TechGamingEA Sports FC 24 bug gifts Lionel Messi TOTY to 100s of players…and everyone else is fuming!When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechGamingEA Sports FC 24 bug gifts Lionel Messi TOTY to 100s of players…and everyone else is fuming!When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
…and everyone else is fuming!
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(Image credit: Yasser Bakhsh / Getty Images)
(Image credit: Yasser Bakhsh / Getty Images)
The Team of the Year promotion inEA Sports FC 24may not have turned out as good as Electronic Arts and players had hoped. The latter have found that snagging one of the best cards in Ultimate Team has proved frustrating, with some claiming to have opened 100s of packs without a sniff. And EA has now found that a single bug can nigh-on ruin the game.
After the latest content refresh yesterday, one of the new Squad Building Challenges (SBC) gifted almost a large percentage of players a TOTYLionel Messi, worth around 9 million coins on the game’s transfer market. It’s one of the best cards in the game and a vast number got it for free.
EA realised the issue and so withdrew the 86+ player pick, but not before the damage was done. Thousands of other players, many of which spend a lot of real money on the game, missed out. It has left them fuming.
We have identified an issue with the 86+ TOTY Leagues SBC, as a result we have disabled the SBC.January 30, 2024
We have identified an issue with the 86+ TOTY Leagues SBC, as a result we have disabled the SBC.January 30, 2024
Some are understandably upset and wonder what EA plans to do to rebalance the game. Others are have said they are downing controllers for good.
The issue is that the hugely popular Ultimate Team is a competitive multiplayer mode that usually carefully balances card drops so that players of roughly the same level have roughly the same strength team. Sure, it’s possible to purchase packs to boost your chances of getting the best players using real cash, but even that doesn’t tend to yield the biggest rewards.
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I for one am not looking forward to playing against a cascade of Messi-endowed rivals, that’s for sure.
As with all players, I now await to see what EA plans to do about the error. It can’t just take away the Lionel Messi card from those who pulled it – even if it was a glitch. Nor can it just gift everybody in the game the same card, as that would make it ridiculous.
I’ve contacted the EA Sports FC 24 team to find out and will report back when I hear something.
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