Black Friday also takes place in FIFA 19: Starting this afternoon, you can secure special packs and complete rewarding SBCs – but you need to be quick!
This is Black Friday: Black Friday originates from the USA and falls annually on the day after Thanksgiving. This day is considered the start of the Christmas shopping season and usually brings a lot of special offers – including in FIFA 19.
The Black Friday time: This year, Black Friday falls on November 23. The event in FUT started, as in previous years, at 3 PM. Since then, there have been offers for 24 hours: During the promotion, EA Sports releases new content in FUT every hour.
Update November 23, 3 PM: Black Friday is now live.
First promo pack already gone
Speed is crucial: At 3 PM, EA Sports released the first Lightning Round of this year’s event. The Prime Gold Player Pack was the first promo pack that went online in limited quantities – and is now sold out again. This highlights that you need to be quick if you want some of the coveted packs. EA Sports informs you hourly about new offers on Twitter .
Black Friday brings Best of TOTW
The best Team of the Week players: A special incentive to buy packs! Currently, you can find the best players from the first ten TOTW teams in the packs. These players are extremely expensive on the market and are essentially no longer available in packs. Now you have another chance to secure top players. The Best of TOTW includes the following players:
- Koulibaly (TOTW 1)
- Hazard (TOTW 1)
- Neymar (TOTW 3)
- Reus (TOTW 9)
- Mbappé (TOTW 4)
- Alex Sandro (TOTW 5)
- Lewandowski (TOTW 6)
- Suarez (TOTW 7)
- Mertens (TOTW 8)
- Lukaku (TOTW 5)
- Martial (TOTW 6)
Lightning Rounds, SBCs and Promo Packs for Black Friday
These contents come in various forms. The following special offers are now available alternately in FIFA Ultimate Team:
- Lightning Rounds: Lightning Rounds are a kind of “Happy Hours”: For one hour, there is a worldwide allocation of special packs – for example, the Ultimate Pack for 100,000 coins. First come, first served until they sell out.
- Promo Packs: In addition to the Lightning Rounds, there will also be Promo Packs, which are only available occasionally. This includes among others the best packs in the game.
- Flash SBCs: You have little time for these Squad Building Challenges. In these challenges, you exchange teams for special rewards.
- Weekly objectives: Last year, special weekly objectives came with the event. Among other things, you could get an exclusive jersey.
Is there a market crash?
This is the FIFA 19 Market Crash: The “Market Crash” has been understood in recent years as a massive drop in prices on the transfer market. Players on the transfer market were particularly cheap on the Thursday before Black Friday as many gamers put their unused players on the market to buy the special packs.
Is there going to be a crash this year? As this principle is already known, a price reduction for players was observed throughout last week. Even on Black Friday itself, a low price is still expected as many packs will be opened.
Top players will likely remain expensive: However, experience shows that the most popular and best players in the game such as Dybala, Mbappé or Ronaldo and Messi, as well as Prime Icons, remain relatively stable in price. How the market develops after Black Friday is hard to predict, but it is expected that prices will rise again.
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This is how Black Friday went last year:
