Pay to win

I have played every year since World Cup 98. I am 35 years old. In the past, when you knew how to play, you would be rewarded. 2+2 was equal to 4. If you were weak, you wouldn't be rewarded for your weakness. Right now, (talking for FUT) even if a pro player with a 97 overall squad plays with a rookie with an 85 overall, it is impossible for a 97ovr. to beat him, unless the game wants that result. Let them play until morning, if the game doesn't want it, there is not a single chance. EA team is making the weak and the strong indistinguishable, mixing men and women players(Le Tissier is catching all the air balls over Haaland?), ruining the real life football feeling, and still boosting the momentum nonsense with an idea of "keeping all players enjoy the game". At the end of the day, the game plays itself and we are desperately pushing some random buttons.

Let's say you don't know a thing about football, your brain can't come up with any single tactic, your aim is terrible, you just spent money, purchased in-game stuffs, and spent money for the cards, the game arousing your appetite and plays for your favor so you would stay more in game. Also that momentum disaster is at a ridiculous levels in FUT Rivals/Champions. In fact, there are tactics to completely break this. You keep losing the ball on purpose in the first half, and the game is in your favor in the second half, etc., you can find it on the internet but is it something to do with football? There is no fairness left in this game. It's not a surprise anymore to lose a game with goal expectations of 8.6 vs. 1.2 match. with a score of 1-4. A am still playing the game because it is monopoly, I like football and I'm sorry but EA is exploiting that advantage. I wish someone in the team will realize that this direction is not going somewhere beneficial neither for players nor the company. Be fair. I don't want to play Sims when I open Fifa, please give us back the old times Fifa experience.

it’s literally always been pay to win, this must be your first rodeo lol? 

Yeah that does my sweed in. 

That's utterly ridiculous . I take you spend money on the game. 🤣

On ea 25 they've started using pay to win mechanism in the online seasons play. I've gone as far as I can with this game I got to div 3 and got stuck. Everyone had super teams and player's the game can suck my nuts **bleep** eas 25. To much tinkering with the mechanism to suit the "pro" player's. It's plays like a different game each update. Im gonna play sensible soccer on the amiga instead or super kick off on the game boy. 

No.no no. Fake.news. 

Remember when Belgium banned loot boxes as they have a cash component and therefore are gambling?

EA's response was to blame the Belgians for "stopping players from enjoying the game to its fullest"

because you can't enjoy the game without giving EA money

it's a greater shame that the game crashes, srewing players out of their hard-earned rewards (which have a cash component).

And for that, EA will be in trouble.

Based on the in-game currency, EA is a financial institution, as that term is defined by Section 509(3)(A) of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley ("GLB") Act, 15 U.S.C. § 6809(3)(A), and is subject to the GLB Act.

But no one has gone that far, yet. Until now.

Out of interest, what is the different between

Player A buys coins and buys players he wants
Player B buys FIFA points and eventually gets the players he wants
OR
Player C buys FIFA points, buys load and load and loads of packs and then uses the coins from that to buy players

In FIFA 23 I played FUT in the Elite division without in game purchases. Now on FC 25 I can’t get past div 2.  Every other team I’m playing I see Ronaldo, Pele or other 92+ players.  I like the challenge because I know people are paying. But is frustrating to lose when you know you are better at the game than your opponent but still lose.