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lordprettyshabba
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2 months ago

FC 26 is the worst game I’ve played

FC 26 is just awful. In the trailers, EA promised we’d get a new experience and that they had listened to the community, but that turned out to be a complete lie. Instead, we got some of the worst gameplay in the history of FC and a ton of promos where maybe 1% of players who don’t spend money can pull something actually usable, this isn’t a football simulator. It’s a casino game. Football has nothing to do with it. Every month, the only things that “improve” are the paid store packs and player cards you’re basically never going to pack. Gameplay-wise, it just keeps getting worse and worse. I know a lot of people who used to put 3,000 hours into FC, and now they don’t even log in because nothing changes, with every release we’re promised balanced, decent gameplay, but what we end up with is a raw, scripted, buggy, clunky, unbalanced mess and we pay $80 for it. It’s horrible. After this Weekend League, I’m finally done with FC. Why keep playing a game where the developers only care about stuffing their pockets off people who genuinely believe gameplay will someday become fun again? I’m tired of this grind for cards and being forced to play with whatever you can get without spending money instead of the players you actually like. So thanks, EA, you turned a game I loved with all my heart into a pay-to-win grindfest where winning isn’t about tactical thinking, it’s about knowing the scripts, the bugs, and the meta, that’s it

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  • Couldn’t agree more, the gameplay changes every hour, you may get good gameplay for 2/3 games and then it’s literally unplayable. It’s ridiculous. Imagine a AAA game that’s as inconsistent as this mess. Quite frankly the worst game of the franchise. Gameplay in FIFA 97 was better, what a shameful company. They’ve sold out now so they’re just nose diving their most popular game so the Saudis can’t fix it. What a mess.

  • I really wanted FC26 to be that game...but I have come to realise that this and whatever follows will never be the one. It has no soul, they have been flogging a dead horse for so long now and I no longer enjoy playing it, even with my friends.
    This whole franchise is not even a joke, it's a very bad joke and that is being kind.


    1) I still do not get fouls/cards, so I don't bother training for freekicks as there is no point.
    2) In Player career the AI targets your player, but allows the opposition AI space to move, pass and tackle ( I have watched many games in this mode and see the AI target my player with 2 to 3 opposition players, but then my npc teamates are given space and time.
    3) You cannot make dribbles runs with fast players, seems to be nerfed.
    4)  AI kicks through you...so no collisions when in close quarters.
    5) Cannot get near AI players in player career to make tackles.
    6) AI recovery is instant (on the rare they lose the ball they are back on you in seconds, even from a fall)
    7) Always need skill moves to get pass AI opposition...jinking left or right the AI read your moves and respond in a millisecond (lofted ball comes in, you see defender running back anticpating the balls' trajectory, so on first contact you flick the ball in the opposite direction knowing that the AI's momentum will take it away from the ball and give you a yard of space....but no, the AI recovers in and instant, adjusts its feet at lightning speed and interceps the ball before YOU who has pocession can make a second touch on the ball).
    8) I have to play offline if I want to have access to all the goal celebrations to assign to my player. If i am connected to EA servers, then I lose over half the celebrations I can select.
    9) The Contract System in Player Career so bad.
    10) No January window for your player in Player Career.
    11) Always in the team even when your stamina is low (Player Career).
    12) Always get code appearing in the social media feed:  LOW_up#_smedia/...." 
    13) Why have you removed ankle tape and gloves from create player, so I have to create, save then go into edit player and add tape and gloves....REALLY!!!
    14) Non of the players feel any different...the style of play, the movement, pace. Then every player not in top flight have no ball control, passing, defensive awareness, tactical awareness, skills...etc.
    15) The game plays like a pinball machine, with the ball just quickly pinging all over the pitch.

    There are many more issues that have ruined the enjoyment of playing a football game....regardless of any improvements made for 27/28/29/30...and so on, this is my last ever EA football game.
    I know it won't hurt EA or the sales, and I know they really don't care outside of micro transactions.  I cannot be part of a process that allows them to think that I am ok with this, give then my money to and all I get is a **bleep** sandwich, but this years edition has improved bread recipe....it's still a **bleep** sandwich.

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