No one is complaining about whether Pepe stays in the game or not. As hysterical as it is that some of the most expensive players in the current market are ICON players that have retired years or even decades ago, most of us understand that there's a separate and individual licensing procedure to bring a player back in the game as an ICON player. However that does not in any way justify EA just switching Pepe to be untradable without any kind of warning, choice or compensation. People invested coins or even FPs to have Pepe or Kroos on their squads and they certainly didn't do so so that they would become worthless out of nowhere. When or if a player retires is completely out of EA's hands but when a player does retire they should come up with procedures on how to notify and/or compensate the losses of the users within the game before they instaswitch a card as untradable.
@SClassMarksman It’s how it’s always been - back when there were no untradable cards they were just removed from rosters - you have a collectable now that can’t be obtained anywhere else in the game, which is pretty cool for a card you were keen to get hold of anyway … I wouldn’t call that worthless, more like priceless 😉
If they notified users that a card was being removed from the market then it would create a market anomaly that would either see the price unreasonably spike or crash … they are not going to knowingly create that
