By Christmas at best therell be no casuals even bothering

Mines on ebay.

Sorry but ea is one of the biggest software companies on earth, and if their idea of skill based matchmaking is to continuously put newcomers against users in far higher divisions, with full rosters of 90+ players, then sorry screw EA and whatever "listening to players" means.

This game will be 20£€$ come January, its a broken mess that only caters to people who spend 16 hours a day on the game using casual gamers as nothing but point fodder.

Thought id give online a last try, absolute joke of an experience, zero desire to replay online as,  basically, its not any kind of good experience.

Come Christmas... the backlash for this will burn. You've basically created an entire separate game for the elite players and use it to burn any casuals that dare to enter it.

On a plus I should still get £35 back off ebay 

Totally agree bud and casuals have no ability to even improve their teams because your either locked out of champs or rewards are just horrifically bad, I have no interest whatsoever in just getting smashed over and over again of people who are vastly superior at the game (well there better at abusing the broken mechanics of the game) and bring excluded from game modes and rewards it's a pure sweat fest hell and the most ptw game ever , it's nothing to do with "slowing the power curve" because if you spend cash it's exactly the same as every year 

Yup. It's not a game for casuals its a game for streamers and elite players. The purchasing of coins is rampant now due to the rewards and packs in store/ such etc being ridiculously weak.  I'm constantly playing teams who have full teams of icons they've bought or some nonsense teams. 

And then you get basketball scorelines due to the kick off glitch and if there isn't a goal scored that way , it's just spin around outside the box til you do. 

I'm at a loss as to why EA want to phase out so many players and keep it solely for pro's and streamers.