FIFA 23 players who have opened a World Cup Icon Player Pick will receive compensation, EA Sports has confirmed.
As part of the ongoing World Cup -themed promos for FIFA 23 Ultimate Team, EA unveiled a collection of World Cup Icons in FUT 23, celebrating the biggest moments in players' careers on the international stage. As well as being released into FUT Packs, and also becoming available to unlock by completing Squad Building Challenges, the World Cup Icons were released as part of the World Cup Swaps event.
In exchange for 35 tokens, FUT players could redeem a World Cup Player Pick, giving players the option of three World Cup Icons to choose from. But, it appears that players who redeemed the Player Pick after Friday, December 2 at 6pm GMT did not include all of the available World Cup Icons, with EA Sports confirming they will hand out compensation to the impacted players.
In a statement from the EAFIFADirect Twitter account, EA stated "The FIFA World Cup Icon Player Pick from WC Swaps did not feature a selection of all World Cup Icons starting December 2, 6 PM UTC. This has been corrected and impacted players will receive a new Player Pick in the coming days."
On Friday, December 2 at 6pm GMT, EA released the second batch of World Cup Icons into FUT, including the likes of Roberto Baggio, Samuel Eto'o, Roberto Carlos and more. But, some players' World Cup Icon Player Picks did not include these players and only players from Team 1.
Team 1 of the World Cup Icons included the likes of Ronaldo, Zinedine Zidane, Johan Cruyff, Eusebio and other big names, a much better release than Team 2. But, due to the error from EA, the lucky few who didn't have Team 2 World Cup Icons as an option will now get a free World Cup Icon Player Pick.
This isn't the first mistake EA Sports has made when it comes to FIFA 23, with some catastrophic errors having already happened in the first few months of the game's release. EA accidentally released the FIFA 23 World Cup mode weeks early for PS5 users, but EA's biggest error was when they released a tradable FUT Heroes Pack in the FUT Store for just 25,000 Coins.
EA quickly realised their mistake as they removed the back from the FUT Store minutes later, but the damage was already done as the transfer market was heavily impacted. EA never released any statement on this error.
