Authentic online?

Exactly this. My concern is if they go even further beyond this with speed and skills then it's going to be a chore to play online. 

RadioShaqs wrote:

25 has been pushed to arcade after the refresh so yeah 25 is bad. Why would you want to build on that and make it even more arcade. Especially if you dislike it for being arcade. 


Also to your point blue I wouldn’t think they will make defense better. So far every patch has nerfed defense and offense has been buffed. 26 going more arcade will likely do the same. As you said we will likely go into double digit scores. 

Defense in FC 25, especially on the new-gen version, is very strong, and the AI has always done everything on behalf of the players.

In addition, there were issues — like how speed boosts for attackers were reduced at the start of the game, and then defender speed was increased to the point where even the slowest defender could catch up to the fastest attacker. That’s what we saw in FC 25.

Even interceptions and blocks to stop shots happened automatically without any player input — and yet you’re still talking about realism?

What we saw in FC 25 doesn’t reflect the actual skill level of players, whether in attack or defense, because the game was poorly designed.

But now, FC 26 seems very promising. If you want to call it arcade, then yes — it looks like arcade might be far better than the fake "realism" you keep talking about, which doesn’t reflect any real player skill.