Nepenthez explains the biggest problems with the FIFA 21 FUT market NepentheZ\/EA SportsPopular FIFA 21 content creator Craig \u2018Nepenthez\u2019 Douglas claims the so-called #eagate scandal that has rocked the community over the past week just goes to show how terrible the market in FUT really is. Chances are by now you\u2019ve heard about the scandal involving an EA employee scalping FUT ICON cards that aren\u2019t on the market to players for cold hard cash, dubbed \u201cEA Gate\u201d by the community on social media. Besides the obvious ethical implications of running a back-alley operation like this, the whole situation has left a bad taste in a lot of players\u2019 mouths, with it being pointed to as just the symptoms of s deeper, underlying problem in the game. In a video released on March 10, Nepenthez broke this sentiment down, and explained that it\u2019s the fact most highly rated and sought after FIFA cards are only available for obscene amounts of money \u2013 if they\u2019re even available at all. \u201cOne thing that this does kind of really expose is just how bad the market in FIFA is, that people are willing to spend thousands of dollars on virtual cards in a one-year game cycle because they\u2019re unobtainable otherwise,\u201d Douglas explained. \u201cIf you want this Pele card, you don\u2019t really have a choice except to buy it from the black market.\u201d The fact people are driven to less-than-reputable card sellers because the items they want aren\u2019t on the in-game market is one part of the problem, but the other is that, even if they are, they\u2019re so expensive they\u2019re basically impossible to get anyways. \u201cI\u2019ve played about 1400 hours of FIFA 21, and never in a million years could I afford one of these cards, if it were on the market,\u201d Nepenthez pointed out. \u201cThe fact that these cards, that people are paying real money for, are so inaccessible, is the biggest problem here.\u201d Video below starts at 8:21 for mobile users. But that\u2019s not all: Even people who did it the \u201cright way\u201d according to Nepenthez, by buying their FUT Coins in-game with thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars, couldn\u2019t even afford most of the ICON Prime moments cards. \u201cEven if they could, they\u2019re not on the market,\u201d the streamer pointed out. \u201cIt\u2019s just shambolic people are being forced to go to a black market to buy ICONs because they are inaccessible otherwise in a yearly-cycle game.\u201d EA has promised to investigate the allegations that one of their employees was running their own, unsanctioned one-stop ICON shop, but that might not be enough for players who want to see fixes to the problems Nepenthez laid out here. Whether anyone at EA Sports is listening and paying attention to the community though, remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nepenthez explains the biggest problems with the FIFA 21 FUT market NepentheZ\/EA SportsPopular FIFA 21 content creator Craig \u2018Nepenthez\u2019 Douglas claims the so-called #eagate scandal that has rocked the community over the past week just goes to show how terrible the market in FUT really is. Chances are by now you\u2019ve heard about the scandal […]<\/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-69364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69364","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=69364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}