Hi there EA Community,i‘m here to talk about the bad thing with the national teams. I remember the good old days in past fifa games, when we could play World Cup qualification all over the world in career mode. Now I must read, that Belgium is removed for FC25 for a reason we don’t know because EA didn’t say anything! And that’s the point, they didn’t say anything about the whole way they want to go with licenses of national teams. Why we gamer don’t get a statement? There are only 29 national teams left and that’s too less teams. In career mode you can’t play a international competition because of that. This leads me to another question: why they don’t add generic national teams? That must be possible like including AC or inter without a license. Give us generic Trikots in correct colors und the Flagg as emblem so that we have the chance to take them in career mode. I don’t need every national team fully licensed, I only want to have the chance to play with them!!! What are your opinions about that?

I've been thinking about this for a while and this is pure speculation on from me, but I think EA has focused mainly on ensuring they have licenses for the big leagues going forward and we'll find 'Fifa 2k' having the rights to International Tournaments/Teams etc. it's one of the things I'm dreading having more than 1 game out there. Some think it will make better games, but all I see is battles over licences leaving games with less and less realism as lots of generic clubs etc

@DiegoDaCuna wrote:Hi there EA Community,i‘m here to talk about the bad thing with the national teams. I remember the good old days in past fifa games, when we could play World Cup qualification all over the world in career mode. Now I must read, that Belgium is removed for FC25 for a reason we don’t know because EA didn’t say anything! And that’s the point, they didn’t say anything about the whole way they want to go with licenses of national teams. Why we gamer don’t get a statement? There are only 29 national teams left and that’s too less teams. In career mode you can’t play a international competition because of that. This leads me to another question: why they don’t add generic national teams? That must be possible like including AC or inter without a license. Give us generic Trikots in correct colors und the Flagg as emblem so that we have the chance to take them in career mode. I don’t need every national team fully licensed, I only want to have the chance to play with them!!! What are your opinions about that?I couldn't agree more. Obviously there are some licensing reasons behind this, but it is very underwhelming to see more and more national teams being removed from the game. Didn't know about Belgium, but that is bad terrible news indeed.In regards to generic teams, I probably wouldn't play WITH them myself. But I would like very much to see more generic national teams, whom I could then play AGAINST, in order to keep national tournaments in the game. I do love playing with a national team on the side, when I play manager career mode, but only as long as there are national tournaments to aim for.

I don’t mean generic teams, I’m more about national teams. The only generic teams I want to have are these ones, which are needed in the licensed leagues like Serie A with AC, Inter, Atalanta and Lazio. But I want to have generic national teams instead of having nothing. And the thing with license problems, Konami add so many generic national teams and it’s possible. Efootball is such a trash game but in this case they are better than EA! When EA would give us a statement and say: we only want to have licensed national teams, then we know the reason and then is the question: why they don’t work more on these licenses! Totally frustrated! They did it right in the past and do everything wrong right now!

https://youtu.be/Mn65cT2Z4yA?si=TTN0ys6QSpJZm3tzHow the hell can efootball 2024 having so much more national teams than EA? They don’t have licenses for all these national teams but they put them in generic. That’s what I want for EA too!!!

Turkey, Switzerland.... I understand the retiring of Russia.....

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HizzoKing_NG9000
New Traveler
6 months ago
My guess is that FIFA has something to do with this since EA is no longer with them.
Jordozer
Rising Rookie
2 months ago
I cannot agree more! This is my true career mode wish for over a decade now. There never has been truly a good international mode tbf, we always lacked big time in the represented Asian, African and North/Middle American countries. But since the last 5 years is has been totally trash and I really feel sad about it. This would really elevate career mode big time in my opinion.
But I really wonder, how can we ever reach EA with our wishes? I feel like it is so hard to reach EA for this kind of suggestions...
DamodaraMPJ
Seasoned Rookie
2 months ago
One imagines that EA sets up these forums. But perhaps they don't monitor them or really care that much for user feedback.

"Let's set up a forum where the malcontents can post all their grumbles and feel like they've unloaded... But we don't feel any need to do anything about it. They are our captive audience. So we can lose more and more teams and stadiums and they'll stick with us anyway. We have a cash cow which we'll just keep milking because we're untouchable and don't really need to address user expectations."

Such thinking worked out really well for Nokia, Blockbuster, Kodak, taxis, the music industry.......

As long as they don't believe that there's a viable substitute and that people will still be willing to pay, why should they invest further money in optimising the experience?

"We'll just update the teams to recognise transfers in the prior transfer window and update some game playing features in line with technological advances and reissue more or less the same (or a slightly declining product each year) and our docile customers will keep paying anyway. Money for jam."
Jordozer
Rising Rookie
2 months ago
I really get this feeling too. They would develop the game so much better if there was actual competition with other developers. The only solution is to make licensing available for all game developers, then it will bring out the best of each developer and the best game will win. But this will never happen I fear, business truly kills passion

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