EA Is Ruining the Little Free Time Working Parents Have
I’m not writing this as an angry player.
I’m writing this as a working father.
My best friend is a working father too.
Life changes when you grow up. Work, family, bills, responsibilities, children… Gaming is no longer something we can do every evening. Sometimes we only get one night every week or even one night every month to sit down together, play Online Seasons with our favorite clubs, and enjoy a few hours like we used to.
Those evenings mean more than just winning football matches.
They’re our chance to relax.
To laugh.
To forget about work for a while.
Then we’re leading 2–1 in the 90th minute.
Our opponents realize they’re going to lose, disconnect their internet, and the match doesn’t count.
In a second, our entire evening is gone.
Not because we weren’t good enough.
Not because we lost fairly.
But because someone abused an exploit that has existed for years.
What hurts isn’t losing a win.
It’s realizing that the little free time we had has been wasted.
People often say, “It’s just a game.”
No.
For many adults, games are the only way we stay connected with old friends. They’re the only few hours we have to escape everyday stress.
Why should honest players have to hope their opponents are honest?
Why does EA leave fairness in the hands of people willing to exploit the system instead of preventing it?
Ultimate Team already has better protection against disconnect abuse.
Online Seasons deserves the same respect.
We don’t want compensation.
We don’t want free rewards.
We just want one simple rule:
If you disconnect intentionally, you lose. If your opponent stays, they win.
Respect our time.
Because once it’s gone, no update can give it back.
Sorry to see that you have been having issues TheUpDestLee.
Just so you know, if you get a loss then it generally means that you are the one who had the connection issues. A disconnect does not mean your internet went down, it can simply be bandwidth-related.
As a dad myself, I now how hard it is to find time to game, my kid's sleep pattern was reset when he was sick so it's now 11pm or 1am some nights before he goes down so finding time to game is hard.
What I would recommend is for you and your friend to take a couple of minutes to go through our connection troubleshooting steps here
It will take a couple of minutes but should hopefully help with any connection issues.
Let me know how you get on.
Darko
