Is anyone else finding the game unplayable with the amount of cheating going on? I'm old enough to have played every single version of this game since Fifa International Soccer and I cannot see myself bothering with '26 at the moment unless the cheating is addressed.
EA please - I don't want to hang up my controller but cannot justify £60 to play a game that is so rife with cheats that its not worth booting up - sort it out.
Yep, couldn’t agree more. Cheating is a definite an issue (one that EA seems to be doing little or nothing about as far as I can tell) and that combined with persistent lag/latency and the garbage mechanics to level the playing field (like pacy forwards who suddenly decelerate for no reason on breakaways to let the defender catch up) makes the game pretty miserable to play. It’s hard to remember the last time I played more than two matches without at some point wanting to smash my controller in frustration. And to top it all off you have a company that seems completely deaf and/or indifferent to what is said in here. I’ve been very active in these forums over the last seven to eight months and seen scores of legitimate issues raised and almost zero response/acknowledgement from EA. They created these forums but they appear not to have committed anywhere near the required resources to make them mean something. Instead, it just feels like a dark room where frustrated users can go to shout into the void and occasionally find commiseration with other similarly disillusioned souls.
Just likethe_real_sharkyM I am old enough to have played the original EA titles back when “if it’s in the game, it’s in the game” meant something. Sadly, I agree that EA has lost its way with the FC franchise and, at this point, I have no intention of wasting my money on FC26. Perhaps it’s a function of not having any serious competition, but the game (and especially FC25) has become a lot less playable and a lot less fun. I could do without some of the bells and whistles if it meant the gameplay was less sluggish. I’m sick and tired of feeling like my skill matters less than whether I encounter lag, a cheater, bizarre decelerations or all of the above. Do something EA or kiss your customers goodbye.
EA don't care about making a good game. They don't even care about trying to keep casuals in the game, which is surprising.
Friendlies is an absolute mess. I'm in div 5, playing against players in the elite division, all because EA decided to remove matchmaking from friendlies. So now, as a casual, I have to play against all the sweats in a gamemode called FRIENDLIES. What an absolute joke.
Let alone Friendlies are peer-to-peer so one side gets a massive lag advantage.
The reason why they cannot be banned is because those are not all player cheating.
Some of them are EA code building intentionally in the game to give you the feeling that your team is never good enough.
Imagine having a player with 99 sprint and acceleration and 99 shot that can't run and cannot hit the target.
Imagine playing football and your opponents use two Ronaldinhos on the same team. This happened in FIFA 23, and 3 years later is still a thing in FC 26. They can't even handle a unique element in a database. (coding primary school).
No way FC 26 will get better with such a level of incompetence.
This game has been a fraud for so many years, but under fc era, it's getting out of hand.
