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EA FC 25 EA Play: How to start the 10-hour trial

Find out how to play EA FC 25 early through EA Play

Marco Wutz

EA FC 25 is now available for owners of the Ultimate Edition and subscribers to EA Play Pro, but those are not the only ways to play EA FC’s latest iteration ahead of the Standard Edition release time. Every EA Play member can get early access to the game through a 10-hour trial without any additional cost. 

All progress you make in those ten hours will be transferred over to the full game whenever you purchase it, so this is a good way to get started on Ultimate Team or set up your club for future success in Career Mode.

Find out how to play EA FC 25 early through the EA Play trial below.

EA FC 25: How to access the free 10-hour trial on EA Play

Obviously, the first step on this entire process is to get yourself an EA Play membership – but before you visit the EA website to purchase one, you should know that you might already have access to EA Play if you’re an Xbox Game Pass subscriber.

EA Play is included with every PC Game Pass and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate membership, allowing you to get your hands on all its benefits without paying for the extra subscription.

Alright, do you have your EA Play membership sorted out? Then here’s how you can play the EA FC 25 10-hour trial on PS4 or PS5:

  1. Make sure your EA and PlayStation accounts are linked.
  2. Go to the PlayStation store on your console.
  3. Search for EA Sports FC 25 and navigate to its store page.
  4. Look for the “Game Trial” option to download and play.

Here’s how you can play the EA FC 25 10-hour trial trial on Xbox One or Xbox Series X|S:

  1. Make sure your EA and Xbox accounts are linked.
  2. Go to the Xbox store on your console.
  3. Search for EA Sports FC 25 and choose the Standard Edition.
  4. On the Standard Edition’s store page, select “Game Trial” to download and play.

Here’s how you can play the EA FC 25 10-hour trial on PC:

  1. Make sure your EA and Xbox accounts are linked.
  2. Download and open the EA App, then sign in.
  3. Search for EA Sports FC 25 and navigate to its page.
  4. Select “Download” to get the game and play.

No matter which platform you activate the trial on, make sure you don’t idle around in the menus for too long – the time keeps ticking down no matter what you do from the moment you start the game, so make those ten hours count. Perhaps by investing into the best EA FC 25 wonderkids in Career Mode?

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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