How EA is slowly coercing the playerbase into buying FP by making it harder to get coins/players like they used to (also the real reason they brought it FUT Economist)
League SBCs
Remember the first year this was introduced. The quality of the players were insane. Suarez - Lacazette - Giovinco - even Al Soma ... all cards that stayed relevant for months. People played hundreds of games with these. Oh and guess what ... YOU HAD A WHOPPING 20-30K EXTRA with the player card you completed. Plus the 20ish good packs you can open too means that very often you break even and even made profit while leaving with a very good player.
Now, sure we have 2-3 picks, but they are so underwhelming that it's pointless and the packs are utter garbage.
So yeah, EA had to nerf these bad boys, they don't want people not only having meta usable players + a shit tons of good packs to open.
Trading MM
Another content feature EA nerfed in order to cut down on the amount of coins you can make. Remember when MMs where obvious marquee games, some games that you just knew were a no-brainer. Easy investments AND MMs actually gave out very good packs too so you knew you'dbmake profit.
Fast forward now, when was the last time we had a MM that that had bronze-silver players almost go extinct ? Yeah ... I though so too.
Trading UCL
Last year, it was a sure way to make coins. Just invest in them when they are in SBC packs. And sell them when they become requirements for some higher end SBCs. Easy money for most.
This year, these cards are pretty much pointless and are CLEARLY pack fillers since EA made them available all year long in packsn, thus hitting 2 birds with 1 stone. Traders can't make a quick buck out of them, and we get more useless shit in our packs, thus reducing the odds for more desirable items.
Trading OTW
Who remembers OTW Konoplyanka, or OTW Felipe Anderson or OTW Mane ... thos players made people so much coins