Gimmicks and hacks
Nothing really critical ever gets fixed, so this feels rather Sisyphean, but I am simply done with all the gimmicks and hacks EA has in place instead of good gameplay. I am playing career mode on legendary and in the Champions League playoff. I am facing a team from my domestic league that I have already played 4 times this season and the games have largely been within the realm of reality. But always lurking in the background of an EA game are the hacks and gimmicks that EA put in and this particular match is genuinely unplayable. The team I am very familiar with is suddenly unplayable. They are lightening fast, they have tons of one touch passing, there is no tackling because they always get rid of the ball perfectly at the last second when the user player gets close. Obvious positions where the ball is right in between the players don't result in tackles. The user player is basically a spectator on defense; SUPER DUPER FUN and realistic.
I know somebody at EA thought this would be a challenge or something, but I think the reality is that
A. They don't actually care all that much about gameplay. People have been asking for improved manual defending for years and they have done nothing.
B. They don't actually know how their codebase works; just look at the releases they have had to walk back this year alone.
C. They don't actually play the game anymore or at least not in any kind of comprehensive way that would highlight all the ways the game is falling apart.
So the solution when you don't care about your product that much, don't really know how your code base works, and don't do any quality testing prior to release or collect user feedback with a plan for action is...
...to release hacks and gimmicks. Just crank up the CPU offense and call it a challenge. Never mind that the resulting game play is awful and unrealistic in the extreme. Just push the release and call it a day.
Nobody is ever going to trust you again after this year. You said you were listening, you released a game with barely anything fixed from a truly awful FC 25 game, and then you spent all year not fixing anything. There are so many broken things in this game; why would anyone trust you to release a good game again?
