EA Sports activities FC 24 is gearing up for its largest promo occasion, as Group of the Yr playing cards are coming quickly. However as is the case with any live-service recreation, particularly this recreation, followers are clearly not proud of the sort of playing cards that they’ve acquired from EA up to now.
Because the Group of the Yr voting has ended after nominations had been not too long ago revealed, there’s anticipation within the air as undoubtedly the perfect playing cards of FC 24 are going to reach. Nevertheless, gamers really feel that ‘smaller’ leagues world wide should not receiving sufficient consideration from the parents at EA, as there have solely been just a few particular Final Group playing cards coming from leagues outdoors the highest 5 European leagues. For these unaware, the Large 5 consists of England’s Premier League, Spain’s La Liga, Italy’s Serie A, Germany’s Bundesliga, and France’s Ligue 1. Apparently, the Saudi Professional League has additionally acquired extra focus from FC 24 this yr, compared to different leagues world wide.
The Eredivisie has had 8 promo playing cards. Liga Portugal acquired 5. The Saudis acquired 19.
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High leagues outdoors the Large 5
Other than them, there are different well-liked leagues as nicely, which host quite a lot of proficient gamers which have traditionally been a looking floor for groups within the prime 5 leagues to bolster their squad. A few of these leagues are the Netherlands’s Eredivisie, Portugal’s Primeira Liga, and in addition Brazil’s Brasileiro. Eredivisie is understood for Ajax the place we’ve seen proficient gamers arriving in recent times equivalent to De Ligt, David Neres, Onana, and extra. Portugal’s league is residence to Benfica who had even topped the UEFA Champions League group forward of PSG and Juventus in 2022.
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Lengthy story brief, there are a great deal of proficient groups and gamers in different leagues which followers world wide respect, they usually anticipated EA so as to add extra particular playing cards in Final Group from these leagues than they’ve acquired up to now.
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Why is the Saudi League receiving so many playing cards in Final Group?
An FC 24 participant took to the EA FC subreddit to focus on that Eredivisie has solely acquired 8 promo playing cards up to now within the recreation, whereas Liga Portugal acquired 5. This pales compared to the Saudi Professional League which has acquired a staggering 22 playing cards. The highlight on the Saudi League is fairly current, and began with Cristiano Ronaldo transferring to Al-Nassr FC, which proved as a catalyst transfer as prime gamers equivalent to Mane, Neymar, Benzema, Kante, and lots of extra switched from Europe to the Saudi League not too long ago.
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There are some gamers who really feel that EA is making an attempt to attraction to the fan base within the Center East, which can be why there’s such a giant distinction within the illustration of leagues. It has additionally been highlighted by some that EA Sports activities is an official sponsor of the Saudi Professional League, which might additionally clarify the matter.
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The participant who highlighted this concern states that EA might merely clear up this drawback by including extra playing cards from completely different leagues, that are enjoyable to play and never essentially top-grade playing cards since it’s extra of a difficulty of selection and illustration of different leagues that gamers additionally respect.
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Even when EA plans on taking steps to resolve this concern, it is going to take a while. Group of the Yr is simply across the nook with bulletins anticipated to reach from January 19 onwards.