$10,000 Charity Challenge for the EA FC 26 Career Mode Team

For years, the Career Mode community has been asking for deeper, more engaging features that allow us to truly build and connect with our clubs. The current experience feels stale, and we are continually ignored on key requests.

Here are the absolute must-have features for EA FC 26, along with a serious challenge to prove you're listening.

• Meaningful Player Progression: Earning PlayStyles & Adding Personality Traits:
  • Earn & Keep PlayStyles: Players must be able to earn and permanently keep PlayStyles and PlayStyles+ through gameplay, training, and/or development milestones.
    • This should apply to all players, but is especially crucial for custom created players and youth academy prospects.
    • User Choice: When a new PlayStyle is earned, let us choose from an eligible list. We cannot have our star striker being randomly assigned a useless trait like "Long Throw-In."
  • Personality Traits: We need to feel a connection to our players, especially in the Youth Academy. Introduce Personality Traits (e.g., Leader, Entertainer, Team Player, Sticks Up for Teammates). Even if they are purely cosmetic "badges" for now, they would start to give the cold, lifeless youth players a sense of identity and purpose in the squad. Later patches could expand upon this in multiple ways.
• A Truly Custom Club Experience: The current create-a-club suite is nowhere near deep enough. We need a complete overhaul. Just have a quick peak at the available PC mods currently out for EA FC 25 and you will get a great sense of what the community REALLY wants for a deep create-a-club experience.
  • Total Kit Customization: Give us a web-based creator (like Madden's) that allows for 100% customization.
    • Let us use any color code that exists.
    • Allow us to upload our own custom logos and crests.
    • Remove sponsor limitations and allow us to upload as many sponsor logos as we desire.
      • If I want my kit to look like a NASCAR with 75 sponsor patches plastered all over it, I should have that freedom.
    • Integrate a community hub for sharing and downloading user-created kits.
  • Deep Stadium Customization: The current generic stadiums are boring and repetitive and only 2 or 3 feel even remotely decent to look at.
    • Allow us to use all licensed stadiums (Old Trafford, Wembley, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, etc.) as a base template that we can then customize with our club's colors and branding, and ideally further customizations if we so choose.
    • Ideally, provide a full stadium creator, something like what's in MLB The Show (just easier to navigate). Include this in the web-based club creator platform with the kits. Let us build anything from a 6-person park to a 200,000-seat behemoth from scratch, or simply download an officially licensed existing stadium and we can edit everything from there.
    • For those of us who SIM/watch our key career mode games, seeing our beautiful custom designed stadium where our custom-named Brazilian youth academy star wingers, "Lazer" and "Blazer," are playing is the kind of immersive experience we crave. This gives the sense that you really do own this club, and pulls you into the game further, instead of just going through the motions after a few seasons.
• The Absolute MUST-HAVE: Full Youth Academy Player Editing
  • If you ignore everything else, PLEASE do not ignore this. The entire youth academy system is on the verge of becoming irrelevant because we have no connection to the players.
    • We are tired of the same 20 recycled names for our youth prospects.
    • We need the ability to edit every single detail of our youth players once they are in our academy:
      • First Name, Last Name, Appearance, Hair, etc.
      • And give us more cosmetic options for all players, especially created ones, such as tattoos, headbands regardless of hair style, etc.
  • We see you trying with new features this year like selectable mascots. Honestly, if the choice is between four pre-set mascots or having the ability to edit our youth players and put real sponsors on our kits, the community will choose the deeper features every time. Please prioritize features that add long-term engagement over superficial additions.
• My $10,000 Charity Challenge to EA: I am so passionate about these features that I am putting my money where my mouth is. This is a 100% serious, legally binding offer.
  • If EA implements the core features detailed above (permanent earnable/selectable PlayStyles, deep kit customization with sponsors, full access to licensed stadiums with customizations for create-a-club, and full youth academy player editing) fully functional at the EA FC 26 pre-order launch date in 26 days (9/19/2025), I will:
    • Donate $10,000 to a charity that supports children's hospitals.
    • Personally purchase a copy of EA FC 26 for every child who is currently a patient at my local children's hospital.

I am prepared to place these funds with a neutral third-party escrow service immediately to prove the validity of this offer.

The ball's in your court, EA. Prove you are listening to the community that supports you every year, and support an incredible cause in the process. You have my email. Thanks!