EA SPORTS has given the Futties in FIFA 23 Ultimate Team (FUT) a wink. Players with surnames like Ferrari or Savin have been given matching 99s – what other innuendos have been hidden?
The silver card of Sassuolo defender Gian Marco Ferrari has just 50 speed points in FUT 23 – that hardly does justice to his high-speed name. EA SPORTS thought so too and equipped the Italian with a Futties object. This has a full 99 points for speed. The Ferrari item is just one of several examples of the developer’s apparent tongue-in-cheek approach to the promo.
Brand new in this series: keeper Toby Savin from the English third division club Accrington Stanley. Under normal circumstances, the 22-year-old, who previously only had a bronze card in FUT 23, would probably not be a candidate for an end-game event. However, his surname, which suggests numerous saves, gets him the Futties object. As such, Savin shines with 96 reflexes and 97 positional play, among other things.
Moving Antman and Dangerous Danger
Finnish Oliver Antman’s Futties card has been given 99 points for dribbling in the style of his mercurial superhero namesake. This applies not only to the basic value, but to all attributes in this category. Frenchman Bradley Danger has been given a special item that lives up to his danger-promising surname: In the Futties variant, he received 99 points for strength, aggressiveness and straddling.
The DFB-eFootball account even suspects another allusive item on Twitter: the Shapeshifters card of South African Gift Links. This was released in the premium version, which means chemistry advantages – or in other words: better links. “The intern at EA definitely has too much time on his hands,” concludes DFB eFootball – and sent two more candidates into the race, Marino Defendi (bronze) and Bryan Passi (silver).
The Futties promo will probably continue on Friday evening at 7 pm. The new loading screen also announces the pre-season event of FUT 23, where traditionally content for the upcoming title can already be unlocked. It is therefore quite possible that the first advantages for EA SPORTS FC 24 will already be available.
