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EA addresses FC 24 mistake which saw thousands of players given ‘£700’ Messi (www.videogameschronicle.com)

submitted 9 months ago by nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] filister@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Is this for real? You need to pay an extra 700GBP to get an overpowered player?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Something something pay to win.

[–] Guntrigger@feddit.ch 0 points 9 months ago

I'm sure you can buy cards on shady websites somewhere, but you can't straight up buy them in game. You have to buy card packs for RNG 0.0001% chance of a player like this.

People were getting him from an in game reward pack that was "bugged" by having very specific guarantees that meant he was quite likely. Hence why it was "fixed" in 24 minutes.

It seems odd that the article has added a monetary value to it.