EA responds to FIFA Ultimate Team community about alleged ‘chemistry glitch’

Fans of EA Sports’ FIFA 16 soccer game are in an uproar after a group of players discovered an issue that is potentially handicapping cards in certain situations. And now EA is thanking them for their vigilance.

FIFA’s Ultimate Team mode, which has players collecting cards of players and putting together teams, may hold back the performance of certain kinds of cards without letting players know. In a thread on Reddit, dedicated fans of this mode detailed that a chemistry boost that awards stat improvements to cards that work well together doesn’t apply to some of the best and most expensive cards. This leads to situations where the weaker, more common version of a player is better than the upgraded one because the former is getting the benefits of the chemistry and the latter is not.