EA screwed up big time with a now-deactivated 86+ TOTY Player Pick SBC that included a guaranteed Lionel Messi. Will EA compensate players who missed out on the SBC?
Oops, they did it again.
Remember the Hero pack fail from FIFA 23 where players got basically a Hero card for 25K? Now, EA has set new standards of failure. But what happened?
86+ SBC Included Guaranteed TOTY Messi
On January 30, 2024, in EA Sports FC 24, they released an 86+ SBC that included players from various leagues, including the MLS.
The shocker? Many players packed TOTY Lionel Messi, since he is the sole MLS player with a rating over 86. So whenever a player got lucky enough to get an MLS player in the player pick, it was guaranteed to be the GOAT himself.
EA quickly disabled the SBC, but not before a significant portion of the community had already added TOTY Messi to their squads. The burning question: will they send out a compensation to those poor souls who missed this SBC?
Will EA Send Out A Compensation To The Rest Of Us?
There is speculation that EA will remove Messi from your club if you were lucky enough to get him. We can almost assure you that this won't happen, they can't take cards away once they are out there because it would be too complicated to track how you got him.
There are also rumors that EA will now give everyone TOTY Messi as compensation – but we can only laugh at such ideas. EA has never compensated the community fairly for their failures.
FREE MESSI FOR EVERYONE THEN????
— Donk (@DonkTrading) January 30, 2024
What might happen is that we get a loan TOTY Messi for a certain number of matches.
Calling it now, EA will give everyone a loan TOTY Messi with 99 games on it.
by u/StarPlatinumZaWrldo in EASportsFC
But if you ask us, we are almost certain that EA will not send any compensation at all – those who got the GOAT were lucky and the rest of us can f*ck off.