Newcommer's feedback part 3 (and final)
This is my third and last feedback. If you are interested to see how my perception of the game evolved, since i started playing, here are my previous feedbacks:
https://forums.ea.com/discussions/fc-26-feedback-en/newcommers-feedback-part-2/13399670
After 3 months of playing Ultimate Team, I realized I spent enough money on Premium Passes and store packs and way too much time playing to get nowhere. So, as the Season ends, I decided I won't go into the next one and put an end to the game. I threw every 83+ player from my club into SBCs, opened every pack I stored, spent all my 4.5 mil coins on pack stores and again put everything i got into SBCs, until there was nothing left. I deleted the game, unsubscribed from EA's mail list and from EA on Twitch and X, and ended my subscription to a certain SBC app. I can breathe easily now there is nothing to lure me back in.
So, here are my final impressions and why I took this decision:
- Pack luck. This was the main reason I started playing Ultimate Team, instead of Seasons: the perspective of getting great versions of players, unavailable in Seasons. I said it previously, during League 1, that pack luck has become more generous, but it seems it was just a fluke. During the 2-3 hours it took me to delete the club this morning, I opened over 200 hundred of the highest rated packs and I didn't get one player that would've made my team. And I am glad I didn't, because it only confirmed to me that I was doing the right thing.
- Connectivity. The closest EA server is 1000 km away, and the fact that I have gigabit internet and play on a cabled PS5 didn't help too much. Games are constantly over 50 ping, laggy and I am permanently notified that I have "unstable connection". It seems to be a general problem in my country. Strangely enough, Seasons games perform better. Anyway, since it's not a problem I could fix, I decided to move over.
- Matchmaking. I leave the game as a division 3 player. I played 3 Champs during my 3 months of Ultimate Team. First time I got 8 wins. As I got better to the game, I started getting even fewer wins: 7 wins the second time and 6 wins the last time. I got consistently matched against players that were highly superior. You don't allow players from divisions 7-10 to participate in Champs, but you made divisions 3-6 into a feeding ground for the best players in the game. Then you start giving free tokens, so that more players would play Champs, because seemingly not enough people play it. Well, that might one of the reasons: poor matchmaking; easy games for apex players, nightmarish games for the lower divisions.
- Community. It's incredible how many people abuse exploits and glitches to win matches, and there's nothing you can do about it. Ultimate Team is clearly not an appropriate mode for casual players.
- Customer support. I won't get into details here, I already said enough in my initial feedback. You already know what you are trained to say and how people perceive you.
I said in my last comment that Evolutions are a great asset. I still believe this, however, if you play the game from its launch. In the short time i played, I didn't get the opportunity to evolve any player to a meta player, as so many veteran players did it. So, despite its potential, I couldn't really benefit of it. And now it's too late to see where my Cornerstone Ronaldo would've got in the end.
There was however a good thing in playing Ultimate Team, as it helped me reevaluate the entire FIFA/FC franchise. For years I thought this was the only e-game alternative for football fans. But in these last months, as I started following content creators such as Inception, I discovered that eFootball has become increasingly popular. So, since I deleted the club and the game, I will give eFootball a chance until September and see where that takes me.
This was it. Thank you for having me. Best wishes!
