One Final Honest Opinion

Yes, and what’s truly frustrating is that a company behind a game this massive should have a real team behind it—people actually aware of the issues players constantly expose.
I refuse to believe that the people who created this game, if they truly understand real football, sit there proudly looking at the final product they released. The same goes for the people supposedly testing the game. I assume EA has entire teams for that—and probably very well-paid ones too.
We are not EA employees. We are not paid testers. We are not supposed to spend hundreds of hours finding bugs and broken mechanics for free.
And despite the fact that this community constantly reports bugs, exploits, gameplay issues, and broken mechanics, EA barely seems to care.
Take the Season Pass for example: Most people buy FC Points to unlock it faster, meaning it’s extra money directly into EA’s pockets—yet they still haven’t fixed basic problems with it since the beginning of the year.
It gets visually stuck at 10k XP. Sometimes you can’t even properly see your progress. Other times you can’t clearly check what rewards you receive at certain levels.
How does something this basic remain broken for months in a billion-dollar franchise?
And then there’s offline mode.
Career Mode becomes repetitive and boring after maybe two seasons. You still can’t properly sign players in the last six months of their contracts like in real football. Country coefficients don’t evolve based on international success. Managing a national team feels empty and meaningless.
The game is basically the same thing it was years ago—arguably worse in some aspects.
But hey… at least we have Fabrizio Romano posts in the menu now. Amazing priority system.
There were years where I barely played, so maybe I didn’t notice all these issues as clearly.
But when you play a lot, eventually all enjoyment disappears.
I’ve reached the point where even in matches I’m comfortably winning—3–0 up against clearly weaker opponents—I still feel tense the entire time because I know the game can suddenly flip for no logical reason.
And very often, it does.
Suddenly:
every shot gets saved,
rebounds magically return to the opponent,
tackles bounce back,
your defenders freeze,
and within seconds the opponent scores one goal… then another… then suddenly you can’t stop anything anymore.
And yes, some people will still say: “Skill issue.”
Sure, skill matters to some extent.
But this is not football.
I’ve watched FIFA/EA FC tournament finals played by the supposed best players in the world, and the gameplay still looked awful:
constant abuse of mechanics,
time wasting,
toxic gameplay,
unrealistic football.
And somehow EA encourages people to watch those players in order to “learn football.”
No. People are learning how to exploit broken mechanics.
And no matter how much someone tries to convince me otherwise, I genuinely believe there is some level of manipulation happening in gameplay.
I had an experience in a previous edition—I think FC 25—that still feels strange to me when I think about it today.
It was a Saturday afternoon. My girlfriend and I ordered pizza, and while waiting I decided to play some Weekend League.
I won two matches, then entered a third one where my opponent clearly felt much better than me.
I somehow scored first, but he quickly made it 2–1 by around the 20th minute and kept creating huge chances nonstop. I could barely keep possession.
Then the delivery driver called because he couldn’t find the address.
I quickly got up to go outside and asked my girlfriend to keep playing so I wouldn’t disconnect. She had barely played FIFA before—maybe a few times when I tried teaching her. She could barely pass or cross properly.
When I returned, it was around the 80th minute.
What shocked me was that the score was STILL only 2–1.
I took the controller back and very easily made it 3–2 before full time and won the match.
Later I checked the highlights and stats.
My opponent had missed chance after chance from ridiculous positions, despite barely facing resistance while I was gone.
Looking back at it now, it honestly felt like something in the game simply decided I was supposed to win that match no matter what.