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SilverSpikesOG
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2 years ago

EA Sports 24 Death of Pro Clubs - The End

this will be a repost from my fifa 22 forums post and everything still applies:

Starting from fifa 10-14 fifa Pro clubs was the best mode You could play . 11 vs 11 With human players the beauty of getting actual 22 players like the real life sport and a collective effort towards a goal felt unreal . After that the game mechanics changed to run down the wing simulator Where you have 1 short guy (because tall guys can never be fast) and 1 Tall guy and the short guy runs down the wing holding right trigger on your controller and presses the cross button and tall guy heads it in . It became a game that only required you to spam X button on your controller and you’ll spam away until it works and it will work . Now I’ve been fortunate enough to play in custom organized 11 vs 11 leagues since FIFA 11 . Ranked 1 club in the world to leagues like VIFA , VPSA , VPFL , iFVPAA international, VFL , IVL , WPSA , ELITE FC , FIFA K1NGZ , l Ambitious l these are clubs in XBOX and custom leagues 11 v 11 all organized by third parties with large number of players because FIFA doesn’t want it to get a competitive platform going for clubs . There was a time where people were genuinely interested in investing their time off their real life with no pay but for the passion of the specific pro clubs where the wins were satisfying and losses felt emotional . FIFA pro clubs had and still has such a potential . I’ve posted a thread in this forum 11 years ago about clubs where I proposed ideas such as :
1) ADD A SUBSTITUTION OPTION ( where if your friends join late they can be be subbed in instead of a bot if you are playing regular division club matches it’s bots and only 2 members )
2) ADD A SPECTATOR MODE ( where if a player wishes they can sit in the bench and watch a live game as it’s being played I know someone can stream but watching a game from in game is better since if you play competitive leagues you may have more than 11 players on at the same time and based on your competitive matches you can spectate and make decisions into next game subbing people on and off while they literally watch the game from the bench making it actually realistic .
3) ADD PAID DLC so EA actually gives a s*** . It’s very clear EA does not make money off pro clubs and ultimate team is the money maker mode with all the micro transactions and that’s why they stopped caring about pro clubs mode . Now this Idea allows them to atleast make some sort of money and get more support for clubs and get some sort of motivation to help improve hardcore pro clubs players .

4)BRING BACK lobbies and 11 v 11 modes and drop ins . Yes I know it was chaotic and people fighting for same spots but atleast you didn’t constantly just play 1 v 1 in empty lobbies . The point of this mode is multiplayer and the chaos it brings but it’s beautiful when everyone works together and you are rewarded . There’s also a mode once upon a time where you could play 11 v 11 with irl players in lobbies that’s also been taken away from us .. for no reason


Here I am at my mid - late 20s just reminiscing and reminding myself that I made this exact post 11 years ago posting 3 constructive feedback as a customer who cares about the game mode and willing to pay a little bit more to see a little bit more . But I know posting a constructive comment or feedback will get me permanently banned on this forums again . It’s the end of this mode it’s unfortunate the population of the pro clubs dropped 196% past 10 years gradually .. it’s 2022 moving into 2023 you can’t tell me adding 2 things that’s really hard for them ? Just 1 or 2 actual features ?? Instead of just renaming “traits” into “archetypes “ or changing specialties into “perks” these are not improving the game it’s showing veterans that you don’t care anymore about the game anymore because money runs the world . I have no words but to just say this I had to let it out and I know my ideas are not perfect but atleast I tried . I’m from Vancouver British Columbia Canada 🇨🇦 where the FIFA franchise has been made . I’m out thanks for the read if EA doesn’t permanently ban me and censor me I’m sure you’ll be able to read this .

FIFA 23 is the Last ever FIFA since EA lost licensing and it has been an era of huge disappointment and they let all of down with no effort. They don't care as long as the money comes in.

It is The end of what was to be best of our times . They had multiple chances to resolve multiple years to add and improve.... but now its gone. Forever a memory that cannot be re-lived again.

Now with FIFA giving up ON EA the only thing they have added is "CROSS-PLAY" within same generations thats their only real "Feature" still you cannot substitute players into a match. This game the potential to be a major E-SPORT ground since 2012 if they played their cards right and maybe into top E-SPORT platform and even in Olympic E-SPORT for pro clubs 11vs11.

[CM - Edited title for CAPS]

8 Replies

  • Karamazov1's avatar
    Karamazov1
    2 years ago

    Ea's best mode and the only reason I still buy this bizarre game. Clubs is fun and is the future of football games, but developers only think about Ultimate Team's money.

  • I don’t see why money would be a problem. They’re talking about making the game free because of “competition”. If you want to keep players, maintain and continue making the game fun. Player career isn’t fun, take that, making a pro and playing with your friends is fun.

  • EA_Mako's avatar
    EA_Mako
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    2 years ago

    Hey folks,

    Thanks for the posts and feedback.

    For EA Sports FC 24, please see our Clubs Deep Dive here for more information on how clubs changed with EAS FC 24.

    We're not done there, however! We've continued to make further adjustments for this year's EA Sports FC 25, so feel free to check this year's Deep Dive here for the latest info on the future of clubs!

  • 7Will07's avatar
    7Will07
    Seasoned Novice
    2 years ago

    That's great and all, however, there's absolutely no mention of anything regarding learning and practice.

    In EA Sports FC 24, for a whole year, we had absolutely no way of practicing the player builds we created, with such drastic gameplay-changing features like Playstyles (not to mention Weak foot and Skill moves abilities not applying either) within a mode that does not represent 1:1 a real match, both in visual (Camera) and controls settings. (Skill Games)

    Throughout the whole year, other issues within Clubs gamemode, both visual and gameplay affecting ones, have been addressed within a reasonable timeframe. And while I've seen plenty of posts from users reporting this issue, it still remains ignored.

    How is it that a game pushing for "Pro" Competitive play, with constant rebalancing changes throughout its life cycle, has nothing but a broken mode that offers some semblance of practice?

    Guess as long as average Joe equips Playstyle+ and "push button", game plays itself, and everyone's happy, right? who needs practice?

    Give us Arena on Clubs and expand on it: Allow us to set player stamina, as in a real match it's not fixed to 100%. Give us options to place objects so we can create our own Skill Games scenarios. Let us save presets so we can randomize scenarios on reset. Make it multiplayer so Club mates can practice dozen of things.

    I could go on forever but I'm trying to be as brief as possible, as I value the time of whoever at EA might be reading this, and my own as I have a feeling this has a high chance of just being ignored.

    Thank you for your time.

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