A significant change is being made to the Season Pass in FC 25. In addition to the well-known free version, a paid premium variant is set to be introduced in the new successor. A well-known expert suspects a pay-to-win model and potential buyers even now.
What is the Season Pass in EA FC? The Season Pass in EA FC guarantees you additional content in the game in each new season. In FC 24, it consisted of up to 40 levels. Each level holds a new reward for you. These range from club items, such as choreographies or crests, to professional packs, up to unique special cards.
The Season Pass was introduced in FIFA 20 in Ultimate Team and has been available for all players for free so far. To level it up, new tasks are available weekly that provide you with experience points (XP). Once you reach a certain number of XP, you level up.
EA has now confirmed that there will be a cross-season pass in the new FC 25 for the Ultimate Team, Clubs, and Career modes. In all these modes, you will then be able to earn experience points for the Season Pass.
Additionally, there will be a paid premium Season Pass in FC 25.
New Season Pass in FC 25: All known information
Various well-known leakers have already released more information about the new Season Pass, including some details about the new premium Season Pass.
The page “FUT Camp” made a post on X with the headline “New FC Season Pass Details”:
What do we know about the new Season Pass? The following details emerge from the post for the Season Pass in FC 25:
- in higher levels, there is nothing in the premium Season Pass that is not also in the normal Season Pass
- the free Season Pass is essentially what players see in FC 24
- the premium pass can be purchased with coins or FC points
- there should be no exclusive rewards that would force someone to purchase
How exactly the differentiation between the free Season Pass and the paid premium pass looks is not yet clear from the details.
A well-known YouTuber suspects in a video, however, that EA might entice players to purchase the premium Season Pass if they orient their approach after FC Mobile.
Expert fears pay-to-win model like in EA FC Mobile
Who is this expert? Nick RTFM is a well-known English-speaking streamer primarily focused on football simulations. His emphasis is on FIFA and EA FC. He is known for his often critical videos.
In a YouTube video, he discusses the announced innovations for FC 25. In the course of this, he also comments on the post about the details of the new Season Pass. Watch the video for about a minute to learn his opinion on the new Season Pass:
The streamer seems to be having trouble making sense of the new information. He does not understand what the premium pass has to offer if there are no contents that would force someone to make a purchase.
At first, NickRTFM thinks of additional and better “cosmetics” for the premium variant, which could be special jerseys or choreographies. But then he realizes that EA has already established a paid Season Pass model in FC Mobile.
In this model, one could climb the Season Pass by purchasing levels with microtransactions.
This is what the expert fears in the case of a pay-to-win model akin to FC Mobile: The streamer fears that some players would immediately take advantage of this model. For example, if EA were to guarantee a powerful pro card at a high level, it would tempt some players to invest real money into the pass.
Players would then buy themselves a team advantage with the strong cards. This would essentially be pay-to-win.
“I will be so toxic”: NickRTFM warns players about
As NickRTFM assesses the FC community, some players would be keen to follow this pay-to-win approach and sink a lot of money into it to gain an advantage. He can easily imagine that some players would already be playing with the best cards from the Season Pass in the first week.
For these players, the streamer is already issuing a warning. He would be “so toxic” towards such pay-to-win gamers. They can prepare for him to send them unpleasant messages after the game.
NickRTFM’s remarks are initially based solely on his assumptions. How the premium Season Pass will ultimately look in the game remains to be seen. As soon as we have new information on this topic, you can read them here on MeinMMO. All the important information about the new FC 25 can be found here: EA FC 25: All information about release, price, and innovations
