Worst Fifa game since 1996
I've been playing FIFA since '96 now that I'm 36, I can say this is the worst football game I've ever played. There's nothing related to football, it's complete chaos and a reckless street match. The...
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EA_Blueberry
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Community Manager
@brebike wrote:I wonder if anyone at EA is actually reading this
There's a lot of feedback to take in here but we want to first say: Yes, we read the threads in these forums and pass along feedback to the EA FC team. Right now at launch these forums will receive a ton of feedback where we are doing things behind the scenes like merging multiple discussions together about the same topics to help create a bigger discussion to give the feedback more visibility. This goes the same for technical issues and bug reports where we're doing a lot of "clean up" on these forums pulling together many posts of the same topic and alerting the EA FC team so they can act on them, such as some examples on the Trello Board. So long story short, while you may not always see us dive into every thread, we may have still read it but focused on technical issues and bug reports.
Secondly, thanks for being fans since the 90s. Despite a lot of the feedback not being on the positive side, we do appreciate it to help us understand what we need to do to deliver on your expectations in the future. It's really awesome to hear there's community members here on these forums that have been around as long as us.
Lastly, please try to separate the feedback you have in individual threads related to the game feature you want to discuss. There's feedback in here from visual/art style, dribbling, getting passed defenders, and possession of the ball. As Community Managers it can be easier for us to pass along feedback to team when each post is really in depth on what the topic at hand is. If you're not able to find a topic that's already created in the search bar please kick one off (no pun intended).
@dal8oy138 made a good point about tactics where with every iteration of the game there will be gameplay differences. Come together and share tips. If possession of the ball isn't easy or it's hard to get past defenders, ask for tips from others, let the community know what formations you use, watch some pro streamers to see what they're doing differently, and share some footage here if you are looking for advice from the community.
Good luck on the pitch everyone and thank you for joining us at launch for EA FC 25.
I appreciate the direct reply. Good to know that EA is reading all this and I understand it must be hard to read all the negative response. EA obviously put a lot of work in the new game.
So much for the nice words.
In my opinion, the entire focus of what you have been doing the last year was totally wrong. Throwing the old tactics system overboard and replace it with this new one is by far the biggest mistake of the past few years.
Last year's version of the game was full of inconsistencies: the unnatural pressure of defenders, how EA gave some teams (Real Madrid, France, Bayern) clearly an advantage compared to other teams and focus on attacking speed instead of skills, the ridiculous number of skills that some players could execute in a few seconds, bad refereeing, and last but not least the bad connectivity of the EA servers, ... gave this game a very unnatural feel, far away from real football. Luckily the whole squad, tactics etc were fully customizable to be able to deal with most of these flaws.
Instead of dealing with the inconsistencies, you took away the only tool to overcome them. The new 'Tactics' system is merely a few settings, nothing more. It makes this game practically unplayable. I saw defenders standing 5 meters away from attackers during a cross towards goal, midfielders and attackers who don't help in defense, midfielders who don't support in the attack... So many times the only one of my squad who was moving is the one i'm controlling, the rest just stands there doing nothing. Tried so many different settings but nothing worked to improve the playability of the game. Every pass that reaches a team mate, every goal I score feels like mere luck than skills. It didn't give me any joy anymore whatsoever.
In your post you are focussing on alerting bugs and issues, but my concerns are much bigger than these. I'm sure the bugs will be dealt with in time, but the overall look and feel of the game is just what it is. I can only hope you will do better next year. Meanwhile I sold my copy that I purchased 2 weeks ago (first time in 26 years!!). I'm just too disappointed.
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