FIFA/FC games have always been buggy messes on release. The player base gets annoyed then moves on as things are slowly patched over a year but this is genuinely the worst experience I have ever had with a new FIFA. I’ve played every game since FIFA 12 and I’ve never felt genuinely scammed out of money this way. Both in terms of bugs, but also active choices/features that are so, so, so much worse than ever. Bugs: Career Mode: Horrific Menu lagAll menu items other than match-related options disappearing on matchdayRandom crashing requiring restartIncorrect player valuation advice I.e ‘we think this player is worth 40-60m’ - make a 55m offer, rejected outright Genuinely, absolutely, ludicrously insane looking youth players New UI is just genuinely terrible and inaccessible, not a bug, just a bad new feature No player OVR development shown on squad hub AI kit selections clash more than ever making differences between you and opposition genuinely impossible to tell. UT: Menu lagRandom crashingGame disconnected 1-0 up, left in purgatory with a loading screen afterwards indefinitely while it ‘determined a winner’ that then didn’t work and no outcome decided‘My packs’ crashing and not showing anything more often than notGenuine regression on attacking AI with forwards having seemingly none of the good positional sense they had last year. Bounces at complete random times but always favouring the countering side (both me and opponents) in incredibly contrived ways. Jockey+second man press inputs lick your defender in place indefinitely Passing power seemingly completely randomisedI genuinely feel robbed. I’ve never quit playing a new release this soon. I spend 90% of my time playing career mode, and it feels legitimately pointless to build for the future (the whole point of the game mode) when I know I’ll be playing with a team of people with no chins, lips like the Rolling Stones symbol, and eyebrows like the McDonald’s logo. I feel bad for the game devs that were clearly given 15 minutes and a packet of crisps to crank this out. I’m appalled and EA should be genuinely ashamed.

Absolutely agree, the game is basically unplayable. This is the worst effort I've ever seen on a fifa game. It downright feels like they don't even test their game before releasing, cause these error don't happen ''every now and then'' but every match.

My thoughts exactly, I lost 80 euros in the most stupid way, on the most useless of all FIFA+EA games. I thought FC24 was a fiasco, but compared to FC25, it was a real success.My players are so slow and helpless, as if they were kept in the desert, without water and food and then brought to the field. The offside does not work correctly, there were phases when I paid attention, the opponent was one meter before my last defender and the goal was validated. The defense tactic has no logic, my defenders run away from the opposing attackers, they do not press and the passes are completely wrong.This is the last year I buy this game, I'm waiting until another company comes out with a better product.

@Nicklas2211108 Agree.There’s so many issues with gameplay that I, actually shocked.Clunky as hell.Slow. Not responsive.

I was very adamant on the previous forums and now answers about how bad the past 5-6 fifa have been with special attention to the last 3. I never thought that it could go downhill so fast. At least the last few were playable at launch and in many ways they just got worse throughout the year with all the suspected things going on behind the gameplay, the patches, cards getting nerfed, crappy gameplay. BUT THIS GAME, is on a different level of jacked up. You can’t even play the way you want anymore. Other years you could play your style and know you would lose but at least have some respect. This gameplay now is basically who gets the right bounce, lobbed ball, or godly keeper. God forbid you have lag because then the L1 speed boost trick will do you in quickly. you can’t turn, pass, defend, switch, cross, shoot. It’s all completely broken. With a million tactics and settings, nothing is consistent, it’s a different/worse game every time in turn it back on.

I'm close to deleting my EA account for good. I've never played a game so broken and manipulative. Some of things that happen in this game beggars belief. EA is that money hungry they don't care how miserable the user experience is.

7b4cb146db70ef0

5 months ago

EAFC25 is genuinely the worst FIFA game ever on release

FIFA/FC games have always been buggy messes on release. The player base gets annoyed then moves on as things are slowly patched over a year but this is genuinely the worst experience I have ever had with a new FIFA. I’ve played every game since FIFA 12 and I’ve never felt genuinely scammed out of money this way. Both in terms of bugs, but also active choices/features that are so, so, so much worse than ever.

Bugs:

Career Mode:

Horrific Menu lag
All menu items other than match-related options disappearing on matchday
Random crashing requiring restart
Incorrect player valuation advice I.e ‘we think this player is worth 40-60m’ - make a 55m offer, rejected outright
Genuinely, absolutely, ludicrously insane looking youth players
New UI is just genuinely terrible and inaccessible, not a bug, just a bad new feature
No player OVR development shown on squad hub
AI kit selections clash more than ever making differences between you and opposition genuinely impossible to tell.

UT:

Menu lag
Random crashing
Game disconnected 1-0 up, left in purgatory with a loading screen afterwards indefinitely while it ‘determined a winner’ that then didn’t work and no outcome decided
‘My packs’ crashing and not showing anything more often than not
Genuine regression on attacking AI with forwards having seemingly none of the good positional sense they had last year.
Bounces at complete random times but always favouring the countering side (both me and opponents) in incredibly contrived ways.
Jockey+second man press inputs lick your defender in place indefinitely
Passing power seemingly completely randomised

I genuinely feel robbed. I’ve never quit playing a new release this soon. I spend 90% of my time playing career mode, and it feels legitimately pointless to build for the future (the whole point of the game mode) when I know I’ll be playing with a team of people with no chins, lips like the Rolling Stones symbol, and eyebrows like the McDonald’s logo.

I feel bad for the game devs that were clearly given 15 minutes and a packet of crisps to crank this out. I’m appalled and EA should be genuinely ashamed.

422 Replies

Nicklas2211108
5 months ago
Absolutely agree, the game is basically unplayable. This is the worst effort I've ever seen on a fifa game. It downright feels like they don't even test their game before releasing, cause these error don't happen ''every now and then'' but every match.
JAK19361906
5 months ago
@Nicklas2211108 Agree.

There’s so many issues with gameplay that I, actually shocked.

Clunky as hell.
Slow. Not responsive.
armastoderas
Seasoned Newcomer
5 months ago
My thoughts exactly, I lost 80 euros in the most stupid way, on the most useless of all FIFA+EA games. I thought FC24 was a fiasco, but compared to FC25, it was a real success.
My players are so slow and helpless, as if they were kept in the desert, without water and food and then brought to the field. The offside does not work correctly, there were phases when I paid attention, the opponent was one meter before my last defender and the goal was validated. The defense tactic has no logic, my defenders run away from the opposing attackers, they do not press and the passes are completely wrong.
This is the last year I buy this game, I'm waiting until another company comes out with a better product.
LFCFOREVER86p
4 months ago
I'm close to deleting my EA account for good. I've never played a game so broken and manipulative. Some of things that happen in this game beggars belief. EA is that money hungry they don't care how miserable the user experience is.
kristianhenri
4 months ago
I bought the Ultimate Edition, but have now uninstalled the game. I was easily Elite in FC24 and never lost a single game in Div1, so its not skill issue even tho it might sound like it when im ranting. So to start, the menus are lagging like crazy, i've probably lost 4 drafts in the first game because of auto disconnect before the game has even started. I also experienced what u just complained about too, but what made me uninstall was that one game, some of my players couldnt sprint. Yeah it sound unbelievable, but its true. I am pressing L2 as hard as i can, but still these 3 players in my team only for that one game only, was jogging while his attackers just sprinted through them. After that it was no reason to play the game if there is a posibilty that something like that could happened. I have played UT since FIFA 14 and i believe now that this is my final year. It was a good run, hope that someone can make a similiar football game to give EA some competition and that they actually start working on their game and improve as good as they can. I am not asking for much, but a little effort wouldn't hurt
FiFAMaestro-x
4 months ago
The games the worse FIFA game in the history of FIFA games. Its basically a licenced version of eFootball/UFL.
gerryncadd
4 months ago
Yep, absolutely done with EA, it’s a joke at this point, unrealistic gameplay, bugs galore, features that no one asked for and to top it all off, they gave us a POV camera like the players are wearing a goddamn Go Pro, if that ain’t taking the *! I don’t know what is, fix it EA!
carspares12
4 months ago
Yep all this and more. All the issues from previous games remain. Do they even bother to try to fix the glaringly obvious faults?? All this fanfare about the new tactics and you still have to watch your AI defenders act like total muppets going for a casual stroll in the park as the opposition rush past them on mass. You can still loose the ball by just getting bashed into from behind. And the delay…oh my god it is so slow trying to just move around. Players turn like a tractor trying a three point turn in a busy car park. The bar was pretty low but I am shocked how disappointed I am 2 weeks in.
CodeZeroProject
4 months ago
As mentioned here, this game is a big impudence and just rubbish.
https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Bug-Problem-Fix-this-broken-gameplay/m-p/14127867/highlight/false#M10831
EA is destroying the hobby of thousands of gamers, who love football.
number5
4 months ago
I was very adamant on the previous forums and now answers about how bad the past 5-6 fifa have been with special attention to the last 3. I never thought that it could go downhill so fast. At least the last few were playable at launch and in many ways they just got worse throughout the year with all the suspected things going on behind the gameplay, the patches, cards getting nerfed, crappy gameplay.
BUT THIS GAME, is on a different level of jacked up. You can’t even play the way you want anymore. Other years you could play your style and know you would lose but at least have some respect. This gameplay now is basically who gets the right bounce, lobbed ball, or godly keeper. God forbid you have lag because then the L1 speed boost trick will do you in quickly.
you can’t turn, pass, defend, switch, cross, shoot. It’s all completely broken. With a million tactics and settings, nothing is consistent, it’s a different/worse game every time in turn it back on.