EA SPORTS FC™ 26 - FC Points

I'll be straight with you: this listing is for FC Points, the premium currency inside EA SPORTS FC 26, not the base game. That distinction matters, and anyone landing here deserves a clear-eyed read of what these points actually get you and whether the mode they power is worth the investment. FC Points exist entirely to serve Football Ultimate Team, the card-collecting, squad-building competitive mode that has been the engine of EA's football revenue for years. With FC Points you can buy packs from the Ultimate Team store, pay for Evolution slots to upgrade player cards, enter the Ultimate Draft, unlock Archetype card backgrounds in Clubs, grab cosmetics, and purchase Season Passes. On paper that sounds like a full menu. In practice, most of that list funnels toward one thing: packs, which are the randomised card pulls at the core of the FUT economy. The monetisation here is as aggressive as ever, and that's the honest baseline you need before spending anything. So is the mode worth funding? FC 26's Ultimate Team has picked up some genuinely useful structural changes. The old Playoffs grind between Division Rivals and FUT Champions has been scrapped entirely. Now you qualify for Champs directly through your Division Rivals rank and accumulated Qualification Points. Bounties let you attach specific reward objectives to upcoming Rivals matches, so even a bad session earns something. Gauntlets, a five-match format requiring five different squads, add real squad-depth pressure that makes the card economy feel relevant. Competitive preset, the mode used for all FUT head-to-head play, brings fewer auto-tackles, faster passing lanes, and smarter goalkeeper rebounds, which shifts more match outcomes toward player decision-making rather than engine autopilot. Those are welcome fixes. The online experience is improved over FC 25, though Competitive matches still heavily favour the attacking team, and keeping a clean sheet remains closer to a miracle than a skill expression. The elephant in the room is value. FC Points accelerate a grind that EA also sells you the long way around through coins and free objectives. Repeatable Evolutions are new this year and give lower-rated cards a genuine upgrade path, which slightly reduces the pressure to whale on packs for top-tier players. Goalkeeper Evolutions are available for the first time, which is a meaningful addition for anyone building around a specific keeper. Whether that justifies spending real money is a personal call, but the mode is at least more functional and fairer in 2026 than it was in 2025. User scores on Metacritic sit at a brutal 2.9, largely driven by frustration with the monetisation model and inconsistent AI patches, so community sentiment is split hard between FUT diehards who are reasonably happy and everyone else. If you are already deep in FUT and know what you want from a points purchase, the infrastructure around those purchases is at least more polished this year. If you are new to this mode or sitting on the fence about whether the game justifies ongoing spend, the honest answer is: grind coins first, see if the mode holds your attention, and treat Points as a top-up for a habit you have already formed, not an entry ticket to one. Fred, Scout Team