Austria will sue FIFA over Ultimate Team

If FIFA has been the best-selling football videogame in the world in recent years, destroying competition from eFootball, much owes to the Ultimate Team mode. An innovative mode that has completely changed the way users play the game, who have had what they have always asked for, a huge online league where you can build your own team through buying and selling players. Obviously, to get the strongest players from the best clubs, you need to not only win and secure a very high number of victories in the so-called 'Weekend League' and participate in certain challenges. But besides this way that will obviously take you a lot of time, there is also a solution that will save you a lot of time but not money. As in all online games, it is in fact possible to buy in the app, and FIFA Points provide no small help in obtaining the strongest cards in circulation that come out every week. A mechanism, however, which according to Austria is to be considered as gambling and therefore decided to initiate a lawsuit.

A situation that obviously risks opening an unprecedented lawsuit to which other users from all over the world might agree. The country of Austria is just one of the latest to have this problem, so now the most famous mode could end up in big trouble. According to various sources, Austria is currently planning to ask for a refund for each user who has sued, but as there is no verdict yet, it is not certain. What is certain is that from next year, when FIFA changes its name, it will have to find another and new way to sell its loot boxes that have ended up in the eye of the storm.