FC in general, do not care about Career mode.

Career Mode needs more attention – from a player since FIFA 98

I’ve been playing FIFA/EA SPORTS FC since FIFA: Road to World Cup 98 and have bought and supported this franchise for almost three decades. Career Mode has always been the main reason I play.

I’m becoming increasingly frustrated with the lack of genuine attention Career Mode receives. Every year we hear about “new” Career Mode features, yet many are simply features that existed in older FIFA games, were removed, and are later brought back and promoted as new.

More concerning is that basic functionality that previously worked now seems to be breaking. Some current FC 26 Career Mode bugs I am regularly experiencing on Xbox Series X include:

• Youth Tournament audio bug: When I play a Youth Tournament match, the main menu music continues playing during the match. After returning to Career Mode and then playing a normal competitive match — for example, Manchester United v Liverpool in the Premier League — the menu music continues playing during that match as well and there is no commentary. This completely ruins the immersion and should not be happening.
• Youth Scout notification bug: I send youth scouts out, receive their scouting reports, open and review the reports and then close them. Despite having read everything, the notification remains and continues telling me, for example, “You have 3 unread reports.” There is seemingly no way to clear it.

These might sound like small things individually, but they accumulate over a long Career Mode save and are particularly frustrating because these are basic systems that have worked properly in previous games.

I understand Ultimate Team and online modes are enormously popular, but Career Mode has a huge group of loyal players who have supported this franchise since long before Ultimate Team even existed. I was playing FIFA before many of today’s players were born.

Despite supporting this franchise continuously since 1998, I have also never once received a beta/closed-testing code or opportunity to test a new release. I don’t believe I’m automatically entitled to one, but surely players who have spent decades playing Career Mode are exactly the type of people who could provide useful testing and feedback about regressions and long-term issues with the mode.

Career Mode has enormous potential. Please give it the development, testing and attention it deserves rather than continually removing features, bringing old features back as “new”, and allowing basic bugs to persist.

I’m posting this because I love the franchise and want Career Mode to be better. After nearly 30 years of playing FIFA/EA SPORTS FC, it is incredibly frustrating watching a mode I have played for decades feel increasingly like an afterthought.