The Gameplay Is A Disaster. I'll Tell You Why in Detail.

Great post.

There have been countless threads of how they ruined the gameplay after this horrific Refresh patch by making it so unrealistic and arcady that it's literally unplayable for me. Sliders do nothing to save it either.

Credit to you for breaking it down in detail but unfortunately the only thing we'll get is for an EA admin to ignore thst anything is wrong and worse, even mark this thread as solved. It's embarrassing.

I bought the game after staying away from it for 3 years because I played it at a family members house and was surprised how much improvement they made in the gameplay making it reasonably realistic and then within 3 months they made it in to an absolute s* show.

I for one won't be buying this game for another few years again until they actually solve this problem of not turning a FOOTBALL game in to ping pong but this problem will never be solved because there will always be some YouTubers and pro players who have absolutely no understanding of how the game should be played in relation to FOOTBALL but will have a lot of influence on EA to make this game play like FIFA Street.

At this rate, EA should release 2 optional patches and leave the game as it was pre-patch for the purists to enjoy and call it the Simulation Football patch and then release another for the ping pong crew to enjoy and call it something like Ping Pong Arcade patch.

I'm sure they can do something to not force these s* patches on people.