Greedy FIFA players are slowly killing Ultimate Team\u2019s iconic TOTW promo EA SPORTSGreedy FIFA 21 players, not EA SPORTS, are killing the Ultimate Team\u2019s iconic weekly TOTW promo, and it\u2019s reached a worrying fever-pitch this year \u2014 a chorus of FUT fans want Team of the Week changed, but is the \u2018in-form\u2019 promo really that bad, or have FIFA fans just become spoiled? Ultimate Team was first released all the way back in FIFA 10 as part of a new content expansion across the football title\u2019s PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions. With it came a now-iconic promo: Team of the Week. These rare, black-coated, \u201cin-form\u201d upgrades have become synonymous with the Ultimate Team game mode. Across FIFA history, the greatest cards that spring to mind were TOTW releases. Samuel Eto\u2019o and Moussa Sissoko in FIFA 11. Maikon Leite (FIFA 12), Romain Alessandrini (FIFA 18), and Wissam Ben Yedder (FIFA 20). In recent years, however, the promo has come under fire. FIFA fans have dubbed it a \u201cwaste of time,\u201d and many have turned their back on in-forms. Players are blaming EA SPORTS. They look at those same black-coated upgrades that are inked through FIFA\u2019s history, and mark them \u201cborderline useless\u201d. This is a worrying trend in FIFA 21, for one reason: it\u2019s not the dev\u2019s fault. There\u2019s only one party to blame: greedy FIFA fans. Now, we here at Dexerto completely understand playing FIFA a lot. This writer in particular grinds Ultimate Team every week, staying on top of the latest SBCs, constantly swapping my team, and building towards an \u201cendgame\u201d squad. But not everyone plays FUT like that. And this, in essence, is the main problem. This year there\u2019s been Ones to Watch, Rulebreakers, RTTF, TOTGS, Freeze, TOTY, Headliners, What If, and FUT Birthday. That\u2019s a fair amount of promos. Read More: FIFA 21 Ones to Watch Upgrade Tracker – These new events, special cards, and upgraded SBCs, those are the super-boosted players the FIFA grinders should be adding to their squad. But, the TOTW cards are for the casuals, ducking their heads in once or twice a week. Let\u2019s prove the point. On March 5, the second What If team was released. One of the most hyped cards was Everton\u2019s Richarlison. He\u2019d scooped a boost to 87, with potential for an even bigger bump in the \u201clive\u201d card. Five days later, Harry Kane\u2019s second in-form card was released, 90 rated, in the 24th team of the week. Hardcore FIFA fans turned their noses up at Kane\u2019s 2IF. 72 pace was far lower than Richarlison\u2019s 89, and the Spurs striker had 6 less dribbling. Not very \u2018meta,\u2019 they said. Like this week, the team was dubbed \u201cuseless.\u201d Except, the Kane card has 30,514 games played, according to FUTBIN. Richarlison\u2019s scrapes in at 14,761, which is less than half. While hardcore players were overlooking the 90-rated Kane card, casual fans were scooping him up in spades. Read More: FIFA 21 TOTW 28 revealed – His first in-form? A huge 949,655 games, despite just 70 pace. This is why Team of the Week must stay in Ultimate Team. Dedicated, grinding FIFA fans don\u2019t like it. That\u2019s fine; it\u2019s not for them. It hasn\u2019t been for a long time. We\u2019ll concede, of course, that the Team of the Week promo isn\u2019t perfect either. There\u2019s a few ways EA SPORTS could spice up the weekly in-form squads, from a bigger boost (a +2 upgrade is often suggested) or boosting player stats specifically for their on-field achievements. Another TOTW issue is that EA picks the cards that make the cut. This means some stars are left out, like Jota and Ben Yedder last round. We predicted both for TOTW 28 \u2014 and rightfully so \u2014 but neither made it. There\u2019s always ways that any given FUT promo can be improved, 100%. EA SPORTS needs to sit down and have a think about how to jazz up the Team of the Week squads heading into FIFA 22, that we can agree on. But let\u2019s give the calls to remove it a rest, shall we? We all know they\u2019re not \u201cendgame\u201d cards. That doesn\u2019t mean they don\u2019t have a place in Ultimate Team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Greedy FIFA players are slowly killing Ultimate Team\u2019s iconic TOTW promo EA SPORTSGreedy FIFA 21 players, not EA SPORTS, are killing the Ultimate Team\u2019s iconic weekly TOTW promo, and it\u2019s reached a worrying fever-pitch this year \u2014 a chorus of FUT fans want Team of the Week changed, but is the \u2018in-form\u2019 promo really that […]<\/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-68788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68788","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=68788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}