FUT Champs Disconnects
Playing FUT Champs last night was an absolute nightmare. An error occurred 7 times where the game would freeze mid game and the 2 players would simultaneously lose connection and the game would be “reviewed and determined”… what they actually mean by this is that if you’re winning or drawing the game at the time of this mutual disconnect you get sent back to the FUT menu as if the game has never been played, wasting your time, effort, robbing you of likely wins, and in my case having my account reported multiple times for cheating by opponents who didn’t seem to understand the disconnect. However if that wasn’t bad enough, if you’re losing at the time of the disconnect, you lose the game!
in total I played 22 games of champs last night! The disconnect occurring twice from winning positions, 3 times during a draw, and twice from a losing position. I’m not saying I would’ve finished any higher or lower than the 8 wins I got (although I usually end on around 10-11) as the matchmaking seemed all over the place having played people who were 11-1 one game and 1-2 the next! But the wasted time, effort, and the feeling of injustice whilst playing an extra 7 games, certainly impacted my game and made it a negative experience. The fact that the EA servers after all these years still cannot accommodate the volume of players on the game is a disgrace, and you’d have hoped that with the millions, potentially billions of pounds they make in revenue per game cycle, they’d actually put some of it back into upgrading the servers! Never mind actually hiring competent developers who actually know something about football, and can create a well made and balanced football simulation; not just release a copied and pasted version of the game each year, where women spinning around in circles is the meta, the menus are buggy, and the wing backs don’t randomly run back to keep everyone on side.