This franchise has become a true dumpster fire. EA is chasing “whales” who have hundreds (maybe even thousands) of dollars to burn on this game. The plan appears to be to milk these addicts for all they’re worth and to wreck the game for the rest of us who can’t afford to throw our money away in a crappy casino that offers increasingly poor odds and totally inconsistent gameplay. Even if I had the money to burn, why would I pay $50-$100 to secure a UTOTY Mbappe (for example) when he’ll be obsolete inside of 2 months? There is nothing attractive (let alone sustainable) about this model, especially when EAs refuses to fix/improve broken game mechanics that reduce the value of ALL players (because matchplay is so maddeningly inconsistent and glitchy).
I’ve purchased loads of EA titles over the years (back when “if it’s in the game, it’s in the game” meant something), and I would pay for FCM if it offered consistently fun gameplay, but EA seem to have adopted a business model that seeks to exploit us all like so many “marks” in an elaborate con and I refuse to be their patsy.