 Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. FIFA 22 is fast approaching. We are in September and the time when we'll get our hands and restart into FIFA 22 Ultimate Team is coming very soon. I want to talk about today some of my thoughts and what I think would be great additions, things that we need to see in FIFA 22. As we've talked about already, FIFA 21 was a huge raising of the bar from the past few years content-wise in this game and I think there's a few ways they can even raise that bar further inside of FIFA 22. So what we're gonna do today is look through objectives, SBCs, icons and the transfer market and just talk about some things that I saw in FIFA 21 that I think need to be improved or even some new aspects that I think they could add on top to what they already have and make one of these modes or all of these modes even more spectacular. So we're gonna start off by talking about objectives. Now I know I already talked about this, objectives were a huge step up from FIFA 20. We had so many cards, Silver Stars, all of the promo, Friday promo cards that were released through objectives, milestone objectives, there were tons of objectives this year. It was so easy to get good cards through playing games. And I just think that's gonna continue inside of FIFA 22 and I think EA really liked the engagement they got out of the community of FIFA casual and hardcore through the objectives programs and I think they're gonna continue that this year but there's one thing that I think they can build that is actually already in place in a lot of other games. Even other EA titles like Madden, NFL and MLB the show, that's not an EA title but they have objectives where you upgrade cards based on like how many games you play or based on certain objectives using that card, you basically upgrade that item. Now we kind of have that already. This is our example with the Adama Traori objective. Of course you start out, you have to get the 89 rated foot birthday, then you went for the 92 rated footies and then in the very end you get the 95. But what I'm talking about is basically EA releasing let's say like a 80 rated item. Let's say they release an 80 rated card, whoever it is, even if it's somebody that's a pretty big name. Let's say they release an 80 rated Virgil van Dyke, way lower than his normal rating but you have tiered objectives and you have to play games. You have to get clean sheets, maybe score head or goals and stuff like that. All of these stats can be tracked inside of the game on that player and basically what you would do is, let's say you play a hundred games, that van Dyke would get a plus one or a plus two. You get 25 clean sheets in division rivals or division rivals, right? And then boom, you get another plus one and then over the course of time that van Dyke will upgrade to a certain rating. Now of course it's gonna have to be relative to where we are in the game, right? You can't be giving people a card that starts off as an 85 and becomes a 95 in December, right? They're gonna of course kind of shade this and just put in cards and of course according to the power curve of how cards are getting higher rated as we go throughout the game, I totally understand that but I just think that would be something that would be an incredible addition to objectives and honestly with foot heroes, with foot heroes and what we've already learned and maybe kind of thought through versus seeing this trailer and reading some of the information about foot heroes, it almost seems like foot heroes might have some sort of upgradeable aspect to them. Teared objectives, shall we call it, right? So let's look at this right here. Of course in the foot heroes description they say that celebrate some of football's most memorable players with foot heroes, new items that represent unforgettable moments that turn them into fan favorites, right? This is something they talked about in FIFA 21 too with those moments, right? And what we've seen already is some different ratings on a couple cards, right? It's specifically from the trailer. This is from the FIFA 22 Ultimate Team Trailer. That is doodek, foot heroes card in goal 88 rated and we have a foot watch tweet from earlier in July showing doodek 85. So if there is an 85 doodek and an 88 doodek what does that tell us? That means there's gonna be at least a couple versions of these foot heroes, right? That's kind of how we're reading into it right now. Nothing in here under the foot heroes campaign really talks about that. They really just talk about that specific hero moment and the chemistry, right? But specific hero moment and almost sounds like icons as well, right? Because icons have multiple versions kind of showing different times in their career, mid, base, mid, prime and prime moments, right? For all the icons that are in the game it sounds like these heroes might have specific moments as well and hopefully that is something that would be different than icons is that it would be upgradable inside objectives kind of like a tiered objective process. I think that would be so dope if that is the case and seeing these two different ratings for the doodek card are interesting enough already. So those are my thoughts on objectives. I think that would be one specific thing that objectives that could really turn up the heat in objectives, if you will. Now, let's talk about other promo cards that were released this year that I think EA kind of started off with as a great idea and then it kind of just stopped, right? I'm gonna look at Future Stars, Giovanni Reina. There's three cards you guys might remember. The Giovanni Reina, the Dalot and the Reese James. Two different special cards were released as a part of the two week Future Stars promo. We had a center attacking mid version of Giovanni Reina and we had a right mid version with differing stats for each position, right? The right mid one had more pace, a slightly less shooting, slightly less physical, but more dribbling and then the central one had less pace but more shooting, little bit more passing and more physical, right? So I loved this concept. If you guys remember this actual screenshot that was inside of the game when this was released, especially for the Reese James, right? And the Dalot being right side, left side. This was a really, really cool concept that I hope is continued inside of FIFA 22. Basically the same player but two different versions with different positions. The rating probably has to say right around the same but they could differ in, of course, the individual statistics based off of the position on that card. So I was a big, big fan of this. I really was and I think I would love to see this a little bit more in FIFA 22 because that was really, really fun and it made for interesting links and squad building potentials. Also, instead of having one version where like, man, this Reese James card is a right back. Yeah, it's a really good item. Of course, a lot of people played him at center back inside of FIFA 21. But you know, maybe you wanted a midfielder and of course this guy wouldn't fit in your teams in midfielder. Now, I wish they would have given this center defensive mid, Reese James at least like 85 pace instead of 80 but you kind of get it, right? This, the potential with this I think is really big and that's what I want to see more of inside of FIFA 22. Now, we talked about foot heroes. Let's talk about icons as well. I want to talk about icons because I still think that the icon swaps and icon SBC's campaign from FIFA 21 was lacking. I really think that it was lacking because everything, you know, things were great with icon swaps but it was the timing was the big issue. SBC's for icon players need to drop sooner, more often. We don't have to only have icon prime and icon moments versions of icon SBC's EA sports. Like in December, you can drop a mid, let's say a mid Maradona or a mid, even more of a like a middle tier icon that's still maybe 700 out mid Gerard in December would still be an icon SBC that a lot of people might want to do if you make it for the right price. And you know, that's would just be content that they could put out and that would be coins they could drain out of people's accounts because it's December. You know, team of the year is right after that maybe get some people to spend FIVA points. I mean, not getting into that whole side of things but I just think that icons, they can turn it up, right? They can do a lot more with icons time wise. I understand not wanting to release moments Pelé 99, moments R9 97 in December or January. That does not make sense. They're not even on the market at that point, right? Of course, you have to go with the power curve and releasing the higher rated cards throughout the game. I just felt like the icon content this year was so behind, right? SBC wise, even icon swaps, right? How many of you guys watching this video did an icon player from swaps because you actually wanted them? Probably not too many. I know a lot of people that did like mid dog leash during the first set of icon swaps but for most people this year, what they did from icon swaps was they got the packs whether it was an icon pack or any of these 81, 82, 84 times 20 or 25 packs because it was less tokens and it helped them do other SBCs that were more, I guess, with the times than the icons were, right? So I would just love to see icon swaps and icon SBCs everything earlier, right? Shift everything up and you can still wait until the end of the year to drop these insane moments player picks through swaps, right? But also drop them through SBCs as well. It seems like this end of the year in FIFA 21 we had the 92 plus icon moments pack player pick. We have all these other player picks that are available in swaps and this one has been out for like a month, right? They keep releasing it and it's like, okay, you've been increasingly giving us better icon player picks throughout the year. Why are we stopping here? I mean, it's like we're just almost to the top and it's like the end of August just give us that next level. So that's kind of my opinion on icons. I just want everything sped up a little bit. Everything needs to be a little bit earlier and I wish they would drop more icon SBCs for mid and prime versions earlier in the game. So those are three big points right there. Let's talk about the last one, the transfer market. I'm gonna talk about the transfer market a little bit because this is obviously where we spend a lot of time here on this channel because we like trade, we like to make coins and we like to get involved with the transfer market and this year was one of the most glitchy and inconsistent years with this transfer market which of course, if you put your tin foil hat on, shout out Foot Economist for that reference, it makes it seem like it was organized that way. It makes it seem like, hey, if EA said, hey, we can make the transfer market a little bit more glitchy, be inconsistent with the search results that you get every time you search a certain card, then we can maybe make some people overpay for cards and lose coins. Now that seems like a pretty mean way of thinking about it and it's very easy to think that way when you're not thinking very kindly at EA Sports and you're maybe losing some coins because of this, but just so many times this year on the market, you would search and then you would change your search, like literally, let's go Phil Foden, right? Like let's say he's 250,000 coins right now at the moment, you would search 270, right? Okay, and we have how many pages of Phil Foden at 270? Three full pages of Phil Foden's, right? And then let's say you would like just adjust it, right? Cause sometimes we do a max price all the way to the top and technically this should not change our search results at all. We just put a max price of 15 million which is way above Phil Foden's max price but why we do this is because it refreshes the market when a new card would get searched, right? And yeah, it looks like a couple cards were listed up so it looks like my search results were the same. We have three full pages with one card right here being listed up so now we have one on the fourth page but there were so many times this year when you would do that exact same thing and it would go from showing you three pages of cards to like one page or it would go from showing you one page of cards like, man, this guy's really rare. He's about to go up in price and then you would search again and it would show you like five pages of cards and then you're like, wow, I almost made an investment based off of how that card looked like it was gonna go but I wasn't actually shown the true number of the cards on this market. That was one of the most frustrating things for me this year in FIFA 21. So consistency is the biggest thing that I wanna see with the transfer market, right? The compare price as well. Compare price is something that has been glitchy the entire year as well and just like the updates on the market. I wish that every time you would compare price on a card like these cards that are ending right here, like would actually be the ones that are ending it but if you go and you search without any search like parameters like all the fill float and pat the glory cards, you might not see all the cards that you're seeing when you do a compare price search. So I think the compare price situation this year was a bit of a mess as well because it used to refresh the market. So like you would say, hey, I'm trying to snipe a fill-foten or I'm trying to get a good price, a slight undercut. Fill-foten right now is like 240,000 coins. So what you would do is you would sit here, you would compare price, you would back out and it would update the card for you. But now, since March maybe, I think it's been since March, the compare price has not been refreshing the market for whatever reason there's been search issues this year with club items and stadium items and stuff and that's really made this a little bit confusing. So I hope that gets cleared up next year and then just a quick word on bots, right? I mean, especially in the earlier parts of FIFA, especially this year in FIFA 22, there's gonna be so many issues with bots and with people that are using extensions on the web app, it's gonna be hard. It's gonna be very hard to snipe cards even slightly below their current buy-it-now price at the beginning of the year because there's gonna be so much competition as people with those technically illegal programs are going to be winning those cards unfairly in my opinion. So the reason what I'm kind of bargaining for and arguing for here is just a fair playground, right? Make it consistent, remove people using cheats and basically shortcuts to get cards faster and cheaper and be more consistent with price ranges, right? That was the most frustrating thing as well this year. I mean, I think the card that I remember the most is Bruno Fernandez's headliner, right? Bruno Fernandez's headliner card was extinct for like two weeks at three, it was like 1.5 or 2 million coins. His price finally gets updated. He goes way up to three mil. I just, I don't know why it took so long for them to update price ranges and then other times it takes them like an hour. I think I remember during Team of the Year, one card was extinct, boom, updated within like an hour to two hours but then other times it takes a week, five days. It just, it's very inconsistent and that is one of the things that I wanna see. I'm not saying that I think it's going to be updated inside of FIFA 22 because for whatever reason, I just think that's something that E8 is not prioritized that much but I would love to see that changed for this next year of FIFA. But those are some of the things menu and content-wise that I would love to see. I know I didn't talk a ton about SBCs except for icons. I just think that SBCs have been a big step up this year and of course our judgment's a little bit clouded right now because of all the great content that's been coming out at the end of the game with footies, with the summer stars and Path to Glory. There's a lot of really fun and exciting and just good content that was released during those times but there's always gonna be ups and downs with SBCs. There's gonna be prices that are a little bit too expensive, there's gonna be stuff that is really cheap, that's really good value. There's gonna be the kid SBCs that we don't always like so I mean we're not always gonna be happy with SBCs and I understand why E8 does that right because when they keep you on the swing of things if it's always go, go, go and it's always insane even that's gonna get boring so they kinda have to pull you in and then make you like kinda back away for a bit then pull you in, then make you back away because that's how they keep people in this game if I'm being completely honest. But I just wanted to talk through some of those things today in regards to FIFA 22 because those are some of my ideas of ways they can improve the game and I'm excited to see what they come out with, right? Of course I think it says in the, it's right here in the pitch notes actually, we'll have more news come in September with player ratings announcement, new icons and the foot web app and companion app launches. So more official news is coming soon, might already be out by the time this video drops but I really just wanted to give you guys some of my thoughts on how I think FIFA 22 could be better inside of the menus with content this year. If you did enjoy this video, leave a thumbs up on it, comment down below what you think. If you agree, disagree, some other ideas and thoughts that you have, of course drop those down in the comments and of course subscribe if you are new. It's been Nathan Foot account and I will catch you guys later. Peace out.