FIFA 21 players are convinced EA secretly nerfs FUT cards: could they be right? EA SPORTSEA SPORTS secretly nerfs new FIFA 21 cards a few weeks after release to \u201cmake more money\u201d from packs\u2026 at least, that\u2019s the going theory spreading through the Ultimate Team fanbase at the moment \u2014 could they be right? It\u2019s an experience every FIFA fan has experienced in their FUT career; you\u2019ve finally cashed out for that premium striker and slotted them into your team. Things click right off the bat; fifteen goals in eleven games\u2026 you\u2019ve found a real gem! Only, things begin to come off the rails. Goals go wide. Passes run short. Twenty or thirty games into your FUT player\u2019s \u2018career,\u2019 you\u2019re finding things just a little bit harder. The goals that were constantly flowing in the first dozen matches just aren\u2019t there anymore. Well, according to a growing theory in the FIFA 21 fanbase, it\u2019s deliberate; EA SPORTS are secretly nerfing new Ultimate Team cards soon after release, in an effort to keep the meta based around fresh promo cards and SBCs. FIFA fans \u201cconvinced\u201d by theory It\u2019s a pretty loaded question; is EA secretly stripping out the best stats for new players, in an effort to \u201cdrive sales?\u201d Well, FIFA 21 fans are pretty convinced. \u201cI think so\u2026\u201d one Redditor wrote in the Dec. 27 thread. \u201c[Jo\u00e3o] Felix used to be decent at the start [of FIFA 21], very good after I got used to him, and now he is so much worse.\u201d Others accused EA SPORTS of \u201cdeceit,\u201d and said it made sense considering how \u201cmoney-focused\u201d the FIFA publishers have become. Some offered up examples of Ultimate Team players that had fallen out of favor over the course of a given cycle. There were plenty too: Teemu Pukki\u2019s POTM card. Drogba\u2019s Icons. Sadio Mane\u2019s TOTY card. Osimhen. David Villa. Alessandrini. The list went on. Read More: How to complete FUT Party Bag SBC in FIFA 21 – Some FIFA players even thought it was \u201cobvious\u201d that EA were playing a secret role in \u2018ruining\u2019 players across the course of each FIFA cycle. \u201cI think they nerf players whenever they release an \u2018upgrade\u2019. It\u2019s the only thing that makes sense.\u201d So, is EA secretly nerfing FIFA 21 players? For our money, it\u2019s a pretty hard sell. EA SPORTS have often shown they\u2019re interested in selling a few Ultimate Teams packs in FIFA, but to actively worsen players in their signature game mode \u2014 and hide it, to boot \u2014 seems pretty nefarious. What\u2019s more likely is one of two things. The first is that these players who buy new cards climb up the FIFA 21 rankings with their new acquisitions, and face harder opposition. With better-ranked players lining up against them, players are going to struggle. Shots will miss a few more times, and goalkeepers will save more shots. The second is internet connection, which is perhaps the most important part of any FUT match. If you have a sub-par connection, everything feels sluggish. It would make sense players dip in quality when your reactions are hampered. That, in turn, can lead to a top-class player feeling \u201cnerfed\u201d for the few games in a row when your connection is poor. Read More: EA brings back \u2018Showdown\u2019 SBCs in FIFA 21 – That said, there\u2019s no real way to tell. FIFA 21 players seem \u201cconvinced\u201d \u2014 heck, this same theory actually popped up in FIFA 20 too \u2014 but until EA come out to confirm or deny the accusations, we\u2019re in the dark about any \u2018secret nerfs.\u2019 This isn\u2019t the first time the FIFA 21 fanbase has accused EA of playing around with the game\u2019s code either. On Nov. 3, a theory sprung up regarding shooting in Update #4; players think shot power was nerfed without a word. Unfortunately, EA never addressed the supposed nerf, despite backlash. We expect the same may happen here. Unless the theory grows into a mainstream idea, EA will likely simply ignore it, just like they did in FIFA 20 last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
FIFA 21 players are convinced EA secretly nerfs FUT cards: could they be right? EA SPORTSEA SPORTS secretly nerfs new FIFA 21 cards a few weeks after release to \u201cmake more money\u201d from packs\u2026 at least, that\u2019s the going theory spreading through the Ultimate Team fanbase at the moment \u2014 could they be right? It\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}