 Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA the Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. EA just seemed to be killing off their game of FIFA 22 right now inside of this preseason promo. The content is still dropping, but it is very repetitive and lackluster. And that's just kind of the feeling of this preseason promo, especially for the past couple of days. And I think there is one specific reason for why that is happening. I wanna talk about that today, but there's still a part of the content right now. It's not that repetitive. It's pretty unique and that is the player SBCs. Antonio Rudiger dropped yesterday and of course, we're still asking the question, will the Renato SBC ever drop EA Sports? Give us that Renato that we have been leaked now. Basically five days ago, we learned about this SBC coming. We still haven't had it in the game. Hopefully, fingers crossed again, today is going to be our day. Also, we're hoping for some showdown upgrades based off of the game we had yesterday between UVay and Roma. We are looking at a plus one upgrade for both Pogba and why all of them after that game ended in a draw one to one. So we are expecting plus one on each card. No 98 rated, but 297s will come from that match. Hopefully they upgrade those today even because last week with Ericsson, they upgraded them so fast. Hopefully they continue that trend today on Sunday. We will just have to see. So if you're somehow enjoying the menu grinds right now, I applaud you. And also, if you are grinding the FIFA 23 rewards, that's what you should be doing. So I commend you if you're grinding the menus and the objectives at this time. But before we get into it today, if you're new around here, make sure to subscribe button. And if you're enjoying the videos, give them a thumbs up. I would greatly appreciate it. Now let's just talk about preseason content really quickly in general. I'm not trying to be a Debbie Downer here. I'm not trying to be negative and talk down about this preseason promo because again, there are a lot of bright spots. It's just starting to get a little bit repetitive in certain areas. Specifically, the 82 plus player picks, the shapeshifter player picks, just everything that we see every single day in this game, even the 85 times 10, I'll say it, is becoming a little bit repetitive because yes, we can do it three times a day, but it doesn't have as much hype as it used to have. And that's the one thing that I mentioned in the intro about the one thing that this promo is really lacking is hype with the players in packs. And what I'm really seeing on this game right now is a lack of motivation to grind the menus and to grind the content because there is a lot of content available, but it's all based around what cards we have in packs right now. If we had better items in packs, if they would have just kept the same 200 cards, maybe mix it up a little bit even, but kept 200 special cards in packs for this preseason promo like we had during the last couple of weeks, during footies, it would be a completely different story right now because 82 plus player picks don't even, they're not even worth it at this stage, especially with how low priced some of your fodder is in this game. Wow, I have no gold, that's crazy. You know, fodder like 87 rated cards are, how much right now? 87 rated cards are 7K. That means that every single player pick that you're doing I believe is around 7K, 8K to do an 82 plus player pick. Again, we talked about this last week, you have to be getting an 88 rated to break even, 87 or 88 rated at the least to break even, and there's not very many special cards in packs, so that's not super easy to get done. That's why I think a lot of people are saying that the content right now is just a little bit lackluster. I really do think that that hype is based around having only 100 cards in packs and those 100 players not even be all the best despite from a couple of the top cards like Ronaldo, Ginola, and Ibope. So it's just a little bit, you know, unfortunate that EA seemed to be killing the hype of this game. Like, I mean, think about it, if you're EA sports, wouldn't you want to be dropping content right now that people would be very interactive with and excited for? Couple that with the FIFA 23 excitement with the brand new features and everything coming out with the game in one month from now? Wouldn't you think that those two things would want to go together? And you know, I feel like they did a great job at the end of footies with great content. I mean, all of these footies, SBCs that we had like Salah, Mendi, Griezmann, St. Max and Neymar were dropped within like a 10 day span on this game in the last two weeks of footies. It was phenomenal. And since then it has just gone downhill in most areas. And I really do think that it's just based around what's in packs. I think that's the biggest key for all of this. Let me know down in the comments if you agree or disagree with that because I know a lot of people right now are just logging on to FIFA every day to check the content, check the player SBC, maybe do a couple 85 times 10s. I don't even have motivation to get these done right now. I have high rated fodder to get Rutiger done if I want to. They don't have golds, I have specials. But you know, 85 times 10s are just their average with what's in packs. So it's very, very unfortunate. We just don't know the answer. We never do, right? Just why would EA sports do this heading into a very crucial time of the year for them? I don't understand, and we don't either. But we'll just roll with the punches because there still is some good content. Like I mentioned, the 50K pack, some of the player SBCs are really nice and fun to get done. So we'll keep continuing to focus on those and enjoy those cards that do drop. Now, speaking about those, today on Sunday, this better be the Renato day, right? We're now asking the question, you know what, I almost feel like I'm hoping for the repeatable 85 times 10 as much as I'm hoping for this Renato Sanchez SBC, right? For the past few weeks, we've been like EA sports. Where's this 85 times 10 unlimited? They still haven't given it to us yet. And now we're like, okay, we have this leaked Renato. It's almost the same vibes. We're like, EA, are you ever gonna drop this SBC? I mean, it's leaked. So we're assuming that it's gonna be coming, but we still have not seen it yet. So that's a big one for today on Sunday. Could it be the day finally? I think it could be. The reason why I think it could be again, and you know, you're like, Nate, you've been making excuses the last couple of days. Well, here's another excuse for today. I would not be, you know, expectant of EA sports to drop two centerback SBCs back to back days. Rudiker yesterday and Diego Carlos today, dad just does not seem something like EA. That's not an EA thing to do. So I do think Renato could be today. Hopefully it's today on Sunday. Goodness gracious EA. It's about time. So along with that today on Sunday, what else would I expect? Well, in the SBC section under the live tab, we have these two moments SBCs that are expiring the 93 plus nation specific, and also the 93 plus moments icon, unlimited repeatable. Again, going along with the theme of repetitive player picks and repetitive SBCs, I would not be surprised if they just hit the refresh button, the recycle button, and the same two SBCs would come back today. Maybe they would up this to the 94 plus, but that shrinks your player pool even more. Yeah, I don't think too many people are even doing those SBCs at this stage in the game. Anyways, and of course, like I mentioned in the intro as well, we are really hoping for the upgrades today. That would at least bring a little bit of hype to maybe if you're playing a weekend league and like, hey, I've got Pogbo or Wynaldum, those guys getting a plus one today, or hopefully today. Again, like you guys remember that Erickson was upgraded a mere 12 hours after the game ended. Now, of course, this was a Monday game from last week. So I'm gonna reserve my optimism for a Pogbo or Wynaldum upgrade to happen today on Sunday since it's during the weekend. But I don't know, EA sports can definitely do stuff that fast, we've seen it before. Maybe they'll do it again. We might have to wait the extra day just because it is a weekend. And I'm sure a lot of those guys that work at EA are, you know, it's the weekend, right? So they're at home. So we'll have to see what happens with these cards. But if they get upgraded today, that'd be fantastic. A lot of people would love that for finishing off their weekend leagues. But other than that, I'm not expecting too much else to happen today on FIFA. Now, rolling it back in time and talking yesterday for a little bit, under that milestones tab, once again, we did get a preseason cup, like we talked about yesterday. Rewards, I believe, are exactly the same. You're going for 27 wins. You got seven days to do it. You get the 94-plus shape shifters, the 93-plus shape shifters. You got 85-fives, 85-tens. And a regular player picks as your reward. So nothing different there. It's the exact same friendly mode as well. And, you know, nothing else going on in objectives new as of yesterday, besides the preseason cup. So, you know, personally, I'm grinding this kickstart mode. Man City is done. I gotta do, I think I'm gonna do Chelsea next and mix it up with those guys. And then the warm-up challenge will actually be an SVC we'll be looking out for today, I do believe. Yeah, warm-up challenge should be available today again. So everybody getting an 85-tens five and getting two, the second warm-up challenge done out of three in order to get those FIFA 23 rewards. So, that's just kind of the grind right now in this game. Now, let's talk Rutiger for a second because this SVC, actually, if you go on footbin, taking our first trip over to footbin today in the video, 95% upvote for Antonio Rutiger. With these links and just the legacy, you know, that's kind of a good word to describe what this guy is in FIFA right now. The legacy that this Rutiger card had from earlier on in the year with the team of the year, honorable mentions and how good he was with the price point he's coming in at, 200,000 coins. I mean, what is there not to like about this card? Again, the good value transfer SVCs continue to roll through. And again, like I said earlier, this is the brightest spot of the pre-season promo. I mean, there's no dynamic images, which kind of sucks but having these transfer SVCs with such high ratings, such great value is just a tremendous dub. This guy's probably one of the best, if not the best center back in the game after his release yesterday. So definitely go ahead and get that one done. You know, like we expected as well, Real Madrid links are on the rise. Some of them are even extinct. And here's a quick message to EA Sports. Don't forget to upgrade these price ranges, man. Valverde is extinct at 210,000 coins up from 100, sorry, up over 100,000 coins since last week or two weeks ago when he was released and put out of packs from the Footies batch two, he is now up from 80K to 210K and extinct. Marcelo shapeshifters, look how rare this guy is, man. I mean, 800,000 coins. He has a couple cards until 800K. He was 370K at the end of Footies. Now his price has doubled. You look at guys like Vinicius Jr. He is up in price. You look at the captain's Marcelo, also 600,000 coins, crazy rise there. And of course you look at a substitute good, right? You look at a Rutiger as a center back in La Liga, Real Madrid center back, a substitute item would be Ettermilital. This guy's price is down bad. He's rebounded back a bit from 180,000 coins. He went all the way down to 85K, 100,000 coin drop off yesterday. He is now back up to about 119,120. If you have this card and you bought in the low time here, I would take the cash, take the quick flip. This is something that we always trade with during the main parts of the year in FIFA is when you see a brand new substitute item drop and you see such a big drop off in price on a card that people are maybe selling to get the new version or the new card, you know, some people look at this card and say, oh my goodness, Militau went from 180K to 80,000 coins. I can't afford Rutiger at 200K or I want Ettermilital for the Brazilian links that Rutiger does not offer. Let me get this guy in my team. And still you might have people that are using Rutiger and Militau together. So you have that price that bounces back a little bit. So when you see such a big drop off like that and it's a meta player, especially like Militau, absolute great opportunity to trade. So that's just something to keep in mind as we head towards FIFA 23 and we get in that trading mindset once again. But that substitute method trading is very, very viable. And a lot of those Real Madrid cards have gone up because of the Rutiger links. How about Hazard? Just want to take a look at him really fast. Hazard was 80K, he's up to 90, so a small rise there. Nothing too crazy. That's kind of what I would expect with PSG cards today as well. Again, it does just depend on the Renato price. Well, I say today, expecting Renato to drop. It would depend on the Renato price for sure, but cards like a Neymar, Winter Wildcard, some of those more rare ones, maybe some of your shapes you have there, PSG cards that are out there. A Messi's definitely a bit more expensive. But just kind of keep in mind some of those shapes you have there, Tots, some of the end game cards that are PSG players that people might go on link to Renato Sanchez if he does drop today. So there's really not much else to cover right now. If you're in FIFA 23, 22, wow, I'm jumping the gun a little bit. If you're still growing in FIFA 22 at the moment, you're maybe playing Week in League, you're getting those friendly games done, and that's kind of what there is to do. There's still SBCs in here, but again, like I said, without having a lot of great cards and packs, the motivation is down bad for a lot of people. And even myself included, I'm not spending as much time. I haven't logged in the companion app in like, I can't lie, like weeks for more than like two minutes to do an 85 times 10 or something like that. So it's just the end game, it does happen, but also it's a bit of a head scratcher because you would think that EA would wanna bring some hype right before FIFA 23, and it feels like they must be done with that because Footies is over, and here we are in pre-season, and there's not too much hype. So we'll just have to see what happens today on Sunday. Good luck if you're growing in Week in League, have fun if you're touching grass instead. And of course, if you did enjoy today's video, smash the thumbs up button, comment down below if you have any questions, and subscribe if you are new. It's been Nathan Foot Account, and I'll catch you guys later, peace, out.