In FIFA 23 a so-called “FIFA 23 Starter Kit Bundle Pack” is currently being offered in the Ultimate Team store. However, players are strongly advising against purchasing it on the FIFA subreddit.
What is this pack? If you look in the store of Ultimate Team, you will find a new pack: the “FIFA 23 Starter Kit Bundle Pack.”
This pack is supposed to cost either:
- 100,000 coins – such packs are referred to by players as “100k-Pack”
- Or 2,000 FIFA Points – which corresponds to about 20 Euros.
This is what’s included in the pack:
- 16 rare gold players, 3 guaranteed with a rating of 83 or higher – all untradeable
- 1 Draft Token
- 1 loan player with a rating of 86 or higher (7 matches)
- 1 Hero loan player (7 matches)
- 1 Base Icon loan player (7 matches)
The pack contains several different items, but there is an important point to consider: they are all untradeable.
Whatever you pull from it can effectively only be used in your own team or in SBCs. Not a single item can be offered on the transfer market to earn new coins.
The new pack is already being widely discussed in the FIFA subreddit.
Players criticize “untradeable” contents in the pack
In a post by user “MistaPixel,” the new pack is currently being discussed. In the comments, it is not particularly well received. Users express criticism for releasing such an expensive pack so soon after the launch, when hardly anyone has coins – especially one that also contains untradeable items that cannot be used on the market.
- “FUT16: You won’t have any 15k packs before Black Friday. FUT23: Here’s a 100k-pack, before the game has even been released,” compares user “DracarysUT” in the current top comment (via reddit).
- “A 100k-pack worth about a third of that,” adds another (via reddit).
- “All untradeable, that’s a social experiment in action,” writes user “RicardoDiaz30” (via reddit).
- “I can only say: LOL,” writes user “MrEzquero” (via reddit).
- “I want to be honest, I was tempted to spend 100,000 for it. Then I stopped reading when I saw that it’s untradeable,” says user “Tionek” (via reddit).
Some players also join the thread, stating they purchased the pack – but also criticize that they received nothing good from it. User “bdigital4,” on the other hand, was lucky: “I did it and got Kanté. He will be in my team for a long time. But I feel like not everyone will get Kanté” (via reddit).
“Untradeable” has long been a point of discussion: Since “untradeable” items were introduced in FIFA, there has been criticism that these cannot be used for sale later on if they are overtaken by other cards, for example.
Particularly untradeable packs are criticized – because the chances of getting good cards from packs are generally poor. Additionally, you have no control over what cards you receive and whether they fit into your team’s chemistry.
In the new 100k-pack, there is a possibility to pull some good cards – but if you’re unlucky, there may be nothing useful. And then you cannot even recoup part of the price on the transfer market.
Also some of the most popular starter SBCs are untradeable for the first time in FIFA 23 and thus are of no use if you want to earn coins with them.
What do you think about the new pack and untradeable items? Let us know in the comments.
