Sorry vut this going to be long.
EA are wolves that prey on people buying packs.
Ea generate about $1.5 billion per year from fc alone for in game content and for the last 5/6 years we've got the same terrible servers, worst gameplay, patches that make it even worst than it was before, constant broken mechanics in the game. I genuinely believe fifa 16 was better gameplay than we have now.
A few years back a promo was every 3 or 4 weeks with promo packs released for that week only. now theres a promo every week with promo packs everyday with worst pull ratios than ever. Its just greed on their behalf now. Release a decent evo = spend money, release a good sbc = spend money, season pass is good but want the good rewards = spend money. Theres no way to generate enough coins in game to do all the good evos and sbcs so ultimately you find yourself spending your hard earned money and dont even get me started on packs its the worst type of gambling around spend money and alot of it to recieve nothing in return now and then you might get a good pull 90% of the time its now untradeable anyway so you cant even sell it and go improve your whole team.
EA are just trying to fill their pockets by emptying ours. I will admit i have bought packs before but 5k is madness as much as the game is pay to win after a couple of weeks of grinding you could have a reliable team with no money. This is genuinely my last year of playing FC i have more fun playing other games and FC now is more like a chore than a hobby.
If EA really cared about the community they would release an RTG version on FUT for people who want to play without the pressures of buying or at least buying packs with real money though we all know they will never do anything to affect their pockets even if it may make community happier and less toxic. I believe alot of toxicity is due to people spending money and losing when they think their team is better or they have mbappe or pele or whoever and they cant score which is more of a skill issue than money issue but my point remains the same. Release a no spend version of the game and let people build their teams through gameplay and evo and sbcs that wont cost someone 12k fifa points to complete just have a weaker version of the card that costs less to complete. Let the money version be and people will still play it and spend money but let people have an option of a version of FUT to spend or not spend.
But seriously i havent spent anywhere near the amount you have probably not even 20% ky card got deleted months ago and iv already decided that i wont be playing it after this year i used to look forward to the new game and now i can barely bothered to switch it on i mainly just try to complete evos now but even that isnt enough anymore. EA have really failed the fifa/fc community and its blatantly just about generating more $$$ to them now. Jeep the same terrible gameplay and just release more packs or an sbc that requires 4 89 and 4 88 rated teams that noone can afford without buying packs