Loot boxes and Ultimate Team are very big fut 23 from anqilan's blog

FIFA's main rival, PES 2022, launches for last-gen and current-gen consoles as well as PC on September 14, 2017, two weeks ahead of EA's behemoth. You can read more about Konami's challenger here FIFA 23 coins. Gamers in Belgium will get to keep any unspent FIFA points, but, as mentioned, they will no longer be available to buy more. "We apologize to our players in Belgium for any inconvenience caused by this change," EA said.

With all of its games, EA said its goal is to provide players with "choice, fairness, value, and fun." EA also pointed out that franchises like FIFA and others with loot box mechanics contain systems that display probability figures. EA removing loot boxes from FIFA might seem like the company is taking a stance against loot boxes, but that doesn't seem to be the case. EA said previously that loot boxes are not gambling, and the company doubled down on this in its new statement.

"While we are taking this action, we do not agree with Belgian authorities' interpretation of the law, and we will continue to seek more clarity on the matter as we go forward," EA said.

On the investor side, EA said it doesn't expect the removal of loot boxes to having a "material" impact on the company's financial performance. That may be true because Belgium is a small country relative to other places; the potential worry for investors is that this announcement might lead to more widespread changes in other countries that EA operates in.

Loot boxes and Ultimate Team are very big business for EA. Across all of its sports games, EA's Ultimate Team revenue came in at close to $1 billion in 2017, according to GI.biz. In 2018, Belgium's Gambling Commission announced that loot boxes constitute a game of chance buy FUT 23 coins, and were therefore subject to the country's gambling laws. Blizzard swiftly removed loot boxes from Overwatch in Belgium, but EA had taken longer to make the change.