Game news FIFA 23: “I’m Blacklisted”, this streamer compares FUT to a pay-to-win and EA gives him no gifts!
It’s been a month since the new version of FIFA is now available on consoles and PC. With this release, FUT mode has been emulated by the biggest players who love to stream their games and open packs on the Twitch platform, like Trymacs, one of the German stars of online video game entertainment. However, the discovery of FIFA 23 quickly gave way to bitterness and the streamer ended up reacting particularly sharply to the FUT economic model. Words unappreciated by publisher Electronic Arts.
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- This Twitch Star Criticizes FIFA 23, EA Releases Retaliation
- FUT is not pay to win, EA wants us to know that!
This Twitch Star Criticizes FIFA 23, EA Releases Retaliation
On the streaming platform Twitch, the release of FIFA 23 excited the gaming community and spawned a whole heap of content. In France, you can follow the progress of many streamers who decide to try the FUT adventure or, in a completely different genre, participate in the extended evenings of the every other week FC Silmi, a workout led by coach Domingo. Our German neighbors also have familiar faces from the world of FIFA, such as Maximilian Stemmler, better known under the pseudonym “Trymacs”, and none other than one of the biggest streamers from Germany. Like many other people, he was impatiently waiting for the release of FIFA 23 to devote a lot of time – but also money, with no less than 21,000 dollars – to the FIFA Ultimate Team mode, also called FUT.
In the end, this investment didn’t go to waste for Trymacs, as it managed to assemble both the most efficient team in the game and the most expensive of them. Except that this beautiful table in FUT mode has only lasted for a while: surpassed by the game’s economic model, namely a system of packs of random cards from players that are obtained by spending a virtual currency … or real Money, The streamer has decided to boycott FIFA 23 while slamming Electronic Arts for adding gambling mechanics to its title. Inevitably, the American publisher’s ears were ringing and he quickly contacted the streamer for an explanation… and to send him a very surprising request!
FUT is not pay to win, EA wants us to know that!
During a discussion with fellow streamer Unplayed, Trymacs explained that his comments had serious consequences for himparticularly with regard to its partnerships with Electronic Arts, as he would have been stripped of any endorsement contract with the American publisher who would have blacklisted him in retaliation. According to him, the fact that he publicly states that FUT is in a way ” Casino for children ” and ” exaggerated fraud would be a tricky problem for Electronic Arts. In response, the American publisher would have come to ask him to make a video on the paid aspects of FIFA 23.
Electronic Arts would have asked the German streamer about the idea making a video where he would explain that FUT mode is not a pay-to-win (literally pay to win) but a pay-to-progress (to pay in advance). With this statement, Trymacs wanted to prove that the subject of FIFA loot boxes at Electronic Arts is a sensitive and often controversial one, as we saw last August made this decision of the editor, albeit controversial.
