 Hey guys, it's Nate aka The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Hope you guys are doing well I want to bring you kind of a video today talking about how EA is controlling the market and making some parts of the market Pretty inflated right now because of a certain things that they're doing inside of the SBC tab on FIFA Ultimate Team and it's kind of a good way that they are able to To prevent people on the game from kind of making coins But also sucking coins from the game at the same time because they're inflating the prices of 83s and 84s specifically 85s and 86 is kind of a little bit up as well But it's mostly the 83 Some 82s as well, but kind of the middle range of the SBC fodder That a lot of people like to invest in On this game, it's the most common Cards that are required for SBCs these 83s through 85s And we've gotten a lot of SBCs recently That have required these cards and it's been really smart by EA as we're headed into the black Friday promo So first of all, I want to go over here and flip in and we'll look at that graph in a second But I want to take a look at all these squad battling squad building Challenge groups that are out right now Flashback Polinho, Serge Nabri, Juan Matta, Konate, Papu Gomez Road to their first final And even like Toko Akambi, Thiago Silva and Jamie Vardy all of these SBCs right now. So there's one two three four five six seven eight nine SBCs right now in the store that require Squad ratings of like 83 or above. So that means there's some demand there for people to to buy 83s 84s and 85s to put into those SBCs, which is making these indexes. This is the index 83 on footbin These cards are going all over the place and they're staying pretty expensive You see a lot of these right now they say that they're down But a lot of these 83s are like 2.8 to 3 000 coins And these cards have been inflated for honestly the past week because we had the team of the week upgrade SBC That came out a few days ago as well And that's a huge SBC that sucks a lot of coins off the market and especially Makes the 83s rise. So right now these 83s are like 2.2 2.3 000 coins 2.8 k at for most of them to link with good chemistry So why is this smart from ea? And that's what I want to kind of talk about is why does ea want these cards to be inflated specifically At this time of the year. Well a couple things we are a week away almost from the black friday promotion, which is when Tons of people open packs in this game because there are pack specials that they put out in the store there's like That first lightning rounds of the year they have Um, I don't think they have like FIFA point specials or anything like that There's no two for one packs during this point in time But last year they put cards back into packs best of team of the week cards. I think it's going to happen again this year They're going to put cards from previous promos or previous team of the weeks Back into packs to make it more enticing for people to open packs And they're going to do lightning rounds, which is the big draw because people like the big packs And they pay the big bucks for them. So that's kind of what black friday is people have, you know, they got money or whatever That's a big shopping day Um, and it's a big prom on fifa and ea plays off of that Um, but black friday is also a time where since everybody opens packs. There's a lot of packs that are open Um, ea puts out a lot of sbcs as well So a popular investment method for black friday in the past has always been Going out and buying tons and tons going unassigned deep with thousands of Rerated cards people did this multiple years before multiple different promotions Because whenever they drop a team of the week upgrade sbc or tons of player sbcs like we're going to get during black friday um Those cards go up because they're required for so many sbcs that they go up Even though there's a lot of packs being opened those cards go up because You know people want to do those team of the group people upgrade sbcs because you can pack the likes of Of neymar of messy and pre neymar in previous fifa's and he doesn't have an inform yet But this year in boppe ronaldo messy. That's why the team league sbc first drove those prices up But it's perfect timing by ea because as we're headed into that promo right now We're a week away, right? This is kind of when people would start to look at hey, maybe I can invest in some 83s or 84s for black friday But right now as we again look on footbin All of these cards are up in price because of all these sbcs that we have had right now And it's a very smart move by ea inflating all of these prices for these cards Um as we do head towards that promo So let's look at thalvin thalvin would be a card that a lot of people would probably invest in for Black friday and you you can see for the longest time this year multiple weeks on end 83 rated cards were down here to like 1.5 to 2 000 coins and this is a card that gets really good links actually is decent in game And it's going to be very usable for sbcs. Let's look at like a super duper fodder card like casias Casias is probably one of the cheapest 83s in the game. This is a goalkeeper But look at this guy down here at like 800 coins almost discard And look what happens in these past couple weeks shoots up to about 2k comes back down And then boom for the past couple of days actually the past week or so. He's been right around 3 000 coins He's actually down a bit now 2.3k But a lot of these cards are inflated from once they once from where they once were Because of all the demand for these sbcs and it's very smart again Because that is that's the way ea that makes money on this game boys. I'm telling you We see it time and time again. They put out these player sbcs And these player sbcs are priced Very strategically as well surge nabry basically has the exact same requirements as flashback polinio That came out came out back to back days. These cards both both cost you around 175 to 200 000 coins Which is right in that range of well If this card was on the market, you know, it would be probably, you know, maybe 100 000 coins But it's an sbc card. It's got the cool card design. Oh, and it gets some packs back That's what makes people do these sbcs as well an sbc under 200 k Especially if it's 83s 84s 85s, you know, you have some of them in the club, right? Oh, maybe I have a team of weak player in my club. Oh, I have a couple 84s I can do this sbc for cheap Which they still are sucking coins off of the game taking coins out of your account trading it in for an untradable player And they're making you think that you're going to get stuff from the packs back But these packs back at least for this flashback polinio a rare electric players pack isn't terrible But jumbo premium gold pack. No, thanks prime. Electrum. Eh, whatever. It's not the best But also again ea is made a very very smart decision as well By upgrading the price on the market of the shadow chem styles and of the hunter chem styles because Now people think, you know, hey, it's pretty easy to get one of these in a pack, right? It's not that easy to get one of them in a pack, but now people are thinking, yo Shadows are out here like 12 or 13 000 coins I might get one of them in a pack and Then that makes the sbc more worth it for me. If I pack one of these in one of those three packs I just made a lot of my money back So that's a very smart move by ea instead of just supplying those shadows more and hunters more in packs They up the price range so that people can lose more coins and be enticed To doing these sbcs even more and think that those cards are always in packs and packable, which they technically are but How many often how often do you pack one of those cards? Not very often. So Again, I know it seems like this one monster sbc. Yeah, you know, it's like 150k or so, right? Not too terrible of an sbc. You compare him to erikson You compare him to maybe another midfielder in the prem that you might want to compare him Or you could replace him with you're like, it's not a terrible card, right? It's pretty good He's got good stats You'll use him for a month at most and then he's going to be done There's going to be somebody else in the game. That's better That's going to be more usable linkable and your your squad might change stuff like that And then he's going to be forgotten about but you wasted 200 000 coins or 150k Doing that card same thing with these road to the first finals I mean, they really overpriced this sbc in my opinion It's like 260 000 coins at the moment For a dress a gay card or angelina, which obviously those are solid cards, but I mean, they really priced these road to the final sbcs Like each of these players were going to the final and that's how much they'd be worth At their final rating because if you think about it when Gomez, I mean atlanta isn't even going to make it to the Europa League, but let's say Leipzig goes to the final with this konate card, which is a perfectly priced sbc This caused some panic on the market. A lot of people did this Let's say that they priced this which they did about 100k. Let's say that he reaches the final So he'll go to an 82 to an 84 Then he'll go to an 86 right or 80 84s go to 86s He'll go 86 87 88 it'd be like an 80 or an 89 rated card by the time that it's all said and done If they go far in the champions league By the time he would get to his highest rating If leipzig were to go that far in champions league, it's going to be may It's going to be like the end of the season where we're in the middle of team of the season We're going to be in team this season by the time this card gets to his potential rating And there's going to be cards that come out for the rest of the year that are going to be better than this card Because there's already cards that are better than this konate But just the fact that they made it a cheap sbc 100k for a good-looking card. Good-looking face that card Um It's just going to be an irrelevant card though in a few in a few weeks because we're going to get more informs We keep we're getting more and more promos every year. That just means possibility for more and more cards to come out They could replace this one But again, this is how ea gets you and how they get you to Turn in your coins for these sbc's and that's how they control This market and take coins off at the same time as when you think you're getting a cool card for your team Or whatever So prime mix players pack for this one and a premium gold players pack for that one now I don't want to be so all negative about these sbc's because they are cool, you know, and it's content Thank you ea for putting out content even though sometimes we think it's overpriced Some people are doing all these because They are doing like a pay to win or they're not worried about spending coins in the game And it's fine if coins aren't an issue for you then go ahead and collect all these cards by all means There's not a problem with that there really isn't if that's how you choose to play the game But a lot of people of us on here on the game, we like to be smart. We're traders We like to keep our coins coins. We know that coins are power We know that coins are important and we know that coins mean We have the ability to do things on this game and to make more coins So if we keep locking up our coins throw 100k into polina that we're going to use And for a week's time throw 100k into flashback want monster throw 100k into konate Little by little it's going to chip our coins away if we can't trade Faster with those coins and make more coins on top of that Then what we're losing from these sbcs, then we're going to start getting in the hole And that's where ea gets a lot of people because if you just do all these sbcs And think that you're going to make your coins back from just playing the game and maybe trading a little bit It's not going to happen because unless you're a top 100 player every week and getting on the ultimate team of the week pack You're not going to make more than like 200 000 coins back from your awards most weeks If you choose untradable div rivals, which a lot of people do for the more packs and then your foot champs rewards It's not it's not that easy to make a lot of coins from champs every week on a consistent basis Even if you're even if you're like a top 100 or elite level player The rewards aren't consistent and you can't trust them because one week in your team of the week pack You might get an 89 rated that goes for 300 k But the next week you might get an 84 rated who's 12 k or 15 k so You can't really rely on rewards for this game and that again, that's the whole point of this video I just wanted to talk about how you just talk with you guys about sbcs And especially as we head into black friday ea does not want to make these 83 rated cards investable or A way to make coins they do not want to make them cheap Um and even one thing they could do first day of black friday is not even put out a player sbc On that first day of black friday so that these 83s drop because some people will invest in these cards anyway Regardless as we head into black friday because they know they always rise. They're always going to have sbcs Which we very well could but ea They have all the power and all the ability to not put out a player sbc first day Let all the packs come out let all the gold cards die even more and get low And then they could put sbcs out after that but then they would help people make coins Whatever so we'll just see what happens that and we'll follow it But I just wanted to let you guys know What was going on with this and why all these sbcs are coming out ea always has a plan to stuff guys i'm telling you You have to be you have to think critically and you have to think smart and really get behind Why is ea doing what they're doing and we don't understand why they're doing it all at all times but It's when you think about their business and you think about what they're trying to do in this game Take coins away from people so that they have to spend money in open packs and that's how they make money That's how ea makes money off this game It starts to make a lot of sense and you start to notice a lot of things even like price range updates like I said with those Uh chemistry style cards today and even price range updates on extinct cards Those can be very strategically placed and moved So that people lose coins on cards seriously It's almost it's just crazy almost sickening How much how lengthy ea will go to try to make coins in this game and make people lose coins so that they can Money on this game So that's kind of the video that I wanted to point out to you guys today Do I expect the 83s or the 84s to drop down a little bit before black friday? I hope so uh depends on what happens this weekend the week before black friday If we have a promo or something uh or some type of cards and packs and people open packs or whatever But these sbcs that are in here I don't think you have to worry too much about the tiago silva the toko akambi Or the surge navry of course that's going to be a little bit of demand That's always there kind of like how there was icon sbcs last year So there was always a little bit of demand for 85s 86s 87s and 88s You're always going to have a little bit of demand for the 83s and 84s and 85s Because of these player the month sbcs that are out for like a month at a time and I think a lot of these guys require 83s and 84s so That's going to be some demand that will still be there But the road to the final sbcs are going away in two days And the the wan mata I think goes away really soon 17 hours and flashback polina goes away in two days as well So we might even get more sbcs as this week progresses So just be on the watch for more that kinds of stuff and honestly I want to look back on this uh index 83 market because One thing that you saw on here was a big swing in price now a lot of people do sbcs Just because i'm telling you guys this This isn't going to impact the whole fee of the community and they're not they're going to stop doing sbcs No, people are always going to do sbcs. They will always do sbcs So this drop is after the nabry player of the month uh sbc up here at 140 points. It was actually at 160 And it was basically up to about this point right here 160 points It was higher yesterday than it was today Dropped all the way down to 128 and then the eu started waking up in the morning This is something that you could honestly start to trade with the day after an sbc If you monitor the price of 83s and 84s, especially the ones with good links and good nationalities If you see them drop a lot overnight, maybe you see them drop like a thousand coins That could be your cue especially. I mean it would have to be Uh a desirable a linkable and a good meta player sbc That would be one of the criteria to have to be it's like this polina card right now We some we have some of the 83s dropping off right now Maybe tomorrow morning around the rewards time a little after rewards. You might see the 83s Go back up a little bit. So I know this this recording is going to be Delayed a little bit the polina sbc might not even be out when you're watching this recording, but the The the thought basis behind this and everything like that stays true The ea is trying to inflate these 83s The but that makes them fluctuate a lot because it's a lot of supply and demand with these sbc's That are on the market. So hopefully you guys learned something from this video If anything just be careful with your coins and thoroughly evaluate each sbc as it come out I try to do that myself when i'm on videos when I do market updates talk about sbc's on on stream on twitch.tv That links down below I do stream very regularly on there or on videos on here or even in like tweets or in my discord as well I try to give you guys A good synopsis and a good analysis of the sbc's when they come out Because I think it's important for a lot of you guys that don't have a ton of coins Or you want to be really smart with your coins for the whole year so that you can achieve your goal of getting a messy You're getting a ronaldo or whatever Doing these sbc's along the way can really really hurt that so that's why I made this video today Just to make you guys aware of some of those things that ea does on the market With sbc's and the sbc fodder Cards if you enjoyed this video smash the thumbs up on it comment down below if you have any questions And of course subscribe to the channel if you are new it's been Nate the foot of counting catch you guys later peace out