Black Friday is a FUT promotion which takes place once a year, in late November or early December. It usually offers something new every hour, like multiple pack offers and flash squad building challenges. In this guide, you will have the chance to know everything about the FIFA 18 Black Friday event, including the expected release date, the estimated offers and the answers to the most common questions.
FIFA 18 BLACK FRIDAY
THE EVENT | RELEASE DATE | OFFERS | THE MARKET | FAQ
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FIFA 18 Black Friday
What is the FIFA 18 Black Friday Promotion?
FIFA Black Friday, which takes place in November / December on the day following Thanksgiving in the United States, is the day regarded as the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. In this day, the prices are lower making it the one with more sales in the year. As usual, Electronic Arts do not miss this chance to boost their sales and releases a variety of offers.
During FIFA 18 Black Friday promotion, Electronic Arts usually releases something new every hour for 24 hours. These offers include multiple promo packs and lightning rounds in the FUT store and flash squad building challenges.
Black Friday is a big deal for the FUT community since it is the first big promotion of the season and it takes place just before other important events like FUTMAS and TOTY release.
FIFA 18 Black Friday Release Date
When the FIFA 18 Black Friday promotion will be released?
The Black Friday promotion has been going since FIFA 14.
In the following table, you can see the Black Friday event release dates of previous years:
FIFA 18 | 24 November 2017 |
FIFA 17 | 25 November 2016 |
FIFA 16 | 27 November – 29 November 2015 |
FIFA 15 | 28 November 2014 |
FIFA 14 | 29 November 2013 |
For FIFA 18 Ultimate Team, the Black Friday event will take place on the following dates:
CONFIRMED
From 25/11/2017 (Sat) 01 am to 26/11/2017 (Sun) 01 am ?? AEDT (UCT +11)
From 24/11/2017 (Fri) 11 pm to 25/11/2017 (Sat) 11 pm ?? JST (UCT +9)
From 24/11/2017 (Fri) 02 pm to 25/11/2017 (Sat) 02 pm ?? GMT (UCT +0)
From 24/11/2017 (Fri) 12 pm to 25/11/2017 (Sat) 12 pm ?? BRST (UCT -2)
From 24/11/2017 (Fri) 09 am to 25/11/2017 (Sat) 09 am ?? EST (UCT -5)
From 24/11/2017 (Fri) 09 am to 25/11/2017 (Sat) 09 am ?? EST (UCT -5)
From 24/11/2017 (Fri) 06 am to 25/11/2017 (Sat) 06 am ?? PST (UCT -8)
FIFA 18 Black Friday Updated Offers
What you can win with the FIFA 18 Black Friday event
The FIFA 18 Black Friday offers include:
✅ A new Promo Pack or Lightning Round every hour
✅ Flash Squad Building Challenges
✅ Progressive Rewards on Weekly Objectives themed and an exclusive kit
The Market
What happens to the cards’ prices during Black Friday?
The expected huge market crash waited by the community for the Black Friday, starts much earlier. As Black Friday approach, the trend is prices begin to gradually fall. After the Cyber Monday, prices will go up again but not to the levels they were a few weeks before. If you really want to maximise your coins, you should sell your teams after the Black Friday and buy them back during the TOTY.
Different to what many people think, the Black Friday isn’t known by having a huge Market Crash. The biggest devaluation occurs before it even starts. In the thirty days before the Black Friday start, the market drops around 20%. It reaches the critical minimum on this day or in the previous Sunday. From there, prices start rising again. It’s a slow and slight recovery but the truth is that this tendency only inverts itself when the TOTY is released.
This behaviour we’ve described is also followed by the IF cards, in a weaker rhythm of course. The best day to buy them is also the Thursday before Black Friday, when they’ve accumulated a devaluation of almost 20%, so that then they can slightly recover on the next days.
FIFA 18 Black Friday FAQ
What you need to know about FIFA 18 Black Friday
Q: What is Black Friday?
A: Black Friday is the day regarded as the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. In this day, the prices are lower making it the one with more sales in the year.
Q: What is the FIFA 18 Black Friday?
A: FIFA 18 Black Friday is an event that Electronic Arts organises for the FIFA 18 community. It includes new offers every hour for 24 hours.
Q: When is the FIFA 18 Black Friday?
A: November 24, 2017.
Q: What can we expect from FIFA 18 Black Friday?
A: Many promo packs, lightning rounds and squad bulding challenges.
Q: Is FIFA 18 Black Friday only a day?
A: Yes.
Q: Which Promo packs can we expect on these days?
A: 15k or 25k packs will probably be permanently available on the store all day on Friday. Additionally, all the other most popular packs will also be available but for a limited time or limited quantity (lightning rounds).
Q: What are Lightning Rounds?
A: Lightning Rounds are new rounds of happy hours in which promo packs are available on the store until they run out. On Lightning Rounds there are a global limited amount of packs to be sold. The first to come are the first to be served. On other hand, without a limit of packs for each user, you are free to buy how many promo packs you want as long as they are not sold out.
Q: When Lightning Rounds will take place?
A: Lightning rounds will be assigned to the most popular FUT 18 packs released on Friday.
Q: Can we expect 100k Jumbo Rare Players Packs ?
A: Yes. These packs are usually released during the Black Friday promotions.
Q: Will EA Sports release free packs to everyone during FIFA 18 Black Friday?
A: Probably no.
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Hello Rodrigo Lopes,
I have question: is there lightningrounds the hole weekend or only on friday?
Friday at 2pm UK time for 24 hours
Monday at 2pm UK time for another 24 hours.
Hi Rodrigo, PS Store doing an offer for FIFA 18 and 8,000 Fifa Points. What would you advise for the best way to use these points around Black Friday / Cyber Monday?
Fifa points? Where we can see this?
This is only an offer for when you first purchase the game, you can purchase a bundle that includes Fifa 18 Icon edition and 8,000 Fifa points.
Use them to buy 50k, 100k or 125k packs. Is possible, open packs when many good IF cards are available.
Hi Rodrigo, I have around 260K, who do I have to buy and when… And when do I have to sell them. I was thinking about players like jesus and bailly, but I don’t know about when to buy and sell them like I said.
If you buy them and track their price every day, you don’t have to be worried. You will always make coins.
I sold 60 players for the most top prices so no there is no drop
Hey rodrigo
Its 20 nov , why prices not drop yet?
It seems to me that the prices of some players are going up.
They did. In fact, Sunday night they dropped but it was just for a few hours. Probably because of the lack of promo packs on the store.
when black friday appears in pakistan
Next Friday. We still don’t know if it will be at midnight or 6 pm UK time.
Hi rodrigo ?
Can I know please what is the best time to buy player exactly based of Egypt ?? time ?
No one knows. Our prediction is that prices will be lower tonight around midnight (Egypt time)
Will there a lower price on FIFA points?
No, they will not reduce the price of FP. However, better packs will be available on the store.
Hello,
I have 1.7 million coins, when is the best time to buy players? Monday (20.11.) Before Black Friday?
I do not have them on business, I just want to build my two teams as cheaply as possible.
Yes, Monday morning or Sunday night will probably be great times to buy.
Hi Rodrigo, I have about 2m coin as I sold all my top rated players. Do you know when and what players do buy to maximize profit?
No one knows, but I believe that Nov 19 at night will be a good time to buy.
Hi Rodrigo, I have around 600k coins and got an average premiership team with 83 ratings, I am wait for a chance to buy some 85+ ratings Players, do you think I should invest my coins in some TOTW IF card or shall I invest my coins in some regular card for some top players like Pogba, De Gea or De Bruyen? Is it a gd time to buy them before Black friday? I am afraid that the price for those top players will drop even further in Dec?
Hi Dave. First of all, in a general way, prices are always dropping from the first to the last day. If you want to buy for a low price, you should try to see how the market is on Sunday night (Nov 19). We believe that prices will go up as soon as Black Friday is released.
I have around 10k amount of coins and squad worth of 60k what you would advise me of?!
That is a small amount of coins. I don’t think you should bother to invest them.
I’m planning to buy players like Lewandowski or Boateng. Lewandowski has already dropped from 250k a few days ago to 220k right now. Will he go further down? So I wait till lightning rounds during Black Friday like 100k packs and try and snipe him potentially under 200k?
Yes, we believe his price will drop even more but probably you should buy him before Black Friday.
Do you have any idea what days before? Three days before? The Sunday before?
Try to see how his price went down on Nov 19 at night.
So I have 5-10 high profile players now and got 140k. When is best to sell/rebuy before market crash? Before or after BF?
I suggest to sell them as soon as possible and buy them back on November 19-20.
is that based of UK time.
Yes. From Sunday to Monday.