The Team of the Week comes out in FIFA 22 every Wednesday at 7 p.m… Hype? Anyone? No? Why would they, the TOTW disappoints every week and delivers no playable cards.
TOTW FIFA 23
If there’s one thing you can’t blame FIFA 22 and EA for, it’s that the game doesn’t release enough awesome special cards this year. Future Stars, Headliners, Winter Wildcards – even OTW was really nice after the crazy transfer summer.
In contrast to that it’s even more noticeable that the Team of the Week in FIFA 22 is absolutely shitty, to put it kindly. No wonder that nobody wants to grind for a good rank in the Weekend League anymore. In case someone from EA Sports is reading this – Hi! – here are 3 possibilities how the TOTW should look like in FIFA 23.
FIFA 23 – Updates which the TOTW needs
Upgrades based on highest rating
Okay, hear me out: So far, yes, upgrades are based on each player’s starting card, why not just the highest rated card? Let’s just take Mr. Zlatan Ibrahimović as an example. At Winter Wildcards he got a really cool special card. If he gets fit again in the near future and plays his way into the TOTW, we get another useless card.
Does it really have to be like that? It would be much more cool if he gets a normal Inform upgrade on the stats of his Winter Wildcards card. Of course, there could be problems with some events… how does it work with dynamic cards? Does a player theoretically get multiple 99s IFs after the TOTY? But hey, we’re just asking the questions, EA would have to answer them in the end.
Upgrades like Icon Versions
What do we mean by that? Let’s explain right now. In the case of icons, yes, it is so that gradually in the FIFA year the better versions are released. At the beginning we have only Base and Mid Icons in the packs, in December usually come the Prime Icons and now – in mid-February – we are already facing the Icon Moments. Why not divide the TOTW into these phases as well?
In the Base- and Mid-Phase we would then see such updates as currently – the standard TOTW is perfectly okay for the start of FIFA, but now just ridiculous. Prime Icons could then be used to improve the TOTW cards, for example by giving each player a double upgrade.
In the period of the Icon Moments the upgrades have to be pretty blatant…. otherwise nobody cares, like in FIFA 22. Shoutout at this point to GamerBrother, who recently discussed this idea in the stream and gave us the idea. +1 from us!
Less TOTW players
If EA doesn’t feel like messing with the upgrades somehow, they could also just make the TOTW smaller. Instead of 23 players currently, even 15 players would be perfectly sufficient. No disrespect to silver or gold non-rare players, but you just really don’t want to see them run out of your pack. Fewer players = greater chance of drawing a halfway decent card.
FIFA 23 RELEASE – WHAT IS KNOWN SO FAR
FIFA 22 is still in full operation, but in the background the game makers of EA Sports are already working on the next part – FIFA 23 will be released in autumn 2022.
But under which name will the classic game be continued in autumn 2022? As things stand, it is not at all certain that the game will continue to bear the name of the world association FIFA. We have the most important information about FIFA 23 for you, why the game series will get a new name and on which consoles the next part of the soccer simulation will be available.
WHEN WILL FIFA 23 BE RELEASED?
We can’t give you an official launch date for the next part of the FIFA game series yet. EA hasn’t communicated much in this regard yet, so so far we can only assume that FIFA 23 will be released in the period between mid-September and early October 2022, just like its predecessors. In the past years, the latest launch date of a FIFA game was October 06.