But it particularly fun to do during Lightning Rounds FIFA 23 coins. Lightning Rounds are when EA Sports puts a limited number of high-value packs in the store until they are sold out. Typically they take place on Fridays and Saturdays when new in-game promotions like FUT Freeze, Team of the Year and Future Stars go live, and they see eager players with deep pockets collectively spending literally millions of pounds in a few minutes to open Rare Player Packs, Jumbo Rare Player Packs and Ultimate Packs at 6, 7 and 8pm UK time respectively.
The trick to making FUT coins out of these periods is not to buy the packs, because they are seldom good value. It is to make a note beforehand of prices of cards people want, whether it high-end SBC fodder or just meta players, and try to snipe them at much lower prices as people hurriedly sell the contents of their Lightning Round packs.
The sheer volume of people opening packs in such an intense few minutes means that the market is absolutely flooded with desirable cards, driving prices down temporarily, and this is when you pounce. Then you just wait until a little later in the evening when supply returns to its normal level, sell the cards and bank the profit. (Just make sure you are bearing in mind the 5% EA transaction tax when youre calculating buy and sell prices.)
Dont waste coins and cards!
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This directive might sound like a no-brainer, but wed be lying if we said we were capable of following it most years. The thing about FIFA 23 Ultimate Team is that EA Sports wants you to lose coins for the health of the in-game economy. So they produce SBCs that remove value from the market in the form of cards that must be bought to complete the puzzle – a card bought for 40k and submitted into an SBC means 40k is no longer part of the in-game economy. That why there are always so many tempting SBCs – guaranteed promo cards buy FUT 23 coins, exciting SBC players, etc. It why you never have any FUT coins by the end of the game, but have a club full of untradeable players you barely touch.
