Weekend League

Too often u play better players with better teams. Been that way for years.  Cutting the game down to 5 qualifiers just means less room to work around this.

Failed to qualify 3 times last season.  Failed twice already this week.  Like everything you need to accept this isn't a glitch, this is the way EA want it and if it makes money in won't change.

I feel it’s based on the amount of player they let in from what divisions. Just like last year I never failed to qualify. Qualified on my second try this year. 
sure enough when I started WL last night, things went smooth first two games then it was two where the teams I played were fast and cut off every single pass to my strikers, couldn’t even get a shot to go in target

lost two, the  gameplay got reasonable for another two games then back to bad again. 
same story for the past five years. 
I’ll admit when someone outplays me but these games I’m losing, I know I’m going to lose in the first few minutes because of delay and bounces. 
ea don’t even try to hide it anymore, it’s very obvious. 

I’m going to get 10 wins this WL and I bet that’s all I’m allowed to get all year, save for the odd quitters letting me get to 11-12 some weeks 

It's strange how they're making this game less accessable to people with lower skill levels. This year a lot of people are prohibited from competing in WL and they haven't made an alternative game mode for it.

Why not make a second division WL? In real life they have Champions league and then Europa league for those that can't qualify for the top league. 

Making prohibitions in game modes results in less engagement which contradicts EAs interest in my opinion.

By limiting access to WL they are betting that people will buy packs.  Don't buy packs! 

Tried WL qualifiers yesterday for the first time in EA FC 25. Won the first one comfortably and then our 84-rated team was matched against 2 87s and an 88. Three defeats later....gave the last game away 1-0. Got enough points to try again, but not going to bother until our team isn't filled with 82 and 83-rated players. Our son has played EA FC 25 far less over the last three weeks than he did the previous two games and some days doesn't play at all - that's not a bad thing from our perspective but as a potential future customer for EA....

To everyone within this thread - yeah it seems like EA have forgotten about the biggest market user for their games (casual gamers like myself) so the game has become an even bigger sweat fest than ever. On Monday of last week I managed to qualify for WL with a 4-1 record which I was chuffed about then played WL last night ended up with a 7-8 record (I’ve always been someone who gets between 8-12 wins previously so I’m happy with that although the rewards were average!) & I’m so glad I checked online last night as I thought WL/Champs was playable until Wednesday 0800 as ever but it ended this morning 😮 So many times last night I came up against 89 rated teams full of promo cards or the best Rare Golds (Bellingham/Haaland/Mbappé/etc) so it was a challenge. They (EA) need to go back to previous requirements (4/10 to qualify for Champs & 20 matches to play from Fri to Wed) or they’ll quickly lose a lot of players. Not everyone wants to/can play on the weekend due to other things taking priority (social life/partner/work/kids) it was just sheer luck I looked & saw there were 10 hrs left!

As we're not really bothering with WL, at weekends, we're prioritising Rivals games (4 more wins needed before Thursday). We're not going to touch Squad Battles until Friday and Saturday, whereas we used to do them very early in the week; our thinking is that EA will give more easier 2,400+ point games the closer it gets to the Sunday deadline. 

I'd be interested to hear how others prioritise Rivals, Squad Battles and WL. 

Can't really answer yet. I know how I used to work these things but will need to see how this new set up plays out.  WL was always the thing that interested me most; without it I'm not sure how it will go. 

Just saw the long piece from Gordon Farquhar, EA Product Manager.  He confirms WL will only be open to higher quality players.

Oh well, i wish I'd read it before I bought the game.  My bad, I'll just take the hint and not make that mistake again.  Probably time for a change at some point anyway.  Any suggestions? 😊