Loyalty Is A Lifestyle

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[00:00:22] at patreon.com forward slash Foot In Review. You get a range of benefits including exclusive If you try to take away my anxiety for this match and talk about anxiety is EA getting anxious now that rumors about a competitor teaming up with FIFA to create a new football game are heating up welcome for these two up in arms is because it comes across as a loyal consumer that we really like your loyalty and we would really want to provide your loyalty with spend thousands of viewpoints every weekend so But that's fine. Oh look That's fine Right, that's exactly right. That's exactly right. That's that's the bit that I think everyone has the right to turn around and say Take a step back. This is just ridiculous

[00:04:24] A bit cards and then slowly made that two hundred feet for point. That's probably would have been a small simpler step by step way to get to where they're going. But I think Dan keeps saying this over and over again. The difference between EA this year without having the FIFA license with the fact is I don't think they're really worried about how they come across anymore. They don't really care

[00:05:40] about whether they're coming across too greedy. They don't say in advance what it is,

[00:07:00] and they don't do it every month.

[00:07:02] So it's your choice to spend to sometimes

[00:07:04] you get rewarded for, hey, your loyalty

[00:07:06] next to the login bonus, stuff like that. hard to actually, I don't know, it possibly could be the exactly the same, but the intention with the packs for you section is for them to actually curate based on what we're opening. If you open multiple thousands of FIFA points using this particular section, the idea is that, you know, the goal jackpot, a lot of sort of system where the more you open, the

[00:08:20] more chance that your percentage increases, that probably, look, I'm being very logical,

[00:08:26] reasonable here.

[00:08:27] Yes, the is unhorrible. then you get one icon out of it. That's usually how they sort of curate those. They are, they have said, like you said, they have done it in FC24, but we don't know the logic behind it. So it still doesn't make much sense. In Hearthstone is you get a legendary at least one's in 50 packs no matter when you bought it.

[00:09:41] Like it just keeps counting and one's in 50 packs,

[00:09:43] you'll get it.

[00:09:44] You couldn't have five,

[00:09:45] but at least one's in 50 packs, you'll get one. No chance. I couldn't care less about these players. I mean, look, great. Yes, they it's a free player. Yes, but 21 games. I don't have the time at this point in time. And I think after the team of the year grind. I'm not really in. I don the part that really annoyed me was that there was some non-metacards even, not even non-metacards that are like, oh yeah, this would be interesting for me to go ahead and try to evolve there, not on the on the on the market. So I spent hours trying to

[00:12:22] snipe one of them, never could snipe some of me. I think 21 games is just it's a lot. Besides that I see people like, oh you can do those two or three, I'm It's got to be 84 times that you remember to do that and again as I again know spoilers I believe because we have a forward evolution. We have a defense evolution. I'm assuming there'll be a mid-field evolution as well So you add another 40 odd games 42 games again

[00:15:04] It's a hundred and twenty odd games that you need to remember to bring on these cards and you can't do them See you can't do them multiple times. You got to do really worth my time. I think Timothy really grounded me so hard that I just feel like, I'll just do whatever I feel like doing. I'm not going to keep up with everything. It's just not possible. It's not worth it, rather, for me. Yeah, time is really... I mean, I get this free, but at least when you're on my age, time isn't free.

[00:16:23] That makes sense.

[00:16:25] Sometimes it's just easier to get some same play style But as a winger, I think she's got the long wall which is good But then she's got the acrobatic which is useless on a 5 foot 5 Winger, I think there's Oka for the AC Milan Milan striker and he's got some very good play styles. He seems good in game

[00:17:40] I came up against you believe it or not I came up against both of these cards in champs in different accounts and

[00:18:40] By the way, yeah. Was she good?

[00:18:42] Well, the opponent wasn't that good, so it's hard.

[00:18:45] Say how good a guard is when you face it, I think.

[00:18:47] Sometimes you face a guard and like,

[00:18:49] ooh, that looks an impressive card.

[00:18:51] Then the next point you face it in the same part, like,

[00:18:54] well, yeah, it's all right.

[00:18:57] I faced Messi still a couple of times.

[00:18:58] I don't know why I keep facing him.

[00:19:01] Apparently it's just 0.7%, but I still keep facing him.

[00:19:04] But in the right hand,, it is what it is. The weird mistake to make though. Exactly. Exactly. But it's it's quite all right. Oh, do you want to discuss content or do you want to discuss competition? Let's discuss the competition first before we go to content. Which way would you like to do, John?

[00:21:21] multiple times with this whole thing. It's good fun, really good fun.

[00:21:22] Service, not so great, whatever, it's good fun.

[00:21:24] It's lots of pay, you pay along the way, it's fine.

[00:21:27] But what I'm really excited about is we finally have

[00:21:31] deep pockets trying to stand up to EA

[00:21:35] and that really excites me.

[00:21:37] I don't care if it's not a great game,

[00:21:38] but just in the lead up, while this game is being developed,

[00:21:43] at least we know that EA kind of has a competitor.

[00:21:46] There is another person with the S. But finally, we have someone that's got deep pockets that can get all the official franchises, all the official names, all the official clubs, all the official stadiums. And they make video games. It's not like this is some kind of digital media company. They're actually a

[00:23:03] video gaming company. So there is hope. And for game, the last iteration available on C with a studio itself, but I do applaud the competition. So maybe if it just can make a little dent, I think we're all be happy.

[00:25:42] Exactly. Exactly.

[00:25:43] And looking at some of the revenue figures.

[00:25:46] Yeah, fanboy, by the way, sorry about that.

[00:26:45] 100%, it's all about how it's packaged and NBA 2K is packaged pretty well. I remember a couple of years ago, they had a collaboration with Spike Lee.

[00:26:48] That was ridiculously well done.

[00:26:49] That was beautifully done.

[00:26:51] I was just, those kind of things is what NBA bring, 2K brings into the party that

[00:26:56] is different is really they think out of the box and they can actually speed,

[00:27:00] they know what the market, the audience wants.

[00:27:02] And Spike Lee, that kind of thing worked for NBA 2K,

[00:28:06] friends actually gives me enjoyment. We're having fun. I never feel alone. I never feel anxious. I never feel any of those things. I actually enjoy my experience. I think of it like I'm going to a pub.

[00:28:11] I'm not having a beer. I'm playing a game. I'm happy to do that. If a game is able to take

[00:28:17] my engagement and take my money and make me happy at the end of the day, I have no problem in paying.

[00:28:22] This is my argument about EA. I know there's a lot of other consumer base that is happy to pay.

[00:29:23] Oh, it's been really, really good. I think my first break with you ever, if I'm not mistaken, because I usually do the show with Daniela, think I've done a show with you a while ago,

[00:29:27] but I don't remember the break being this good. I think we're getting some really good goodies

[00:29:32] in the break room, which is good. Like it. Yeah, yeah. Talk about goodies. You should really pay

[00:29:38] attention to our social soon, because we're heading slowly, slowly. And I'll give you an example. I'll give you one particular card example, right? Right now, John, have you used the trade-off card? Hello? Do you know how many play styles he's got?

[00:31:00] I have no idea.

[00:31:02] I'll just just bear with me, okay?

[00:31:03] Probably.

[00:31:04] He's got, I'll be honest with you, I packed on the first day of future stars. Look, I sound like a winching so-and-so, but I'm being really frank and honest. I packed Seydof and Petit. And I haven't played much, I just played champs. I didn't want to use them in champs because I

[00:32:24] was so, I just wanted to get my wins and move all have a Usabia in our squads, which is great, but where to from here? The next upgrade is 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15 million coins.

[00:33:45] And the problem is, even if you do havePCs, but during the whole team of the year stage, and I thought I might be spoiled, but I'm not even the only one. The junior whole team of the year stage, a team of the year card would make my team anything else, not worth even trying. Sawa, nice card not getting in my team, right? So

[00:36:23] that was sort of the promotion. Like I opened pack not a there was nothing to grind for to spend the photo on. They changed that. Now we're in a point where, you know, there's nothing left for us to grind for. And I packed the 90 rated best, 93 best I was building. I packed the 19 in gamble. Compare that as like one, two difference like, am I actually going to spend one million to grind out this SPC? Or do I keep the 90 rate because it's a swap? Anywho,

[00:37:42] you know what, just leave it there. It something that you can actually quantify. 5 million feels like nothing. So what would you do? You just go ahead and get free of what opening those two packs

[00:39:03] with the hope of packing an amazing icon in one it does work. If you're lucky enough, I'm not saying it doesn't work. So one in a million will pack something great, which is brilliant. But if you peel it back, we're all being programmed to have untradable themes. We're all being programmed to think about coins as an avenue to open packs with.

[00:40:22] And I've not even joking.

[00:40:23] I've heard two podcasts in the past, which can diminish by using something. I think that goes against building your ultimate team because you are in a play-dance player. So I've, over the past three years, I've just

[00:41:40] completely went to, you know what? Don't want to realize. I think the other side, if you do, how are you going to do like the only thing I'm a little bit worried about Crive Crive is still I do like Crive. I do like a Crive. That's one card that I will I usually always enjoy. It's at some point

[00:44:21] usually hoolett and Crive, but already

[00:44:24] had the hoolett, even though it's a

[00:44:25] defensive one, I will get Crive at some

[00:44:26] point. But going back. And yeah, let's just go and just buy the card rather than doing these gamble packs. We'll see. We'll see soon enough. I don't think we have to wait until the summer, if I'm quite honest. We'll see you there. We got some Sunday questions. Sorry, I have one final question for you, John. Who's the

[00:45:43] one card that you would love at the start of the year of course, but they might release a new Ronaldo next week. That's something they've done this year by saying we don't do babies. I know people are very happy saying, oh, we don't have baby icons anymore, middle icons and things like end icons. But at least you know what you're getting into.

[00:47:02] And that's a new problem.

[00:47:03] We have footage or we have future. And there's a pool, like there's the Croyf, there's Nine's, but there's also like our best and there's like a Sawa and those kind of things. I think we'll see those experiences coming up when we already see that by giving us daily camp where we see some icons already. I will see soon enough like, when we do 87 rated and include base,

[00:48:21] people don't do it when we out base

[00:48:24] and we name it 88 rated plus, which are the same players.

[00:48:27] People just go ham on it. in by Bankai 35 and he says our place without playstyles too heavily penalized. For example, player with over 90 shooting but no financial field, you'll finesse like a bronze player or player without incisive boss will really struggle with true balls. I think that's also where the difference is between the high rate of players and the power curve currently because they add power to the curve

[00:49:40] with playstyles now. What do you think?

[00:49:41] Oh, 100% agree. 100% these playstyles, please play styles.

[00:49:45] Look, they're off and there's hardly any players with playstyle pluses and I keep telling them this is just frustrating. Whenever you see that yellow thing pop up on a few players you think, oh yes, unique body body and he doesn't have to unique play styles on him so don't ever do that. Just fine if you do it but don't mess it to me because it's not saying it tilts me but it's getting on my nerve. I know exactly what was officially Casio, Casio was an eager. All right. But so I use Casio, I've used Yoshi, I've tossed him in an SBC. He's all right. He's definitely good. But hey, I'm not going to replace Casio, Casio is because insanely far saves the one he can come with.

[00:53:40] I do think that Fonda-Sar might be,

[00:53:42] if I would pack Fonda-Sar, I'd probably switch them around.

[00:53:48] But yeah, that's like so there's no reason for me to ever conceal or not a cool keeper, I think. That helps, but it's also a little bit boring. We got some tactical questions, not sure we can go into depth of all of them, but Simon Fudjama

[00:55:00] sends in the questions and sends this. I'll't really expand the play much because it's all focused on just doing that. So yeah, that's why I struggle with it sometimes. Yeah, just to my two cents, you need to be able, if you want to play and start like this to trigger runs yourself.

[00:56:26] So all I want to get past what, I'll trigger them back. Possession is just too slow. Yeah, really too slow. And there are plays that can make it work, but you have to use a very high

[00:57:41] depth. So that's risky as well. Like I know, Comshot will come towards you. I usually do that by triggering the run towards me with R1, taking R1 once. And I look at my opposition before I make my play. So I play a little bit different as well.

[00:59:01] I don't play on, I mostly focus on's what the target man does. Correct. Or, and then get people running forward, lay the ball back and go in those openings. We have the players for it, but they can't really do it. Yeah. Consistently, because if a virtual or a multi-nigist runs in behind, times the decor, right? They just eat a buddy off the ball or they can't do the first touch really well. They

[01:00:22] have to go back one, two meters, which means they don't want to see your leaf because you made 11 wins. 11 and 0. 11 and 0 is the goal. It's going to happen. It's going to happen one day, 11 and 0. That's the time that I mean, I know you can do it, but if that means your time and time very much against it. It's just one of those things where it's really it's just it sounds so simple to people

[01:01:40] that get 14, 16, 11, 0 should be hard. It shouldn't be that hard, but trust me, it's just 11 and 0.