Criticism and Feedback
Hello everyone, I would like to share some feedback and critique-focused ideas. I am 36 years old and started playing the FIFA series back in 1996 on the Sega Mega Drive. Since then, I've bought every game and played it throughout the year, but I haven't been this bored with a FIFA/EA FC game in the last 3 years. The biggest reason for this is the lack of innovation in the game. Since the game became focused on Ultimate Team, it has forced a one-dimensional style of play. If you don't play like everyone else, you have no chance. You are constantly forced to do the same things, the same absurd moves, the overly arcade-like absurd directional changes, the same tiki-takas, the same goals; every match is a copy of the last. I can win 10 matches in a row, but I don't enjoy any of them because I'm stuck with a gameplay style that doesn't provide any fun. I don't expect extreme realism from football games, but this game has reached a point where it is almost unplayable. Besides the gameplay, there is no visual innovation either. For instance, the lighting. To be honest, the lighting quality in the game is terrible. Please take a look at the lighting done by modders. It's hard to distinguish between the real image and the game. When viewed side by side, the original looks like a cartoon. Why is the lighting not improving, and why is it so bad? The game has a lot of stadiums, but there is no atmosphere in any of them. There is a serious atmosphere problem. Although you model the stadiums one-to-one, there are deficiencies and inadequacies in everything from the grass to the surrounding elements. The game lacks soul, i've been seeing modded FC 24 and modded eFootball 2021, and the things I see are on an incredible level. What about the sound of the net when a goal is scored? It sounds weirdly like a basketball going into a plastic bucket. Doesn't anyone in the studio notice this? Is there no one with enough vision to notice these flaws? It seems like there is a lack of vision in your team; there is probably no one who notices the details and understands that games can evolve through these details. I know that most people won't care about what I've written—lighting, sounds, atmospheres, grass, etc—I'm aware that these might not be important to many, but I felt the need to express all this clearly. I advise the team developing EA FC to review the realism mods of FC 24 and the stadiums, atmospheres, grass, and environmental details in modded eFootball 2021 and see the "vision".
