Authentic online?

I hope they listen to you. I don't like playing offline against AI, it's boring. Does not matter what difficulty I use, it's not interesting to me. But from what I read this "authentic mode" is only available for boring offline play, which leads me to the next question: HOW is this "authentic mode" any different from what we already have in "simulation"? I think the biggest problem with these games is the player ratings. If you actually play with the lowest rated teams, I think it's a decent football game with some realism to it but as soon as you pick some top team, it becomes ridiculous. 

So, if EA is listening, the ONLY way to you can make realistic gameplay modes whether it's offline or online, is to lower all the ratings from top teams, but you don't do that. You think realism is when you slow down the pace of the game completely where it becomes absolutely ridiculous in a slow-motion kind of way, and the worst part about it is that it also affects ball speed and animations, that is not realism. 

The ball physics have to feel as a separate entity unattached from the player's feet and it has to have a separate speed and physics attached to it, same goes for the animations, all this has to be separated. Pitch friction increases the lower the player's speed stats are which is a good thing, and the game still doesn't feel slow, which is also a good thing and an indicator that player stats are way too overpowered. 

Also, your dynamic lighting is very unappealing. FIFA 17 absolutely dominates anything that came after it in terms of lighting. I don't think dynamic lighting is a good thing for football games at all. It affects how animations look, and it can make it look very unappealing, yet when you change stadiums/day/night, etc., same team, the game feels better, the difference is astounding, like playing a completely different game. That should be addressed, the game should always look good whether its night/day/summer/winter or whatever stadium you're playing, it should never ever be hard to look at and make you quit the game because of the lighting being very bad.