While these changes will please some players, EA Sports FC 24 will need to convince others with more radical alterations that will prove that the franchise is moving forward. Whether EA Sports FC 24 can remove all of the errors of EA Sports FC 21 and innovate remains to be seen, but the early announcements suggest that Electronic Arts are trying to win back fans.

EA confirms some of the big changes it will be making to Ultimate Team with the release of EA Sports FC 24. While fans have been excited about EA Sports FC 24 career mode features, each year it is EA Sports FC Ultimate Team and the changes to it that prove the biggest draw to the series.

In a post on the official EA Sports FC 24 site, EA confirmed that this year's Ultimate Team removes the use of fitness items, staff coaches, and training items. Fitness items, which have been available in Ultimate Team since it launched in 2008. are used to restore a player's fitness after each match, with this fitness level being affected by how hard they ran up and down the pitch. While EA has said that the feature was done to get players to rotate their squads, like a real-life soccer match, most just found it frustrating.

Many EA Sports FC Ultimate Team players also criticized EA for stuffing card packs full of these fitness items in an effort to pad them out, lowering the odds of getting more desirable items. It's unclear if fewer players purchased EA Sports FC Ultimate Team's loot box-style card packs, or "surprise mechanics"a s EA calls them, because of this. However, EA is likely to have been concerned about ruining the fun of opening card packs and potentially damaging its own profits.

This is just one quality of life change that EA is making in EA Sports FC 24's Ultimate Team mode. The company has also confirmed that some "toxic" goal celebrations will be removed from Ultimate Team. This is great news for anyone who has felt enraged by the game's "shushing" celebration, but again, removing this also keeps players having fun and potentially spending money for longer.

There's a lot that EA hasn't confirmed about EA Sports FC Ultimate Team in EA Sports FC 24. Each year, fans get very excited about the design of card packs and how they are animated. This may seem like a small thing to non-fans, but these animations are one reason why EA Sports FC Ultimate Team makes so much money for EA.

Fans will also want to know about player ratings in EA Sports FC 24 so that they can start putting together an idea of who to add to their Ultimate Team squad. Some players, such as EA Sports FC 24 cover star Kylian Mbappe, will surely have a brilliant rating and incredible stats but there are thousands of other players whose stats will also need updating. EA have more reveals planned for August.