>The article says that "92 percent of the FIFA boxes are not bought with real money, but unlocked via football matches and are therefore simply part of the game

>The article says that "92 percent of the FIFA boxes are not bought with real money, but unlocked via football matches and are therefore simply part of the game of skill." which implies players can expect to get a reasonable number of good players to build a team with and a team constructed of said players on aggregate would not provide a significant competitive advantage. It has been years since I played FIFA so maybe things have changed, but this quote is misleading which means the implication you got from it is incorrect. The FIFA lootboxes aren't uniform. There is a wide variety of different packs and they all have different odds and come with different costs. It is very easy to earn the cheapest versions with the worst odds. No one spends real money on those. The real money proportionally will go to the more expensive packs with the best odds and therefore can lead to an imbalance in play because those 8% of packs account for much more than 8% of the rewarded value.