EA Sports FC 24 gets Ultimate Birthday cards to celebrate 15 years of massively OTT Messi pack pull reactions

Good news, people who distinctly remember having had at least one football-shaped birthday cake as a child – EA Sports FC 24’s getting a bunch of new cards in celebration of the series Ultimate Team mode having been a thing for 15 whole years.

Yes, after blessing us with the return of its freaky red and blue non-humans in order to demonstrate some of the changes coming in FC 24’s big spring update, EA’s well and truly trying to make up for some of the issues and problems folks have had with the game in recent months. Or maybe it’s just happy about having made lots of people lose their voices over the years.

“You’re all officially invited,” the company declared its announcement of a fresh Ultimate Team promotion dubbed “Ultimate Birthday” – because, as you might have gleaned, it’s designed to celebrate the game mode hitting 15 years old. Yup, it was first introduced back in FIFA 09, a game that I can’t quite remember whether Newcastle were in the Premier League or the Championship for. Knowing our luck, probably the latter.