It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year In FIFA Ultimate Team

thegamer.com:

I always want to create my dream team in Ultimate Team. That’s, like, the point. We’re all swayed by meta options and cheap Squad Building Challenges at some points of the game cycle, but at the end of the day most players are here to have fun with an absolutely cracked squad.

I’ve had fun this year, I think. My past and present Liverpool team was a great experiment, and progressed much further than that article suggests, with the likes of Prime Icon Moments Gerrard, Prime Dalglish, Flashback Gomez joining the squad, and special cards for Harry Wilson, Divock Origi, Ryan Kent, Conor Coady, Philippe Coutninho, and Fábio Carvalho (does he make it a past, present, and future team?) readying themselves to make an impact from the bench. I’ve played in more Weekend Leagues too, but my red picks have been unuseable. I’ve packed two Icons now (Fernando Torres graced my Marquee Matchups rewards), and that luck has been reversed in Icon upgrades and player picks (Crespo, Koeman, Ferdinand). But, as the Premier League season has come to its disappointing yet inevitable conclusion and football fans are looking forwards to the Champions League final as a last hurrah of 21/22, Ultimate Team is just getting started.

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That’s not quite true. We’re in the Ultimate Team endgame, at least for FIFA 22, the ‘getting started’ period probably started in January with Team of the Year. I saved over 100 packs for that and didn’t pull a single one, though, so I don’t count it. It’s only now that EA is really giving us the good stuff.

It doesn’t make it easy for players – we still need to shell out for those microtransactions if we want the best chances at getting our hands