Easily the Worst Online Gameplay Experience I’ve Ever Had
I’ve played everything from FPS, MMOs, other sports titles, gacha games — and nothing compares to how bad FC 25 is on Switch this year. EA is so lucky that people will still buy their game because of football the sport… not because of gameplay.
The experience is horrendous. The game runs on what feels like decade-old code with more overhead stacked on every year. It is old gen code and I don’t get how many people think we can play crossplay, its still 30fps next year! If I worked QA or dev on this, I’d be embarrassed at how broken it is.
Passing? 2-3 passes every game go nowhere near where you aim. It’s like your controller’s broken — but it’s just the game. Turn on the passing indicator you can see it sometimes ignores the line direction completely.
- Dribbling? Even players with high dribbling stats feel like trucks. Zero turning responsiveness, thats why they mention fc26 about the speed.
- Input delay? Unreal. Skill moves sometimes don’t even register. Feels like playing in slow motion.
- Menus? Slow and laggy to the point of navigating to the wrong section all the time, or having to struggle even to sub or change tactics.
- Bugs? Everywhere — broken animations, weird own goals, deflections, visual bugs ingame and in menus, replays camera focus sometimes way off and constant momentum shifts that feel way too one-sided. Cannot mention how gameplay is changed when you are winning or losing.
- Ultimate Team? Matchmaking takes forever and no one playing. Location of closest server seems way off too… feels almost random getting all sort of pings requiring restart. EA will blame your connection…. Yes I am on wired and other online games ping is fine.
- Updates? Barely any. Compared to indie games pushing patches monthly, this is a joke.
Even EA admitted FC 25 was a failure in their FC 26 promo messaging — but Switch players got hit hardest and ignored the most. FC26 gotta be the same joke, not going to buy Nintendo version.
