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FIFA 22 Ultimate Team will let you see inside loot boxes from launchAfter a successful trial in FIFA 21
After a successful trial in FIFA 21
EA have detailed how FIFA Ultimate Team is changing forFIFA 22when it launches on September 26th. Chief among the new features is the adoption of Preview Packs, which let you see the contents of one of Ultimate Team’s lucrative loot boxes before you decide whether to buy it.
Preview packs were introduced recently toFIFA 21, anda post on the FIFA 22 sitesays that they’re being added from launch this time “following a positive reception from fans.”
FIFA 22 | Official Reveal TrailerWatch on YouTube
FIFA 22 | Official Reveal Trailer
In reality, FIFA Ultimate Team has at the centre of several government’s efforts to crack down on gambling among children in online games. In 2018,sixteen gambling regulators united to issue a warningabout loot boxes and digital football cards. EA also had to stop selling Ultimate Team cards in Belgium in 2019 after the country’s gambling commissionruled that loot boxes in some games constituted illegal gambling.
Last year, some players filed a lawsuit against EA, claiming that FIFA used “dynamic difficulty adjustment” in order to make teams underperform in Ultimate Team matches and incentivise more sales of loot boxes. The lawsuit was thendropped back in Marchafter the plaintiffs were allowed to speak to EA’s engineers.
The PC version of FIFA 22 will bebased on the last-gen console versionwhen it launches next week.
