October 2019
Accidentally Submitted Team in SBC
Last night I attempted to do the gold upgrade pack on the web app and in attempting to remove my ronaldo from the squad I ended up submitting the whole squad, the reason Ronaldo was in the SBC was due to me using the squad builder. I clicked on Ronaldo and selected send to club but the web app glitched, as it commonly does for me and swapped to the submission menu and I ended up submitting most of my first team in to the SbC. These include players such as Cristiano Ronaldo, OTW Pepe, OTW Haller and TOTW Aurier. After this I promptly messaged an EA advisor who directed me here to resolve my issue.
Please do not tell me that it is impossible to restore players from SBCs and after they have been submitted it is final. I do know of various instances of players being restored or reissued to clubs after doing SBCs, for instance during the OTW and TOTS promo in Fifa 19 where players submitted squads and got rare gold players. There have also been numerous Reports in the R/FIFA sub-reddit of cards being restored. Therefore I do believe that it is not impossible for the cards to be restored despite previous answers on the forum indicating the opposite. The evidence is simply too great for me to believe answers that say it is impossible to do so.
Furthermore, please do not link me to the FIFA SBC help page or previously answered queries relating to similar issues. I have been linked there before by one of your awesome advisors, Junaid. Although it clearly states that submissions are final on the SBC Help Page, the fine print indicates that advisors cannot reissue players. This leads me to believe that there are avenues that can be followed to reissue players. This coupled with the evidence of previous reissuing of players leads me to believe that it is within the scope of someone at EAs power to rectify this issue.
I have been a FIFA player since 2011 and the game really means the a lot to me. Losing those players have caused me great distress. I do not expect special treatment, but I do expect an opportunity to be heard and not merely dismissed with a preset template response. I do believe that every valued customer deserves an opportunity to be heard and I do hope that the points that I have raised are individually addressed.
Thank you for reading my query.
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October 2019
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October 2019
Thank you for taking the time to reply to my message. Below I will be setting out some concerns I have based on your response as well as the response of your advisors and the SBC help page. It is my last intention to come across as adversarial or disrespectful towards you and I would like to apologise for any offence that I might cause In my response. I have taken quite a bit of time to type this out so I hope that you can thoroughly read through all of my concerns.
I understand the situation, yet your language illustrates inconsistency of application. Your advisors said it is impossible, but now I am being told that it is no longer possible to do so. I find this inconsistency of practice to be quite unfair. Based on previous answers on the forum it is apparent that in the past Community Managers have denied the possibility of reissuing players, yet now your stance has changed, now you no longer do it. Which means it had to have been done before.
This is quite difficult for me to accept and as a customer, it is not palatable to see such inconsistency and merely accept it. Yesterday it was was impossible to reissue cards. today it is possible but only if their is a mistake on the company’s behalf. If all submissions are final, then I would like to know why it is possible for The company to rectify a genuine mistake on their end but when a customer makes a mistake the same courtesy is not extended.
I understand that this was put in place for players to not cheat the system, that is undeniably one of the main reason as to why EA have adopted the policy of not reissuing the cards. In other words, one of the objectives of the rule is to prevent exploitation. I do not see how in submitting almost 2 million coins worth of players into an SbC that can be done for less than 6 thousand coins is me exploiting the system.
I am cognisant of the consumer-producer relationships and my comparison might be reaching at straws. But I do hope you understand the confusion of it all and the situation as a company you have put yourself in by inconsistently reusing players and misinforming other people on this forum about it being impossible to do so even though there have been various instances that even you have indirectly admitted to in your response.
I am fully aware that I have been repeating the same or a similar point consistently throughout my response. This has not been done accidentally or because I lack an understanding of the situation. I do so to emphasise the inconsistency of practice. There have been numerous cases throughout all previous FIFA’s that have illustrated exceptions to the rule. These exceptions in my view create a form of precedent and therefore, in my view negate the rules and warnings that you have mentioned. If one customer is allowed to return a product and another is not, serious questions regarding company policy and rules will be raised.
I would like to thank you again for responding and I would like to thank you for reading my whole response. I greatly appreciate your response. Once again I would like to apologise if I have been offensive or disrespectful. I am merely a customer raising my concerns. For you it might just seem like a few worthless cards on a screen but I have poured my heart out in trying to earn them and as such the are precious to me.
Every FIFA player dreams of packing Cristiano Ronaldo, I managed live out that dream and it has turned into a nightmare due to a simple genuine mistake.
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February 2020
this just happened to me, tried to do Low to High on golds, accidentally clicked High to low so I just closed the app and reopened it to see it submitted the squad?? I didn't even press submit it just submitted it. Players can be restored, but on EA Support I spoke to big lad Shivani, and he said that I can't restore the players that I lost to a GLITCH with no warnings. Can anyone help me with this?
January 2023
January 2023