FIFA 23: PC players have a disadvantage when buying players

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In FIFA 23 you can improve your Ultimate Team with players from the transfer market. But top cards are expensive – even more so if you play on PC.

The TOTY event is currently running in FIFA 23, which will be replaced by the Future Stars event on Friday.

In particular, the TOTY, or “Team of the Year”, is known for bringing extremely strong, but also extremely rare and expensive cards into play.

Drawing such a card is damn unlikely, as some streamers on Twitch have proven. That’s why some players try to buy top cards on the transfer market.

But even that is not easy. Because you have to get the necessary coins for a TOTY card first. It’s possible through skillful trading in FIFA 23 or powerful rewards, but it’s difficult and takes time.

And especially on the PC you sometimes need significantly more coins than on the consoles.

Players frustrated with high TOTY prizes on PC in FIFA 23

What annoys players? In the FUT subreddit, user “fawz97” shared a post showing the prices of current TOTY players on PC.

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The TOTY is generally very expensive, even on consoles – but on the PC transfer market the whole thing has another dimension. We have collected a few examples of the futbin portal, which documents current transfer market prices:

  • TOTY-Haaland costs around 4.4 million coins on console, but a whopping 6.4 million on PC. That’s a world of difference.
  • TOTY-Messi is also significantly cheaper with 5.8 million coins on console than its counterpart on PC for almost 9.7 million coins.
  • TOTY-Militao costs 1.58M coins on console, 1.88M coins on PC. So there is almost the equivalent of a TOTY-Courtois in between.
  • TOTY Mbappé costs around 10.7M coins on console. It is currently not even offered on the PC, so it is “extinct”.

    • This does not only affect TOTY cards, but also other players. Al-Owairan’s popular hero card costs 730,000 coins on console and 918,000 coins on PC. The normal Mbappé card is 822,000 (console) or 989,000 coins (PC).

    For less popular cards, the prices are converging. But especially with top players, the differences are very noticeable, and that frustrates some players on the PC.

  • “I’ve been playing FIFA on PC for 17 years and every year the prices are absurd. So every year I think about getting a PS but it just doesn’t feel right because I would only play FIFA” (via reddit).
  • “Yeah, it’s ridiculous. You need to increase the pack weight for promo cards,” says one user (via reddit). Pack weight is the rate of promo cards in packs.
  • “I really regret that I chose PC this year. I travel a lot for work and thought it would be a good idea. PS5 again next year. It’s not just TOTY, each card is obviously more expensive on PC,” says one user (via reddit). But he also qualifies: “On the other hand, if you draw these cards exchangeable, you also get the coins on PC, it’s not quite comparable.”

    • However, it is precisely the differences among top players that are difficult to compensate for, if one sometimes speaks of millions of coins.

    What is the problem? One of the main problems with the PC transfer market is that it is isolated. The PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S share a transfer market, and Stadia was there too.

    The PC, on the other hand, has an individual transfer market, as does the Switch. This probably results in fewer users and thus also offers on the transfer market than in comparison to consoles.

    Overall, the PC has actually taken a step forward when it comes to FIFA, technically it has caught up with the NextGen consoles. At the same time, there was early trouble for the PC version because there were errors around the release.

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