EA isn’t having the best run of it. A series of suspect SBCs and ruining the league SBCs with untradeable packs has left many in the community a little disillusioned (even more than usual.)
The Base Icon Upgrade SBC is now available – quite early from EA, really – and it costs an absolute HUGE pile of coins. Probably upwards of 500k on both consoles, and that’s even when the markets settle a little bit.
This is almost 100% definitely not worth the cost.
Yes.
You do get an Icon at the end of SBC.
However, the cost of an 87-rated squad, an 86-rated squad, and two 85s are basically designed to clean you out of coins or untradeable players.
That’s to say if you even get a base icon worth anywhere near 500k. Knowing these fantastic EA pack rates, you’ll likely pack a nice 250k Inzaghi. It’s just not a good idea to gamble with your coins and players in this way.
When you take a look at the Base Icons currently available, you’ll see that the ratio of decent cards vs. cards cheaper than the SBC is pretty massive. Coming in at around 70/20 for cheap cards vs. cards that might vaguely be worth it.
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The problem gets even worse when you take a look at the recently-ruined league SBCs. Last year you could have ground out a few high-rated players with the player rewards for the Lib and Sub SBCs. In FIFA 21, there are no players as rewards.
That means you’ll need to either buy high-rated cards or use the untradeable cards from your club. Neither is worth it in this case.
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To make it just that little bit worse for the player, EA gives back a couple of 25k packs for the effort. You would’ve thought – for an 86-rated or 87-rated squad – you might get back at least a few more rare golds.
This Base Icon SBC is pretty much guaranteed to ruin your day, although I imagine a lot of people are going to do it anyway. I’d recommend you just wait a couple of weeks for potentially better SBCs arriving with the Black Friday promo.