Ever since this major patch, the game feels so horrible. I have never seen this sort of arcade gameplay since fifa 09. This is so horrendous. EA should be ashamed of themselves and so are the toxic players who just want to satisfy their addiction of buying meta and abuse mechanics of gameplay. I really wish there is a competitor to EA for a football game with player base. This game will die like Nokia died after Apple.
They were losing money before the patch. They even said since the majority like the game they won’t be changing it. I mean I preferred the game before but if ea doesn’t want to lose money or the game to die then they need to listen to the majority. Even if we dislike it.
The main reason people buy meta players and abuse mechanics, is the overly competitive and fairly often toxic nature of the player base. Unfortunately it's not necessarily something brought about by ea themselves but human nature. Though I will admit that EA don't help because they can't balance the game that well. The whole point of releasing meta/broken players is that they want people to spend money to try and get them. As for broken mechanics they appear in every game unfortunately, and there is a section of players that will always abuse them.
It baffles me that this company can't work out a way to manage a balance. You shouldn't be punished for wanting a football game to feel like **bleep****g football. There are thousands of arcade games people can play. But there is only a couple of football games. I have never been so fed up of this game and have stopped playing any online version of this game now and same with many of my friends. I dont know who this majority is but the old player base is just not bothering anymore. Maybe they just want cash from gambling addicted kids.
People don’t want balance. They want easy offense and high scoring games. Unless the community changes why would ea want to lose money? You can’t blame ea for giving the community what they want.
Unfortunately you are right, personally I preferred when the keepers were harder to beat. They will never let that happen again though as people will just complain that they are overpowered, when in reality they just weren't good enough to score a goal. Now it's all just a broken mess of useless keepers mixed with OP playstyle + and timed finishing shots. The AI on your team seems to get better at defending if you put your controller down, and 90% of attacks are all pace rather than building up. Oh and don't forget about the stupid L1 dribble speedboost.
Every team is full of icons or toty players who are so meta (particularly the icons) who other wont be affected by any tackle or if you manage to win ball, their AI will automatically snatch the ball straight away leaving your defence exposed as your defence AI would assume you have the ball and not move. Timed finishing and OP Trivella, finesse and Anticipate are just ridiculous and does not have 0.1 fraction of reality.
Personally, I only have toty icon Casillas (absolutely useless because of the gameplay) and the new Maradona card, after that a variety of promotion cards and Evos. There is also no way these people got these teams without paying through the nose, or buying coins online which I thought wasn't allowed, and yet it rarely seems to get picked up on. The patch was supposed to help with players taking the ball back right after you win it off them, but still it hasn't really done anything. The same thing with the ball bouncing to the other team after you tackle them. And lastly they should just remove timed finishing, make precision shooting the skill gap and increase the error in shots slightly to add to the skill gap. I've played semi assisted shooting since like fifa 10 and never had an issue with aiming my shots or shot power apart from when I'm playing bad, precision shooting is basically the same thing. Timed finishing for some reason is allowed to automatically make your shots more powerful and accurate, and mixed with everything else it consistently creates some of the rarest goals you will ever see in football and trivialises them. That's why they are bad for the game in my opinion.
Do as I did, just deinstall the game. I deinstalled the whole EA App with it. It is not worth the stress. And when you get over the p2w gameplay, you will be dragged down by hackers who despite having the meta cards, still can't win, and therefore have to hack your stats and give themselves always green timed finish and high speed.
And funnily enough their Anti Cheat mechanic just makes your system slower, but doesn't recognize any of the cheats used in the game.
As far as I know EA FC is not doing good and the end will eventually come. Most of my friends have deinstalled the game even before I did.
Nothing will be done over the hackers or broken gameplay. They haven't done it in at least 5 to 10 years, what makes you think they will ever do it?
I mainly play because I've played for years, and still think it is the best football game out right now. After that I only play for fun, which is why it would be nice to get some of the highest rated players just to enjoy them for once. I still find it ridiculous that they have to hack stats to win, the best players don't guarantee a win but they do go a long way yet the hackers are so bad it counters how op the cards are.
EA don't care as long as they keep that money rolling in, I'm only on it this year because it was a Christmas present. Never thought about it once between September and the end of December, just cracked on with single player games personally.
It's not a maybe, they most definitely want cash from gambling addicted kids. They have given up on gaming. The term "gaming" is basically a free card to get to the pockets of children who become addicted and the money of their parents. And I'm telling you nothing will change until laws start to prevent it.
