 Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Foot Accountant, and welcome back to the channel. Right now on FIFA 23, there's a lot of criticism that has been pointed at EA Sports for their recent levels and quality of content in FIFA 23. While I do want to talk about that in today's video, I want to bring something else to your attention that I think is even a bigger issue. And it has to do with consistency, not with the content, but with some upgrades. Right? We had Path of Glory upgrades a few hours ago, and they upgraded some cards, but they forgot. About some cards as well. I want to talk about the consistency with that, and with price range updates. In my opinion, those are big, big issues that EA have been overlooking in the past couple of weeks, and it's creating issues on the market, and in this game, and it's making the game less fun for people because of those inconsistencies. So I want to talk about that. The World Cup stories, cards that were released yesterday. I mean, guys, I know people are complaining about these cards, but let's just take it at a face value. There are some nice cards that EA put out, some cool cards, decent week foot upgrades, decent skill move upgrades. So I want to take a look at those. The World Cup icons are a bit underwhelming, and I also want to take a look at the market because with the content yesterday being received, this is a bit underwhelming. Some prices went back up a little bit, and the World Cup stories cards right now do seem to be pretty expensive. And I think that's because there's a lack of supply, because there's not that much height for people to open packs or these cards that are in packs for now. So we're going to talk about that in more headed into a Saturday. The first day of knockout games in the World Cup should be a good one, but if you're excited for today's video, hit the thumbs up, subscribe if you're new. Let's kind of talk about this. What's going on right now with the upgrades and everything that EA have kind of been messing up in the past few weeks. Now, we did have Path to Glory updates a few hours ago, right? We have seen some upgrades to these cards. It wasn't all nice and put together in one big drop that was timely from EA though because these cards are just kind of randomly upgraded. Last time they upgraded cards, which was earlier in this week. I think it was like Monday night or Tuesday night. They upgraded these cards. They tweeted out about it. They said, hey, all Path to Glory and wants to watch upgrades are now live in game. It was spot on at midnight. And last night when EA did this, or a few hours ago, whenever they watched this video, it wasn't really that timely. They kind of got it all done, but it didn't seem like it dropped all right away at midnight. It seemed like it was a little bit delayed and they forgot to upgrade the wants to watch cards. So for you guys that were looking for a wants to watch Rudeger upgrade, wants to watch Sergio Des was one of the most hyped up cards to get an upgrade because he's getting a plus three for the Milan links for the USA links. This is a card that a lot of people were very excited to see upgraded. He is still sitting here as an 81 rated card. And that's where I want to bring up the question. And just the fact that EA have been very inconsistent recently with these upgrades and upgrades in general all year long. You think about the road to the knockout card upgrades, wants to watch upgrades that happens usually on Wednesdays after a card gets in team of the week. At the beginning of the year, it would happen like boom, 15 minutes after the card got a team of the week, it was upgraded, right? But now it's like hours afterwards. And the sometimes days now with these wins to watch upgrades that we had a couple weeks ago, maybe a month ago now. It was just very inconsistent with these and we have it here once again with these ones to watch is not getting upgraded when they should have been, right? I don't think it's a time issue either because Germany played two days ago. They were not upgraded. This Ruger card is still an 88. Schlatterbeck is still an 88. You know, I can understand that like literally Uruguay played yesterday, but EA have not loaded an upgrade for the Darwin Nunez card either even though he technically deserves one because Uruguay won the game. So he does get an upgrade. That's the issue that I have with these cards right now with EA right now is the upgrades being inconsistent. Now EA have even told us on their website they have listed and this is nice. EA has like never done this before, but they listed out an upgrade kind of like calendar. They said, hey, we're going to get upgrades out starting December 3rd, actually November 28th, right? And then December 3rd, 7th, 12th, 15th and the 19th. But this is for the path to glory cards. And we assumed that they were going to upgrade the ones to watch it at the same time, but they ended up not doing that. So that's the biggest issue that I have with them right now. The other issue I have are on cards like this Mateus Nunez who is probably one of the most hyped lower level new cards in the Premier League is a midfielder. 45,000 coins. We have to pay for this guy right now because his minimum price range is keeping him there. There are so many examples. I don't think I've seen this like ever as much as I have in the past month on this game. So many cards are literally at their minimum price and they can't be listed any lower because EA has these price ranges set up too high. They've made the market so cheap this year with so much supply and just keeping prices down so much that these cards have too high of price ranges even for this market they were in this year, which is actually kind of nuts. And like I said, I've never seen so many cards that haven't been able to sell on the market. I mean, we're looking through so many of these PTG cards here that still have crazy high price ranges too. It's like Lukaku 750,000 coins. Like EA, you're literally shooting yourselves in the foot here because people are going to start transferring coins with these cards because their price ranges are so broad. So price range issue has been a problem for a long time in the past couple of weeks. Early on in the year, price ranges got updated pretty fast, right? Maybe a couple of days would go by and sometimes with new promo cards it was only a couple of hours before they would upgrade price ranges. Now it seems to be something is lagging behind with their system, right? We do actually know that computers like system at EA upgrades price ranges it's not a manual thing as far as we know. So the fact that this has been lagging behind is very, very annoying. And that's a big problem, right? I mean, I know some of you guys still have Lukaku's and still have Serge Nabri's and Carrasco's that maybe you had in your team whether it's for your team or for an investment the fact that you can't even like sell these guys on the market because they're at their minimum price. Suarez for example, 80,000 coins. Let's say you pack this guy. You can't sell him. You can't get your 80K or maybe you can't even get your 40K this card maybe be worth, you know, because he doesn't even sell on the market. So that's the biggest issue that I have right now with this game. I'll be honest, the content in this game, it hasn't been insane, right? And that's been the biggest kind of complaint from people right now. The content has not been insane, but I think the content still been good and we have to keep it in a perspective. We as a community keep asking for better and better content all of the time and EA keeps raising the bar and raising the standard every single year. I mean, if you take a look at this content that we had right now and you go back to like three years ago in FIFA we would be like, oh my gosh, this content is unbelievable, right? Kind of puts that in perspective a little bit. You just have to remember that content in FIFA all the time cannot be like absolutely insane. Knock your socks off like change your team every single day on this game because that's not what EA want to do, right? EA want to make the content go up and down because they literally just can't keep the content going 100% full bore super duper insane all the time because even that would get boring and then they can't really go too much higher from there if you know what I'm saying, right? It's all about kind of just making the high play in their favor, right? They know how to run this game. It's their company. They make a lot of money off of it. So that's why I think the content has been decent lately. It's been good, but it hasn't been insane, right? We just kind of have to know and look at it through that lens and realize that, hey, EA are still dropping some pretty good cards even if the cards that drop every week are not live cards or the cards that insert into your team automatically. Maybe one card every week is something that's interesting for your team or that you want to try out. That's sweet, right? So I think that these World Cup stories cards are actually pretty nice cards, right? I really do believe that EA did some really nice upgrades here. I like the skill move, the week foot upgrades that we have on these. I mean, shoot, we have a Danny Alves, right? We have a Kiara with 80 pace. Yeah, we have an extinct Van Dyke. Yes, we have a Retralos and it's like a small upgrade over his ones to watch that was a free card and this one's 570K. A Senjil got a nice boost. This is the best Bruno Fernandes card I've seen in FIFA since the team of the year in FIFA 21 or FIFA 20, whatever it was. This is a really nice card. So I think that EA is dropping some decent content right now. It's just not meeting everybody's expectations. So you have a lot of people that are not super happy with it. But I understand there's so many different viewpoints you can look at FIFA on. We say this all the time, you know, whether you like grinding objectives or SBCs or whatever it is, everybody plays FIFA at a different level. So we got to respect that, right? And take that into account, but also realize how EA won her in this game. So looking at this content from yesterday, again, I do feel like the team that is in packs is solid, right? There's some cool cards in here, right? Cool cards. That's the way I'll phrase it is just cool content. You know, a week foot upgrade on the Rashford. Are these cards very expensive? Yes, the fact that Rashford is 1.2 million coins, but Hyunmin Son, who is either as good or arguably even a little bit better, just doesn't have five-star skills, has a five-star week foot instead, which is maybe even more valuable in this game, is only 700K. And that's actually up for him compared to this Rashford being 1.2 million. That's the biggest example that I look at right now. And I say, okay, some of these cards are a bit overpriced. I think Sane is a bit too expensive. I think Danny Alves with the links that he has being the World Cup links. I think that makes him less linkable. You know, if you think about it, it kind of makes him like an icon with even worse links than an icon almost, right? Because he just gets the Brazil links unless you're running any World Cup players in your team, which of course those expire in January. Anyways, this card doesn't get that amazing of links, but it still gets Brazil links. So it's got some hype and he looks like a pretty nice card. So there's just hype there with some of the new cards that we got. I do expect to see these dropping off in price a little bit throughout the weekend. Because like I said, yes, EA is running lightning rounds in the store and yes, people are opening packs. But I think there's less demand for opening packs, which means less supply if that kind of makes sense. I know they're running lightning rounds like every hour. These are untradable running rounds right now. There's a lot of packs that are in here. The pack weight itself is actually not too bad, right? 8.4% from a 125K pack. That's actually really good. I believe last week for the Road to the World Cup cards out of a 125K pack, it was like 3% or 4% on Black Friday. Now, I think there's better odds because EA know there's less packs being opened since there's not a huge Black Friday pack spam, all the crazy stuff that was going on in the store last week. So that might be factored into it as well. But if you look at these cards in the market, they are pretty rare. I mean, I was trading with some Bruno Fernandez earlier in the day yesterday and he had literally like less than five to 10 cards on the market at all times. Right now, there's some overnight listings here, but he's a really rare card, only three pages there. This Rashford's a pretty rare card as well. Getting pretty cheap right now actually in a low 1.2 million coin range for where he has been. Cheap is a relative term. But again, I think that the cards in packs that were dropped yesterday was decent. The objective for Mr. Weya was nice. It's very easy. If you're American, you're going to like this. Of course, big game today. Very linkable card. Pacey, decent super sub for a lead gun side at the very least. And then we did have the showdown SBC. We said it in yesterday's video. The SBC section would be where the most hype would be. If E, we're trying to create some hype content yesterday. They dropped Bergwine and Ericsson. Honestly, I think this Bergwine card could be really, really good if the Dutch end up winning this game. Of course, I did Ericsson hoping for the U.S. to pull out at the upset today. But imagine this card on a plus one or a plus. I mean, it would either be a plus two or nothing basically because there's no draw in this scenario because they upgrade these cards based off of who goes on, I believe. Who gets the win? No matter if it's through 90 minutes or after 90 minutes. But this card, if a plus two were to happen, a Bergwine, that'd be a really, really good looking Ericsson Stryker card or a winger, minus the weak foot, of course. And then if Ericsson, of course, if USA were to win, that card would be looking very, very nice as well. But that's not insane content for like everybody, right? I completely get that. Now, what is for everybody though is some of these Path of Glory upgrades. And I do want to talk about this because EA did some decent upgrades in here. A lot of the plus ones got released and they gave some decent, you know, plus ones on all of these cards. What it really looks like is plus one on every base stat and then they give two stats a plus two. So Cooldubally got plus two passing and plus two dribbling. Not terrible for that one. De Jong got plus two shooting and plus two defense, making him go to 80 defense, which is nice. Decent looking card there. Papu Gomez got plus two shooting and plus two physical, which is solid for this card. Now, one more upgrade for that Papu Gomez and he's going to look really, really good. They maybe could give him 90 passing with the next upgrade. That could be a really nice looking card. Brozovic got plus two physical and plus two pace, which was needed on his card for sure. Burgais looks decent. Carvalhal with the plus two shooting and passing on his upgrade. Grealish with plus two shooting and plus two physical. Millic got a nice upgrade. Paulinia, that was already upgraded. Pulisic got plus one pace, plus two shooting and plus two passing. This was arguably the best upgrade of all the PTGs that was just dropped, right? For a card that is a left wing, right wing player, you know, getting two shooting and two passing is very, very nice. And then ones all the way around is nice for him. Kyle Walker with plus two passing, plus two dribbling, which is nice. Zakaria looks good as well. Plus two passing, plus two in the shooting department for him. So Ito out there with a nice upgrade as well. Plus two shooting for him. Kutira Merrill, plus two pace, but still not quite 80 pace. Need one more win to get that 80 pace threshold. So a lot of these cards that did get upgraded, I think you've seen them rise slightly in price. Pulisic is up above 100,000 coins or right near at the moment. Kim and Jay getting upgraded is 104K. De Jong is 600. Zakaria is 280. Grealish is up at 177. Kyle Walker's up a little bit too. Of course, Kutira Merrill is at 226 and up big. So with these cards that got upgraded, like we saw earlier in the week, you might see a couple fluctuations. There might be a couple people that look to sell off these cards into today, just because they got to upgrade and people will say, all right, now is my time to sell. So just watch out for that. Those ones that have a tough matchup as we get into the round of 16 would be the ones that I would expect to see maybe dropping off a bit as people sell the card. But you know, your Bruno Gamerresh, your Kutira Merrill, those cards would probably not drop that much because they have really good matchups heading into this round of 16 for those respective nations. So just kind of watch out for those, but it is nice that we had those upgrades. We just wish we'd had the ones to watch upgrades as well. A little bit more about the content yesterday. I mean, you guys can see the loading screen, right? We barely have any icons out right now. If you compare it, I mean, it's even really easy to see this on foot bin. I'll show you the squads here in a second. But these icons that we have out in packs right now, compared to the icons that were in team number one, like look how many icons we had last week. I know that they include the mini release cards in here too, the couple that were released in there. But I mean, we had a full squad plus one. And then right now for the icons that have been released yesterday, we literally only have six of the seven of them that are in packs right now. So that's a bit of a bummer in my opinion from EA. I do believe there will be more of these icons released in the mini release, which EA did tell us we are gonna get a mini release on Sunday. I don't know if we're gonna get the double mini release like we had last week. We had a Saturday and a Sunday. I would assume it would only be Sunday this week because it says here on the website, it'll be Sunday, December 4th, which is also probably the time where we will see the La Porte card, right? La Porte was not dropped in packs today. Neither was Yaka. Those were two cards that we were expecting to see. So I would assume those would be a part of the mini release on Sunday. But I think we're a little underwhelmed by the World Cup icons that we had. I mean, the upgrades to the weak foot and the skill moves on some of these cards like Chefchenko's 4-4, 100,000 coins for the Chefchenko. Like the icons are kind of the opposite of the promo cards, right? The foot stories, the World Cup stories cards would look a little expensive. These cards look kind of cheap. I mean, at least some of them do. Chefchenko had 100,000 coins like for a four-star, four-star, high-high, six-foot. I mean, yeah, center-forward and right-wing position changes. He's just like a cheap icon. You'd want to go out and try. So that one to me is a bit cheap. Luis Hernandez now being 4-4. I actually flipped one of these just like an hour ago. I bought it at 2.79 and I sold it for 3.10 just because these cards are still decently rare. I thought that price was decent on his card. So it's very interesting. He's back to 2.80 again. It's crazy how these guys' prices fluctuate. You find a moment of rarity and you can make some coins. But I just, I think we're a little underwhelmed by this side of the content as well just because of the lack of number, right? Eto is one that if you're trying to trade on a really high budget and you want some risky flips, this Eto card is very rare. I saw one at 2 million coins a little bit ago. One went on bid I think for 2 million coins. He's right now at 2.2. He was selling at like 2.7, 2.8. So watch these World Cup stories cards. That's what I'm looking to trade with tonight for a couple of the rare overnight flips. I think there will be opportunities to trade with these, but it's all about the timing. Like I said, because as these cards seem to be a little bit overpriced, you don't want to get stuck with any of them and then potentially be losing on them. And you're probably going to see some dropping prices today on these World Cup stories cards just because I, again, I do feel like they're a bit overvalued for where the rest of the market is. I did pick up some Ascend Joe's at like 260, 266, 256 on a bid here. I think I'll be able to get like 297 or high 290s before everything is said and done before his price maybe drops a bit today. And then Blanc at 370. I'm going to pick that up because he's been bouncing between 370 and 400 and even a little bit above 400 too. And I think that's a French center back that people want to try out. So I'm going to snag that card, try that one out. I was thinking about flipping a Rashford because he's been over 1.3 mil literally all day. And right now he is like 125. That's really low for him. So kind of keeping an eye out there, but I'm going to keep it to the quick flips, probably heading into today on Saturday. And just keep it easy with that stuff because I don't want to risk losing too many coins. Not that I'll lose a ton, but I just feel like some of the impacts promo cards will get supplied a bit more today and have potential to drop off. I do also want to take a look at fodder. Yes, SBC fodder because we had a lot of those SBCs that were in like making the fodder prices stay up. A lot of those ended up going away. 84s are back down to their nice comfortable buying range of in the 2K range. I think these cards are a decent pickup. 85s are still 10K, but that's because of the hero upgrade. That's what's making those stay at a high price. 86s are getting back down there again. I think anything under 13 is good for a club stock on those. 87s I'd wait on, 88s I'd maybe wait on as well. 91s look good again to me at 50K. I mean, you look at these guys' graph over the past couple of weeks. Yeah, a few weeks ago they were like 40,000 coins. I don't think they're going to get there unless EA don't drop any upgrade packs that are at all requiring high rated cards in the next week. So a club stock buy one, put it in the club. That's what we mean by club stock. I think it's really good right now on the high tier fodder. I like the 91s a lot. They're 50K and 90s are 45K. So there's not a big enough price discrepancy there for me. I think the 91s are a good club stock at the moment. And same thing with the 84s. And then we'll see what EA released throughout the rest this week. I mean, we still have the hero upgrade pack that is out. I think the hero expires on Sunday. If I'm remembering that correctly. So yes, yeah, this expires on Sunday. So I would imagine that once we get to Monday again, we will see another sort of upgrade pack. Hopefully it's something regarding World Cup icons again because that moved like that Max 89 World Cup icon. SBC was crazy for the market. I would be very interested to see that drop on the game. And I think people would like to try that SBC out. And I think that SBC would have a lot of hype and a lot of demand around it. So I would say just be careful on the market again today. Of course, PTG cards live in action. Once again, you've got Pulisic. You've got the young. You've got these guys that are playing today. You've got you've got Romero and you've got if any of you guys did the center back from the MLS generic is his name. I think Milos Dejanek is his name. The Australian center back. They're playing of course today as well in the second knockout game. So keep a close, close eye on those cards today. Not Dejanek, he's of course an SBC, but keep a close eye on the ones that are impacts like Pulisic. Now yesterday was a crazy day because of the Switzerland Serbia game. And I picked up two Zacarias at 270. He sold one at 310. Ended up selling one at 292. Picked up another one at 240. Sold it at 279. So the currently what I have is just some decent flips from yesterday. I ended up making some solid coins. I bought this at 640, sold it for 707. So not a really crazy day, but we're gonna try to trade this Blanc, try to trade some of these other World Cup stories cards that we picked up and just try to get some quick flips and keep the coins rolling in while the content hopefully picks back up a little bit. There's another 371 there on Blanc. You can see a lot of 390s overnight. So might be not as much profit as I was hoping for as you can see a lot of traders who are listening overnight. And that's why I'm a bit careful with these World Cup stories cards as well. Like if I could show you Rashford again, this is the biggest thing I'll look for when I'm flipping cards overnight is how high are the overnight listings? Rashford right now has so many cards expiring in the next four to five hours. 1.33, right? 1.31, 1.33. I don't think Rashford's gonna go over 1.33. Maybe later today if, you know, five, six, seven, eight hours from now that could potentially happen. But I mean, I'm gonna be careful with that and try to stick to the some of the lower budget stuff. Some of your golds might rise up today. So if you watch this video, you're checking out like Gold Vini was maybe some of the Brazil links and some of the hype there. I saw Gold Vini was like what, 46K or something along those lines. Like he's going up a little bit around a 40 AK. You know, some of these cards might rise decently well and today Christiana Ronaldo gold card was down. I think Ronaldo was like 97K to start the day yesterday and now he's like 87. So that's a little bit low for him. Maybe he rises back up today. I'd watch that side of the market for a slight rise as people are playing Weekend League and there is gameplay demand out there. But it's a big day for World Cup games. It's a big day for the market, of course. I'm not entirely sure what content's gonna drop today. The only thing that we might see today would be that Carlos Puyol icon, SPC. There's an icon moments or an icon World Cup icon, Carlos Puyol that was leaked. That could potentially be today as a SPC here in the SPC section. So watch out for that. As we have had Schweinsteiger and Van Persie we might have a center back defender in Puyol coming out there soon today. So not expecting a ton today, which may mean some really good market fluctuations. So keep an eye on that and hopefully EA released some swap tokens. We didn't get any swap tokens yesterday. I was a bit of a bummer. Maybe they'll drop that today, but they dropped us some naughty or nice kits. This is just some of the cool content, fun content. So anyways, I'll stop talking. Have a good Saturday. Enjoy the World Cup games. Hopefully there's a lot of good moments in the market today and good luck with your footchamps games if you are playing. It has been Nate the Foot Account and I will catch you guys later. Peace out.