EA Says FIFA 19 will Disclose Pack Odds

[btarunr]

FIFA (the game) is big in the EU, where game studios recently felt the bite of regulators over the loot-crate controversy, with some voices in the European Commission even threatening to impose gambling sanctions. The post-World Cup release of FIFA rides on the real-world tournament's popularity, and tends to be a major release. FIFA 19, according to EA, will shield itself against the wrath of EU regulation by disclosing upfront the odds that the Ultimate Team pack (a loot-crate) you're about to buy isn't a sack of potatoes.

"For Ultimate Team, when you buy a pack you know what you are getting. You are getting a certain number of assets that are guaranteed - and we're going to start to do pack odds disclosures that'll show you the odds of what you might get," said Daryl Holt, VP and COO of EA Sports, in an interview with Eurogamer. "That'll be in our product year 19 titles. So, at least that aspect of understanding what the chances are of getting X, Y and Z card." The current FIFA 18 includes a more crude implementation of what EA is proposing. It only discloses a vague inventory of the contents of the pack (number of players and consumables).



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[Deleted member 178884]

So basically more money grabbing - this is why you play the odd fifa games if you like football, great job at being a untouched monopoly EA

 

[INSTG8R]

So odds eh? Sounds a lot like gambling to me no?

 

[Deleted member 178884]

So odds eh? Sounds a lot like gambling to me no?

The entire game is gambling, it's the same game refreshed with "better graphics" and "better physics"

 

[INSTG8R]

The entire game is gambling, it's the same game refreshed with "better graphics" and "better physics"

Well that’s been every sports game ever(never bought a single one in my 25+ years of gaming) This a fairly new phenomenon but regardless it’s clearly gambling, you know that stuff that has an 18+/adult rating in pretty much most of the world. Some 12 year old with a credit card number certainly isn’t gonna get past the door of a Casino, but here we are...

 

[Deleted member 178884]

Well that’s been every sports game ever(never bought a single one in my 25+ years of gaming) This a fairly new phenomenon but regardless it’s clearly gambling, you know that stuff that has an 18+/adult rating in pretty much most of the world. Some 12 year old with a credit card number certainly isn’t gonna get past the door of a Casino, but here we are...

It's been like this since the first few online fifa's - they can sure allow online game gambling with a 12+ limit but they don't enforce a higher age limit, they will get away with it - The main game is the football and they're using it to cram with micro transactions the whole "ultimate team" online option is practically gambling

 

[enxo218]

EA thinks fifa is about packs when really it was just about football

 

[Caring1]

EA thinks fifa is about packs when really it was just about football

Football isn't about football, it's about money.

 

[punani]

Hey EA. I have a pack of money right here. I can tell you the odds of you getting it. 0