Pay to win garbage

Hi @Cam3131,

I read your post, and as a player, I understand the feeling of facing an opponent with a higher overall team. 

Building up a good team and trying to improve it week after week is important, and I'm sure Virgin Van Dijk TOTS can help you in defense more than an 80 rare gold card. But it's more important how you play the game and the strategy you adopt against your opponent. You can watch many players doing challenges on the Internet with a full Rare Gold Players squad, hitting level 1 in the UT Champions Finals, playing and winning against dream teams.

If you want, share your Team and tactic with us and tell us what you find difficult when playing against those teams (for example, the defending or they press you a lot so you can't counterattack) so that we can try to give you some advice.

Hey @EA_LeonSK  , to be honest, i actually have an incredible team this year that I love using and i'm in the elite division so it's definitely working for me. I made the initial point about "Whoever pays more wins" out of frustration more than anything, i went on to win about 4 in a row after i made the post

The thing I find crazy though is just how many people have multiple 5m+ players in their team. Like even with me having a better team than i've ever had on FUT at this stage of the year... Still 95% of the players I play against have more expensive teams than mine (But i guess that's to be expected in elite div).

I think it really spoils the fun when you play against someone you know full well you're better than, but they get such a massive AI advantage by having a team full of the most expensive players you can possibly get in UT. I know that some people do just get good pack luck, but it's pretty easy to tell when someone has spent loads of money to build their team vs someone who's genuinely earned it

You can tell us all you want it's not pay to win. You lie. Haha

@EA_LeonSKIF two people play against each other let’s call them player A and B and A spent a lot of money and has 95 rated all meta players and B only things from free packs and cheap market players (91 rated) and they both have the exact skill - who will win the competition?
One other thing the same connection. Because if the game is played on players B server and player A is from north of Sweden than it can go either way.

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@SirCarbonara wrote:

@EA_LeonSKIF two people play against each other let’s call them player A and B and A spent a lot of money and has 95 rated all meta players and B only things from free packs and cheap market players (91 rated) and they both have the exact skill - who will win the competition?
One other thing the same connection. Because if the game is played on players B server and player A is from north of Sweden than it can go either way.

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I got your point; in a situation where two players use the same tactic, same strategy, and have precisely the same skill level, you expect better players on the pitch to make the difference. But this is a hypothetical and impossible situation.

Also, we should consider our concentration level when we play Ultimate Team: You could have a day when you're more distracted and make mistakes or another day when you overperform, exceeding your expectations. This happens to real football players, and it may also happen to us when we play FC during the day.   

It's impossible to face an opponent, and you both have the same skills, tactics, strategy to score and defend, and concentration level throughout the match.

Another prime example in Rivals today. A 2-1 defeat against yet another guy with a squad full of 96 players. He didn't make a single tackle himself in the entire game, 97 Mbappe made TWENTY interceptions. All he does is AI defend, get away with fouls, counter attack, get a couple of scruffy bounceback goals and watch his keeper turn into spiderman

When you combine pay to win with auto defending, the game becomes unplayable

This is one of the biggest problems with the game. 
The inability of EA to explain to us why and how things happen. 
I hate to say it but I am fine with attacked making interceptions constantly if there is a reason for it. For example, if this was directly correlated to their higher OVR, interception rating or def awareness rating, or a tactic or instruction that could be shared with the community. The problem is that it isn't, its something deeper in the game that EA wont come out and address. 
The biggest examples this year were players like SAWA. Who, for some reason, did every single things better than any player in the game. I had here out-jump Rudiger and Van Dijk, tackle better than Maldini, and go from box to box all game while pressing (i have clips of this). All while being able to twist and turn better than modric or messi. 
Right now Werner is not just coming back on defense when I play him. He is making the most unbelievable, from behind tackles, while maintaining control, then hitting a top speed on the second touch. I've been able to do this with the same exact player but in the same exact game, my opponents player will do it and mine wont, regardless of chem, chem style, tactics, etc. 

Honestly I know it's your job to explain it like you did there, so fair play. But as a fifa player which I'm guessing you are, you cannot believe what you're writing lol. I've got golazo Roberto Carlos (luckiest pack ever), vidic, alexandri and vasquez at the back, decent back 4 I think. They can't do anything against 97 Messi, 97 haaland, any mbappe other than gold. Similarly every single one of my strikers is magnetically drawn to 97 van dijk if hes on the pitch. When you're of a similar skill level, money wins, simple as.

And slightly unrelated, the game rewards those who are spamming and exploiting broken tactics, like the corner glitch, or Finesse shots with anyone with finesse+. That's not do much pay to win, but still annoys me.