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.