 Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. We need to have a chat about this FIFA 22 Ultimate Team transfer market because I think that this year's transfer market is the biggest change to FIFA that we've ever seen on any aspect ever. Gameplay, objectives, SBCs, like this market this year is such a big change and it was so unexpected and it's driving people away from the game and it's making people unhappy with their FIFA Ultimate Team experience because these cards just keep dropping in price and people lose coins all the time, myself included. If you haven't lost coins this year then you haven't sold your players because card prices have dropped so much from the beginning of the game. I wanna talk about in this video just what's going on again. Talk about why the market is the way that it is and also talk about how it's making people angry and wanting to leave the game and not have as much fun on this game because of how the market is reacting and also how we are going to learn and adapt. It has been one month since this market opened with the web app, right? It's literally been about one month in time. We've learned a lot. We're gonna continue to keep learning but we're gonna learn and adapt how to trade in this market, right? Some of the methods that we used to use like just buying SBC fodder and waiting for the SBC demand to pull that up with the amount of supply this year we haven't seen fodder move that much except for the higher tier just a little bit. I think that's gonna continue later on into this year as well. So again, I wanna talk about today how we're going to learn and adapt and is this beneficial for EA? Like is this good for EA going forward? Is this their, like did they decide to do this? I 100% think that they decided to run the market this way and we're gonna talk through some of that as well. I also wanna talk about what we had yesterday with the Polatano and what we could be looking forward to today on Sunday inside of FIFA Ultimate Team as a part of the RTTK Team 2 promo. So we will talk about that at the end but first, seriously, this transfer market right now people are leaving this game. People are so unhappy with how the transfer market is being run because cards like Bruno Fernandez, Paul Pugba, take a look at some of these graphs, man. Even like Rashford, these cards who were last year, one year ago inside of FIFA 21, Rashford was like 250,000 coins a year ago at this exact time and right now he is about 58K, 58K on this card. He was up at 200,000 coins right at the beginning of the game, 174 but in the last two weeks alone, the last, basically what is this, nine days Rashford has gone from 117,000 coins down to 58K and if this is a card that you have not sold, like you can't hold on to cards this year. Usually gold cards drop throughout the year in FIFA anyway but this year with all the supply that we're having it is driving these prices lower and again, I really think that this is EA's choice this year, they wanted to make the market set up in this way so that they, all of these cards were supplied so much that people would wanna move on from them so quickly and then EA would release promos to go out and they would make you basically wanna upgrade from these cards to the new promo cards that are being putting out but since we don't have a ton of promo cards right now, it feels dead, right? It feels crazy, crazy dead. Now again, why is this supply so much and what were the changes that EA made to make this happen, now I'm gonna go into the store and show you the packs and just explain a few things we've talked about this many times already but the reason these prices have dropped so much this year is just simply the pack of weight and these new rare player like the over 80 plus overall the guaranteed rating that you get from these packs. I mean, take a look at even a 7.5K pack which I got an insane preview pack by the way just a couple minutes ago, a testament to how insane pack weight is this year. Also I packed mid-R9, what? You know, anyways, gold 84 plus player out of a 7.5K pack, 8%, 8% chance of you packing an 84 plus out of a 7.5K pack. Last year in FIFA 21, that was like a 3% chance so it's more than doubled, almost tripled the chance. Basically pack weight this year is like tripled and that is why these prices keep going down because they just get supplied so much. Now again, I 100% that this is by design from EA Sports because it just makes sense for what they've been kinda doing this over the past couple of years is they want you to get interested in the promos, right? Every single weekend they release new cards on the game and they want you to use those, right? Because if they get you to buy coins or if they get you to buy cards on this game and then they release something new after that that you're gonna wanna upgrade to because it's better, it has a cool dynamic image or a cool card design, then you're gonna go sell the card that you had and move on to that new item and you're gonna consistently be losing coins because you're gonna buy that card when it's exciting and it's brand new and then when everybody else moves on and it's exciting and brand new, the next thing is exciting. They're gonna sell that old card for a lower price because that supply is continually coming in and that card's continually getting packed and that's why you see these cards drop off in price, right? It's really a double-edged sword this year though on the market with this supply. Since the supply is so heavy, right? It's great for the casuals. We know that this game is always kind of geared toward the casuals but it is absolutely fantastic for somebody who is a casual in this game that Kevin De Bruyne is 91,000 coins because he is so cheap to afford. He's so easy to get, easier than ever to have a really solid team this year in FIFA. Like De Bruyne last year was like 400, 500,000 coins, right? And now he's 90K, so easy to afford cards this year but the double-edged sword side to that is people are upset because they bought De Bruyne in the first week for 185,000 coins and now the dude is 91K and it's literally just this consistent supply, supply, supply that is coming in. We had the first ever 50K packs this past weekend as a part of the RTTK2 promo and that has sent the market. There weren't even lightning rounds. I don't even wanna think about how dead this is gonna be when we get to Black Friday with lightning round 50K, 100K, 125K packs. They might not even do lightning rounds this year. I don't even know if the market can withstand that and you know, De Bruyne is gonna be 20K by the time we get to team of the year, right? So that is why I really think that EA is making the pack weight higher this year. They make it easier for the casuals and then once you get KDB and you wanna upgrade from him, they're releasing promos every single Friday. I doubt that we have a Friday this year without a promo because they're releasing these brand new cards onto the game every single week that they want you to upgrade to, right? And that's part of, I'm gonna talk about promo cards when we get towards the end of this video and talk about how we can maybe trade and make coins. After seeing these first couple of promos, people are upgrading to these cards because they're so bored and they're so used to the gold ones and they've lost so many coins and they have no, that middle ground, right? We keep talking about how so many of these cards are cheap but then you also have the elite tier of players, you're Mbappe, right? 1.7 mil. The elite tier of players that are so good on this game, they've only gone up in price because their supply and Mbappe's getting packed more than ever but people can barely attain these cards because there's that huge gap, right? It's either I've got a 100,000 coin card in my team. There's 14 cards on this game that are over 100,000 coins. There's 14 cards on this game that are over 100,000 coins. Last year there had to be like 30 plus, right? It's crazy how cheap stuff is this year and again, there's no middle ground. If you wanna upgrade your center defensive mid in the Premier League, maybe you're using Pogba as a CDM or you're using Gold Allen, who's like 2K. Then you maybe upgrade to another league and you say Frankie Deong, 111,000 coins. He's your new defensive mid. Well then where do you go to? You have to go to 500K to get to Kante, right? Or if you wanna get to Mbappe, 1.7 million coins. Now these cards are gonna come down in price more too but that elite tier is so expensive this year. It's the same thing with icons. That elite tier is so expensive because EA, there's so much demand for those cards and yes, they're supplied a lot too but since everybody gets the cheap players, they have to upgrade to something and they're upgrading to these elite level cards when they get enough coins and it's just pushing the prices higher. Look at Hullet dude. Hullet is 8.8 million coins right now on the PlayStation in October 23rd, right? October 23rd, 8.9 million coins. Last year, a month into the game, how much was Hullet? 6.5, 6.9 mil between six and a half and seven mil. So again, that upper tier is so much more expensive this year compared to last year on the market because there's no middle ground yet, right? But that's where these middle tier cards are gonna come into play and that's why I think we're gonna see a promo every Friday. So that's again the double-edged sword with this stuff right now on the game. EA wants you to get used to losing coins, right? Because if you get used to losing coins, then you know, you're gonna be fine with that and you're gonna get used to selling cards. Oh man, I bought Pogba this week for 80K. Next week he's 68. Oh, but there's a new promo card out. I gotta go get myself this road to the knockouts. Fred, put this in my squad and boom. That's where they want you to be because then as you eventually keep losing coins, then you have to put on FIFA points to get more coins back and you have to add more FIFA points because prices are cheaper this year even though the pack weight's pretty good and way better than it's ever been, you have to add more FIFA points to just make more coins to buy those players that you even wanna go out and buy. So that's where I think EA has won in this scenario because they are probably, the only bad side to this is that they're pushing people away from the game because they're depressed and unhappy at losing coins, that they're maybe losing some FIFA point sales there but for people that wanna upgrade their teams after they sell their Bruno for 50K that they bought at 100,000 coins, those people have to put on more FIFA points to recoup those coins that they lost if that makes sense, right? So I wonder, I would really love to see metrics on this because I wonder if this is bringing in more revenue for EA or if it's bringing in less but in honesty with casuals, I think it's gonna bring in more because people are gonna have to spend more FIFA points this year to get those coins back from what they're losing. So that is kind of what I'm thinking in terms of that and I really don't think that EA is gonna mess with pack weight. I don't think this is like a test for EA either, right? I mean, we have preview packs as well, don't forget about those, that's supplying the market so much and I think this is exactly how EA wanted this to play out in this game this year and it's probably gonna be this way throughout the future. I don't think that EA is gonna like magically change pack weight and like diminish the pack weight and then return things back to normal. It's gonna be like this through the rest of this year, right? EA has made this market really hard for traders and so much easier for casuals, right? It's easy to attain that good team, right? Your Pog, your Bruno, your Rentes, your Usman Dembele is so much cheaper than he has been in previous years. The good teams are so much easier to get but the elite teams are so much harder to get. So that's why it's so much harder for the elite tier players than it is the casuals this year. So everything just seems really watered down and it keeps going lower in price. Another one reason people think that UCL cards may not have been released yet like these UEFA Champions League common and rare cards are that people think that EA might do plus ones on these again and that would be kind of like informs, I guess you could say, and that would drop the gold market even lower but it would again fill that gap a little bit like we talked about the gold market and the elite tier market. We have this gap in the middle where people like there's not anything easy and cheap to upgrade to on this game. So with that being said, how can we trade in the game this year with so much supply? The number one thing that I have learned with this game this year is that you can't be greedy for profits, right? Even icons now, icons have reached kind of a tipping point for most of these cards where they just have gotten supplied. They're still in demand, but they've gotten supplied so much that they're starting to just, that supply is starting to outweigh the demand and they're starting to come down as well. And these have been really good to trade with but you really just have to take the profits when you see them, right? It's all about the dailies in and out, it's the fluctuation trading, right? Cause there's still gameplay demand. People are enjoying the gameplay on FIVA 22, right? So we have trading methods like chemistry style and position change trading that are, you know, just so much better to do this year than last year because, you know, there's the quick flips in and out, right? You're not risking a lot of coins when you're buying something and holding onto it for two to three hours versus when you're buying something and holding onto it for, you know, three, four, five days in the way that the market is this year. So everything that is quick flipping is doing well. And I know that some of you guys are really struggling to make coins in the way that the market is this year. And I'm gonna try to help you guys out with that, right? I really wanna be intentional with how quick the market is moving this year. I really wanna try to be intentional with, you know, maybe this is a time to buy players for your team and sell players for your team and maybe expect to lose a little bit of coins because we know that a promo Friday is coming or we know that, yes, there's gonna be a lot of supply today but depending on what packs EA put in the store like the 50K packs destroyed everything this past weekend. You know, they can do that at a moment's notice on any Friday, Saturday or Sunday or any day to be honest during the week. So again, there's more risk this year with all the supply being crazy. But again, we're really gonna focus on trading methods, icon trading, trading with road to the knockout cards. And to be honest, this year, we might have one of the simplest trading methods return to FIFA ultimate team buying promo cards that go out of packs. Like we mentioned, the gap between the gold cards and the elite tier cards in this game is so big. Look at these cards from road to the knockout team one and how much they have exploded out of packs because what other prem left-back are you using in this game once you upgrade from like gold Robertson or Regulon, right? Or Alex Tellez, there's not a ton of good left-backs from the Premier League. That's why this Robertson card for people that had coins and we're looking for an upgrade in two days out of packs, he's gone from 180K to 260, right? Crazy rises on these cards because people have nowhere else to upgrade right now but these promo items, right? You look at Leroy Sane, he's up 75,000 coins. You look at Marquinhos is up over 100K. You look at Vidal, Mukielle, Rodrigo. I know these are live cards, right? But these are promo cards that are fun with upgrades and dynamic images that people are putting in their teams just because it's something fresh and new. And instead of using a 38,000 coin Usman Dembele, they can upgrade to a 260K card, try him out. Maybe he's better, maybe he's not. But that's where these promo cards, we've seen them rise out of packs greatly with this first set of the Road to the Knockouts. Now it's probably not gonna be the same every single week with every single promo but we're gonna have to time some things this year on the market. And with these cards rising up so much from Road to the Knockouts team one, I think that's something we're sincerely gonna have to look at. Every single week that we have these cards when a meta cards are dropped, popular cards are dropped that kind of like fill a need, right? There were no good French writebacks in the game besides gold class, right? Right back from the league one. Now this Mukielle has come out and he's gone from 40,000 coins to 55K in two days, right? That's a huge return on your investment for such a cheap card. So that's, I really think that investing in special cards out of packs is gonna be a move this year, right? Maybe some informs as well if we take a look at like, informs that are meta from previous team of the weeks. I mean, take a look at like this Gabriel Jesus. Gabriel Jesus when he was in team of the week two in packs 150K. He's gone up to 220,000 coins a couple weeks after that. Still maintains his price a little bit inflated right now because of Premier League links, but 200,000 coins. So that's gonna be something that we will be looking to going forward. Now there's still SBC demand but I really don't feel like investing in 84 rated cards is a move this year either. Except for a few, you haven't seen these guys move like at all. Illasich might be a bad example because he's out of packs right now at the moment, but you're 84 and 85 rated players haven't moved that much either because there's just so much supply that it's gonna take massive SBCs to make that side of the market move up. Now also we've had for the second week in a row now we have had more of the actual promo cards required for SBCs. This has been a sick investment as well, right? Buying the promo cards that are actually like live in the promo that is currently going on road to the knockouts have been required for Bernardo Silva and I believe did they require RTTKs for Polatano SBC? They did, they required another RTTK player. They required ones to watch players during the ones to watch promo. So whatever promo is next buy a couple of the ones that are at discard or near discard, put them on your transfer list and you might see those go up as well because it seems to be the requiring of the promo cards in SBCs this year. And of course people always love SBCs and with the supply on the market this year SBCs even seem cheaper but they're I guess arguably lesser of a good value with Bernardo Silva and Polatano SBCs are so much cheaper but the whole market is so much cheaper that makes you really wonder are these SBCs good value even though they seem so much cheaper than prior years? So that is kind of all the stuff that's going on with this market. Now we're gonna continue to watch it unfold. We're gonna continue to learn and I would just again, I would really, really encourage you to try not to become deflated, right? Mess around with the market a little bit. You're gonna lose some coins this year, right? I know EA wants us to get used to losing coins. We're gonna have to get used to losing coins a little bit with the amount of supply that there is. Some trades are not gonna work out just basically because of that amount of supply belong for 1.013. You know what, let's check let's check this price really quick, right? Quick flipping icons, cards that are in demand. This Blancard has dropped off a lot because of the pro requirements have changed. What was Blanc yesterday? He's been around, okay, that's pretty cheap. That is really, really cheap for Mr. Blanc. If that is still there, I'm gonna pick that up because I think that I could get a sale right around like 1.1 or just a little below. Yeah, I'm gonna pick that up for Mr. Blanc. I know there's a one that's at 1.025 but I'm gonna go and list this up and let's do a little 1097, right? That's the kind of stuff that you might have to do this year. Get with the icons, learn some of these prices and find those fluctuations and those flips. Quick ins, quick outs and rarity is king. We'll continue to talk about that stuff in more videos to come but I am gonna be posting some more specific videos on different trading methods that you can use in this game that work in this game this year from low budget methods with Silvers and with League SBCs are coming, right? That's gonna be I think a great way to trade in this game this year so we'll talk about that. Talk about trading with the SBC solutions that's been a huge hit this year. Now you have to be careful that you don't spam do it because people have been getting banned for selling those cards by the thousands but that's something you can do to make coins this year as well. Icons as we talked about, wrote the knockout cards, flipping those live with upgrades and stuff like that. So we will talk about some specific videos going forward and the new weekly trends, how to trade with that. We'll be talking about that stuff going forward but again, I really wanted to focus on just the market piece because I wanted to just make a video today and talk about that and lay it all out in front right there and just explain what we've been talking about a lot of traders and a lot of people who are on this market just can't believe what EA have done with this market this year. It's crazy. It is ridiculously crazy and it's not gonna change, right? So we just have to learn and adapt. All right, that's it for the market stuff. Let's talk about wrote to the knockouts team too just for a little bit as we head into Sunday today. Now, SBC wise, today I think upgrade pack days are Mondays. Yeah, Mondays are upgrade pack days so I wouldn't expect anything along those lines today but I would expect to see three or four more players released in packs. Now this team too is only in packs until Wednesday but on Sunday last week and we had this during once to watch they released what they called the mini release on Sundays, right? Where they released three or four cards back into packs so I would expect to see three to four more RTDKs in packs today. Now they'll probably add more promo packs to the store. They re-upped the 25Ks yesterday on Saturday. The 50Ks are there all weekend with a limit of five per account. I think they'll do a couple more promo packs today maybe 25Ks again, maybe 35Ks and then I don't know about another objective card. I think Andre and Cruz are gonna be our two objectives. We might get another player SBC maybe or it may not be an SBC today. It might be a pretty quiet day on Sunday. We will have to see other than probably those four cards released back into packs what our content would be. Maybe some sort of like pack SBC whether it's a tradable or untradable pack supply SBC. You know, like we have these newcomers challenges we might see one of those today on this game as well. So that's kind of what I'm thinking right now on the market boys. Again, I just wanted to sit down and talk about this stuff because I realized that it is hard to make coins. I feel like some people are really succeeding this year with like icon trading and stuff like that. I've dipped my toes in the water there but one of the biggest things that I've learned this year is just take the money when the money is there. Seriously, wow. Okay, thanks EA Sports 1.097. It wasn't showing me all the listings. By the way, market glitch listings are nothing that has changed there, right? So just be careful when you're searching for cards in the market. A lot of times it will show you that there's less cards than there actually are. So always be careful with that. But that's gonna be the video for today boys. If you did enjoy it, again, leave a thumbs up and I wanna know down below in the comments. Please let me know how your FIFA 22 experience is going. If you're upset, let me know. If you're not happy with this market or if you're loving it, let me know why down in the comments because that feedback to me is crucial, right? I wanna hear how you guys are doing and I wanna hear how you guys, what you guys wanna learn too, right? If you wanna learn some new trading methods, if you wanna learn how, or if you want me to maybe be a bit more, have some more explanations on when you should buy and sell cards for your team each and every week or a fricking day to be completely honest so that you don't lose as many coins on a weekly basis. Let me know down below in the comments on that as well. Of course, if you're new around here, make sure to hit the subscribe button. But that's it for the video today boys. It's been Nate, The Foot Accountant. I will catch you guys later. Peace.