Introduction to Packs in FIFA 15 Ultimate Team
FUT 15 is a very popular FIFA game mode
where we try to get the right cards to build the best team possible.
Packs are one of the most important things in this game since they make
it possible to introduce the cards into the game. Without them, there
would be no cards and without cards FUT 15 would not exist. It is as
simple as that.
All the cards are introduced in FUT 15 through packs by one of the following four ways:
- when you create a new club, from the Starter Pack;
– when you purchase them on the store;
– when you win tournaments or seasons that include packs as reward;
– or when you receive Daily Gifts, Welcome Back packs and other prizes.
– when you purchase them on the store;
– when you win tournaments or seasons that include packs as reward;
– or when you receive Daily Gifts, Welcome Back packs and other prizes.
99% of the cards are introduced in the
game by the store, when players buy packs. This is what makes this game
mode so special for EA Sports. It is a gold mine. Only in FIFA digital
sales, which includes Ultimate Team packs, EA has profits higher than
$300 million every year. FIFA digital net revenue is growing every year
and microtransactions are now the core business of the game.
Follow us in this guide to get to know how, where and when to buy packs.
It Is Worth it Buying Packs ?
Before you do it, you should ask
yourself if you should buy packs or not. This is probably the most
common question about FUT 15. And we are here to clarify you.
Should I buy packs or not ?
When you make a purchase, you are giving
something to get another thing in exchange. If you bought it, it is
because in your opinion the thing you are giving is less important than
the one you are purchasing. The problem in Ultimate Team is that you do
not know what is inside the pack you are buying. There is no way to know
if the exchange will be profitable to you. You have expectations in
relation to the purchase but you do not know if they will be met.
It is possible to pay packs with coins
or with FIFA Points. In the first scenario, your expectation is to pull
cards whose market value exceeds the price of the packs. In other words,
you want to make profit. This rarely happens. That’s why buying packs
with coins is an awful idea.
When you buy packs with FIFA Points, the
chances of getting good cards are exactly the same, but instead of
investing your coins, you are using real money. It’s like you were
buying FIFA coins but you don’t know how much you will have to pay for
them. In these cases, only you can say if it is worth to buy packs or
not, depending of how much real money you are willing to spend.
Is there any study about this subject ?
It isn’t easy to make a reliable study
about this subject because it only works with a huge sample. Imagine,
for example, that you open packs worth 3 million coins. If you open an
extra pack and pull a Ronaldo IF card, your conclusions will be
completely distorted. It is not possible for a single person to open
enough packs to conclude if it is worth to buy packs or not. We did it
but we combined our results with the community experience to conclude
that, in a general way, you get back 60% of what you have paid by the
packs. The other 40% are EA’s profit, ie, your loss. The same happens in
the famous bookmakers sports scores where part of what you bet reverts
automatically to the house, regardless of the result. Usually, they keep
with something between 10 and 15%, but EA is not satisfied with less
than 40%.
This first conclusion allows us to be
sure about how bad a strategy it is to buy packs with coins, except if
you are someone really lucky. This study also helps us to calculate how
much you will get back when you open packs bought with FIFA Points.
So how do we make this calculation ?
First we use the packs prices. In average, the packs you buy with 1000
FIFA Points can also be bought with 50 thousand coins. Since you only
get back 60% of your investment, in fact you will be buying 30k coins
with those FIFA Points. We also know the average prices of FIFA Points
which means that it is not difficult to conclude that 100 thousand coins
can be indirectly purchased with £26 or 31 €. It’s up to you to decide
if this is an high price or not to strengthen your team and your FUT
account.
Obviously, when you decide to buy a pack
you do it because you are dreaming with pulling a few amazing cards.
You don’t do it because of profit. There is always a hope. However, if
you make a study like we did you will realize that your chances of
getting good cards are low. Since you can buy cards directly in the
market, the importance to this study is to know how much the packs are
worth. That’s the only way to compare with your investment.
It seems that many people are getting success with packs. Right ?
Wrong. The most experienced Ultimate
Team players agree with us about how bad of a strategy it is to buy
packs. But there are still many less experienced players with another
opinions. They are asking right now why are there so many people showing
of the fantastic cards they have got in packs ? Maybe because no one
likes to show off rubbish and useless packs. If only good packs are
shared, it gives the idea that all the packs have good cards. Nothing
less true.
Buying packs with coins is not a good strategy to build a good team
Many players also think that the only
way to be millionaire is buying packs. They find other players on the
market that are selling several very expensive cards and they think they
got the money buying packs. They don’t. They probably are really good
traders or have used scam techniques.
Is EA Sports forcing me to buy packs ?
Yes. Don’t forget that this is the FIFA
core business for EA Sports. Think about it. To sell more packs, they
try everything. They use a very aggressive marketing strategy, trying to
give the impression that it is easy to pull good cards in packs, using
their social networks to show players that got a good card or supporting
the most lucky YouTubers that publish videos opening packs with the
greatest players. On the other hand, they don’t add good cards to packs,
forcing players to try their luck again and again hoping to get the
same good cards that other players and youtubers got. The Happy Hours
are strategically chosen and they even created an extra chemistry point –
loyalty bonus – to force you to buy more packs.
Are you seeing how it works ? Youtubers
want to be famous and to be supported by EA Sports, so they produce
videos showing how easy is to get good cards in packs. Those who have
the luck of getting good cards in packs also want to share it with the
world, to show their happiness or simply to make others jealous. They
share it with EA Sports and the company share it with the world. All we
see is good cards in packs, so why don’t we do the same. We buy one,
two, three, four packs. ‘Maybe in the next one’, we think. Most of the
times, players spend part of their coins or a good amount of money and
they don’t get a single good card.
Are you saying that I should not buy packs ?
We are not saying to not buy packs any
more. It is important that people keep buying packs. First because they
are paying the Ultimate Team mode (in the first year it was paid). Then,
because the game only works if cards keep being inserted into the game
and the only good way to do it is through the store.
If players want to use real money to buy
packs, they should know that they will need to spend a good amount of
money to get a good squad. We are not saying that it is not a good
strategy, we are just saying that it is not a cheap option. For who
don’t cares with money, it is a decent decision.
If buying packs is a bad strategy, which other options do I have ?
There are other ways to get good
players, but none of them are perfect. You can save the coins you earned
in games, and use them to buy the cards you want in the market, but it
will take a long time until you collect all the coins you need. Another
good option is to make trading, which may be very profitable but it is
also very time-consuming. Finally, you can also buy coins directly to a
coins store but there is a risk of ban since this is not allowed by EA
Sports.
Why are there so many experienced players are still buying packs ?
Obviously, there are many players that
already know that buying packs is not a good strategy. But that doesn’t
mean that they give up from buying packs. Why ? First because our brain
is always trying to find the path of least resistance and finding ways
to give as less effort as possible. Then, because the need of being
better, more popular and integrated in a group. This may seems a weird
answer but the specialist Gonçalo Cunha explains this very well in this fantastic article.
The odds of getting Messi in a pack are like 1 to 60,000 for each card player you open in a pack.
How difficult is to pull a good card from a pack ?
FIFA 15 Ultimate Team has more than 15,000 players. Which player do you want ? Probably the most expensive one, Ronaldo.
Let’s see what the odds are of getting him in a pack. First we must
know how many players cards have the pack you are opening. Let’s say
that you are opening a pack with 4 players. It means that your chances
of getting Ronaldo are something like 1 to 3,750, right ? Wrong! There
are players with more cards in packs than others.
Cardweight is a metric used to estimate
how often a particular card is traded on the FIFA 15 Ultimate Team
transfer market. The higher the cardweight number, the higher likely
this card is traded on the marketplace. It gives an indication of how
rare cards are. The cardweight of Ronaldo is 2, the lowest in the game.
It means, for example, that he is 100 times less common than David Luiz
which cardweight is 200. We know that cardweight does not measure the
chance of finding a specific card in a pack since cards that are likely
to be kept or quick sold by the original owner will not have an accurate
weight. However, through complex calculations we have found a way to
find the odds of getting a specific player in a pack using his
cardweight, the number of quick sells of that card and the number of
cards stored in clubs.
In this case, as Ronaldo is one of the
players that when someone buys they do not try to sell again, the
chances of getting him in a pack are 10 times lower than the average of
gold players which cardweight is 150. In other words, the chance of
getting him are something like 1 to 150,000 for each card player you
open in a pack.
What do you think about this ? Do these
odds create a good opportunity ? Let’s see. Pick a number between 1 and
150,000 and keep it to yourself. Now, ask someone to try to guess which
number you are thinking of. How many times did that person try to guess
it ? Thousands, for sure. If you want to know how much money you will
have to spend, just multiply the price of each player card in a pack by
the number of tries. Now is that a lot of Money ?!
You probably would be happy getting
other good players besides Ronaldo. However, all the good cards are very
rare. In the top 10 players with best overalls, none have a cardweight
higher than 40. For your information, every time someone get a player
card in a pack, the odds of getting one of these players are only 1 to
1,400. As you can see, it is very difficult to get good cards in packs.
Final note: if you want fun, choose
opening packs. If you want success, avoid them, unless you don’t care
about spending real money. In that case, EA Sports will thank you.
The Packs of FIFA 15 Ultimate Team
There are three types of packs:
- Regular Packs
Always available on the store.
- Promo Packs
Available only on specific periods of time, like the Happy Hours.
- Free Packs
Not available to purchase on the store. They are assigned to you in the beginning of the game, as daily gifts and as tournament and seasons rewards.
Regular Packs
BRONZE PACK
Category: Bronze
Cards’ Type: Players, Consumables and Items
Number of Cards: 12
Number of Rare Cards: 1
Price: 400 coins
Cards’ Type: Players, Consumables and Items
Number of Cards: 12
Number of Rare Cards: 1
Price: 400 coins
Great value for increasing club depth. A
mix of 12 items, including players, club items and consumables, at
least 10 Bronze with 1 rare.
PREMIUM BRONZE PACK
Category: Bronze
Cards’ Type: Players, Consumables and Items
Number of Cards: 12
Number of Rare Cards: 3
Price: 750 coins
Cards’ Type: Players, Consumables and Items
Number of Cards: 12
Number of Rare Cards: 3
Price: 750 coins
Triple the rares of a standard bronze
pack. A mix of 12 items, including players, club items and consumables,
at least 10 Bronze with 3 rare.
SILVER PACK
Category: Silver
Cards’ Type: Players and Consumables
Number of Cards: 12
Number of Rare Cards: 1
Price: 2,500 coins or 50 FIFA Points
Cards’ Type: Players and Consumables
Number of Cards: 12
Number of Rare Cards: 1
Price: 2,500 coins or 50 FIFA Points
Great value for building mid-tiered
squads. A mix of 12 items, including players, club items and
consumables, at least 10 Silver with 1 rare.
PREMIUM SILVER PACK
Category: Silver
Cards’ Type: Players and Consumables
Number of Cards: 12
Number of Rare Cards: 3
Price: 3,750 coins or 75 FIFA Points
Cards’ Type: Players and Consumables
Number of Cards: 12
Number of Rare Cards: 3
Price: 3,750 coins or 75 FIFA Points
Triple the rares of a standard silver
pack. A mix of 12 items, including players and consumables, at least 10
Silver with 3 rare.
GOLD PACK
Category: Gold
Cards’ Type: Players and Consumables
Number of Cards: 12
Number of Rare Cards: 1
Price: 5,000 coins or 100 FIFA Points
Cards’ Type: Players and Consumables
Number of Cards: 12
Number of Rare Cards: 1
Price: 5,000 coins or 100 FIFA Points
Great value for finding top-rate players. A mix of 12 items, including players and consumables, at least 10 Gold with 1 rare.
PREMIUM GOLD PACK
Category: Gold
Cards’ Type: Players and Consumables
Number of Cards: 12
Number of Rare Cards: 3
Price: 7,500 coins or 150 FIFA Points
Cards’ Type: Players and Consumables
Number of Cards: 12
Number of Rare Cards: 3
Price: 7,500 coins or 150 FIFA Points
Triple the rares of a standard gold pack. A mix of 12 items, including players and consumables, at least 10 Gold with 3 rare.
Promo Packs
PREMIUM BRONZE PLAYERS PACK
Category: Promo
Cards’ Type: Players
Number of Cards: 12
Number of Rare Cards: 3
Price: 1,800 coins
Cards’ Type: Players
Number of Cards: 12
Number of Rare Cards: 3
Price: 1,800 coins
Nothing but players to build out your ultimate squads! Includes 12 players, at least 10 bronze with 3 rares.
PREMIUM SILVER PLAYERS PACK
Category: Promo
Cards’ Type: Players
Number of Cards: 12
Number of Rare Cards: 3
Price: 7,000 coins or 150 FIFA Points
Cards’ Type: Players
Number of Cards: 12
Number of Rare Cards: 3
Price: 7,000 coins or 150 FIFA Points
Nothing but players to build out your ultimate squads! Includes 12 players, at least 11 silver with 3 rares.
SILVER UPGRADE PACK
Category: Promo
Cards’ Type: Players
Number of Cards: 12
Number of Rare Cards: –
Price: 15,000 coins or 50 FIFA Points
Cards’ Type: Players
Number of Cards: 12
Number of Rare Cards: –
Price: 15,000 coins or 50 FIFA Points
You one-time chance to upgrade to a silver team. Includes 12 common silver items, with 11 players and 1 manager.
GOLD CONTRACTS PACK
Category: Promo
Cards’ Type: Consumables
Number of Cards: 4
Number of Rare Cards: –
Price: 800 coins
Cards’ Type: Consumables
Number of Cards: 4
Number of Rare Cards: –
Price: 800 coins
Maintain your top-rated squad for a rock bottom price. Includes 4 gold contracts
CONSUMABLES PACK
Category: Promo
Cards’ Type: Consumables
Number of Cards: 12
Number of Rare Cards: 1
Price: 3,000 coins or 50 FIFA Points
Cards’ Type: Consumables
Number of Cards: 12
Number of Rare Cards: 1
Price: 3,000 coins or 50 FIFA Points
All the consumables in a single pack! Includes 12 consumables, one rare.
RARE CONSUMABLES PACK
Category: Promo
Cards’ Type: Consumables
Number of Cards: 12
Number of Rare Cards: 12
Price: 20,000 coins or 400 FIFA Points
Cards’ Type: Consumables
Number of Cards: 12
Number of Rare Cards: 12
Price: 20,000 coins or 400 FIFA Points
The most unique consumables, all in a single pack! Includes 12 consumables, all gold, all rare.
GOLD UPGRADE PACK
Category: Promo
Cards’ Type: Players
Number of Cards: 12
Number of Rare Cards: –
Price: 30,000 coins or 75 FIFA Points
Cards’ Type: Players
Number of Cards: 12
Number of Rare Cards: –
Price: 30,000 coins or 75 FIFA Points
You one-time chance to upgrade to a gold team. Includes 12 common gold items, with 11 players and 1 manager.
JUMBO PREMIUM GOLD PACK
Category: Promo
Cards’ Type: Players and Consumables
Number of Cards: 24
Number of Rare Cards: 7
Price: 15,000 coins or 300 FIFA Points
Cards’ Type: Players and Consumables
Number of Cards: 24
Number of Rare Cards: 7
Price: 15,000 coins or 300 FIFA Points
Double the size of a premium gold pack
with an extra rare. A mix of 24 items, including players and
consumables, at least 20 Gold with 7 rares.
RARE GOLD PACK
Category: Promo
Cards’ Type: Players, Consumables and Items
Number of Cards: 12
Number of Rare Cards: 12
Price: 25,000 coins or 500 FIFA Points
Cards’ Type: Players, Consumables and Items
Number of Cards: 12
Number of Rare Cards: 12
Price: 25,000 coins or 500 FIFA Points
The most unique gold items all in a single pack. A mix of 12 items, including players and consumables, all gold, all rare.
PREMIUM GOLD PLAYERS PACK
Category: Promo
Cards’ Type: Players
Number of Cards: 12
Number of Rare Cards: 3
Price: 25,000 coins or 350 FIFA Points
Cards’ Type: Players
Number of Cards: 12
Number of Rare Cards: 3
Price: 25,000 coins or 350 FIFA Points
Nothing but players to build out your ultimate squads. Includes 12 players, at least 10 gold with 3 rare.
MEGA PACK
Category: Promo
Cards’ Type: Players and Consumables
Number of Cards: 30
Number of Rare Cards: 18
Price: 35,000 coins or 700 FIFA Points
Cards’ Type: Players and Consumables
Number of Cards: 30
Number of Rare Cards: 18
Price: 35,000 coins or 700 FIFA Points
The biggest pack yet with a whopping 30, yes thirty, items! A mix of players and consumable, at least 26 Gold with 18 Rares.
RARE PLAYERS PACK
Category: Promo
Cards’ Type: Players
Number of Cards: 12
Number of Rare Cards: 12
Price: 50,000 coins or 1,000 FIFA Points
Cards’ Type: Players
Number of Cards: 12
Number of Rare Cards: 12
Price: 50,000 coins or 1,000 FIFA Points
The most unique top-rated players, all in a single pack. Includes 12 items, all players, all gold, all rare.
JUMBO RARE PLAYERS PACK
Category: Promo
Cards’ Type: Players
Number of Cards: 24
Number of Rare Cards: 24
Price: 100,000 coins or 2,000 FIFA Points
Cards’ Type: Players
Number of Cards: 24
Number of Rare Cards: 24
Price: 100,000 coins or 2,000 FIFA Points
The most unique top-rated players, all in a single pack. Includes 24 items, all players, all gold, all rare.
Free Packs
STARTING PACK
Category: Free
Cards’ Type: Players, Consumables and Items
Number of Cards: 34
Number of Rare Cards: 0
Price: Free (you only get it once)
Cards’ Type: Players, Consumables and Items
Number of Cards: 34
Number of Rare Cards: 0
Price: Free (you only get it once)
Your one-time pack with everything you need to start playing.
ALL PLAYERS PACK
Category: Free
Cards’ Type: Players
Number of Cards: 12
Number of Rare Cards: 1
Price: Free (you only get it at the beginning)
Cards’ Type: Players
Number of Cards: 12
Number of Rare Cards: 1
Price: Free (you only get it at the beginning)
This pack includes 12 players, 4 each of Bronze, Silver and Gold, with at least one rare.
GOLD GIFT PACK
Category: Free
Cards’ Type: Players, Consumables and Items
Number of Cards: 4
Number of Rare Cards: 0
Price: Free
Cards’ Type: Players, Consumables and Items
Number of Cards: 4
Number of Rare Cards: 0
Price: Free
Smaller than a standard Gold Pack, and going fast. A mix of 4 items, all gold with at least one player.
SILVER GIFT PACK
Category: Free
Cards’ Type: Players, Consumables and Items
Number of Cards: 4
Number of Rare Cards: 0
Price: Free
Cards’ Type: Players, Consumables and Items
Number of Cards: 4
Number of Rare Cards: 0
Price: Free
Smaller than a standard Silver Pack, and going fast. A mix of 4 items, all silver with at least one player.
BRONZE GIFT PACK
Category: Free
Cards’ Type: Players, Consumables and Items
Number of Cards: 4
Number of Rare Cards: 0
Price: Free
Cards’ Type: Players, Consumables and Items
Number of Cards: 4
Number of Rare Cards: 0
Price: Free
Smaller than a standard Bronze Pack, and going fast. A mix of 4 items, all bronze with at least one player.
XBOX LEGENDS SHOT PACK
Category: Free (exclusive for XBox)
Cards’ Type: Players, Consumables and Items
Number of Cards: 8
Number of Rare Cards: 1
Price: Free
Cards’ Type: Players, Consumables and Items
Number of Cards: 8
Number of Rare Cards: 1
Price: Free
A special pack, with at least one gold card, and with an increased chance of a legend.
Some of these packs are ‘untradeable’,
which means that the content can not be sold in the market or discarded
with a price. The starting pack and the manager tasks pack are two of
the most popular untradeable packs.
In order to make it easier to compare
packs, check out the following table, where you can also see which other
packs may be included in the game:
| PRICE | CARDS’ TYPE | NUMBER OF CARDS | |||||
| NAME OF THE PACK | [Coins] | [FP] | Players | Consumables | Items | Total | Rare |
| REGULAR PACKS | |||||||
| Bronze Pack | 400 | Yes | Yes | Yes | 12 | 1 | |
| Premium Bronze Pack | 750 | Yes | Yes | Yes | 12 | 3 | |
| Silver Pack | 2 500 | 50 | Yes | Yes | No | 12 | 1 |
| Premium Silver Pack | 3 750 | 75 | Yes | Yes | No | 12 | 3 |
| Gold Pack | 5 000 | 100 | Yes | Yes | No | 12 | 1 |
| Premium Gold Pack | 7 500 | 150 | Yes | Yes | No | 12 | 3 |
| PROMO PACKS | |||||||
| Gold Contracts Pack | 800 | - | No | Yes | No | 4 | 2 |
| Prem. Bronze Players Pack | 1 800 | - | Yes | No | No | 12 | 3 |
| Consumables Pack | 3 000 | 50 | No | Yes | No | 12 | 1 |
| Gold 13 Pack | 5 000 | 100 | Yes | Yes | No | 13 | 1 |
| Prem. Silver Players Pack | 7 000 | 150 | Yes | No | No | 12 | 3 |
| Premium Gold 13 Pack | 7 500 | 150 | Yes | Yes | No | 13 | 3 |
| Silver Upgrade Pack | 15 000 | 50 | Yes | No | No | 12 | 0 |
| Rare Consumables Pack | 20 000 | 400 | No | Yes | No | 12 | 12 |
| Gold Upgrade Pack | 30 000 | 75 | Yes | No | No | 12 | 0 |
| Jumbo Premium Gold Pack | 15 000 | 300 | Yes | Yes | No | 24 | 7 |
| Prem. Gold Players Pack | 25 000 | 350 | Yes | No | No | 12 | 3 |
| Rare Gold Pack | 25 000 | 500 | Yes | Yes | Yes | 12 | 12 |
| Mega Pack | 35 000 | 700 | Yes | Yes | No | 30 | 18 |
| Rare Players Pack | 50 000 | 1 000 | Yes | No | No | 12 | 12 |
| Jumbo Rare Players Pack | 100 000 | 2 000 | Yes | No | No | 24 | 24 |
| FREE PACKS | |||||||
| Starting Pack | Free | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | 34 | 0 |
| All Players Pack | Free | Free | Yes | No | No | 12 | 1 |
| Gold Gift Pack | Free | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | 4 | 0 |
| Silver Gift Pack | Free | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | 4 | 0 |
| Bronze Gift Pack | Free | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | 4 | 0 |
| Legends Shot Pack | Free | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | 8 | 1 |
The Best Packs to Buy
During Happy Hours the regular packs are exactly the same: there are no discounts and the chances of pulling a good card don’t change
Another question that the community asks
us almost every day is ‘which pack to buy’. Obviously it depends on
what you want. If you want to build a bronze squad, you should buy a
bronze pack. If you want to get more contracts and other consumables,
you should try the consumables packs. However, most of the players want
to put their hands on the best and most expensive cards in the game. In
that case, they will need to buy Gold packs. But which one ?
Our advice is very simple: purchase the
available gold pack with the lowest price per rare player card. These
are the only cards that can make some one rich. The other cards are
almost worthless. To know which packs have the lowest price per rare
card, we only need to divide the price by the number of rare cards. It
is easy to do it, following the table above. However, we should pay
attention to the category of the pack and if there are other cards
besides players. The best packs are the ones with guaranteed rare gold
players cards. Into this group, the Premium Gold Players Pack is two
times more expensive than the Rare Players Pack or the Jumbo Rare
Players Pack. This difference is not so high if we use FIFA Points to
pay instead of coins. It may be weird but EA Sports doesn’t use a
proportional relation between coins and FIFA Points. For example: Jumbo
Premium Gold pack and Silver Upgrade pack cost both 15,000 coins but the
first one may be purchased with 300 FIFA Points while for the second we
only need 50 FIFA Points. Players should also pay attention to this
aspect.
100k and 50k packs are the best packs to buy for those who are looking for top players or profit
Forget the calculator. We did that job
for you. We analysed how many gold rare players cards (GRP) each pack
brings, in average, and we built the following table showing the rating
of the best packs to buy. As you probably expected 50k and 100k packs
are the best ones, because you only have to spend 4000 coins for each
gold rare player. However, those of you who thought that 25k were good,
well you are wrong. It is cheaper to buy 15k and 7.5k packs.
| PACK | COINS | FP | GRP (1) | COINS / GRP | FP/GRP | |
| #1 | Rare Players Pack | 50 000 | 1 000 | 12 | 4167 | 83 |
| #2 | Jumbo Rare Players Pack | 100 000 | 2 000 | 24 | 4167 | 83 |
| #3 | Mega Pack | 35 000 | 700 | 6 | 5833 | 117 |
| #4 | Jumbo Premium Gold Pack | 15 000 | 300 | 2 | 7500 | 150 |
| #5 | Premium Gold Pack | 7 500 | 150 | 1 | 7500 | 150 |
| #6 | Prem. Gold Players Pack | 25 000 | 350 | 3 | 8333 | 117 |
| #7 | Gold Pack | 5 000 | 100 | 0,3 | 16667 | 333 |
(1) GRP means Gold Rare Player
How to Buy
If you want to buy packs, you need to go
to the FUT store. You can access to the store through the console or
through the FUT Web App / Companion App.
It is possible to browse them in the
store until you find the right pack. Details of each pack are also
provided, including the number of rare cards each pack has. The store
has also a folder ‘My Packs’ where you can claim any packs that you have
earned but not yet opened.
There are two ways to pay: with coins or with FIFA Points.
To buy a pack you just need to select it
in the store and choose the payment method. If you need more details
about it, just watch the video we have published in this page.
How the FUT Store looks like in the Web AppBest Times to Buy Packs
It is impossible to talk about the best times to buy packs without referring to Happy Hours.
There are several misunderstandings
about what Happy Hour is and how it works. Some players insist to say
that Happy Hour is a period of one hour in which the chances of getting
better cards are higher. This is not absolutely true. We will try to
clarify this to those people.
A happy hour is a period of time with
promo packs available in the store. It may be just one hour but it may
also be a full day or even a weekend. Besides the regular packs, during
happy hours other packs also exists. They are usually more attractive
than the regular ones, because they have a lower cost per rare card. The
chances of getting a good card during a happy hour are exactly the
same. The only difference is that, most of the times, there are cheaper
packs during Happy Hours.
There are a very rare kind of HH in
which the chances of getting a good card are higher. These special Happy
Hours are announced as ‘2x Chances’, which means that the chances of
getting an IF card during this period are two times higher than usual.
However, these special Happy Hours are very rare. They only happen two
or three times in a year.
The Happy Hours are not announced in
advance. You may know if there is any Happy Hour in the main page of the
FUT Web App or the consoles while it is active.
The Happy Hours are more common at the
end of the game. It is impossible to know when will be the next Happy
Hour but they are very common in these moments:
- at Wednesdays, between 4pm and 5pm, just before the release of the new TOTW;
– at most of the weekends, usually during large periods of time;
– after a MOTM card release;
– and during the Christmas period (last ten days of December and first two of January).
– at most of the weekends, usually during large periods of time;
– after a MOTM card release;
– and during the Christmas period (last ten days of December and first two of January).
Something that should be avoided is to
buy packs between 5:30pm and 6pm of Wednesdays because it is impossible
to get IF cards in these periods. In other way, it is a good strategy to
buy packs during good TOTW weeks or on TOTY/TOTS weeks. In the case of
success, the profit will be much higher. Remember that when a player
gets his IF cards in packs, it is impossible to find his regular card
there. Your odds of pulling an IF card from a pack are exactly the same
of pulling the regular card of that player during that period.
There are rumours that EA uses some
extreme tactics to sell more packs. People say, for example, that there
are better cards inside packs paid with FIFA Points and packs bought
after new IF cards being released. Both make sense. In the first one,
they are promoting the buying with FIFA Points. Fresh money. In the
second one, they are creating the snow ball effect of ‘if they got it, I
also have good chances’. We can’t prove if they are only rumours or not
but in other times it seemed to us that there were better cards in
packs mentioned. The manager tasks
rewards are a good example. It also makes sense since it was created
for beginners, we think that all the packs have good cards inside.
Anyway, the only time that we have been sure about good times to buy
packs are in the Happy Hours.
How to get Better Prices
There are many players confused about
what they should do: buying packs on the store, subscribing the Season
Ticket / EA Access or buying the Ultimate Edition. We will try to give a
help.
Let’s start by the Ultimate Edition. It
is true that the packs purchased on the store are more expensive than
the ones that Ultimate Edition offers. However, we strongly recommend to
not buy this special edition since it only gives one pack per week.
Which means that players need to wait 24 weeks to get all the packs. No
one wants this.
About the Season Ticket the things are a
bit different. As it happens with the Ultimate Edition, subscribers
only get one pack per week but it is also true that Season Ticket
holders pay 20% less to buy packs on the store with real money (FIFA
Points). For who buys many packs, this may be something very useful. The
one year subscription gets paid after buying packs that is worth 10k
FIFA Points. EA Access is not so interesting because you don’t get free
packs and because the discount is only 10%.
TIP
If you play in XBox 360 or Playstation 3 and you plan to buy many FUT 15 packs, subscribe EA Season Ticket as soon as possible. EA will stop selling Season Ticket Subscriptions in March of 2015 and they are replacing it by EA Access that only gives 10% discount.
If you play in XBox 360 or Playstation 3 and you plan to buy many FUT 15 packs, subscribe EA Season Ticket as soon as possible. EA will stop selling Season Ticket Subscriptions in March of 2015 and they are replacing it by EA Access that only gives 10% discount.
| Price [£] | Price [€ or $] | |||||||
| FIFA Points | Included Bonus | Normal | Season Ticket | EA Access | Normal | Season Ticket | EA Access | |
| 100 | 0 | 0,79 | 0,65 | 0,71 | 0,99 | 0,89 | 0,89 | |
| 250 | 0 | 1,99 | 1,59 | 1,79 | 2,49 | 2,09 | 2,24 | |
| 500 | 0 | 3,99 | 3,19 | 3,59 | 4,99 | 4,19 | 4,49 | |
| 750 | 0 | 5,49 | 4,79 | 4,99 | 6,99 | 5,89 | 6,29 | |
| 1050 | 50 | 7,99 | 6,49 | 7,19 | 9,99 | 8,39 | 8,99 | |
| 1575 | 75 | 11,99 | 9,69 | 10,79 | 14,99 | 12,49 | 13,49 | |
| 2200 | 200 | 23,99 | 15,99 | 21,59 | 19,99 | 16,69 | 17,99 | |
| 4600 | 600 | 31,99 | 23,99 | 28,79 | 39,99 | 33,39 | 35,99 | |
| 12000 | 2000 | 79,99 | 63,99 | 71,99 | 99,99 | 83,39 | 89,99 |
The prices and the currency can be different according to gamer’s region
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