 Hey guys, it's Nate A.K. the foot accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Today, I want to take a quick look at the FIFA 21 launch update pitch notes and talk about some of the market impacts that I think we're going to see from this update and from the new information that we found out yesterday from the EA direct communication account through these pitch notes. And I think it's going to affect the market. So I want to talk to you guys about that with the new stuff about icon SBCs with of course the new like EA access is going to look a lot different this year because of objectives and other contents going to be coming out. So there's a lot to talk about and I'm going to get into it fast. I don't want to make this video too long because you guys have already read through this and started to talk about it, but I want to talk about some of the market impacts that we're going to be seeing in the next week and also throughout the course of the year with this stuff related to the launch update with the pitch notes for FIFA 21. Of course, they are made by Yashir, our boy, the lead product manager. Yeah, that's his title GGs. But anyway, let's start off with early access. I'm going to get into this right away because this is going to affect the market a decent amount and it's going to affect what we decide to do with our 10 hours because there's some new objectives in here that we're going to have to decide based on how much it requires and how much time it requires are the rewards good enough and are they worth it for our time during the EA access. First things first, some people ask me is this early access just the October 6 timeframe from the way this reads it says foot 21 kicks off with early access for EA play members starting October 1st and this is called early access. So I'm thinking that everything that is is labeled underneath here is going to come out at some point during the EA access timeframe somewhere between October 1st and October 6th, but it will guarantee to come out October 1st through October 9th. So I'm not entirely sure how these will launch like in terms of if they're all going to drop right away, but it's probably going to be in varying order as we go throughout the game. So first things first pre launch objectives will be a chance to will give you a chance to earn a special early access reward pack which includes an untradable 80 to 84 overall player pick. That's massive. That's actually pretty awesome for the first stage of the game. And if there's other players that are involved with that pack as well, maybe some stadium items that could be kind of cool, but again, it all depends on how much time or what difficulty of the objective it is to complete. If it's just like play a couple of squad battles games and score a goal with a couple players like with to a striker with a three star week footer or better or something like that, then that's a bad example. But that would be easy, right? If it's going to take you a long time to do if it's going to take you multiple games to get that player pick pack, it's not going to be worth it, right? Because you want to play your squad battle games and get that those rewards tradable rewards coming to you on that Sunday. So that's of course, you know, idea number one that you want to do, but some of these are kind of interesting based on how long it takes, right? Of course, we know team of the week one is going to be out the players that will be in team of the week number one. Those players performances will be this weekend. So today when you watch this video and tomorrow and some of the games that have already been played from a couple of days ago, possibly the league games could be or will be making up team of the week one coming up this next week as we start foot the launch of season one objectives. We're going to have basically more time to get to level 30 experience live friendlies for the first time with a three nation themed live friendly challenge. Again, we'll have to see if there's rewards along with that and the first event Head start and the humans versus machine community event complete the humans machines objectives group to earn an untradable prime electron players pack which I'm pretty sure is 12 players. Six rare. I don't know if you're guaranteed. I think you're guaranteed like a certain amount of golds and a certain amount of like maybe it's four golds, four silvers and four bronzes, but that's a decent pack. So if this humans versus machines objective will take you 20, 30 minutes or two games, I would play two games, maybe even three games to get an untradable prime electron players pack on top of the rewards that I'm already getting. So I don't know how this events is going to shake out what it's going to require, but that's something to think about again. When we're looking at these objectives, we're going to have to kind of make the decision in that first day or so. Is it worth going after based off the rewards that you get because they are untradable, but these are some decent packs prime electron untradable that could help you out of a decent amount and then the 80 to 84 player pick untradable as well. If it's not too much to go out of your way, it might be worth doing now. This is also big market movements from this right here. Once to watch content is actually going to start during early access. The promo itself is not starting until October 9th. We'll read about that in a bit, but there's going to be some OTW content and SBC and a player pick vote. A player pick vote and an SBC are going to be coming out during early access. So technically the very first SBC of FIFA 20 could be a player SBC. Well, the first player SBC of FIFA 20 could be a ones to watch player SBC. Can you invest for this? Yes, I think you're going to be able to invest for it. If you want to check out again, we're going to be looking in that first week or so. Some of the cheapest FIFA 21 players by rating. When they're loaded in here on football, you can see football is ready to go with some of these. I would probably not expect more than an 81 or an 82 rated squad depending on what the player is, but people are addicted to SBCs at any time of the year. If it's a good enough player that the people are is going to think are worth or people in this game are going to think is worth it. They're going to go and do that SBC and you might see some market movement. So that might be kind of an investment that nobody's talking about that you might have to get in on and might possibly be able to get on early on. This first couple days of EA access and then again, it goes and describes the player pick vote. The winner will then get an SBC released during the promo. So down to once to watch. We got three more confirmed players today. Odegaard, Tiago, Hakimi. All right, solid, not bad. They did confirm this is going to be a two week promo just like before last year. They really started to do this two week promo kind of cycle and it looks like they're going to continue with it. So team one is going to be revealed and released on October 9th. So I don't know these guys might not all be in team one. Some might be in team two. We don't know yet. Team two is going to be revealed on October 14th on that Wednesday and then released on October 6th the Friday. So back to back weeks, two weeks in a row with once to watch probably multiple players B. C. He's probably multiple objectives. They're going to want to start the year off strong. So SBC fodder honestly continues to pop back up in my mind is something that might be investable and might be tradable during this period, even though it's so early on in the game, people will still do SBCs if it is a meta popular or just good value player. People will do that. But again, if you pre-ordered the ultimate edition, you're thinking about when do I open my guaranteed ones to watch pack October 9th through 16th when team one is in packs. You'll be able to pack from your pre-order pack just team one players the next week will be just team two. And then if you want to wait till October 21st, which is probably what I'm going to do. We're probably going to have like a once to watch pre-order pack opening on stream link in the description. If you want to join that, we'll have some fun with those and open those packs on October 21st to have a chance to see who we can pull from those packs. It might be worth waiting because also maybe a car that you pull has already gotten an informed. Usually there's one or two OTWs that get an inform in the first two or three weeks just off of especially this year with more ones to watches. It'll be out and released most likely. Then there's a higher chance for that to happen. So that's kind of what I'm thinking with ones to watches. I'm kind of excited. Honestly, for just the amount of sheer content that it looks like is going to be released just so fast and the amount of different areas for content that will have this year. Honestly, for me, it's a bit not scary, but it's honestly a bit crazy to think about all these different areas of content. We could have something new here this day, new here this day and new here on this day and then almost could feel like it might end up being like a cop out for esports at some point, like, hey, oh, we dropped a new a new foot event today, but we didn't drop any SBC. So, you know, maybe some people don't like playing the game or doing the foot events, but they like the SBC. So they might not be happy with that content. So that's just kind of something I feel like we're going to be experiencing throughout the year this year. But let's continue live foot friendlies. They said there's going to be starting with live foot friendlies during a EA access, I guess. So completing certain objectives and live foot friendlies will earn you unique rewards. So that doesn't sound like incredibly tasty off, you know, just reading that, but it could be good. All right, let's go into programs because this is also big before we get into icon SBCs. Meaningful moments, right? Player programs. When I first thought of this, this is what this is what I imagine what player programs were like, and I could be wrong with this. Maybe it's Lee SBCs, but I almost think that these milestone players might be what they're calling a player. Because if you kind of read what they were before, certain player items moments will now reflect real-world footballing moments. No, league players. League players is what I'm thinking might be. Well, yeah, right here, man. This is what it says. Serie A league player, right? So these are the league players that we had last year, these objectives, right? With Poletano, the Bundesliga had Verstraat, we had Shoji, Moigomes, Trossard. I mean, a lot of these like weren't that insane, you know, but hopefully this year they're better. And, you know, looks like there's going to be opportunity for more of those this year with some changes with static permanent upgrades, which is okay, it is what it is. And they're going to be completed throughout live foot friendlies. So again, they're trying to make it not as sweaty, I think, through some of these objectives. And that's number one thing here through these league players experiment with squad building to satisfy the objective requirements. Interesting. Not with a more even playing field. That's what they're trying to do, right? Because people are so mad about all the objectives being in rivals and being sweaty and everything like that. Seems like they're trying to move away from that with this feature here. Flashback errors. This is kind of cool. It almost feels to me like it's like a snapshot in time which is exactly what it is. And then they're going to increase or decrease the rating based on where that player was at that certain point in time. Here's my thing. Why do you have to decrease the player? Why do you have to decrease the stats? Why can't you just leave it the same and then upgrade the sprint speed in this example and upgrade that flashback era item just for that time and maybe leave that defensive stat where it was. Why do you have to decrease it? I know it's everything in FIFA recently. The past couple of years has just been moving more and more and more towards just like in real life and everything is being more realistic and is real and you know what I miss and maybe you guys do too some of the arcadey field to the FIFA gameplay. It seems like they've been moving more realistic with the gameplay as well. And I see that again here like that's one of their goals I think is to make this as most as lifelike as possible in terms of gameplay and even with some of the content they're releasing putting players and their stats matching a point in time. So that is kind of cool but also interesting that they're going to lower stats which is kind of weird and then this is the new meaningful moments that we talked about earlier. We're not entirely sure how this is going to show up and how they're going to be upgrading these cards whether it's going to be like through a team of the week or just promo cards or through objectives but they're going to be able to upgrade an individual stat item. So of course the Trent Alexander Arnold with the dead ball specialist with the free kick attribute they'd be able to raise that without impacting his short and long passing stats. So it just gives EA more chances to upgrade cards. This really wasn't new information. The flashback era is pretty cool. That card design hopefully is dope and we can have some really really neat cards based on that. So I think out of player programs that's the one that I'm more stoked for and again that's more SBCs probably some more objectives as well and that makes the market move because you have cards that are required for SBCs. You know maybe Brazilian players get to score goals with a certain nationality certain league you know and that just makes cards move on the market. So we have to be in tune with that stuff a lot even more than in the years past because objectives are going to make the market move this year more than they ever have with requirements just amount of hype on objectives and stuff like that. So last but definitely not least we're talking about icons and I want us to talk about this forever. I know a lot of you guys already have but icons are sort of the same as last year but also they're different because use me icon SBCs are back all right and I know that's pretty hype but there's a couple asterisk I guess it's like icon SBCs are back don't get super hyped because EA but the base middle and prime versions and moments versions it's going to be the exact same as last year base and middle start off in packs base go out of packs in December middle go out of packs in prime primes come into packs in December and then moments come into packs in February so that's the exact same as last year icon SBCs are back though and again this is awesome for people that just like to grind the menus and like to be able to attain a version of their icon hopefully through an SBC and not having to grind the gameplay and this also means a ton for the market in terms of cards that will rise for SBC requirements SBC fighter might maintain more of a more consistent price this year than last year going all over the place at certain times that's going to be some constant demand for those SBCs that we didn't have as much last year so that's going to be interesting and this honestly to me in terms of SBC fighter and investing is going to look a lot more like could it could look a lot more like FIFA 19 a combination of FIFA 19 and FIFA 20 where inform investing where discard informs were very investable if they were high enough rated because people were turning in those cards for icon SBCs all year long and there was consistent demand taking those cards off of the market when they weren't getting any more supply so right away looking at this discard inform investing I think I might have to dabble in that early on this year we'll see of course they said here the first icon SBC will not be introduced until late November and if you actually take a look back at SBC fighter cards from last year that is when all these cards bang because late November of last year November 20th 21st 23rd I think the day was or maybe the 20 23rd was when we got the repeat the repeatable baby icon SBC last year on this November 23rd time frame so it's basically I would expect this graph for your Reese's new card this year in FIFA 20 to look exactly the same as is graph last year it would it would stay high become SBC fighter get really low and then spike when that icon SBC would come out the first day as long as it is a popular player of course it's not repeatable so there might not be as much demand but it's an icon SBC and people get kind of excited about that now the only issues that I have with this icon SBCs are not available permanently they're only available long term and they can be re-released this is basically just EA covering their backsides and saying hey we are just open we're going to write this sentence in here so that we have the ability to re-release icon SBCs at some point if we want to do that so I guess that's a possibility and a risk that you take if you do an icon SBC early on in the year just kind of have to weigh the value of I'm paying more for it now it might be cheaper later is it worth the amount of games or you know the availability of that card in my club now then just waiting a couple of months to get the SBC card later and that's what basically this means right here the re-release date and stuff like that I highlighted this though specific versions of icons will only be eligible eligible for SBC released after they've been released impacts for a period of time so in November when we had those first SBCs literally the only cards that we will be able to have icon SBCs for will be baby or middle items because those are the only cards that are impacts and here's the other one no specific version of an icon base card prime card SBC will be released again through icon swaps and vice versa so here's a hypothetical example let's say they release a Fernando Torres middle SBC in November first SBC people are hyped Fernando Torres new icon gets an icon SBC Fernando Torres will not be in any more icon SBCs or icon swaps for the rest of the year so it's kind of like how last year if a car was in swaps and it was its baby version you would never see the prime or the moments version later on down the road same thing here but that also includes the SBCs this year as well so if there's one player that you want to get like let's say you want to get Fernando Torres you're going to have only like one option to get that card untradable through either an SBC or through an objective that's the only issue with this that I'm not a huge fan of I wish they would make all the cards readily available at least a couple different chances for a couple different versions of the card throughout the game through an untradable system but speaking to icon SBCs just the last part this is a big one because this again screams FIFA 19 to me we have to be careful with this but you're going to see a lot of people start investing in icons as early as the start of the game there's going to be people that start buying icons and chucking them on their transfer list for that end of November timeframe and especially like with this graph with Hugo Eurise what you're going to see with icons is is they're going to get low they're going to be forgotten about it's just going to be like last year and then people are going to remember towards November timeframe as we get in closer to Black Friday Hey icon SBCs are coming icons might be required now I would expect icons to be required later on in the year maybe in like a January February timeframe around team of the year as you know primes come into packs and if they release any of the top level prime cards you know icons the SBCs that required icons are more the upper tier higher be required they're leaving that option open and I think you're going to hear a lot of people that are going to invest in that and it's going to be very profitable at some point this year for sure so that's icon SBCs they are back but you know they're back right but they're back like they're going to be out in the game so that's hype and GG's EA for that thank you for listening and at least putting those back out even though it may not be the same ways before icon swaps is basically the exact same it's going to start later this year which is interesting for me and there's going to be a greater mix between icon and pack rewards and the pack rewards are going to cost less tokens which is a GG we like that EA sports that's going to allow for just a lot more possibilities for let's say you get 24 icon swap tokens and an icon pack only costs you 8 8 swap tokens instead of 18 like it did in one of the first one or two sets of icon swaps that's just going to allow you to get more icons in your club and one person mentioned to me today and I think is a very good shout you're going to be able to get icon SBCs or do icon swaps and then get an untradable icon and shut that into SBCs so if there's like 24 tokens available and you can get three icons for like you know six seven and eight tokens I don't even know if that math adds up which yeah it does right it's 8 and 7 15 plus 6 23 so yeah you could if there's that option there which EA is probably thinking about already thinking about that through and maybe not going to get all your tokens and then get three untradable players that you then use to an icon SBC that you wanted if the SBC is better than the swaps just something to think about if they're making some other rewards for player token values less all right just something to kind of think about there companion app is coming out on the the web app first September 30th which by the way you can access if you don't have a PC if you have a tablet or a phone you can actually go on the companion the web app you can go on the web app on your phone if you go into an internet browser and view as a desktop you can actually do that so that's just kind of a hack for you guys if you want to do that there's also going to be these competitive game viewership rewards so basically that just means watch the events link your Twitch and their EA accounts and then leave the tab open you don't even have to watch and you'll be able to get these tokens that you can redeem for packs which is the GG last thing put foot pre-season rewards all those packs that we grinded objectives for they're going to be available by October 16th so hopefully they're available right away but they're telling us that at least by October 16th they're going to be giving us a lot of stuff so again really quick wrap up there's a ton in here there is a lot to talk about and honestly the stuff that I'm worried about the most right now is early access and the ones to watch because these two things are going to be affecting us right away off the rip and we're going to be seeing the impact of these new SBCs of these new objectives right away all right so this is what I would focus on right now if I were you guys because I do think this is going to impact the market think through maybe how this might even impact your start to FIFA 21 and as we see these objectives roll out next in the next four or five days as the game is released we'll kind of dissect that stuff then when we have more information but sorry for the long video I just want to give this information out to you guys and hopefully you did enjoy it if you did smash a thumbs up comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe the channel if you're new it's been Nate The Foot Accountant catch you guys later peace out