If you’re into playing the FIFA Ultimate Team market, you’ll have noticed FIFA 20 suffered its first crash this week. Why? Because of Jamie Vardy.
The speedy forward had a prolific October for club side Leicester, and is currently the Premier League’s top scorer with 10 goals.
EA Sports decided to release a Player of the Month version of Jamie Vardy’s card into FIFA 20 Ultimate Team – essentially Vardy’s standard card but with better statistics (92 pace!) and a nice picture. But what sent the FIFA market tumbling was the fact EA released this superb card into the game via an ultra cheap Squad Building Challenge.
For the uninitiated, Ultimate Team features Squad Building Challenges, known as SBCs, that involve creating a squad with cards you already own and depositing them for a reward. Usually there’s some puzzle-solving aspect to the SBC. It might require players from three separate nations, or two leagues, or have a minimum overall rating, that sort of thing.