Microtransactions in video games may be one of the most despised aspects of modern-day gaming. Many claim that they can overshadow the game's natural progression to the point where some microtransaction-heavy titles require the player to spend real money.  EA has run into a lot of criticism and even some legal trouble for its use of microtransactions. According to Twitter user ScudzTV, their latest offense with FIFA21's  FIFA Ultimate Team mode may be one of their worst.ScudzTV put out a series of tweets that broke down the problems with EA's claim that players can unlock their desired players without spending real-life money. He assembled a team of some of his favorite players and calculated just how long it would take him to unlock them without actually spending any money. Whilst EA's claim is technically true, the amount of time it would take to get enough in-game currency to buy these players has caused plenty of outrage with FIFA fans are gamers alike.RELATED: Minecraft: Education Edition's AMAZING Features Should Come to Other Versions

To start, ScudzTV's dream-team of players includes ten well-known soccer players that all have in-game overall rankings in the 90s. It'd certainly be reasonable to assume that players would have to spend some time to get these kinds of characters. However,  ScudzTV calculated that he'd need to spend 100 million in-game coins to get his team. To earn those 100 million coins, he'd need to play FIFA Ultimate Team for exactly  22,000 real-world hours. Of course, there are multiple other ways to earn coins other than playing matches. Players can use their stock market skills and monitor how many coins certain players are going for, buying at low prices and selling them back for more. Many online guides call this the most reliable way to get coins in FIFA Ultimate Team, but it would still take over 1500 hours to earn 100 million coins, assuming that someone would make 10,000 coins per trade consistently.

It certainly seems as though EA wants players to spend money to build their dream-teams, despite their claim to the contrary. FIFA Ultimate Team has a premium currency that players can buy called FIFA points. Assuming 10,000 coins of profit from the packs bought with FIFA points, ScudzTV calculated that he'd need to spend £79,990 or over $110,000 to get enough coins to buy his dream team.

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Based on the math, FIFA21's microtransactions either force players to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars or to play FIFA Ultimate Team for over two years. Whilst that's for a full team, Twitter user and data-analyst Bo McCready was able to calculate how much time, in-game currency and/or money someone would have to spend to get individual high-tier players. For one of the highest-ranked players in the game, legendary Brazillian soccer player Pelé, someone would need to spend 8,333 hours playing matches or cough up $5,940 on FIFA points just to get a single player.

This isn't the first controversy that's cropped up relating to FIFA21's Ultimate Team mode, as recently it was discovered that someone with an EA account was selling rare in-game items for thousands of dollars to other players. EA has since opened an investigation into these reports, which ultimately led to many players examining just how realistic it really is to play Ultimate Team without spending money. For EA, though, Ultimate Team remains a significant source of revenue. Last year, Niko Partners senior data analyst Daniel Ahmad stated that FIFA Ultimate Team made EA $1.49 billion in 2020.

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