ForceFLEX16 said:ive been playing Ultimate team on madden and fifa since its inception
every single year after toty hits and then those players leave packs - prices start to fall people are selling every card they have in attempts to get enough coins for the TOTY players - typically EA makes at least 3 or 4 MUST HAVE (or however you would label them) cards - high ovr with basement price abilities on the most popular theme teams
the thing to remember though is Ultimate Legends will continue after this - while TOTY is the focus, prices on UL should fluctuate, likely the cost of ULs dipping at initial release of TOTY - but then becoming the hot ticket item again once TOTY is out of the picture
the biggest variable in what to do is attempting to guess what Training programs will be released and what cards will be available
basically TOTY players will be target of most players during this time - cost initially be high - im thinking around 1.5-2.5 mil per card upon 1st release - as the program continues - the toty will likely fall down to the 700k-1.5 mil range (with exceptions for LTDs - these could get pricey)
while everyone is focusing on TOTY - try to scoop up ULs for lower prices, especially the cards to build sets not just the 97s
once toty busts everyones wallet - they will begin slicing the coin cost of toty players in order to move funds back towards the future ULs
i plan on buying the 87, 91, and some 95s (depending on price) ULs as toty is out and those are dropping in price - in order to put them back on the shelf for the shiny new UL must have players that EA will use to boost pack sells after toty has completed
that way you use the cheapest 87, 91, and 95 ULs you can buy - hold them, wait for new ULs, and then complete the sets of those new releases upon the immediate time of those players sets being released - thus gaining the highest value possible those ULs
Great post. I love it when people share their thoughts for purpose of good discussion. So I will offer some considerations and contrasts of my own to debate :
1) what to sell and what will drop: it will differ, we have a relatively rich Mut economy this year due to all the blunders that means the most meta cards will be expensive unless supplied in quantity. That means prime LTDs llikely to stay expensive oop until a better card comes along or they get redeuxed (e.g. aj green, et al).
2) TVP / TOTY / Season 4: tvp going away should drop cards that have no/little in game value (either lineup or for sets), i see especially at risk older promos (like ghosts, ZC) that people are moving on from. TOTY i have a slightly different recollection that they were cheapish as you get one or two free ones from totw solos et al. TOTY will release with Season 4 at same or close to same time and I am pretty sure latest then they will drop the market for training as we should get 98s and EA won’t want them to all be 1m plus i guess at least so market will start to go down towards issuing us more ULs and 99s
3) UL set investing: generally agree but remember two elements, one, some of them like the 87 are above training already and most importantly , two, we will get 98s I expect either this week or next and those will need different set pieces (i am still stuck with a rather large amount of legend pieces i never sold)
Overall, i have for myself cleaned a bit the binder and sold some non starter and back-ups but not the starting line-up but I have a decent stack of coins to likely see the year out, especially if makeet drops more.
If making coin is priority and you have stamina to invest time, the. selling could be a good idea though as we may not see 2tp per anymore this year …