In FIFA 23 there is a major change: The TOTW is pausing, and the Weekend League rewards now look different. However, players are skeptical.
This is changing now in FIFA 23: As announced in FIFA 23, the Team of the Week will pause during the current World Cup. The last TOTW for now is the “TOTW 9” released last week – and it will remain in TOTW packs until the TOTW is resumed.
There won’t be a TOTW 10 for the time being. Teams of the Week will only return when league football resumes.
However, the Team of the Week always represented an important part of the Weekend League rewards where the cards from the Team of the Week were distributed as red player picks. This will change in the coming weeks.
How the Weekend League rewards are changing now
Update, November 24, 09:00 AM: By now, some players have shared the new Weekend League rewards on the FIFA subreddit. One user shared the rewards for Rank 1 in the WL:
They show:
- An 84+ Player Pick (1 of 4)
- 1 Rare Player Pack
- 2 Ultimate Packs
- 3 Packs with 5 Gold Players 83+
- 1,250 Champs Qualification Points
Here continues the original article.
What will be included in the FIFA 23 rewards? The Weekend League rewards will continue to include player picks with FUT Champions players, but they will no longer be drawn from a TOTW.
Instead, in FUT Champions, that is the Weekend League, there will now be “minimum rating rare gold packs and player picks.” So the regular gold cards of players, with various minimum ratings.
However, the announcement is already causing skepticism among players. They fear that the rewards from the Weekend League could now be even weaker than they already were with the TOTW.
How players react: A change to the Weekend League rewards has already been demanded by many players, as the TOTW often simply cannot compete with other current event cards, such as with the PTG cards. However, many players hoped that a change would bring such event cards into the rewards, not gold cards.
Correspondingly, the echo is currently quite skeptical in the FIFA subreddit.
- “There is no incentive to play Champs for a whole month anymore, people will completely lose interest in the game,” believes another user (via reddit).
- “This has the potential to be very, very bad,” says user JDeezy13 (via reddit).
- “Would it really kill them to give us promo cards?” asks a user (via reddit).
- “This would have been a great time to include the World Cup promo cards or simply the 50 best TOTWs in the red picks” (via reddit).
- “Who sweats through FUT Champions for gold player picks?” (via reddit).
However, a few players also appear to be somewhat more hopeful. “It depends on the rating for me, if it’s like 1 of 5 with 85+, then it’s probably better than red cards,” weighs a user (via reddit): “However, I can imagine that it might be 83+ picks, which would be terrible. That would basically always be a 1,000-coin card instead of red picks.”
“A 3 x 83+ would be awful. I think 5 x 83+, replacing the red picks at 6 wins, would be fair. Maybe 5 x 84+ for 9 wins and then 85+ for 11 wins?” suggests a user (via reddit): “Hopefully they really thought it through so it’s not worse than the red picks.”
How strong the rewards ultimately will be remains to be seen. Also, how the player picks will be distributed per win should be exciting to see. For now, it is at least clear: There will be no TOTW cards for now during the World Cup.
What do you think about the change in rewards? Will you still participate in the Weekend League, or do you feel something is missing now? Tell us in the comments.
Meanwhile, some time has passed in FIFA 23 since the last major patch that changed the gameplay significantly. We show you here the 3 best formations and tactics after the patch in FIFA 23.
