Another day, another error in FIFA 23. A number of players have reported that they received Thibaut Courtois' base item in Ultimate Team packs instead of his TOTY item, but compensation is set to be rolled out.
The FIFA 23 TOTY event is well underway, with the full TOTY along with a TOTY 12th man set to be released on Friday, January 27 at 6pm GMT / 1pm ET / 10am PT. The attackers and midfielders from the FIFA 23 TOTY Ultimate XI have already been released into Ultimate Team Packs for a limited time, and from yesterday until 6pm GMT / 1pm ET / 10am PT today, the TOTY defenders and goalkeeper are available.
Achraf Hakimi, Eder Militao, Virgil van Dijk, Theo Hernandez and Courtois are the five players available to claim in Packs, but an apparent error allowed players to pack the goalkeeper's base gold player item, rather than his 96-rated TOTY card. A few players have also complained on social media they are having the same issue with Van Dijk, but we've not seen too much in the way of evidence with this particular item.
Former Republic of Ireland and Premier League midfielder @DavidMyler was one of the higher-profile names to become a victim of this error, with the ex-Hull City midfielder taking to Twitter to call out EA over the issue.
In the Tweet, Meyler says: "Hey @EASPORTSFIFA @EAFIFADirect, why isn't my Courtois TOTY?????"
If you read through the replies to the above Tweet, there were dozens of other players who had received the wrong Courtois item in both Packs and Player Picks. With the defenders and goalkeeper now out of FUT Packs, it's shambolic that so many players are receiving the wrong items.
But, EA has since responded to the issue, claiming it has now been fixed, and impacted players will receive the corrected player item soon.
From their @EAFIFADIRECT account, the released statement read: "The base version of the Courtois Player Item was incorrectly available in packs instead of the Team of the Year version. This issue has been addressed and impacted players will receive the corrected Player Item in-game in the coming days."
We've seen something similar happen in the past, with one example being when FUT players didn't receive a Headliners Aaron Ramsdale player item in FIFA 22. With the goalkeeper listed as part of the Headliners Team 1 team, players were disappointed to receive his base silver item in Packs instead, but EA compensated players with a free Headliners Ramsdale player item plus free packs.
The full TOTY squad is set to be released in FIFA 23 Ultimate Team on Friday, January 27 6pm GMT / 1pm ET / 10am PT, so the Belgian's TOTY item should be available for sure then, but you never know!
