FIFA 22 Ultimate Team sells anime cosmetics now • Eurogamer.net

With FIFA 22, EA is attempting a bunch of new things – and portion of that is providing the variety of cosmetic items we have not seen in the football sequence right before.

FIFA 22 launched appropriate yesterday and with that international launch came the first beauty items in the in-match keep.

To some degree astonishingly, they are all anime gubbins. These cosmetics revolve close to another person identified as Mirai, some sort of anime character EA has drummed up to wrap unfastened lore about DLC.

This is the formal blurb:

“Mirai, a rookie pilot-engineer and her historic mecha, Kako, confronted the very first Level XI Kaiju in record.

“When Mirai bravely defied the Kaiju, Kako grew to become driven by the power of her soul.

“Celebrate the legend of Mirai’s Mecha Soul with exclusive customisation products in-store now for a constrained time.”

So, what can you buy? You will find a raft of stadium-linked cosmetics (tifos, banners and so forth), home and absent kits and a workforce crest.

I would like to emphasize two DLC items. The first is this trophy, which you can area around your stadium pitch. Extremely realistic!

And the other is the Mecha Core VIP spot, also for your stadium (Stamford Bridge has something just like it).

The selling price of this stuff is high-priced. The VIP space costs 45,000 FUT Cash (the digital currency you gain by means of gameplay) or 500 FIFA Factors (£3.99) on its have. Which is 4 quid for that small aspect of your stadium that flashes on-monitor briefly during a match.

Then you will find the trophy, which expenditures 36,000 FUT Cash, or 400 FIFA Points (you can’t buy just 400 FIFA Points from the in-video game keep since of system you can not).

Mirai’s Whole Bundle, which incorporates all the linked cosmetics (two-stick banners, simple and XL tifos, crest, stadium topic, household and absent kits, pitch trophy and VIP spot) fees 135,000 FUT Coins or 1500 FIFA Points. That’s £11.99 to package out your Ultimate Team stadium in anime mecha style!

FIFA gamers are currently having their say about the appropriateness of these anime cosmetics, and as you’d anticipate purists are not thrilled. It truly is an odd healthy for FIFA, which sells itself on being an reliable simulation of the lovely game. But it is really the purely natural following stage immediately after EA started promoting cosmetics outdoors loot containers for the 1st time in FIFA 21. And in a entire world in which loot containers are progressively frowned on, possibly EA is searching to diversify its billion greenback money cow before the politicians appear contacting.

Truthfully, I really don’t thoughts these cosmetics, despite the fact that they must be much less expensive. I am just shocked it took EA this extensive to incorporate this variety of stuff to FIFA. I’ve lengthy named for EA to ditch the morally bankrupt Best Group loot containers in favour of a high quality battle go and the sale of cosmetics. Here is what I wrote in Eurogamer’s FIFA 21 critique:

“Did EA not get the fight pass memo or one thing? Did Fortnite go the studio by? FIFA 21 has year development, which seems to be like it desires to be a battle pass, but it feels like EA pulled out of the deal with mainly because it was frightened of acquiring injured. Get rid of pay-to-win loot boxes and promote a quality struggle go. Promote meaningless merchandise. Market celebrations. Market kits. Promote player haircuts, for all I care. EA Sports’ well-known tagline is ‘it’s in the game’. Effectively, it really is time to choose pay-to-earn out – and put a suitable fight go in.”

What subsequent? The Avengers in FIFA? What ever Fortnite can do…