EA Sports FC 25 is introducing its first paid battle pass, after previously experimenting with a free version of the feature.
Timed ahead of the game’s Team of the Season (TOTS) event, EA will roll out a premium version of the Season 7 pass priced at 500k in-game UT Coins, or which you can buy for 1000 FC Points (around £9).
Access to this 40-tier pass begins today, 24th April, and will reward tradeable packs, Season Point boosters, TOTS items, evolution consumables and retro cosmetic evolutions. Its centrepiece is an exclusive 96-rated Immortal Icon Franck Ribery, the former French winger who spent most of his career at Bayern Munich.
Announcing the Premium Pass, EA said that while this iteration of the battle pass wouldn’t change, it would be “monitoring your feedback to make sure we deliver the best experience possible in whatever mode you play in FC moving forward”.
Anyone with feedback is invited to provide it via the EA Sports Discord, or EA’s own direct feedback portal.
On social media, however, the opinions are somewhat mixed. While some players have pointed to the items within the pass making up for its costs – and Ribery alone being worth the coins – others have said that Ultimate Team is already a money-sucking experience, without another additional thing to buy.