The sellers and buyers absolutely did destroy the market, but EA also stood by for a long time an enabled the destruction. A few changes here and there could have defeated sellers, like for instance patching the exploits that allow them to farm coins.
Coin sellers/buyers inflated the price for the top 1% of cards but made the other 99% way cheaper. Think of the millions of extra packs that got opened releasing more players into the market that would not have been opened if they couldn't buy the coins. I've played FUT since FIFA 11 and yea the top players were cheaper back then but the regular players were also more expensive than they are now.
But that puts an impassable glass ceiling on your team. If you start out with a ST worth 1000 Fifa coins, play a bit and you can gradually upgrade as you go along. First a 5k striker, then a 10k, etc. There is an actual gradual progression. The way it is now, there is no middle ground.
Cards are either near discard price, or insanely expensive. Let's look at LWs in La Liga. Every single NIF left sided player is discard value, except for Neymar and Ronaldo, who are unaffordable for the vast majority of fifa players. If you're making a BBVA team, you have nowhere to go. You can get the third best LW in the league, but you need to play 1000 games if you want to get the second best.
One of the problems with silvers was that there are less on the market so people choose them for price fixing. Virtually all good MLS and Irish Silvers were also being price fixed before the update. There were like 30 Chermiti's with Bins of 60k when I went on after the update. His lowest BIN was normally around 35k since IF Chik came out but if you got rid of all of the price fixed ones his price would probably have been closer or lower than the 11k max there is now.
Do you know how long you'd have to play to gain enough coins to buy ronaldo? you'd have to play 13777 games.
Or i can play 17 matches and get a 7500 card pack. If i get lucky i can even profit.
Stop ranting already. This game is a football playing game not a fucking Football Cards Economy Simulator.
This doesn't mean i want better rewards too but this is fine and you can't even play it right now the servers are in maintenance. Decide after you play please.
This is the point everyone is so butthurt about. OP here assumes that everyone in the universe will sell for the cap. Well, what if it never sells. That's 100% speculation. For all anyone knows, it could be the opposite and lots of low prices being flooded so people can make Fut 16 coins. there's still a big enough difference for traders to profit. period. |
