One thing that can make a great career mode journey will be to have all championship, league one, and league two real stadiums in the game. I often find myself waiting for a team that has a real stadium in the game, to be relegated in real
life so I can start my journey with that team. Anybody else has the same thought?
I do and I don't. For passionate fans of any team, their home arena is almost a second home. I had Caps season tickets for a decade before moving to Florida, and when the NHL games got something amiss with Verizon Center (now Capital One Arena), I could spot it right away, because the place was where I spent an aggregate month and a half worth of my evenings of every year, cheering on my team.
The logistics of getting every single home ground into a video game--getting permission to use it, scanning it in, digital rendering--are not easy. AI can expedite the digital parts, but if permission never comes, say, or if the venue's name can't be used for legal reasons regardless, that's going to leave users with, say, "Arizona Arena," because a casino had bought the naming rights. And fans of a team whose home ground isn't fully "in the game," tend to be disappointed when that happens. I remember a few years ago, fans were getting miffed that Madison Square Garden wasn't officially licensed in NHL, and they were blaming the devs, when the issue was that the New York Rangers didn't get the licensing agreement in before the deadline.
So, multiply all of that, by...how many teams are in FC 25, again? And in how many countries?...and I can empathize with the magnitude of it all. And that's not counting how much data, that that many grounds would take up, on, for example, a stock PS5 internal storage.
Would having every stadium in game, make for a better experience? Absolutely. But between the not-quite-there technology, and the prohibitive logistics of capturing so many arenas, in so many far flung locations, I can see why the game uses generic stadiums for lower tier leagues.
I don’t suggest every stadium from every league. By far English football provides de best experience on career mode. Thanks for the reply
Ehhh...I'm kinda partial to the German leagues. My mom, God rest her soul, spent her last years in Bremerhaven, so I kinda developed, by osmosis I guess, a bit of a fandom for SV Werder Bremen, along with a slight distaste for FC Bayern München (the New York Yankees of German soccer, to hear her tell it).
And with language packs available as DLC, it's possible to hear the game with commentary auf Deutsch, but with the CGI in English, which, for me, is atmosphere without missing any information.
And I'm sure fans of other European nations would say their own league is best, and oh by the way, why is MLS, which doesn't use promotions or relegations, still using so many of the McPitches?
See what I'm getting at?
Don't get me wrong, EFL Two is a great way to open a zero to hero Player Career, but they can't ignore the rest of Europe, and never mind the rest of the world, to get all those clubs coded in.
