 Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Photo Count. Welcome back to the channel. Guys, this game is all over the place right now. I gotta be completely honest. On one hand, we have lovely content that EA released yesterday in SBCs that a lot of people, including myself, were very hyped to see. And I'm very glad that we have SBCs like this to be able to craft into all week long. Even through the weekend, it's great stuff. But on the other hand, EA just took a lot of that hype away because something they did with the store. Just a couple of hours ago. So we're going to talk about all of that today and talk about the market too because it is dropping with all this news. There is some panic and it's not good if you own some of these certain cards in the market. So we're going to talk about that in today's video. If you're excited for it, drop it thumbs up. Subscribe if you're new. Now, before we get into all the madness, let's talk about the good stuff first. Let's go to the evolutions yesterday. I mean, good stuff. This Evo is not bad. It's okay. But what's really good is the SBCs. We'll talk about the Evo first guys a free Evo future stars right back power up. And yes, Alex Scott is one of the most meta cards that you can put in this Evo. It is a bit of a higher rated one overall 85 maximum 87 pace 90 physical. It cannot be a center back. And you cannot have a play style plus because it gives a play style plus. And I'm getting kicked out of ultimate team. Okay, well, we're going to log back in and take a look at this evolution on footbin and great game. Future star right back power up. Yes, of course, it is free. It's actually only four games to do really, really easy to do and to get done. That is one thing that this evolution has going forward the upgrades plus three pace plus threes and fours and you do get plus six physical like basically across the board. It's not bad. I mean, it's actually very doable. I think it's just not like that insane. So right to us right now, it doesn't seem that crazy. You do get play style plus for slide tackle, which isn't the best, but it's okay. Alex Scott is extinct right now because she is one of the best cards that you can put in this. And I think people are looking at it compared to her champions league card and saying that it is better statistically with, I guess the physical boost other than that, it's almost the same card. So yeah, there's that but this card is extinct. D. Lorenzo is very popular in this one as well his first Evo card of the year. So if you're running a Napoli team need those links, you can get yourself an upgraded D Lorenzo. And I will tell you if any of you guys did triple threat wingback on some of those right backs earlier on this year, there are some pretty crazy combos that you can come up with this 89 rated 90 physical 90 pace caught of a hall. That is a pretty sick card. I think Pedro Poro has got a pretty sick card as well. If you take a look under the pop with their evolution players, you're seeing a lot of those in there, especially if you click on right back power up. Yes, Cliber is in here as well. Very interesting. Arsonist the center mid card who can also play right back. You can do into here as well. Like there's a couple of Evo combos that are pretty crazy with this. And it is free. So I'm not going to rate this Evo too poorly. I think it's decent. I just think that it's one for me that I don't have anybody right now in my club that I'm looking at and like, Oh my goodness. And also every time I click into here, it kicks me out. So I don't know what's going on with that. I guess I'm not doing the Evo right now. Anyways, but with that being said, we have a new Evo that is I guess leaked you could say moving into another hype Evo right another Future Stars Academy midfielder containing 10 midfield options for the Future Stars Academy midfield Evo, which of course we had the attackers we had the defenders. And now the midfielder Evo is leaked according to the pack code. So the question is when is this going to come out? Who knows, right? I mean, I thought the defenders one might come out this Friday. But maybe this one is going to come out this Friday. I feel like they just have to have another big Evo like that on a content Friday, because everybody expects big things on Friday. So that would be my guess. But honestly, guys, who knows? Now that's enough Evo talk. But really quickly, I'll preface this. I think some midfielders are dropping on the market because of this right here. But I mean, this Evo I genuinely don't think it's going to be till Friday. But I think some people are starting to prepare early to prepare early, because you started to see some prices move on the market. But let's talk about SBCs because this is actually a big W. This was the biggest W of content yesterday, guys, the SBC that we asked for, we actually got. How often does that happen, right? And the requirements are actually pretty good. Only six players that you need to turn into the 80 plus player pick. And guys, as always, 80 plus player picks, they usually hit and these hit. Now I'm going to open one right now. It's probably going to be bad. Oh my gosh, I only have 82s in my club. I bet a lot of you guys have mudded clubs like I do right now. I really don't want to spend or put an 82 rated card into this because 82s are very important for SBCs. So I will go spend 700 on a gold rare because yeah, I'm going to have to do that to get more of these player picks done. But this player pick is incredible. It is insane. And it's consistently giving out 82s, threes, fours, fives. I mean, the walkouts are not too cr- like, look at that. That's a normal one. That is genuinely normal, right? I'm going to take my 84s, send that to the club. And then from there, I can go craft into the 84 times five that was dropped yesterday or the 85 plus double upgrade. Incredible SBC. Now, if you're like, Nate, I'm running out of gold. It's just like you were right there. Here's where you can get gold commons. Make sure you do the daily bronze and silvers to get silver and bronze players and then do the daily gold upgrade four times a day, which will give you a rare and then 10 commons. So you get 40 golds out of that, which I mean, do the math that gets you eight player picks because it's five non-rares per player pick, one rare. And then you get four rares from that. And you, of course, have to go buy in two more or just get two more from somewhere else from other packs like objective. So really grindable, really easy to get the commons and the rares to get that done, at least open a few of them. And then of course, you can go ahead and do one of the new SBCs that dropped yesterday, which was the 84 times five upgrade. So instead of the 83 times 10 EA said, hey, have another upgrade pack, which again, guys, this is, these are the two most upvoted SBCs from yesterday. Phenomenal, phenomenal content, right? No questions asked. It is very grindable, very craftable. You do need a team of the week for the 84 times five and as you would expect. And as we said in yesterday's video, it was going to take an SBC that had a repeatable multiple times per day aspect to it. And that required an inform to make team of the weeks go up and team of the weeks, I'm pretty sure we're selling at 21 or 22 K earlier. Looks like they're down a little bit right now. But if I had team of the weeks, I would not be selling them right now. Yeah, the 20,000 coins, they were 17 18 K, I'll be holding on to those because every single day, the 84, five is going to refresh lazy list those for like 25 to 27 K. And I think you'll be able to sell most of them throughout the week this week. I don't know how high they're going to go, maybe like 22 to 23 K would be their max price per se. But I think that if you're lazy listening at 25, you'll start to get some sales if you invested in those. That is a big GG because those are going up a lot. Now one of the reasons that those might be down a little bit and some of the reasons that the market's getting supplied for stuff that is in packs. And some of those prices are down right now is because of this you waifu marquee matchups dropped yesterday because we have Champions League today. Get ready for that Champions League anthem. I'm ready for it. RB Leipzig and Coben Heaven City are playing this next couple of days and they are featured in the marquee matchups. You get some okay packs back and yeah, it's just tradable pack supply. We'll talk about how that's impacting the market a little bit later on. And then we had a player SBC yesterday as well, which was actually a mistake that EA made. Amir Richardson, six foot five. The man is tall, medium high work rates. He only has one play style plus. It is over the top pass, whatever's called long ball pass plus lob and lofted through passes or even more accurate. This is the same play style plus that Bruno has and it's pretty meta. He's also got jockey, press proven first touch and relentless good play styles for a midfielder for sure. And they actually gave him a massive acceleration boost. We were looking at him before the stream yet like 56 acceleration or something and got boosted to 81 guys. This card honestly is not bad and it's not that expensive either. It's only 20 38,000 coins to do because you have the inform requirement in there is an 84 squad with an inform. This is one. I mean, I normally don't recommend doing SBCs. They're this kind of like lower echelon like cheap unless it's sentimental to you just because it seems like a waste of an 84 squad. But this is so cheap. I would stock this. It's also low rated 87 is pretty low for where we're at in the current power curve. And then also the stats in the car are pretty evenly pushed across. I mean, hey guys, we might we might be getting evos in the next like month that require a play style plus. And if you get a center mid a center defensive mid evo, even if it's in two months, this guy's six foot five with medium high work rates with really good passing solid dribbling and six foot five is just massive. So this could be a really good player down the line for an evo. So I would recommend to get that done stick it in the club. If you have a decent amount of fodder or coins or if you're crafting this week, that's one that I would not forget about because it's there and I mean, he could be a beast in the future, but for right now, not that insane. So that's all the good stuff, right? The evo find the SBCs fantastic, right? I've been crafting 85 doubles 84 times fives packed a couple more feature stars yesterday, albeit some of them doops. But it's good to grind in the menus, the menus feel like they are back with all that content that we got yesterday. And that is great. And we like that. And that's all good things. And then yesterday EA did this. Alright, guys, you remember the four you packs, right? These packs that we saw updated in the code multiple times, they have now been dropped in the game in the store. And here's the problem with these because we thought that those remember when we looked at that pack code, it was like, Oh, this pack for you. And then we'd like all these promo cards, 85 rated or higher also contains 85 rare gold player items. How many? I don't even it doesn't even say it doesn't even say how many 85 pluses are in this. Also 85 rare gold player. Oh, that's just 85 rare golds. Okay, so there's 85 rare gold players with 187 or higher. I thought that 85 was a guarantee. Just kidding. So they dropped all these packs in the store for basically their engagement rewards guys. Remember what used to happen for engagement rewards was you would get a pack for how many days you logged in. This is foot birthday FIFA 21 promo that I could think of that had engagement rewards. However many days you played, you would get a certain pack for logging in. That's kind of what this is supposed to be. And when we saw all those packs in the code, we thought we were getting engagement rewards like, Oh my gosh, they're going to give us this pack. That is freaking sick. Nope, wrong. EA took something that was supposed to be free rewards or what we used to know is free rewards and engagement rewards, a special pack for you, right? You've entered ultimate team X number of days, or in this case, at least three days, right? That just seems like a pack that they would give out for free as an engagement reward because that's what they've done in the past. But this time what they have gone and done is putting them in the store. Now 10 and 30 coin pack, I ain't complaining about those. Fantastic. Absolutely love it. But the 250k pack and the 50,000 coin pack, like, man, just putting those behind a paywall is like, it just seems like, it seems like the EA thing to do, man. It's another way to EA taking something nice and finding a way to make some money out of it, right? They're just trying to make more dough, sell more FC points with this. And guys, I'll tell you what right now, people are opening these packs with coins as well. It's impacting the market. I'm seeing prices on the market right now. Since these have been put out, prices on the market have dropped because people are opening this with coins and it's a coin drain pack. I would not open this guys. I mean, yeah, you get 85 rare gold player items. But the promo cards trailblazers, centurions, triple threat, FC pro library, Thunderstruck, 85 plus, you're probably not going to get a very good player from that. Even though you get two of those that are 85 or higher, like it's not going to be good, man. I would not open these with coins. I would not open them with FC points. I think there's better things to spend both of those in this game. But I think the real frustration here is that besides the 10 and 30 coin packs, it's just very frustrating that EA has taken something, like I said, that was good, that was free engagement awards that we looked forward to at certain points during the year. And they've now put these packs in the store. And EA tweeted, no way, they got community noted. Oh my gosh, starting today, you may notice a new packs for you section in the FC 24 ultimate team store. This is a new section which will include packs that are specific to your ultimate team journey based on common factors, like playing ultimate team for a certain number of days. Each four you pack description will include information to explain why that pack is appearing a pack for you being made available to all players when they reach the same milestone. And then this is the context. I'm just seeing this, this is good. What do they say contrary to what was stated in this post, these are not specific to the players progress in the game, as they are the same rewards for everyone who reaches the milestones. Okay, all right. And then furthermore, they aren't rewards as you have to pay full price to open these packs. This system used to be free, get them get them. Oh, man, that's too good. All right. Yo, I just saw that that is actually so funny. Community noted how many times is that? That's like three times in the past two weeks that they've been community noted on Twitter for these tweets. That is too good, man. Yeah, so exactly how that read. I think that community note is pretty much spot on. These are packs that we used to get for free. And it just again, yeah, I'll take the 30 coin pack and I'll take the 10 coin pack, but people will be even more disappointed if those weren't there. And even with those there, it's not about those being there. And that's cool, right? It's about the other packs being there and being behind a paywall, right? Guys don't open those. I don't think they're worth it. If you're going to spend FC points, I think you're better off opening other packs in the store. Be completely honest with you 2000 FC points, save those, double it and then get a open at 600 K pack and you're getting guaranteed future stars players and like a way high radius for all that other stuff. So yeah, that's very disappointing. And again, it just it kills the mood. It kills the hype on this game at the moment because yes, yesterday EA did do something nice. But it just like, man, I think so many people are getting more and more frustrated. We have a promo card from an 85 double. This is, of course, yeah, the same promo card that we've packed a couple of times now. Double me up. No shot. Okay, EA heard me talking some crap, man. EA heard me giving some constructive feedback. Who's behind this? Endo. Okay. All right. Cool. All right. Endo and Germa. There we go, man. So double future stars in a pack. That was kind of legit. But they're the fodder ones, then we've already packed Germa. So yeah, guys, it just feels like right now on this game, people are very frustrated, very frustrated. And it feels like people want to just stop playing like, I mean, with the frustration comes people that want to leave the game. And I guess EA at this stage cares more for the casual player that will see that and thinks, Oh, FC points, that's not something I'm afraid of. Let me go and do that. Let me go try that out. Right. And I guess that they're doing that player as more important and maybe getting more revenue from that because that store change seems so catered toward the casual, if you will. And it's just, especially for us that grind this game day in and day out, I mean, yes, we've had good grindable content. That's why we were starting to be happy yesterday. But then something like that happens and just feels like, ah, man, why sometimes doesn't even feel like it's worth it, you know? And so that's the frustration with the game right now. I know a lot of you guys are there kind of talking about all the other problems in the game as well. People are frustrated with gameplay and all this other stuff that EA has been doing wrong recently. It's just got so many people frustrated. And I feel you, I feel that frustration as well. The hype for this game has definitely come down a ton since team of the year, even with these cards being very boosted and cracked and very packable. So that's kind of the whole situation with that. But as I mentioned, people are opening those packs with coins. And if you've checked the market at all, if you've checked the market, prices have tanked since those packs came out. Now they were already dropping yesterday, but look at Bonaface. You saw the one on my transfer list as I left the stream yesterday, three, four hours after content. Bonaface was 340,000 coins, 350, and I sold them, right? I bought Bonaface to play champs. I bought them right here. And I sold them right here, like literally, like right here, like a couple of hours, I hadn't boom. And then this pack came out about right here. So we were down to 10K, whatever we had tradable supply, that's expected. But he went from 330 all the way to 270. And I actually just picked up a couple of him because I was like, you know what? This almost feels like it did on the weekend with all this panic and this frustration with the game. I was like, you know what? Let's YOLO it with the Bonaface. Either he's going to be 300K tomorrow and I'm balling and I'm loving it, or he's going to be 250 and I'm sad. But I also just kind of sent it on a Rooney as well as checking his price, hoping to flip him because he's really rare. So like the market's kind of muddied at the moment. But I'm also being pretty risky with it. So I don't know, we're just trying some things out. But look at a lot of these cards. They are down bad. Alex Baldey, 547K, Lukibus, 133,000 coins, Rodman's back down, Doku's the lowest that he has been, Harvey Elliott's 40,000 coins, man. Like that card for that price is nuts. I don't know if you guys saw this. Artigou Lair is minimum price. I had four Artigou Lairs, also on my transfer list, that I bought yesterday. And I had to take the L because I was like, this guy is going to minimum price for his price right now. So I started to take the L on those. Yes, I lost like 15K on a couple of these and I lost like 5K on a couple of others. So all in all on this transfer list, besides this Javi Simons, which I made like 20, more than 20K on actually like 30,000 coins, W, got a lazy sale there. I even started to sell something like Genthusi's and Leon Bailey, just because guys, the rest of the market is starting to get panic sold because of the stuff that is happening in the store. There's a direct correlation to it because the prices started going down with that. And I've even had people in my Twitter X mention saying I opened the store packs with coins. Guys, again, that sort of thing when EA put out store like coins, packs like that in the store, people see it and they're like, oh my goodness, that pack's got 85 players in it. Like, yo, and it's got all these promo cards. Yo, let me go open that with coins. And that's the frustrating part for us that play this game that know that packs really not worth it with the coins. Is that a lot of people see that and they open it. And yeah, it's now impacting the market as well. Look at these guys, man. Bailey's 198, he's 200,000 coins. There is some panic. Wow. Marino is 70K. There is some panic on the market right now, guys. And you know what? I worry that it's going to continue into today. I really do worry that it's going to continue today because even yesterday after content, it's not like prices really went back up. And I know that I'm saying this and I have cards on my transfer list that I'm hoping to trade and I'm hoping to flip fingers crossed that I'll be able to get a couple of flips in just because again, these cards are very rare and we love that. But I mean, like, I don't I don't love especially some of the cards that are very invested in at the moment the road to the finals. I know they're live and there's games today, man, which is hype. And some of these cards actually have an opportunity like Johnny Simons to get upgraded because he's got a game like he's playing. And if they draw or win, it's an upgrade. But I just think that that's going to create some more selling people selling the hype anyway and these cards have not done that well since there were impacts. So I'm just worried about some of them today, even though the upgrades are like on the line in the next couple of days. So that's kind of my, I guess, warning to you guys for some of these cards. But also, as we say a lot of times too, with panic selling comes opportunity, like you're going to see some of these cards are going to drop, drop, drop, like I don't know how low Javi Simon is going to go today just to kind of keep going with this example. But he's a rare card. And you have to remember guys that all of these road to the finals are rare cards. And at some point they're going to get too low and they're going to bounce back up. So if there's panic today, watch out for that. Even if they, I mean, if they lose that first round game, like then, you know, there's going to be some drops after that. But there's technically still live after that, if they would to come through in the second leg, it's just like a week or two or three before some of those guys play. So I think I'm just going to be careful on the market guys, because with the menu content being as good as it is, it just feels like there are some price drops that are going to be happening. But man, for Bonaface, when I saw this price, I was like, dude, I don't know if he's going to go any lower than this, because literally the guy on Sunday was still 400,000 coins. And now he's 270, like for this card, that's crazy. And these are the hype cards, right? And Kosonu, the defenders, evo links to him. So that's why I wanted to risk it on him. I said, again, I'll either be super happy today or I won't be. We have foot champs rewards are getting paid out today. So that could bring some more coins to the market. People may want to go out and buy cards. Usually you see a little bit of uptick after champs rewards, but who knows, man. So that's why it felt like we were a little closer to a low point than anything else on his card and maybe a couple of the other ones that are in the team. But just be careful, man, because the the market is muddied. Now let's talk about fodder. Let's kind of cruise through that part of the market and talk about this part of the market. Fodders down to 85s or 4.7k marquee matchups. And I mean, even the store pack too, bro, I think the store pack, look, 85 Chalana glue, the store pack dropped around right here. And look, he was 5.4k. And now he's gone from that to 4.7. Like that is mad fodder in the low tier is down bad. Those packs in the store aren't even tradable. But I think it's the fact that people are opening them, getting that fodder. And then like, I think a lot of people aren't even wanting to do SBCs at the moment, whatever it may be. And people have the 85s that they're getting from the 80 plus player picks, 85 plus double upgrade. So like, look at 86s, they're 8k, they're getting destroyed, 87s or 12, 88s or 19. I mean, I know that 89s and 90 look crazy low guys, but like with the way the market is heading, we need to see more SBCs either leaked or actually dropped in the game to see some of these cards go up. Like I know we talked about 90s yesterday at 45k being a goodbye, they genuinely could be a goodbye. But right now, I almost would think I would be waiting to see what's going to come out to make those cards go up. That would be a long-term play if you want a club stock, like an 88 at 18k, like that is, that is ridiculous. Let's be honest. They were like 16k at one point at the beginning of January, and then they went all the way to 33, right? You know, I mean, obviously, Bernardo was helped here by being out of packs, for sure. But like you guys know 88s went bananas. So yeah, that's kind of the fodder situation. If you want to club stock a little bit for a longer term play, you can, but I'm being very careful with the market. Now, what's going to happen with upcoming content? Let's talk about today on Tuesday. What could we see today? EA tweeted yesterday, their content tweets, right? Of course. And there's a Future Stars icon that is on this tweet. We had the Future Stars player SBC yesterday with Richardson. We have the pundit picks coming out tomorrow. Remember, we talked about that in yesterday's video as well, that DePaul SBC, and then two player at a once, upgrade SBCs, EVOs, theme team. And yeah, I think this icon SBC would be maybe something that could make some high rated fodder go back up if it's a big icon. Like the only icon that we have still leaked right now for Future Stars, at least we think is going to be potentially a part of team one via an SBC would be Rykard. I think he's the only icon right now that is leaked. So if Rykard is our SBC player, I don't think that's a big enough SBC that I would go and buy fodder for unless he's going to be super cracked. Like if they were to leave somebody like, I don't know, even if it was like an older icon, like a Thunderstruck Cruyff, like that'd be insane. That'd probably be too good of a card. But Thunderstruck Pushkas, like if they were going to drop an SBC for that card, then I'd be like, okay, Thunderstruck Pushkas, he's going to be a bit more expensive, million coin plus SBC, I might go buy some fodder. I feel like a lot of people in the menus right now have already finished the SBCs that they wanted to get done, you know, Ziko, Anri, Kaffu, I'm about to start Kaffu, but you know, Hulet, Sawa, a lot of people have already gotten those done. So I think that's why some of your fodder too is dropping down because there's just not as much people are working on. But with the craft ability of the menus right now, I think some people are going back in and just doing SBCs they maybe didn't think they really wanted to do, but they have the fodder now to do just because fodder is very easily accessible right now. So that we do love for sure. And especially since fodder has dropped, buying in the occasional 88 or above rated player for a high rated squad does make the SBCs way, way cheaper. Now, we do have the 86 plus player pick that is expiring today. I did yesterday and got absolutely shafted from after watching somebody on stream pack VVD from like this 86 plus pick he packed winter wildcards VVD. It was insane. Wasn't meant to be for me though this is going away. I could see it coming back. I could also see with so many upgrades out right now refreshing every day that it might not come back. So that's that. Yeah, guys, I maybe Bundesliga play the month. I don't think that's even been leaked yet. Prem play the months probably on Friday. So I don't know if Bundesliga would be this early in the week that might be on Thursday. There's no other EVO leaks besides the midfielder one, which I think EA would want to save until team two. If I was EA, I would save it for team two because of how hyped those were. So we'll expect that on Friday, but maybe it be coming today. Today might be a bit of a slower day. We'll just have to see. Last thing I want to point out, if you stuck around the end of video, maybe you notice already, but maybe you don't. EA dropped a random, very random bonus objective just a couple of hours ago as well. Like literally I'm recording this and then it was an hour ago. I think EA realized that they didn't give out enough XP during the whole season since it was a very shortened season. And they just dropped a random, random, very random objective for 4,000 XP. And it's a group reward, guys. So there's a couple interesting things about this. First of all, I'm level 14, almost level 15 with my footchamps rewards, the XP I get from that, plus this, I'm golden. I'm hitting level 20. This is very much needed. I know a lot of you guys were talking about in the stream yesterday. A lot of you guys are like level 13, 14, 15. This is going to help massively to help you get towards the end for level 20. But if you're already at level 20, or if you're going to get there before Thursday when the season ends, do this, don't claim it. Because since it's a group reward, same thing kind of happens with the weekly objectives where you used to be able to claim those and then save them for the next season, you might be able to save this and get 4,000 XP to jumpstart the next season. Now EA might have something in here where it's an auto claim or something. But since it's a group reward, you don't get the XP until you click X or click A on Xbox and claim it. So that might be worth thinking about. You might be able to save it. So that's just something I want to put out there. And I guess say because it's possible that that could happen. So yeah, guys, a lot going on this game right now, man, I mean, yesterday I was I was prepared to be like in a video today, I was like, oh yeah, guys, like, hey, we got good menu content right now. The grind is better. The grind is back. And instead, we have a these store packs that have been added and EA getting, you know, tweeted that by community notes on Twitter. Another mistake yesterday with a Richardson SBC. It's like, man, wow. And I do have some more thoughts on why I feel like the game right now is kind of in the mud, but we'll save those for a little bit later. But this does not help the just the aura of this game right now at all. But if you guys are enjoying the content on the YouTube and if you're still tuning in the videos, I appreciate you for tuning in. And yeah, we'll be live streaming today. I got more 80 plus player picks to do, man, I got champs rewards to open up on the stream. And as you can tell, the future stars are impacts, man. So we're gonna try to pack some more of those. See what else we can get into and upgrade a couple more cards in our squad with the crafting that you can do right now, which is fun at the very least. If you enjoyed today, drop a thumbs up on a comment below if you have any questions and subscribe if you do. See you guys in a stream today. The link is down below in the description. Peace out.