Lootboxes in FIFA 22: EA has not heard the shot

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FIFA s use of Lootboxes introduces the football franchise constantly loud criticism. However, Publisher EA is obviously aware of any guilt and tries to defend the feature with sloping excuses. A column of Gregor Elsholz.

FIFA is a game with the over 25 million players behind a ball - and in the end always wins EA. The franchise is incredibly successful and for the publisher not least because of the revenue from Lootboxes from the FIFA ultimate team mode extremely lucrative.

While the microstransaktions of the football franchise have been ensuring completely legitimate criticism for years, EA is trying to pull again with questionable rhetorical tricks - and operates essentially like Sergio Ramos in his two-stroke guide. Eas Chief Experience Officer Chris Bruzzo has now delivered some particularly abstruse arguments in an interview, which guarantees no trophy.

FIFA 22: Lootboxes have long legs

In the interview with Eurogamer Bruzzo is explicitly asked for the Lootbox mechanics in FIFA games. His attitude is extremely acrobatically as with a spectacular fallrupturer: According to Bruzzo, Lootboxes like football business work in real life and thus contribute to the realism of the series.

The pay-to-win reproach, which is also fully attributable again and again in discussions about the FUT mode, Bruzzo interprets Bruzzo in a player authorization: Gamers had the choice, money for (the chance of) better Players spend - and this choice is something positive.

To round off his argument chain, Bruzzo also emphasizes that 9 out of 10 Lootboxes are acquired with Ingame Coins and at all only 22 percent of all FIFA players issue real money in FUT mode. (Source: Eurogamer).

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Even with a lot of imagination, the transfer business in professional football of course does not work in no way that managers do money for surprise packs on the head and then annoy them, at best acceptable, at best, to have pulled in the fifth time - though they actually wanted to have a left-edge defender.

With the mechanisms of the real transfer market, the Lootboxes have nothing to do in the FUT mode. The only realistic in common is the blatant and ruthless money, which is based on both systems - a parallel that EA would reluctantly admit.

FIFA: Lootboxes are not player-friendly

Bruzzo, however, represents Lootboxen in the interview as a positive feature, from which player could benefit from greater freedom of choice and realism - statements that sound in view of the partially financially ruinous consequences for gamers in real life like hohn.

Lootboxes are and remain gambling mechanics that target susceptible players. This also does not change statistics that the majority of FIFA players spend no money for FUT. Finally, as a exploitative system, it does not necessarily have to take a bit from all Gamern, but a few very much. The only truly player-friendly alternative for EA would be to do without Lootboxes.

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Lootboxes have been a real problem in FIFA for years. EA still does not seem to acknowledge this - in a new interview, the publisher tries in vain to defend the feature with which he earns huge sums annually.