Considered one of the most successful sports franchises in gaming history, FIFA has been a staple for console and PC players for decades now, starting life in the mid 1990s. Alongside the flagship titles, EA's FIFA Ultimate Team, sometimes referred to as FUT, has been an equally important addition to the series for the last decade, with one fan showing ultimate dedication to it by calculating how long it would take to acquire their dream FUT squad.
In a recent post on Twitter, one seriously committed FIFA fan has set a challenge to see if they could get all the players of their choosing without the use of microtransactions. The series of tweets showcases their ideal FUT squad with the goal of seeing if they're achievable without spending a single penny. The Twitter user, who goes by the alias ScudzTV, said their dream team would require 100 million in-game coins to put together.
In calculating how long it would take, they estimate that players would have to put in round 22,000 hours of continuous, 24/7 gameplay, which is the equivalent of around 916 days, or two and a half years. This challenge comes not long after EA Sports President Peter Moore said FIFA Ultimate Team loot boxes were not considered gambling. However, gambling or not, ScudzTV said they would have to pay out nearly £80,000 in total for their team, which is around $111,400 US.
Earlier this month, EA launched an investigation after it was alleged that employees at the company were selling rare FUT cards to gamers, some of which were going for thousands of dollars. The situation caught the attention of the publishing house after fans on Twitter helped get the hashtag #EAGate trending, which led EA to give a statement saying it would bring to justice those who had committed the illicit act, as well as ban the players who had bought them at any point.
With what ScudzTV is telling people on Twitter, many may not be surprised by how much time, effort and/or money needs to poured into an EA-published game in order to get the most out of it. The controversy around loot boxes in FIFA, and other games, still rages on, with some countries, such as Canada, filing a lawsuit against EA over damages brought on by them. What's been laid out before everyone regarding how long it would take, and how much it would potentially cost, to put together a dream FUT squad once again does not shine a good light on EA's business practices.
FIFA 21 is available on PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
Source: Twitter