FIFA 23 Was Mistakenly Playable Before Scheduled On Xbox

If everything goes as planned, on September 27, three days before its full release on September 30, FIFA 23 will be made accessible to the public for the first time in an official capacity. This year’s version of the game will include a refreshed chemistry system, a new FUT Moments mode, and a wider representation of women’s football. Marvel and Electronic Arts are going to work together on a collection of one-of-a-kind Hero products that will include comic book-inspired artwork of some of the most popular cult heroes in the world of football. The World Cup is scheduled to take place this winter, and the release of these products will coincide with the tournament.

However, recently, EA has acknowledged that FIFA 23 was unintentionally made available to select Xbox gamers one month earlier than intended.  Players who had participated in the most recent FIFA 23 beta test and had installed the Ultimate Edition of the game were apparently able to access the game and upgrade it without issue. This resulted in the game opening, providing full access to all game modes, including, though temporarily, FIFA Ultimate Team.

EA Sports had previously announced that the worldwide release of FIFA 23 would take place on Friday, September 30, 2022. As this thing occurs, some Xbox users were able to download and access the Xbox One version of the game on Tuesday, August 30, 2022, which was an entire month before the game was officially made available for purchase. As a result of the bug, users on Xbox Series X/S could download the Xbox One version of FIFA 23 and immediately have access to the complete game. This caused social media to go into a frenzy.

Because of the bug, gamers were able to play the whole game and access all game types, including the FIFA Ultimate Team game format as well as other game modes. EA has said that the ratings that have been leaked for Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, and Paris Saint-Germain may not be final. However, some social media accounts have already begun leaking these ratings. Because of these leaks, the copyright of several users on social media platforms was violated, and they earned strikes. As a result of the fact that the game is not expected to be released until the latter part of September, Electronic Arts is apparently banning any players who are discovered streaming the game or sharing snippets of the game that have identified information such as an account name. But it is still unknown whether EA will have the ability to remove access to the offline component of the game from the accounts of gamers who have previously used the game’s features. Even though it seems that the online servers were quickly shut down in reaction to this breach, users are still able to access the offline modes such as career and kick-off.

Even though access to the full edition of FIFA 23 was supposed to be made available to EA Play members on September 27, 2022, certain EA Play users have been given permission to access the game early. Even some participants broadcast the live game on Twitch. Some of those players are searching for FUT 23 coins by various approaches in order to have the most advantage over the general players.

Now, more than 24 hours after the FIFA community found the issue, EA has confirmed that it has “unintentionally provided certain players access to FIFA 23 a month early.” This admission comes after the FIFA community spotted the mistake.

As they said, they accidentally provided some players access to a two-hour trial of the Xbox One edition of FIFA 23 yesterday, even though it shouldn’t have been accessible just yet.