EA told Eurogamer that FUT Lootboxes "are a part of FIFA

Elsewhere, there are sweeping changes to the process of chemistry. Chemistry is no longer affected by a player's position in the formation compared to other players. It's a change that enables greater diversification across teams and countries. I don't think it will affect anyone's strategies too much It's nice to know that you can throw in wildcard players and have more opportunities to connect them to top-division players.

The search for the perfect midfielder to achieve that coveted "33" chemistry is very similar to playing a Squad Building Challenge now, which feels intentional. These challenges are excellent ways to pass some time doing nothing. But EA's'sudoku for football fans' is best played on the companion app, away from Ultimate Team's slow console menus.

A dark omen of the football game licensing battles that are to follow, FIFA has lost the J1 League license this year and that meant there was no King Kazu. It also led to the pivot to an exciting Bronze as well as Silver Australian A League team, featuring the feared strike force of Hibs forward Martin Boyle and the aptly named David Ball. Similar to last year my team, which was my least favorite, caused some fury from rivals sporting million-coin outfits that exposed Ultimate Team as a gilded farce.

I still felt the deep humiliation of a two-digit battering at the hands of the pros when they found me out, though. As more players began rolling in, I quickly noticed that playing three at the back is a fast way to get a 3-0 lead even if your wingers from the opposition have at least a little speed (as they usually do). Overall, it's par for the program as far as the online multiplayer is concerned, with fidgety twitching and high-energy across all sides; it's FIFA that we are all familiar with, at its most difficult.

Whatever, Ultimate Team's bread and the butter of selling and buying ridiculous little players is unrecommendable. Even if I still have a bit of pleasure with it each year, but it's the brutal nature that you could be dragged into debt when you go full Gollum with just one more precious player pack.

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