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Its first and foremost a management issue. There is absolutely no way an entry-level QA analyst missed the fact that the menus dont work. And this is coming off of the back of working menus from the prior year. Someone has designed new menus, and my guess is that they have given these to a relatively new, inexperienced developer to work on, because its 'not critical' to the broader game. Last years menu guy has been promoted to work on, I dont know, custom tactics! Well, this poor sucker (new menu guy) hasn't managed to get it working properly, the QA have definitely flagged it as a problem (because all you need to do to identify the issue is have working eyes), but somebody somewhere decided that this was acceptable quality to release the game in, owing to financial pressures. Its almost like there aren't actually enough people working on the game. Which is still amazing given you have a full-working base in FIFA23. Anyway, I dont want to derail the OPs thread but I'll say I'm definitely not going to put myself through Weekend League this weekend, and I may not play until this thing is actually working semi-properly.
@nightrunner28 don't worry about derailing my thread at all. Your comments are great and I think the last part summed up how a lot of us are feeling. I saw someone elses comment on another post and the person said they had went back to using FIFA 23 and what a difference.
I know EA haven't got FIFAs backing on this game, but the main frame of the game was already there so there's no excuse for them getting this game so badly wrong.
People have been saying the defence needs fixing for years so you would have thought the developers would have looked at public opinion and focused on things like that, than putting their main focus onto the menus. At the end of the day, menus are just shiny wrapping paper in my opinion. I'd rather have a basic menu that works.
You hit the nail on the head there. I think it was released due to financial constraints. They could have still made quite a bit of money had they just released patches that they could have charged money for, to update FIFA 23, while they spend time making a game they can be proud of, for release in 2024. I doubt anyone at EA can look at the game in its current state, and say they are proud of the game they made