and packs right now. And again, this is where I'm gonna start saying that this is actually kind of bad value with this SBC specifically. Now the reason why it's bad value is because in the store yesterday we had this pack code added a couple of days ago and EA dropped it, 83 plus times five. A tradable and an untradable version which actually I'm gonna go ahead here, pay the 70,000 coins, open this pack, see if we can get anything here that would make us our money back. We get a gold, no way man. A gold with a hundred special cards and packs? I get all the golds, no way man. Well this just reinforces why the lower tier fodder market is down bad because look at all the 84 and below cards. Okay, Dino's cool that I just packed, right? Take a look at all those cards. Now let me open the untradable one and see if it's a little bit better but a lot of low rated fodder is down right now because of that supply that we have gotten in the past couple hours of people opening these packs with either FIVA points or with coins, no shot, no shot. Did I not get to walk out of that? Are you serious? Man, were your guys' packs this bad? 50K for this dude, ain't no way. That's crazy, 120K I just spent for Fabinho. That's wild. Anyways, besides that, people are still opening those packs I think because they need the lower tier fodder to get things done and they just wanna gamble for it and they need fodder in general and there's special cards and packs that people think they're gonna pack like I just thought I was gonna pack and I got absolutely none of them but take a look at fodder prices on the low end and what that, those two packs, take a look at what that has done to the market in terms of low tier fodder. Look at these 84 rated under 3000 coins, the card 3K for these 84s. Sane, right? This is usually a more expensive 84 rated card. Yesterday, he was 5000 coins. These packs dropped and all of these 84s dropped off big time in price. Mike, Mike, not a goalkeeper. Usually goalkeepers are pretty expensive. This guy's been out of packs as a Tots card a little bit recently too. He was 4.4K, dropped all the way down now to under 3000 coins. That's where a lot of this fodder is. It's down big time on the lower tier from that pack that we just looked at. Since there was a tradable version specifically released as well, that hurt the fodder a lot, right? I just packed like 383s in each of those packs. Look at what 83s have done. Yesterday, 83s were like 3.5K. After content, they nose dive all the way back down to 2000 coins. Some of them are 1.71.8K but here's where the 82 plus player pick to go back to that point. Here's where the 82 plus player pick right now is horrendous value. Take a look at the price, right? Since gold rares are still up a little bit because people love player picks and they're addicted to them, right? My I am, I'll join the club there. 9.8K will round up and say 10,000 coins to get an 82 plus player pick done right now on FIFA. 10,000 coins, that's kind of what it was last week, right? Yeah, well, what's 10,000 coins? What's our break even threshold? An 89 rated player. You have to pack an 89 rated card from an 82 plus player pick right now to break even in terms of the fodder value that you're getting back from that player pick from what you put into it, right? That's ridiculous. It was like before 86s were still 10K and there were so many special cards in packs that you were getting like so many 93s, 94s, you know, that kind of stuff. Now we only have 100 special items in packs. They're not as easy to get specials from although they're still possible and I'm still gonna be doing player picks. All I'm saying is the crafting right now on this preseason promo is just, it's not that good. Again, how often are you getting an 89 rated card out of an 82 plus player pick? Yeah, you'll hit some Todd's cards, right? Maybe you'll hit some of these team with the group stage cards but with only 100 specials in packs, it's harder to hit that top tier rating than it was the last two weeks. So that's why I'm saying 82 plus player picks are not very good value at the moment and also this is what makes it even worse value. Like look at these 85s, 86s, 84s. Those are like decent polls from an 82 plus player pick and they're all between two and 6,000 coins per card. Even 88s are like eight to 9,000 coins so that's less than the value of the SBC. That's the part right now about fodder and with this 82 plus player pick that is not good. I kind of wish we had the 75 times five because that would have been a nice SBC for you guys still grinding to go for and to craft up as well. But yeah, the 82 plus player pick, I might even try to do one from the club right here and probably gonna end up getting something sick because that's like every time I open a player pick on a YouTube video, that's kind of what happens is we get something sick. Do I have enough rares? 30 chemistry, I do. All right, I'm gonna have to turn it and ask for liquid I think. But like this is just continuing on this trend here just for a second. Like this is just not really good value and I'm gonna try to get this open and finished really quick. So it doesn't take very much time. Center back, there we go. 28 chemistry, inject it, boom. Okay, 82 plus player pick. Let's see if I make my money back. Do I get an 89 plus? It's gonna give me a special, just watch. It doesn't, boom, look at that. I just got an 83, an 83, a card that goes for 2K and I just spent 10K worth of value for that. So I understand that doing 82 plus player picks are fun and if you have coins right now, they're kind of the best way to try to get high rated fodder and I completely understand that. All I'm saying is for most people, especially if you're on a coin pinch, those are not very good value at the moment to be getting done and it's harder to craft those via BPM and all that stuff because you don't have the other upgrade packs that you had last week to get it done. So that's why I'm saying that the crafting right now is not as good a value. Also the 85 times 10 every day, 87 rated squad, 87s are cheaper. They're like 87, 8K per card and you do have Tots cards and packs. Who do we get here? Brozovic, I see him get packed all the time. He's got super high pack weight. So do we have somebody insane in behind this? The Retots cards, that is it. But look how different the 85 times 10s look right now. You guys know this, right? I did pack City Holland, that's kind of cool. But Payet, Mouniay and Brozovic, really average, right? Just really, really average and that's why the craft is not as good. But I know there's some of you guys that are still out grinding and it's also like the middle to, it's basically the end of August now. We are on the doorstep of FIVA 23. So also just knowing that whatever's gonna make you have the most fun in this game right now is absolutely the way to go. If you have coins, send player picks, send the SBCs. And that's kind of my, that's what we've been saying for the past couple of weeks. Maybe the last month even is, just do whatever you're gonna have the most fun doing, whether it is $11 SBC and trying him out, whether it's doing the 85 times 10, every single day, two different times, whatever it's gonna make you have the most fun, go for it. So I'm not gonna complain too much. I've already stated in my case where this is not the best value to craft because I know that the reason why I'm talking about this is because so many of you guys are still trying to get these big SBCs done with footies, players for end game squads and stuff like that. So I completely get it. Now let's move on a little bit and talk about the content in general, besides the player picks. Yesterday we had a Lemondoski SBC. He did not get the five star skill moves. EA Sports, good job with the 99 rating. Good job with the five star weak foot. Keep it at that, keep it at there. We needed the five star skills. We needed the five star skills. Five star weak foot again is cool, but that would have made this Lemondoski card just different, right? It would have made him just different and a lot more fun. The only thing I'm gonna say about this too is it's great that we're getting cards like this 99 Lemondoski. It's great that we have cards like Nunez and like Ericsson and the Lukaku that is in objectives. What the problem I have here is all we get is to see is these guys mug shots, man. Can we get some dynamic images? These guys have played games for their new clubs. They probably have some pictures out there. Just do a little Google image search. I don't know if that's an EA rights issue, but that's killing the hype for me a little bit on some of these cards is going on and seeing a brand new transfer card and a player at a new club. Hey, Liverpool fans, what would you give to see Darwin Nunez even if they used a picture or a dynamic image of him scoring against Manchester City in the Community Shield game, right? Like that sort of thing would be really, really sick and just take this content up to the next level just a little bit, but right now with these guys that just mug shots from their gold cards on here, it kind of detracts a little bit from the hype for me. But regardless, we're still getting some pretty good transfer SPCs. That's something that I would like to see. I think every day is probably a bit of a stretch. I mean, especially if this promo is gonna stretch out over two, three, four weeks, I don't think we're gonna get a transfer SPC every single day. We are two for two with Lewandowski, Nunez, Ericsson and Lukaku, four cards in two days. Might slow down today. We don't have any leaks, but that's just something to watch out for. Seems like they're at least wanting to give out a decent amount of cards. So that is good promises for the rest of this pre-season promo in my opinion. So other content that we had yesterday, like I mentioned, was the ShapeShift, there's Player Pick, which value-wise, meh. That's all I have to say about it. It's just okay. It's not that great. If you're really trying to hit a top to your ShapeShift, I guess you could be grinding through this, 84 rated is not too hard to get done. It's only like 35K to do this SPC if I'm thinking about it, which is not bad at all. Turn in a high rated Tots card, throw in some 81s, 82s, 83s, and you have an 84 rated squad. So not bad if you're chasing a really top to your ShapeShift player. Also could give you a lot of fodder ShapeShifters. Now also yesterday, we had a Cup Mode return and we were wondering if the Cup Modes were gonna stop after footies and they are not. Pre-season Cup is here. This is out for a week until next Saturday. And it's basically the exact same as the France footies Cup was last week. It's 10 games a day in a golden goal first two friendly mode. You try to get all the way to 27 wins. You get the 93 plus, the 94 plus ShapeShift, their player picks. You get the 85 times fives. You get an 85 times 10 as some of your pack rewards and some player picks. So it's basically the copy and paste Cup. And I think if you go into the friendly mode, let me see, Pre-season Cup, lone players max one, clubs minimum three. You can use your God Squad. You can use everybody you've been grinding for in footies. No squad requirements really at all. That's nice. I think that's a nice gesture from EA Sports to give us some rewards that are pretty easy to attain and to grind. But I think there's another reason why EA are doing this. And there's another reason why EA have been adding a lot of these Cups and these SWAP programs in the game, especially as of late. This is EA Sports being really smart with their engagement on FIFA 22. This is the dead months, right? This is the quiet months of the year, especially right now leading up to FIFA 23, the hype is building. And right now, what they're doing is they're getting more people to play the game than normally would because of those Cup modes, because of the content in general. They're releasing more SBCs, but specifically the SWAP programs and the Cup games that's bringing more people and keeping more people on the game. And that is in turn bringing in more numbers that they can go and that they can show. And it's probably bringing in a little bit more revenue as well. If you think about FIFA Point Sales, keeping people on the game is gonna bring in a few more FIFA Points here or there. And I think that's gonna be something that they will love to report on their next EA Sports earnings call. Like they're doing all this stuff in game. And if you think about it from their perspective, trying to keep people on the game, maybe earning a little bit more revenue and also being able to report that, wow, based off of year over year data, compared to last year in FIFA 21, this many more games were played. This much more interaction was had inside of our game, which is showing that we made a better product and makes our company look better. That's kind of what they're going for a little bit, in my opinion. But here's the other side of the coin. We as the FIFA Ultimate Team user benefit because we get more and better content. So it's like, EA, I see what you're doing, but I like it. There's nothing too wrong with it. So just kind of noting that there, now with something that I kind of thought of with the pre-season cup and just kind of looking back on the past couple of months, having cups for like the last, literally like month in total, I've been playing more games in friendly modes than I have like for most of the year because of all the cups that are going on with the good rewards that they have. And for most of them, how little of a grind it's required. So that's been kind of nice if I'm being completely honest, but EA, we see you, at least that's my take on why they're doing some of this stuff. That's, I think part of it. May not be the whole reason, but they know what they're doing with this game. They're running it successfully. So there's that. Now, moving on to a couple more things. We talked about SPC fodder being low. I forgot to mention about other fodder being still up in price because you're like, Nate, I look at the price of the Salah SPC or the Furlan Mindy and it's not down at all. What's up with that? Well, the reason why those really haven't moved in price that much is because yes, the lower tier has gone down. Well, the higher tier keeps going up. You get your 90 plus rated Tots cards, especially your 93s, 94s, 95s, 96s even. I mean, Joe Cole, Davey's 28,000 coins, Pedri 29K, Bellingham 27K, all these guys were like 18,000 coins, even lower than that on like Friday morning. These guys were dirt cheap. Like you guys remember this fodder spike on Friday, right? 96s were 20K or under. They went all the way to high 20s where they are now. That's really what has moved the fodder prices up and these SPC prices as, you know, that's what's made them move up is that higher tier fodder. Because if you go in and look at the squad building solutions, people are still doing SPCs the same way they've been for the past couple of weeks. You throw in a couple of 92, 93, 94 rated players, maybe even 96, fill in the rest of the squad with like 81s and 82s and bang, you have an 87 rated squad. Like that's how people are doing SPCs right now. And that's the cheapest way to do it because a lot of people have that high rated fodder. So that's why your price movements haven't changed too much over the last day. Even with that low tier fodder dropping off so much like we saw it and like we looked at it a little bit earlier in the video today. So I don't know, that's kind of how I feel about the content of this game. Again, I know I complained a little bit in this. We were kind of getting critical. But to be fair, I was looking back at some of the content that we had last year. This is a step up for sure. And I have no problem with it. I think this is solid content. Now I'm a little bit worried about how the rest of the week is gonna go. I feel like, yes, there's stuff to grind but it's still a step back from the footies promo and it still seems a little bit less hype than all of that. But I think that's just because the cards that are in packs are not as good. And still, I'm gonna be completely honest. EA Sports, you're frotting. You need to do more and need to do better with this side of things right now. I mean, you know what you're requiring and asking for and you can't release a footies salon named Armrendy and Griezmann with long time frames for completion before they go away. And then not supply foot birthdays, foot fantasy and foot cabinets. I know this is a lot of the problem people have with the SBCs and with the market right now. And if you didn't get those SBCs parts done, those specific squads, I think that like all of these foot birthday cards are extinct except for Danny Alves who's like 120,000 coins in Sancho, okay, nevermind. Danny Alves is the only foot birthday card on the market. So like at 120K, that's what you have to pay for one foot birthday card. All the other ones you have to try to snipe and they pop up every so often but they're all at max price. So there's no like trying to snipe these in profit. It's all like trying to snipe one of these and turn it into an SBC and pay crazy amounts of coins. The only other way you can get a full birthday right now is trying to do one of those footies player picks that gives you a card from or not footies. Actually, it might be. Footies player picks gives you like a player from batch one, two or three or something like that. Whatever the multiple player pick here is in the store. Let me try to find it again. Footies player pick, yeah, it's out for 21 days. So this is there again, trying to supply a little bit of that fodder, but it's just not worth doing. The price is not there and one of four, like who says you're gonna even pack a captain's or a foot fantasy or a foot birthday, you could very easily get a team of diseases and stuff like that inside of that as well. So that's definitely still a big L. But for today on Sunday, what are we gonna get? We'll talk about this quickly for the end of the video here. I'm not expecting a lot. We don't have any leaks. If we do get a leak, that'd be crazy. Three days in a row of transferred SBCs would be pretty nuts. I think they had to stop at some point, but I'm curious to see what they do. Also, we have the icon moments 93 plus expiring on a Sunday like we almost always do. Will EA finally release a 94 plus hopefully or will they just release this for like, I mean, honestly, EA make this SBC 100,000 coins, unlimited repeatable and just do it. Like why not? Nobody is doing this SBC right now because everything else is giving out better cards. Everything is past icons and all the icons that we wanna pack from this anyway, we know we can just go and craft through upgrade SBCs, Dino, Pele, R9, hold it, they're all here. Besides like, Cruyff, Zidane, like those are only the ones that are not there anymore and those are available through SWAPS programs if you really wanted them. So, you know, that's the thing today that we'll probably see refreshed, but in reality, it's like who really cares that much? And again, don't know if we'll get another transfer player today, it seems like a lot, but if EA are gonna keep the content rolling in that regard, I'm fine with it, I'm down with it. The only thing I'll say is this might come later in the week, but also they've been dropping some player picks, at least they did during footies on Sundays. Watch out for more of those year in review or another type of player pick like the shape you have the player pick that just gives you a random assortment of special cards that is, you know, I like that year in review is probably the best way to describe it. I think we'll have another player pick like that down the line during this week and that should be maybe dropping today, but you know, probably not. Realistically today, I think it's gonna be a pretty quiet day. That's gonna be kind of the way that it goes, I do imagine. Today on the market as well, I do think you will still see a fodder fluctuation. I still think that like some of these cards that are down here at 3,000 coins for 84s, if we're gonna do the 85 times 10s today, they just do them every single day, right? It's crazy to see some of these guys at 3K. Subitzer is up a little bit. Let's check like Rafael Guerrero, how much you see? 3K dipping out of 3,000 coins as well. Like I still think people are getting on the game every day doing the 85 times 10, two times, doing the 86 plus player pick, that sort of stuff. You'll probably see a normal fodder spike today in price just because of those daily SBCs that people are going and doing. And after that probably dropping a little bit lower just because weak only rewards, you see fodder get really low on like Sunday night. So watch out for that as well. The rest of the market though in terms of the meta prices, especially for out-of-packs cards, they just keep going up, right? Where's Marcelo? He's like option A in like perfect example of this. Of course Friday he was not re-released, he went from 370K all the way to 400 highs. Yesterday on Saturday between 430 and 480 and then right now he's 490. So these cards just kind of slowly keep to rise up, especially if they're not in-packs. If they're in-packs, you know, like Ronaldo, you know, like Ginola, they kind of just continue to hover around that same price point just because they're still getting supplied here or there. Ronaldo's 2.2, Ginola is 1.1. So both have been a little bit lower in the panic selling hours, but not super crazy. But in reality right now, it's just a little bit of a struggle. I mean, this is, free season is really the end of FIFA. It's gonna be the last problem in my opinion, but it's just kind of hard to keep things going, especially when these footies SPCs are gonna go away. And the fact that also this batch one of pre-season is out for two weeks. So we have the same cards in-packs for a whole another 12 days before we get anything different. And that's a little bit of a bummer. So regardless, if you're doing the pre-season rewards for FIFA 23, keep grinding those, they are GG. I think today on Sunday actually, I digress. There is one more SPC that's coming today, the refresh of the warm-up challenge. So if you're of course doing this, this refresh is today, you can do it for the second time. Everybody will get an 85 times five today from the objectives. That's, I think, from the kickoff, or no, it's warm-up to 23. So we'll be two out of three today on this. And then I think on Tuesday again, we'll be able to do it. And everybody will get an 85 times 10. And they will get the two rare gold players pack in FIFA 23. 28 is the size to drop that. So I'm gonna start working on the kickstart this week. I'm gonna start working on the pre-season cup. So there is stuff to grind. It's just, especially on the SPC side of the menus, the value is not really there. So that's a little bit unfortunate, but it is what it is. It's also late August. So if you're still playing this game, you're in the minority, I cannot lie. So if you enjoyed this video today, hit the thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you have any questions. That's really what I'm interested in. I know a lot of you guys have been commenting about how this game feels for you. Are you taking a break right now? Are you trying to grind the rewards for pre-season and then just be done? Everybody's accounts in a completely different state. My account, I had 28,000 coins last year at this time. Now I have seven mil. It's kind of wild. The tale of two years, right? So let me know in the comments what you're doing on this game right now, how you're feeling about it. Love the feedback. Love to hear what you guys are doing on this game and how you're feeling about it. Also, if you're new around here, hit the subscribe button. I would greatly appreciate it. Hopefully it's a good Sunday today. I do have footchamps games to play. It's not going that great. I can't lie. 11 matches remaining. I need to get some wins. Trying to get to 11 wins and dip. I don't even know why I played. It was because the servers went down and I got sucked into it anyways, Chad. That's too long for a video on a Sunday. But have a good Sunday. I'll catch you hopefully on a stream pretty soon. If not today, tomorrow for sure on Monday. And I'm going to get my preseason grind started. But again, it's been Nate's Foot Accounting. I will catch you guys later. Peace.