Let's cut to the chase, if you are fond of playing the FIFA Ultimate Team market, then you must have already noticed that FIFA 20 suffered its very first crash last week. Why? That's because of Jamie Vardy.
This incredible speedy forward has a prolific October for club side Leicester, and right now he is the Premier League's top scorer with 10 goals. And I have to admit that he is the most popular player in FIFA 20 game.
EA Sports made a decision to release a Player of the Month (POTM) version of Jamie Vardy's card into FIFA 20 Ultimate Team, essentially Vardy's standard card but with much better statistics (92 Pace!) and a pretty nice picture. But what made the FIFA market tumbling was the fact EA released this superb card into the game via an extreme cheap Squad Building Challenge.
For those beginners, Ultimate Team features Squad Building Challenges, known as SBCs, that involve building a squad with cards you already own and depositing them for a reward. Usually, there's some puzzle-solving aspect to the SBC. It probably requires players from two leagues, or three separate nations, or have a minimum overall rating, that sort of thing.
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Most players slove these SBCs by taking to the in-game transfer market to spend virtual FIFA 20 coins on cards they then deposit. By doing this, an SBC can have an associated cost, which is, the amount of coins needed to buy the cards you will need to complete the challenge.
The fact is, Vardy's Player of the Month SBC (Squad Building Challenge) is incredibly cheap cause it is an incredibly easy challenge. And for the requirements are to submit an 11-player team with a minimum overall rating of 83, and a minimum chemistry rating of 75 and finally, a minimum of one player from the Premier League. So easy is this SBC challenge that some players even thought it an error by EA Sports.
As it is, you just only need to spend about 20,000 FUT 20 coins, give or take a thousand or two, to purchase the cards needed to complete it. And therefore, the Jamie Vardy Player of the Month card, which has very good stats and an impressive 86 overall rating, is an incredible value. As a matter of fact, some FIFA Ultimate Team experts have already called this is the best value SBC in the history of FIFA.
The thing is, the accessibility of Player of the Month (POTM) Vardy caused a wave of panic selling, especially from those who owned Premier League cards this brand new Vardy Card essentially replaces in most teams and wanted to get FIFA 20 coins for them as many as possible. And with a lot of these cards now available on the transfer market, their prices naturally dropped because supply outstripped demand. Some Premier League forwards halved in value overnight. The likes of Arsenal's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Manchester United's Marcus Rashford, and Spurs' Lucas Moura all saw hundreds of thousands of coins wiped off their sell price as owners replaced their forwards with Player of the Month (POTM) Vardy. Even the likes of Arsenal's Alexandre Lacazette, Liverpool's Bobby Fermino, and Manchester City's Sergio Aguero saw significant drops.
Then the crash was exacerbated by the launch of the first batch of Road to the Final cards. These cards revolve around players expected to do very well in the Champions League and the Europa League, and upgrade the further the players get into the competitions in real life. For instance, Dortmund's Jadon Sancho, starts off with an overall rating of 86, but if Dortmund wins the Champions League he'll end up the rating of 92. These cards are highly coveted and that will cause players to sell their owned players to generate FUT 20 coins needed to try to get them.
The final press of the panic button came from a FIFA YouTuber with a huge audience. MattHDGamer, who has 2.35m subscribers, published a video on this market crash and then encouraged FIFA 20 Ultimate Team players to sell. And so they have.
So what's gonna happen next? Right now the thinking is players are currently at their lowest value and must recover, although whether they ever recover to their previous price are still remains to be seen. So, there is not much point selling your Premier League forwards now if you have not already.
And as for Jamie Vardy? Guess what, now he is having a party...Haha...
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