10 Problems With FIFA Games Die-Hard Fans Won't Admit
6. Every Opponent You Play Against Has An Icon Card
You may sit there perfectly content with your EPL team, sporting the likes of Jamie Vardy, Anthony Martial and Aymeric Laporte. When every opponent you play against has a Steven Gerrard, a Miroslav Klose or a Diego Maradona, however, you're in for a torrid ninety minutes.
First introduced in the 2016 iteration of the football title, Icons were meant to be seen as the rarest of the rare, the best of the best, something that every FIFA fan dreamed of owning. Those that had an Icon were feared and revered by all. However, after the World Cup 2018 game mode patched into FIFA 18, their attainability and status in the community were changed for good.
EA introduced a squad builder that allowed people to trade away their excess players in exchange for Icons, and because of the system the store operated on in the World Cup 2018 mode, everyone and their Gran had enough players lying around to earn multiple Icons to deck out their team.
Flash-forward to FIFA 20, and another squad builder has emerged which allows people to easily gain these super-powered legends of the game. Although this squad builder costs 600,000 coins on average, when people are more than happy to abuse their parents' credit cards to gain the upper hand, you will be lucky to come up against someone online that doesn't have an Icon.