FIFA has lost the J1 League license this year

Finding the ideal midfielder to hit that coveted "33" chemistry feels like an Squad Building Challenge now, that's a bit of a deliberate FUT 23 Coins. The Squad Building Challenges can be excellent ways to pass the time doing nothing. But EA's'sudoku for football nerds' best played via the companion app, away from Ultimate Team's unresponsive console menus.

In a dark portent of the licensing fights to come, FIFA has lost the J1 League license this year and this meant that no longer King Kazu. It also led to a change to one of the most exciting Bronze as well as Silver Australian A League team, featuring the feared attacking force Hibs winger Martin Boyle and the aptly called David Ball. Like last year my team, which was my underdog, caused some angry quits from teams sporting million-coin costumes, exposing 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, even though. When I saw more players rolling into the match, I quickly realized that playing three players at the back is a fast way to concede a 3-0 advantage even if your wingers from the opposition have any kind of speed (as they typically do). All in all, it's par for the course in terms of online multiplayer goes, with fidgety twitching and emotion soaring all over the board. It's the FIFA that we are all familiar with, in its most frustrating form.

Regardless whether Ultimate Team's bread butter of buying and selling the snarky little guys is difficult to recommend. Even if I'm still having a bit of fun every year, without ever paying, it's the brutal nature that you're able to quickly fall into debt by going full Gollum with one last treasured player pack.

Beyond consolidating the transfer market There haven't been any meaningful changes to the morally indefensible approach of EA to microtransactions. However, I did notice that ratings have been increasing in the wake of the grand unveiling ceremony cheap FIFA 23 Coins, which somehow makes it appear to be a one-armed bandit...