Fair Play? Then Explain These...

The second video

On the second video, the keeper gets a right hand on it.

totally unfair when your own defenders purposely slides out of position. It makes no sense at all. I don’t understand why the devs would put this in the game. it doesn’t make it fun for anyone.

Let the USERS fight for position. Why do the players do these unexplainable dumb things?

Couldn’t agree more. The basic mechanics of this game are trash and EA is just too lazy to improve it. And the AI is beyond garbage. Defenders don’t defend. Passing assist is guaranteed to screw you over at least once a match and you’ve got balls flying in the net from 40 yds against (supposedly) the best keepers in the world. No company with any respect for the game of football would put this nonsense out for sale. But EA is apparently shameless enough to do so year after year, after… I’d give just about anything to see a serious competitor enter the market because EA has gotten way too fat and happy with itself. Even these forums are a joke. It’s a glorified echo chamber for pissed off users and EA sits back with a box of popcorn laughing at us spin ourselves up while they take our money. I guarantee this thread won’t even get a response.

Just played a Division Rivals Vs Attack match that was totally rigged against me. When you play enough games you can just feel when the algorithm suddenly shifts against you. Your players take uncharacteristically poor touches. They get more sluggish and suddenly moves and plays that worked in the last match (against a similarly ranked opponent) just won’t work. It’s infuriating because it has nothing to do with the inputs you make (I.e., your play) and everything to do with some arbitrary “ghost in the machine” left there by the coders.

yeah the “ghost in the machine” is definitely real. It’s like your players just quit trying. You spend the whole match trying keep up and make up for the senseless turnovers. Every skill move just gives the ball away to your opponent.

And you’re also right about the EA team sitting back and laughing. That’s why we should start putting our complaints in the app reviews instead, and at least hurt their rating. I hate to be a complainer, but there has to be some way to make them listen.

I’ve posted at least two negative (one-star) reviews in the Apple App Store. I’d encourage anyone in here reading this and agreeing to do the same.

Made it to Champion level in Vs Attack and it’s now quite clear that the way EA simulates facing tougher competition is to “dumb down” your players. One would hope and expect that the competition would merely get quicker/smarter/more skilled, but instead they’ve clearly chosen to make your players slower/clumsier/more error prone. It’s really pretty miserable to try and battle through because you can’t take for granted that a player will cleanly receive and turn with a ball that they were fielding cleanly only yesterday. And it doesn’t seem to matter whether a defender is close either. That’s the part that is so dramatically unrealistic and stupid.

So, all this just reinforces our belief that other game modes (like H2H) are in some sense “rigged” to make your players perform worse (independent of, and despite, anything the user does). It’s a pretty lazy way to to design a video game, but there you—that’s EA for you.😒