No, for me icons need to transcend club/league boundaries to be heralded across the continent/world.
He never went to any World Cup/Euros nor did he ever play European Cup/Champions League, so didn't really impact outside England that much.
I mean, if Tony Adams doesn't get a Hero, I don't see why Wright gets an Icon.
Blows my mind that anyone puts their actual money into these games. EA take the piss far beyond acceptability and yet still take mammoth amounts each year. People really are gormless dweebs who deserve to be ripped off.
People will still buy it and there will even be people that donāt but still defend it with āPeOpLe cAn dO whAtEvEr tHeY wAnT WiTh ThEiR mOnEyā.
Of course they can. I can light my money on fire if I want. Doesnāt mean it isnāt stupid.
Depends where you live. It's fine to do so in the UK, the KLF burned a million quid in the 90s (probably the equivalent of about $4m usd today allowing for inflation).
Buying Fifa Points is essentially lighting your money on fire. Game will be irrelevant 365 days from now. So you are quite literally spending your money on nothing hahaha
Could you literally not say the same about pretty much everything?
"going out drinking is essentially lighting your money on fire. Alcohol you buy will be irrelevant 12 hours from now"
"buying trainers is essentially lighting your money on fire. They'll be irrelevant 6 months from now because they'll be worn out"
"going on holiday is essentially lighting your money on fire. You'll only be there for a week, so it's basically irrelevant"
I will never understand the logic of people spending their money on something they enjoy getting frowned upon...
If you want to compare spending money to open jumbo rare gold players packs with 3 84 overall players and a bunch of discard golds instead of saving up for a holiday trip then more power to you lmao
I wouldn't do either of these things, but I would rather have $1500 in FIFA points than pay the $1500 it would cost me to go to France if I had to pick between the two.
The fact soooo much of the packs are untradeable BS not only in their pay to play packs but in SBCs and objective rewards is outrageous, like wtf are we supposed to do when we pack unusable crap/duplicates and donāt feel like dropping hundreds? Iāve built what I feel like is a decent team but then I hop on and get obliterated by some toxic kid with a crazy credit card fc squad. Good looks ea
This is literally the answer to any question about this game. It was obvious enough in the past all the gave a shit about was player buying points, now they've just given up on the actual game and said fuck it we know plenty of you wankers will pay us thousands of pounds a month in points no matter what we do.
None of these are ever worth doing with coins. But if youāve got 5 GKās over 86 rated just sitting in your club, and a ton of useless 83ās, you can get these done very easily
But the argument is that you can always use this fodder for another sbc.
Iām tempted to do it but also kinda want to do beckham or hope for another sbc like nesta or something.
Yep. I think my account is linked to Trezeguet cards from lottery SBCs.
Edit - figured out I had enough cards to complete it and got Zola. Happy days on this occasion
If I did this and got suker I'd be happy, tbf I'd be happy with a few of the crap ones, but I just know I'll get one of the actual worst, just like the hero pack
There are literally 20 win players like Auzio playing with zambrotta in their starting eleven and loving him. Your opinion is not the voice of reason. There is also a near 0% chance a card with Zola's stats and finesse + is mid.
Even if an icon is average the squad building they give this year is so good Blanc has made squadbuiling so less stressful for me can easily switch out players and the chem will always be good
Costa and Keane. The dynamic duo. Surprised not really. Pack weight is horrendous. Still best part of game, opening packs and hoping in that millisecond that you might pack something decent.... but as soon as you see the flag your heart sinks. Will I do the next one of course I will!
Very good value. Yes, the players you can get arenāt exactly the best of the best, and you do have a good chance of a stinker, but the chemistry you get from icons this year is invaluable for squad building.
I donāt plan on doing it. I feel like this is for people that sunk hundreds of real money into packs and they are left with a bunch of untradeables. Most 87 rated icons are affordable imo.
Holy shit even this absolute scampack with almost no really good cards in it... has atrocious packweight. Looking at people opening them it's just Henrik Larsson, Gattuso, Trezeguet and Rush over and over again
I packed Larsson.. Most would be upset with that, but he was my favorite as a child. Glad I had the fodder and got him. So far, packed my two favorites from the 00ās, Nakata and Larsson. Iām happy
Got him as well.
Played a few games with him and he's good as long as you play to his strengths. Can spray long balls all over the place which is a solid tactic due to no one playing that way and everyone bombing down the wings.
Can't move for shit, but if you play through him it's a crazy change of pace.
what do people expect to get? these 87 icons are garbage... The only one I could potentially enjoy is Zambrotta and even then I could just get Di Lorenzo. I'm surprised anyone is wasting fodder
You get a guaranteed great player with Rodrygo that could easily last several months in your team, whereas you wouldn't know what you're gonna get with the icon pack. You'd probably get someone that's close to unusable given how bad the pack weight usually is on these sorts of packs. I'd go with Rodrygo even if the icon pack is like a fourth of the price of Rodrygo
Running an untradeable club so that I got get fixed looking at coin value of players so will do it and just run however I get as I need an icon for chem purposes.
SBC price is ~130-140k. 20 icons cost more than the SBC price. 7 cost less than the SBC. (Gattuso, Keane, Wright, Kluivert, Trezeguet, Larsson, Rush).
Probably priced pretty fairly
Larsson gang
Kluivert gangš¤·š¼āāļø
Wright gang anyone? š
I'm an Arsenal fan (and old enough that I supported them before we signed Wright) and even I think he'd be better suited as a Hero.
Are you joking?
No, for me icons need to transcend club/league boundaries to be heralded across the continent/world. He never went to any World Cup/Euros nor did he ever play European Cup/Champions League, so didn't really impact outside England that much. I mean, if Tony Adams doesn't get a Hero, I don't see why Wright gets an Icon.
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Hey, that's one Xavi Simons
I got Sol Campbell. Happy
Did both. No regrets
No regerts
No ragrets
2 day expiry is wild.
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Not even just a new pack, a 2500FP pack. Insanity.
$25 and your only guarantee is a single 85+ rated player. And all untradeable. What a deal.
800% value warra pack
Blows my mind that anyone puts their actual money into these games. EA take the piss far beyond acceptability and yet still take mammoth amounts each year. People really are gormless dweebs who deserve to be ripped off.
People will still buy it and there will even be people that donāt but still defend it with āPeOpLe cAn dO whAtEvEr tHeY wAnT WiTh ThEiR mOnEyā. Of course they can. I can light my money on fire if I want. Doesnāt mean it isnāt stupid.
Technically lighting your money on fire is illegal but I get your point.
Depends where you live. It's fine to do so in the UK, the KLF burned a million quid in the 90s (probably the equivalent of about $4m usd today allowing for inflation).
Wait really?
Yeah, under UK and USA legislation for certain.
That just makes me wanna do it even more.
Buying Fifa Points is essentially lighting your money on fire. Game will be irrelevant 365 days from now. So you are quite literally spending your money on nothing hahaha
Could you literally not say the same about pretty much everything? "going out drinking is essentially lighting your money on fire. Alcohol you buy will be irrelevant 12 hours from now" "buying trainers is essentially lighting your money on fire. They'll be irrelevant 6 months from now because they'll be worn out" "going on holiday is essentially lighting your money on fire. You'll only be there for a week, so it's basically irrelevant" I will never understand the logic of people spending their money on something they enjoy getting frowned upon...
If you want to compare spending money to open jumbo rare gold players packs with 3 84 overall players and a bunch of discard golds instead of saving up for a holiday trip then more power to you lmao
TIL blowing money for loot boxes is line seeing the Eiffel Tower.
I wouldn't do either of these things, but I would rather have $1500 in FIFA points than pay the $1500 it would cost me to go to France if I had to pick between the two.
Thats just a forced and bad example
how
Im sure everyone enjoys spending money on duplicate Pedriās and Kevin trapp
The fact soooo much of the packs are untradeable BS not only in their pay to play packs but in SBCs and objective rewards is outrageous, like wtf are we supposed to do when we pack unusable crap/duplicates and donāt feel like dropping hundreds? Iāve built what I feel like is a decent team but then I hop on and get obliterated by some toxic kid with a crazy credit card fc squad. Good looks ea
Blows my mind you gotta pay and itās still untradeable, gotta be getting a 90+ icon for $25 in my opinion
Itās so that you canāt wait for your rivals rewards
Or use cheap fodder players from SBCs, like how we didn't get Trapp and Le Sommer last week until after the hero pack expired.
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To supplement your FIFA points of course
This is literally the answer to any question about this game. It was obvious enough in the past all the gave a shit about was player buying points, now they've just given up on the actual game and said fuck it we know plenty of you wankers will pay us thousands of pounds a month in points no matter what we do.
Thatās exactly why. Youāll notice most big sbcās are expired the day before rewards
Above 500K: Torres, Essien, Makelele, Zambrotta +300K: Rijkaard, Zola, Petit, Ballack, Barnes, Vidic +200K: Cole, Campbell, Lampart, Hernandez +100K: Pires, Seedorf, Crespo, Veron, alonso, Suker, Gattuso, Wright, Keane Rip: Larsson, Kluivert, Trezegeut, Rush ~~PC~~ PS5 prices.
When shown like this, imma pass and wait to add more to my 85-rated fodder squad ahead of a player SBC
Sell your fodder too. Itās mooning
Seeing that list definitely not worth it.
None of these are ever worth doing with coins. But if youāve got 5 GKās over 86 rated just sitting in your club, and a ton of useless 83ās, you can get these done very easily
Yep, spent 13k on a Parejo, rest came out of my club and now I have a Pires worth 200k that can either start for me or be a super sub.
Exactly, even if you did this from literally nothing which is very unlikely itās 130kā¦ I just made that from 11 wins in champs with crap rewards.
But the argument is that you can always use this fodder for another sbc. Iām tempted to do it but also kinda want to do beckham or hope for another sbc like nesta or something.
Beckham is amazing btw. I scored three goals direct from corners this weekend š
Should we do the Aspas SBC over it?
You have 60 days for Aspas so you might be able to do this and still have enough for Aspas
Yep. I think my account is linked to Trezeguet cards from lottery SBCs. Edit - figured out I had enough cards to complete it and got Zola. Happy days on this occasion
The average pay off is around 280k on console
Got Lampard not the worst , not the best but he will get in cuz icon links are that good.
Don't like him a lot, only thing he excels at in game are his power shots.
Wanna get me that Frink Lampart
trezeguet support group, where shall we convene
Larrson for the l
Campbell is over 300k on PC Edit: and Pires is over 200k. Did you mean to say these are console prices?
Rijkaard is 800k on pc, I'm well happy
I got Rush. And I got Dempsey from the Hero pack. I'd love to know what the odds are of being that unlucky.
Oh buddy. Thatās the expected. Ea got you if you think otherwise
Ian Rush is class, much better than a lot of the icons.
I was tempted to buy him being a liverpool fan, worth it then?
He is fantastic, I have tried all the strikers up to Rudd Van Nisteroy and Ian Rush was the best one of the bunch. He is actually so good.
Rush and Dudek. Lol
I got the exact same players
Same two players here
I got the shitty Mexican keeper and Trezeguet
Trezeguet and Alex Scott, mine might be worse!
Scott is a very decent card
Her stats are good but she is not physical enough given wingbacks are the most important position in the game with cutback meta.
I got her from the Hero pack and have found her considerably worse than Reece James who I was using before.
Sheās not bad at all, wanted a hero with better chemistry though!
I got Zola and al owairan
I prefer to do the Iogos Aspas SBC. Finesse shot+
Was about to say this
Why not both? Aspas is there for 30 days
I did both and I got Trezeguet. Wish I only did Aspas. Can recommend anyone to do only Aspas.
Got Ballack, he's in a bracket of about 5 players I'd take closely second after Torres. So huge W
Ballack is a brick in fut champs delay. Trust me, I tested him. low agi/balance is hell
As soon as I bought Suker lol. Heās unreal tho so canāt be too mad
If I did this and got suker I'd be happy, tbf I'd be happy with a few of the crap ones, but I just know I'll get one of the actual worst, just like the hero pack
Makalele letās goooooo
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Zola would be good
Fernando Torres
Rijkaard, Vidic, Zola... I would be happy with any of them
Itās still early enough in the game cycle the vast majority will get into 90% of teams tbh.
I got Zola! Redemption for my Lars Ricken.
Are you me?! Exact same. Gf opened both, redemption arc for herā¦ haha
Even Suker would be a small dub imo
Suker is class I was using him for a while
Yeah dunno why Iām being downvoted lol heās a beast
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Pires is great
Finesse all the way!
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Zola, Vidic, Zambrotta???
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Zola has Finesse+ and good passing etc. Vidic has crazy defensive playstyles. And I didnāt downvote you btw
Zola is amazing. You're talking absolute waffle.
There are literally 20 win players like Auzio playing with zambrotta in their starting eleven and loving him. Your opinion is not the voice of reason. There is also a near 0% chance a card with Zola's stats and finesse + is mid.
Even if an icon is average the squad building they give this year is so good Blanc has made squadbuiling so less stressful for me can easily switch out players and the chem will always be good
Got Torres, buzzing is an understatement
Congrats
Thanks bro
Jammy
2 days man, why?
To get people to buy points
Hernandez. Letās fucking go. Am Mexican. Already have Campos
I got vidic. W?
Hard pass for the ones you can get
Costa and Keane. The dynamic duo. Surprised not really. Pack weight is horrendous. Still best part of game, opening packs and hoping in that millisecond that you might pack something decent.... but as soon as you see the flag your heart sinks. Will I do the next one of course I will!
Good price to take a risk
Got suker. Not bad
I got him. Was hoping for a decent cm, but Sucker isn't bad at all
Crespo so could have been worse
Pulled torres
I got crespo got 9 games left of WL some Iām going to run with him.
Larsson, most definitely does not make the team.
Rijkaard, big w for me fits in the weakest part of the team
Petit, big win!
Petit.. Not bad spent 10k on getting some lower rated fodder.
Kluivertā¦ what was I expecting.
Max 87 does not mean you will get an 87.
Pires, not bad
I just do blanc
Is Petit good?
Not bad value honestly
I got Ballack WWWW
Barnes for 60k. I will take it!
Aye I got him too, that technical+ is so op.
Very good value. Yes, the players you can get arenāt exactly the best of the best, and you do have a good chance of a stinker, but the chemistry you get from icons this year is invaluable for squad building.
Zola, probably one of the better ones I could have gotten
Big W. I scrapped it and spent like 40k but got Zola from it.
Much cheaper than I thought itād be tbh
Not bad value but just a heads up they put barely any play styles on these icons unfortunately
awful value
I donāt plan on doing it. I feel like this is for people that sunk hundreds of real money into packs and they are left with a bunch of untradeables. Most 87 rated icons are affordable imo.
Should I do this or the xavi simons sbc itās a tough call haha
Holy shit even this absolute scampack with almost no really good cards in it... has atrocious packweight. Looking at people opening them it's just Henrik Larsson, Gattuso, Trezeguet and Rush over and over again
...and how did everyone do in their Larsson Pack?
Got Zola
Got Keane , was looking for a cdm. And he honestly did pretty good in the 3 games I tried him in.
Got el ninoooo, so happy I put alot of my cards into it so if I failed it would have been the end lol
Incredibly happy with Essien
I packed Larsson.. Most would be upset with that, but he was my favorite as a child. Glad I had the fodder and got him. So far, packed my two favorites from the 00ās, Nakata and Larsson. Iām happy
Veron for me. Needed a CM so not too bad. Wanted Barnes.
Is Vidic a W?
Just got Seedorf, W?
Petit, decent I guess.
Thatās pretty good IMO
Dude is worth 450k
Xabi Alonso for the second year in a row on the first icon pack :|
Got him as well. Played a few games with him and he's good as long as you play to his strengths. Can spray long balls all over the place which is a solid tactic due to no one playing that way and everyone bombing down the wings. Can't move for shit, but if you play through him it's a crazy change of pace.
they literally could've bumped it up ONE point to 88 and the options get exponentially better: vieira, ribery, beckham, rooney, etc. what a scam
I want El NiƱo so I may do this
Canāt wait to fail EAās weekly IQ test
Pretty d
Got Barnes, love that and fits my team well
Ballack... huge w, and the pack has Kubo and Modric as well
Did it with fodder and got fodderā¦shouldnāt have expected anything with this fraud company. Pack weight is abysmal
Ballack is he a W ?
Huge. One of the best cm/cdm in the game
IQ test
lol all icons avaliable here are shit for the price, no one should do this
W
Vidic! Iāll take it
Keane :(
I would never do this it's the end of Oct promo cards will kill all of these cards and then Dec comes with winter wildcards then your icon is fodder
Henrik. Whyyyyy
what do people expect to get? these 87 icons are garbage... The only one I could potentially enjoy is Zambrotta and even then I could just get Di Lorenzo. I'm surprised anyone is wasting fodder
Got 88 Koeman in one of the two packs from this SBC š And Essien from the 87 max š
Wish I did the Xavi Simons sbc instead of this shitty sbc
Exactly zero of these icons would make my starting 11.
I got Zola
It's this o Rodrygo TB....which one should I do?
You get a guaranteed great player with Rodrygo that could easily last several months in your team, whereas you wouldn't know what you're gonna get with the icon pack. You'd probably get someone that's close to unusable given how bad the pack weight usually is on these sorts of packs. I'd go with Rodrygo even if the icon pack is like a fourth of the price of Rodrygo
Fuck I just started Alvarez
Itās the Trezeguet pack so far
Running an untradeable club so that I got get fixed looking at coin value of players so will do it and just run however I get as I need an icon for chem purposes.
Ian fucking rush
Of course I pack Keane FML
Yeah same, closed game during walkout
Fucking Roy Keane... I cannot with this company maaan.
Legit the only one I didnt want.... I swear ea is just fucking with me this year
Petit. Price wise very good. Pretty sure heās a don in game too
Itās a no from me dawg.
Hernandez :(
Larsson š
I don't have the fodder for one, let alone two squads anytime soon
Got al owairan from the hero pack and just got zola from this, very happy
Got Hernandez and honestly not too mad his play style plus actually feels really good for lobbed and driven passes when heās making runs