CENTRAL POINT is the fortnightly column of FIFA U Team website, written by Hugo Versiani.
You will find here the most hot Ultimate Team topics but also old stuff, described in a very objective and special way.
In this third episode, “Wanted FC: The Extincion of the Best FIFA 15 Players”, the author identifies and analyses the most interesting collateral damage resulting from the Price Ranges implementation in FIFA 15 Ultimate Team.
Wanted FC: The Extinction of the Best FIFA 15 Players
Today’s article isn’t going to be about criminals, security on stadiums or even money laundering within player transfers. I won’t approach any football criminal investigation subject. Also there isn’t any player missing in real life, but in FUT we can already start spreading the word for these poor bastards as in the american western movies: WANTED!
When observing the FUT market on the PC during these last few weeks, I started noticing some lack of offer for the most popular players with whom I intended to do some trading or at least see if they were worth the investment. Tired of getting the “no player found with this criteria” message although I wasn’t filtering for anything, I decided to carry on with this subject.
I started a research based on the players that were among the unlimited budget squads recommended on our league guides Barclays Premier League, Bundesliga, Liga BBVA, Ligue 1 and Serie A). For people that were used to spending several minutes swiping through pages and more pages of players being sold for many prices and styles, here’s what time has done. No more of that.
Several situations emerged at the start of the analysis. When hitting search three situations came to light. The first one, for example, with the unquestionable Reus, extremely demanded for squads based on the Bundesliga, German nationality and even hybrids for his quality, didn’t show us a single card. Notice there’s absolutely no filter other than the player himself.
Analyzing the Origin (PC) price ranges history on futwiz (no advertisement intended), you can see a difference of 22.500 coins for the new minimum and 32.500 coins for the new maximum in just a 13 days period for Borussia’s player. How much did you pay for Reus before price ranges again? That’s why many people would rather not sell this player, and it results on this, absolutely none on the market, besides there’s EA’s interest among all this. His owners won’t sell him and the ones who don’t have him want to buy desperately. Is Reus really worth only that? During these studies, the cards that eventually showed up (no more than three) were bought by buy now in the blink of an eye.
The second situation has to do with players that are still present at the market, but only their IF, you just can’t find their regular card. The German 2014 world champion defender Boateng is a great example for us to understand this one. If we take a look at the image below we notice there’s a large quantity of differentiated cards for sale and, more exactly, the first card (MOTM, with Shadow chemistry style) is being auctioned with its minimum buy now price. In case you’re not familiar with that, chemistry styles Shadow, Catalyst and Hunter are sold for a much higher price than the others, for they’re considered special consumables.
Still using Jérôme Boateng as example, I do the same analysis I did previously on Reus, plus on his upgraded card. On his original release card, without the upgrade and after price ranges, the centre back was being sold for 6000 minimum and 16000 maximum. Now sharing this tip with you FUT fans, listen: both Boateng’s rare gold cards have got similar attributes, but totally different prices; the 86 rated one got its first price change in less than a week, having its minimum lowered by 2.750 coins and maximum increased by 2.250 (Origin prices considered); Is it really worth spending 19.000 more coins (considering the minimum for each one) for such a suspicious upgrade? I leave this decision to you, but if it was me I would even try my luck on packs, or better, take the money to invest in trading, rather than using the 86 rated one as pure luxury or aesthetics.
Now the third and last situation is regarding the number of live auctions on the market. Still in the Bundesliga, now using Schweinsteiger for our subject, notice the small amount of pages (2) we got for searching up Bayern’s midfielder. But then you might ask: -Doesn’t that depend on the time of the day in which the search is made at the UT transfer market? Of course, but I’ve been looking at this closely for the last fifteen days and even at higher traffic times it doesn’t get much better than that. And what does number of pages has to do with the discussion? Everything! The lack of demand for this player card lowers its offer on the market. In UT’s case, regarding this player’s rough price falling, for example, all of this discourages traders because of the low profit, and then there’s also the fact that the coin sellers are gone.
Other players find themselves in the same situation as those we used as examples above. This way, I decided to form a team with players who are in similar conditions to the three mentioned along this article. What about you, have you got another player for this squad?
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In general, the main FUT 15 player cards suffer the effect of the last actions took by EA. In order for them to not lose more clients, or in other words, keep profiting (that’s what I see the most on FUT-related discussions), EA better be thinking about how they are gonna clean up this mess for their own good, maybe adapt these changes since none of them were made the right way.
What about the markets on the other two platforms, what are their conditions? In terms of trading we already know about the difficulties everyone’s having, but it’s not an impossible task, you just have to adapt the old techniques and chase new markets. An alternative to trading, mainly for those that don’t have time but money, is selling IF cards (TOTW, TOTY, TOTS, MOTM, iMOTM) acquired from packs, but that’s all about luck. Another option is investing in consumables. But I’ll leave that for the next articles.
If you happen to find any of these wanted players, don’t think there’s gonna be that big of a reward, but I do guarantee we’ll have much to talk about and experiences to discuss along the upcoming months!
Hello 🙂 Nice article. I see it was posted on April 14th, so after 2 weeks, still nothing happened. It’s frustrating, because it’s not my fault (for example) that there were illegal coins buyers. Maybe I just want to play with Lewandowski and Reus, but I cannot, because EA lowered their prices and those who bought them legitimately or not won’t sell. This is unfair for a game that it’s supposed to be fair. As you said, I can try my luck with the packs, but how do you that I won’t spend lots of coins until I find a decent rare gold player? Thanks again EA, I do feel the game.
Brilliant point. I 100% agree with you.
Well yesterday I got relegated from Division 2 unfairly.
1 game left, needed to win to stay up. 6-2 up in the 90th minute, looking set for a comfortable win and another season in division 2. Then with no transition at all, the game just send me back to the FUT menu, and when I check divisions I’ve been relegated to Division 3!
I didn’t disconnect from Xbox Live. My internet was on full strength and directly connected to my Xbox. I hadn’t disconnected from EA Servers and I hadn’t received the generic ‘DNF’ message or a stock 3-0 loss for losing the game. Yet I’ve been relegated, and lost my status unfairly.
Talking to EA customer support isnt very helpful as well, they gave me the same advice the last time this issue happened with random disconnections. And the compensation, a pack or two – they know its a measly amount for what I’ve got in return! I’d rather give back the pack and even go as far as to accept my BS relegation if it meant that I could be assured that I could play a game without it freezing, ‘disconnecting’ or any other stupid glitches. I’m honestly losing my patience with the game, and though I can’t get too angry at the guys I speak to over customer support (they’re just doing their job) I find it frustrating hearing the same generic responses over and over again. Really fed up with FUT at the moment. 🙁
Sorry if this came across a bit ranty, I just wanted to see if anyone else has had this sort of thing happen.
i was pleasantly surprised that david luiz IF was on sale on ps4 recently.. bought him for 88K..
basically have given up on trading ever since the market crashed due to artificial price pricing by EA.
my up Neymar for 750K is now worth 200+k?.. lol..
still playing the game but stuck in div 5/4 ..
I have a concept squad on PS4 made of players which are extinct in the hope I will find one, preferably undervalue. It includes IF Bale, IF Fellaini, Armero, Abate, IF Alaba, and many others. I think it is ridiculous that these players are virtually unavailable. I have never even seen an IF Bale on the market whereas I usually see 2-3 of the others at any given time. It is ridiculous and EA need to fix this.
Absolutely true, my friend.
this also happens massively every time a totw is released you cant find many of the IF’s anywhere!
Absolutely true.
And it will not change. Who pulls an IF card don’t sell it because he knows he will not find that card in the market again.
it is such a shame! i really wanted to try out pastore from this TOTW!! he would be such a great link to bring ibra in to my ligue 1/serie A hybrid
Also when i have been searching through forums (trying to buy pastore) i have found alot of people are spam searching for extinct players and hoarding until ranges go up!! another frustrating situation caused by EA’s introduction of price ranges
Exactly.
Nice article 🙂
Perhaps an even more harmful affect on players with less spending coins – the players EA introduced the ranges to benefit – is the increase in once cheaper players. Players who were around discard price have rocketed up to a significantly higher price, due to the lack of market activity reducing the supply of any specific card. A player with not a lot of coins looking for cheap squads is spending more now than he did before the price ranges kicked in, bargains are extremely hard to come across yet before the market was littered with cheap deals. How has that affect been a good one for anyone in the market without money?
So frustrating that EA have singled out this region of the game as the ‘only problem’ when most players would probably have a number of things above it.
Yes, there are so many things to fix in this game.
If a player gets a red card in the game, how can I get him back? Please answer this and help me.
Just put him in the reserves. He will be ready to play one match later.