EA reveals FIFA19 card pack odds. .001% chance to receive highest tier. - Sensationalist Headlines

added one 0 too many: As Eurogamer pointed out, this could meant that the chance of pulling a Ones to Watch player is as low as 0.01 percent seeing how other percentages were deliberately laid out, decimals and all, but the Ones to Watch category simply says it’s less than 1 percent. That player chance percentage and the rest of the odds for pulling from different categories can be seen below.

TF2's chance for an unusual is around .66%, and around .44% for a knife in CSGO, and you can turn these items into real money, as opposed to FIFA.

All of the prominent gamers, or anyone that gives a fuck, doesn't play these types of games so EA can do whatever they want.

What's really disgusting is that they sponsor a bunch of streamers on twitch who do nothing but open free FIFA card packs all day that they get from EA, and the packs are obviously rigged because they get amazing shit from them all the time.

they are only disclosing the odds to make it seem less like gambling. their argument now is "you know exactly what you were paying for, it's not gambling".

Technically it never was. You spin a slot machine or roulette wheel and you'll either get something or fuck-all. You always get something with loot boxes, even if it's a common item that you have a hundred of already. And that's how they squeeze by and say it's not gambling.

It's operating on casino principles on getting people to part with their money, genius. Whitewash it all you want, it doesn't change the fact it's predatory and exploitative and should be thrown the fuck out of the industry.

Shit man, you're right. Lets ban trading card game blister packs too since it's basically the same thing

You can sell trading cards, or you know, trade them, at any time, for any money you or the vendor sees fit, on your own behalf. Once they are in your hands, they are your property, and you get to whatever you want with them. Lootboxes do not operate on those terms. The digital goods are not yours; you obtain the rights to use them on an account for a game running at a company's discretion, without any form of legitimate ownership on your end. The items, in a crushing majority of cases, cannot be traded, sold or used in any other way than those specifically intended by the company which created them, meaning even their potential trade and sale is done through their systems. Digital content is captive goods, trading cards are free goods. They are not comparable in any greater length than some epic zinger or a tired, broken and stiflingly bad analogy that barely even serves as a retort, let alone an argument.

Yeah, nah. People keep saying they are the same thing, but never explain why beyond 'Well, you buy a little packet with cards in it. And in the video game, you open a box containing a X in them." The argument is full on dishonest bullshit and you fucking know it. But then again, you called EA fucking brave over this. The fundamental difference is that those cards can actually be traded and sold to other to recoup some of your loses. You cannot do that with 99% of lootbox garbage, since most games have lootboxes designed to drop things that are bound to you and you alone. What do you do then? Do you sell your account? Nope can't do that. It's tied to a service you use like Steam, Origin, Xbox LIVE etc. Take your dishonest garbage and peddle it to someone else.

FIFA players deserve this shit for supporting it in the first place

Ah, so if you can turn the cards into a generic resource then it's cool then. Gotcha. That, or Valve's trading economy in TF2 is lootboxes done right, even though getting virtual boxes full of piss jars are worth next to nothing but a few cents. No, EA are brave for openly disclosing the odds, something that TCGs do and I hope becomes the norm and outright expected. It's unexpected of EA to do this because they are the most predatory of the publishers and they're not going to pull lootboxes, I don't think too many states are going to classify them as gambling because - shock of all shocks - senators barely know what the fuck a video game is. But hey, maybe they should instead bitch about player entitlement and keep the odds to themselves. Dangle it over peoples head that they're just unlucky by getting crap cards and slyly adjust the levers of common and rare varieties depending on demographics and shit. No. God no.

' So what's the taste of Andrew Wilson's dick ?

Yeah I think this about wraps this up

Am I supposed to be impressed by your ability to find parts of someone's text for 'gotcha' parts? You're not as clever as you think you are. My guy, read. Think. Then ponder on what is actually happening rather making smarmy shitposts disguised as opinions. Or if those are your actual opinions, then I hope for your sake you don't enter any place that allows gambling, because your ass has sucker written all over it.

I wonder when EA is going to pop out their heads to make some dumb excuses and apologies about this and immediately continue doing what they apologized for

I don't understand people who get suckered into this every year. In games like Tf2 and CSGO it's a permanent item that isn't going to be worthless in a year, it's the same game getting updated over several years. But fifa and 2k are run like a free to play game where your progress gets erased once a year. It makes no sense to me why someone would invest in something that they know is going to be obsolete in a year.

Good lord and I thought the rates in my Gatcha games could be bad.

Ultimate Team really should be free to play at this point. The rest of the game has been neglected for the past 5 years with the exception of the shitty 'Journey' mode that I'm not sure anyone cared about.