FIFA Ultimate Team ‘Preview Packs’ now show all contents before you buy - Polygon

The catch: If you don’t like the contents, you wait 24 hours to see a new pack.

FIFA 21 Ultimate Team players may now preview the specific contents of every pack of cards sold in EA Sports’ extremely lucrative but heavily criticized mode.

Doing that exposes its contents as if the player actually had bought the pack and opened it.

But there will now be a 24-hour wait period before they can preview another pack or buy a different one in its class.

So if you preview a pack that was already set to expire in 45 minutes, you see the next pack in 45 minutes, not a day later.

Still, FIFA is a $59.99 (now $69.99 on PS5 Xbox Series X) annual game, and FUT is an open-ended revenue stream drawing on players who have bought that game.

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In 2020, FIFA developers launched a tool called FIFA Playtime, which allowed players (or their parents) to monitor and control the amounts of time and money they spend in the game

Eurogamer also noted, in reporting on pack previews on Friday, that FIFA 21 Ultimate Team started offering cosmetic items outside of its loot boxes beginning in May