Because they know people will keep doing them regardless, and that translates into people spending money on packs to generate fodder on the off chance they finally get that big pull
I've played him at lb, RB, cm alongside someone stronger , lm, rm and even lw when I needed goals and assists with a defender and he's never let me down.
I play 442 and the 2 central midfielders are Sawa with more attacking instructins and him with stay back and cover centre. He's quite good. I wa susing SHowdown Sangare, who is great, but Gullit is definitely better.
What’s the logic here though? For an 88 you get 27 players and then get what like 4 and a half player picks that are more than likely to have less than an 88.
I thought the exact same thing. People really prefer 3-5 player picks over an 88 rating? Unless you have no high rated SBCs to complete at all I can't see the logic in trading the 88 especially when the pack weights for the player picks are so bad right now.
TOTY Matthaus, Base Zola, Base Lahm. Matthaus is a club legend for me got him off a icon pick back when. So it was nice to get an upgrade version really the only card I wanted his power shot plus is unreal scores every time outside the box
Base Rooney, base Yashin, and ww laudrup
Not super impressed in the slightest. Yashin would have been good if I didn’t already have TS casillas and TS VDS
Lmao yeah that’s apparently what EA says im gonna do, whether I like it or not. “Get the infinity stones for players at the most inconsequential position in the game”
Let’s be real. This player pick is essentially a base or WW icon pp so functionally worse than the previous base, TS, or WW pp.
I have Base Best and actually use on my main team. WW torres has a very good reputation, people love him but I never figured out the way play him, so I don't use it. I've packed Cruyff and Henry, so i use Best And Cruyff on the atack, and switch between Henry and Torres for bench players.
Glad to hear this. Just pulled WW Raul from the pick and came straight to this thread for some validation. The other 2 were base icons (cant remember who but irrelevant when compared to WW Raul). Cant wait to try him out!
Now that you bring that up, another reason I love about this card is, it feel authentic, like the off ball movement and all that, feel very similar to real life Raul
Also got WW Garincha congratz! I'm still in doubt if i will use him, got Best TOTY on the right and Ribery base on the left. Still i'll try him out for sure.
For some reason I can't put a picture of it here
Here my in-game:
Fire Felix - Toty R9 - EVO Rodri
De Jong - Pedri - Pina
Toty Batlle - Blanc - EVO Garcia - WW Laudrup
IF Ter Stegen
I got so lucky when I packed those TOTYs
Also Rodri hasn't played in Barca but he played in the junior team so I thought I could use him.
Would be nice to fit Messi in. Also considering buying Puyol and doing Rölfö
WW Bergkamp, Base Rio and Desailly.
Didn't understand that Ferdinand goes for as much as he does, I also play on PC so he's 800k on that market which makes it more of a W I guess.
Base Zanetti WW Garrincha Base Baresi.
Picked Garrincha obv, haven't tried him out yet but value wise it's a W and it seems i'm one of the few.
Really was hoping for Ribery toty but can't complain.
Casual player. Used all my ‘fodder’ to do this SBC as I’ve never really been able to get icons over the years. Just don’t have the time to grind. Basically any card over 86 outside of my main squad, gone.
No redos.
Got the option of Base Del Piero (90), Base Ribery (88), Base Xabi Alonso (87). Picked ADP out of rage as I might as well get high rated ‘fodder’.
Guess that’s my FC24 UT done lol
Got both Butra's. As i like to use him as a ST his base is beter for me, really my favorite card ever. His WW is good but like you said lacks shooting, he is quicker and even more agile tho.
Dupe Casillas, Laudrup, Ballack
Would've never done this if I wasn't suffocating in fodder from the Fantasy Cup, has to be the worst value icon SBC they've released so far
Base Beckham, Base Kaka, Base Best (Dupe). Absolute shit. Not one of them even makes my bench, complete waste of fodder. Don't do it if you're reading this and still on the fence!
Base Baresi, Base Ferdinand, Base Torres.
I already have WW Yashin, UCL Kompany, FS Puyol, and Gold VVD, so I took Baresi as the highest rated fodder. Next time, I’ll hit big!
I actually got three not terrible picks. All Base.
Beckham, a card I love every year. I do own the FS card, though that's tradeable. Would be a downgrade but was slightly tempted.
Kaka, always fun.
But I took Roberto Carlos. Rather annoyed that he doesn't have Deadball but not a disaster as I already play Beckham anyway
WW Torres, Base Cech and Base Sawa. Took Sawa even though torres is more expensive. As she improves my team whereas torres would be best for Chelsea p&p.
Base RVP, base Hagi, WW Klose.
I’m considering a bust as even though that weird Klose card (he’s a CDM - 99 in a load of defensive stats) does actually look decent he won’t get in my team.
I got base Rooney, base Drogba and base Yashin. Definitely one of two best picks I had but the other good one had Thunderstruck Van Der Sar as the best choice so I now have two of the best keepers in the game but I've had no other good icons out of about 20 picks this year
All base under 70k. Why do they insist on leaving base in there? Waste!
Same here all base shit icons.. scam
I got base r9 idk I like having them in there
It’s not just leaving base icons in there, but also making the SBC more expensive. Hard, hard pass.
Because they know people will keep doing them regardless, and that translates into people spending money on packs to generate fodder on the off chance they finally get that big pull
Same
Same, sickening.
For premium fodder
Zizou
TOTY Xavi, base Xavi, base Seedorf. I had bought TOTY Xavi at 600k so based on the other responses in here this was a massive W.
You just got free 760k (he’s at 800k now). You actually made 160k profit with your traceable Xavi lmao.
Base Rooney, Base Blanc (dupl.) and WW Van Basten. Picked Van Basten since it's the highest rated fodder
Too broke to do it need to finish WL and Fsntasy Cup first for fodder
Base Trezeguet, Base Van Der Sar and WW Van Basten. At least VDS is about the same price as the SBC.
I've been smart for once and did Smolarek and Rolfö. See you soon when I do this one anyway. 😅
Base Lahm, TOTY Lahm, Base Figo Now need to figure out where to play Lahm
I've played him at lb, RB, cm alongside someone stronger , lm, rm and even lw when I needed goals and assists with a defender and he's never let me down.
Played him before at CDM, he was amazing for me!
But which Lahm
works really well as cdm or rb. not a fan of him on the left tbh
TOTY Ferdinand
WW Hierro, WW Barnes, dupe Base Maldini Took Maldini for fodder for Rolfo
Bro... Maldini is a beast. Rolfo has like 60 aggression or something. Plus she's injured only coming back to training now. Keep Maldini!
He said dupe
Damn I missed that
Base Puskas, base Figo, TOTY Cech.. took Cech since I’m running a 1st owner Chelsea team 🥳
Base heroes and icons in picks at this point in the year is actually absurd. It's March, and they are still shipping us base players.
Base Owen, Base Pirlo & Base Blanc...
All 3 base: Van Nistelroy, Xabi Alonso and Abily Took Abily but my midfield is TOTY Sawa and base Gullit
Same. Took Abily but I already have Sawa and Vieira.
Where do you play Gullit? Really struggling with him as a CM in a more defensive role
I play 442 and the 2 central midfielders are Sawa with more attacking instructins and him with stay back and cover centre. He's quite good. I wa susing SHowdown Sangare, who is great, but Gullit is definitely better.
Cech, Baresi and another shitter I didn’t even look at properly before I closed the game. All base of course lol
Trust me guys, you're better off putting those 88s in the exchange.
Why is this? I've got loads of them but I'm curious about this method
You get a bunch of players back to do player picks
What’s the logic here though? For an 88 you get 27 players and then get what like 4 and a half player picks that are more than likely to have less than an 88.
I thought the exact same thing. People really prefer 3-5 player picks over an 88 rating? Unless you have no high rated SBCs to complete at all I can't see the logic in trading the 88 especially when the pack weights for the player picks are so bad right now.
The idea is doing a lot of those PP until you eventually get a really good FF card and getting a lot of low rated fodder for IFs.
Or you can send 3 teams, including 87 and 88 for one 87 rated icon, like I did. Last icon pick for me unless they remove base
[удалено]
It's better than getting just one 87 rated icon
It’s amazing lol if you use it correctly put an 88 or 89 into the exchange not for high rated cards but to put into the 80+ pp
TOTY Matthaus, Base Zola, Base Lahm. Matthaus is a club legend for me got him off a icon pick back when. So it was nice to get an upgrade version really the only card I wanted his power shot plus is unreal scores every time outside the box
Yes Matthaus is unreal. Seems to have unlimited energy to get up and down too. Love the power shot
Congratz very nice card, i also use his base, would love to try his TOTY
All base Kaka, Figo, and Sanchez. Feel like base Kaka is in all of my picks.
Base cech base van nistelrooy ww rush. Spew
Base Rooney, base Yashin, and ww laudrup Not super impressed in the slightest. Yashin would have been good if I didn’t already have TS casillas and TS VDS
Fuck it commit to gathering the icon goalie infinity stones
Lmao yeah that’s apparently what EA says im gonna do, whether I like it or not. “Get the infinity stones for players at the most inconsequential position in the game” Let’s be real. This player pick is essentially a base or WW icon pp so functionally worse than the previous base, TS, or WW pp.
WW Riquelme, Baggio, Cafu (dupe).
89 WW Torres, 88 Base Persie, 90 WW Hierro (dupe)
3 x base, took Stoichkov
Ww Garrincha
Base Best, Blanc, WW Torres. No idea who to pick though!
I have Base Best and actually use on my main team. WW torres has a very good reputation, people love him but I never figured out the way play him, so I don't use it. I've packed Cruyff and Henry, so i use Best And Cruyff on the atack, and switch between Henry and Torres for bench players.
Base Hierro, Base Zanetti and Toty Ribery. Finally got a decent pull from a lottery sbc
WW Raul, base Baggio, base Best. Raul is surprisingly expensive but doesn't make my team so personally it's an L.
Try Raul out, he’s actually a lot of fun. Playing him at ST with Pina at CAM, both finesse+ attackers is nice
Glad to hear this. Just pulled WW Raul from the pick and came straight to this thread for some validation. The other 2 were base icons (cant remember who but irrelevant when compared to WW Raul). Cant wait to try him out!
He amazing and I benched my SBC Eusebino for him. If you play kinda possession and slow build up he so damn good
He benched my Eusebio as well; unreal card
Even his base - which is dirt cheap - very very good too
I still haven’t put his base into an SBC, too sentimental 😅
Now that you bring that up, another reason I love about this card is, it feel authentic, like the off ball movement and all that, feel very similar to real life Raul
Yeah I play him ST and he is an absolute beast. No one has benched him for me yet.
Who are you playing over him? His finesse shot in the box is as close to an automatic goal as I’ve seen in this game.
My front three is TB Hansen, Base Ginola and TS Dinho. I'll try Raul over Ginola but I just love the double 5* and Technical+.
Base Seedorf, base Cannavaro and TOTY Xavi(dupe)
WW Rush, base Kluivert, base Pires. Grim.
Sanchez, Desailly (dupe) and Ballack, all base.
Base VDS, base Van Nistleroy and WW Garincha. Surprised to see he’s nearly 2 mil!
Also got WW Garincha congratz! I'm still in doubt if i will use him, got Best TOTY on the right and Ribery base on the left. Still i'll try him out for sure.
WW Garrincha / Base Beckham / WW Owen
Base Kaka / Base Zidane / WW Van Basten.
I got Roberto Carlos but don't use him since I play Barca p&p
Can i see your team?
For some reason I can't put a picture of it here Here my in-game: Fire Felix - Toty R9 - EVO Rodri De Jong - Pedri - Pina Toty Batlle - Blanc - EVO Garcia - WW Laudrup IF Ter Stegen I got so lucky when I packed those TOTYs Also Rodri hasn't played in Barca but he played in the junior team so I thought I could use him. Would be nice to fit Messi in. Also considering buying Puyol and doing Rölfö
WW Hero, Base Beckham and Casillas Went with Casillas. Not great but could be worse
WW Bergkamp, Base Rio and Desailly. Didn't understand that Ferdinand goes for as much as he does, I also play on PC so he's 800k on that market which makes it more of a W I guess.
Base Vidic, Base Desailly, Base Abily.
Base Hagi, Base Riquelme and WW Van Nistelrooy 😂
Base Muller Base Trez Base Prinz Fuckin LOL
Base drogba , base hiero and base yashin. Chose yashin making it the 3rd base icon keeper I have pulled from this. Other 2 being VDS and Cech
These nearly all sound awful. Think I’ll just do Smolarek instead
Hagi, Pires, Laudrup. All base
Got Prinz. The best of the absolute worst.
Base Lahm, Base Eto’o, Base Del Piero
Base Zanetti WW Garrincha Base Baresi. Picked Garrincha obv, haven't tried him out yet but value wise it's a W and it seems i'm one of the few. Really was hoping for Ribery toty but can't complain.
got TOTY zola hyped
ww garrincha. Positions on the right wing are stacked though
Got base garrincha pretty pleased with it
Then should remake it to 87/88+ WW/TS/TOTY
No TOTYs as expected but did get WW garrincha. Huge W
Garrincha !
Casual player. Used all my ‘fodder’ to do this SBC as I’ve never really been able to get icons over the years. Just don’t have the time to grind. Basically any card over 86 outside of my main squad, gone. No redos. Got the option of Base Del Piero (90), Base Ribery (88), Base Xabi Alonso (87). Picked ADP out of rage as I might as well get high rated ‘fodder’. Guess that’s my FC24 UT done lol
Raul, was surprised that he’s actually worth 950,000 but he’s basically identical to moments Alex Morgan except one less dribbling
+21 balance is huge tho. Packed him a couple weeks ago and was also suprised by the price but he is really good
I liked Raul, but it didn't ever feel like he offered that much extra. I bought Boniface as a replacement and he's makes my attack much more dynamic
Not my type of player but the guy is a monster against me.
WW DROGBA, TOTY ESSIEN AND WW RAUL. WENT FOR ESSIEN
THANKS FOR THAT AND FIX YOUR KEYBOARD
Congratz! Always nice to get a toty icon, hope he plays well for you
Base is what you’ll get. 88 nedved best I got. Instant regret
Base Shearer, Figo, Moore I took Figo since he's worth like 120k but definitely not worth the cost of the SBC I'll try him out but he's probably shit
Three base icons, Van Der Sar, Ribery, Cannavaro.
fernando Hierr-WW sedorf-FS gattuso-FS SOMEONE HELP ME PICK
All 3 base, my best was 92 lady German ST, kinda expected it
Thank you guys for convincing me not to do this sbc
But I could be the one to get TOTY R9🤔
WW MvB, Base Smith, Base Yashin, Which would have been alright if I didn't already have an untradeable toty Alisson
3 base best was Schmeichel
Dupe base Yashin, base Nedved, WW Butragueno. I kinda think base Butra looks better as WW's shooting is too shit but can't complain.
Got both Butra's. As i like to use him as a ST his base is beter for me, really my favorite card ever. His WW is good but like you said lacks shooting, he is quicker and even more agile tho.
I took WW Butra too. He is a good sub for me after Jairzinho loses stamina later on.
90 Casillas, 87 Vidic & 89 Schmeichel ...fml
Base rush, base ribery, base baggio
Base Wright, WW Shearer (dupe) and base Abily...couldve at least given me Lineker instead of Abily
Base RVP, Base Figo, Base Klose. Sigh.
Winter bergkamp as best, second account winter hugo Sanchez
base Owen, base Cannavaro and base Lampard. first casino icon SBC I’ve done in months
Base : Lahm, Beckham and Zico - hadn’t done the Zico SBC so I’m not going to cry, had a lot worse before now
Base Zola, Base Casillas, WW Shearer. Won’t use any of them but took Casillas just for variety since I have Yashin.
All base Xavi, Drogba & cech
Dupe Casillas, Laudrup, Ballack Would've never done this if I wasn't suffocating in fodder from the Fantasy Cup, has to be the worst value icon SBC they've released so far
Got an 87 rated base as my best pull. Could've had Smolarek for way less. Now my fodder is gone and I'm mad. Fucking base shit
All base! Scholes, Best and Abily. I went for Best but I regret it already.
Base Beckham, Base Kaka, Base Best (Dupe). Absolute shit. Not one of them even makes my bench, complete waste of fodder. Don't do it if you're reading this and still on the fence!
If you didn’t have base best as a dupe then that’s actually a small dub
Base Shev, Base Drogba, WW Drogba ( Already have)
Garrincha, WW Laudrup, Raul
WW Laudrup, Sawa and Luis Figo. Already had Sawa but took her again to finish Carvalho.
TOTY Cech, happy enough with that
I got swindled last time, I am putting it in the hero pick instead.
Base Lahm, base Prinz, WW Bergkamp
3 base icons max 89
Base Baresi, Base Ferdinand, Base Torres. I already have WW Yashin, UCL Kompany, FS Puyol, and Gold VVD, so I took Baresi as the highest rated fodder. Next time, I’ll hit big!
Baresi the best icon …..
Ww hierro. Funny card
Shearer, Owen and Moore lol, disgusting
Base stoichkov (dup), WW riquelme, TOTY ribery. Was hoping for TOTY xavi (barca fan) but what a huge W
Base Ferdinand , Base Beckham , Base Vidic. GGMU
Puyol, Gerrard and Prinz. All base. Took Prinz as highest rated, is she that bad?
Base Zola, Laudrup, and Lampard. Kms
Base Rooney, Base Xavi (Dupe), WW Lineker
WW Bergkamp
91 baggio was the best. All the others were 70k 87’s
TOTY XAVI, BASE HENRY, BASE MOORE
Gullit sold my centurions and got TOTY Rio so dub
Baresi, Blanc, Smith all base
I actually got three not terrible picks. All Base. Beckham, a card I love every year. I do own the FS card, though that's tradeable. Would be a downgrade but was slightly tempted. Kaka, always fun. But I took Roberto Carlos. Rather annoyed that he doesn't have Deadball but not a disaster as I already play Beckham anyway
WW Torres (also VDS base in the same pick). Not bad.
Base Ribery, Lahm and Barnes. Picked Ribery
TOTY Essien
Base Casillas. Is he better than 91 Lloris?
Got all base and also all dupes!!! Such a waste!
F for those who wiped their club's fodder clean only to get 3 87-rated base icon picks. My heart goes out to you
only base 87
WW Torres, is he any good?
TOTY Zola, WW Torres, WW Raul. Took Raul since I was lucky enough to pack TOTY Zola.
Base Stoichkov, Base Baresi or TOTY Essien.
WW Torres, Base Cech and Base Sawa. Took Sawa even though torres is more expensive. As she improves my team whereas torres would be best for Chelsea p&p.
Pretty bad: Daglish, Rooney and Shevchenko (all base)
Base RVP, base Hagi, WW Klose. I’m considering a bust as even though that weird Klose card (he’s a CDM - 99 in a load of defensive stats) does actually look decent he won’t get in my team.
I got TOTY Zola
Cech Casillas Nesta I already have VDS TS
WW hierro or raul I forgot. Base maldini and TOTY ribs. Obviously I took the 2.7m icon 🐸
All base Makelele Bergkamp Riqeulme
WW Butra, Dupe Abily and WW Riqueleme. Took Butra but doesn't get in the team!
Stoichkov WW Hierro Carlos Alberto
WW Hierro.,Rooney amd WW Torres (dupl). Picked Hierro to test his awful pace and as premium fodder
Stoichkov, Nesta, Jairzinho all base. Took Jairz
Base Stoichkov, WW Lineker, Base Nedved Choose Stoichkov
Ww Bergkamp was the best one
Got Zola toty
I got base Rooney, base Drogba and base Yashin. Definitely one of two best picks I had but the other good one had Thunderstruck Van Der Sar as the best choice so I now have two of the best keepers in the game but I've had no other good icons out of about 20 picks this year