FIFA 23 Needs To Rework Team Of The Week

thegamer.com:

Do you remember the last time you pulled a Team of the Week card and actually got excited? I think mine was in FIFA 20. This year, I came close to excitement when I pulled a nice Andy Robertson card for my Liverpool past and present team, but my joy was quickly quelled when I realised I already had his Road to the Group Stage live card that was better in every way.

Red picks are nice, but that’s purely for the colour and prestige associated with them. You earned those cards through sweat, tears, and a thousand cheeky pullbacks in FUT Champions, and you’ll show them off, goddammit. My 84-rated Jude Bellingham stayed in my squad for an embarrassing length of time just because he was a red pick. But he was a weak link in my team.

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I haven’t used a single Team of the Week player this season, at least as far as I remember. For a quick recap: Team of the Week players are an upgraded version of a player’s Gold card awarded in recognition of good play that week. If a player has another good week – a hat-trick the week after scoring a brace, for example – then their next Team of the Week card will be an upgrade on their upgrade. However, the upgrades are constantly outclassed by other cards, and FIFA has outgrown the need for the cards.

For many years, Team of the Week was basically the only upgrade a card could get. Team of the Year and Team of the Season would rear their heads once a year respectively, but other promotions were few and far between. Nowadays, however, there isn’t a day without another promo.

Even before Team of the Season, which is the most fun time to grind upgrade packs and play matches with cracked squads, every FUT 22 promo outclassed that