[Feedback thread] TOTY event discussion—share your thoughts.

I really want to express my disappointment with the current Fc Mobile Toty event. After investing lot of time into the event I have not received a single 116 or 117 OVR player. The grind is extremely demanding yet the rewards feel unrewarding & poorly balanced. Even after completing many draws the chances of pulling top tier players are unrealistically low. The token system also makes things worse. Exchanging lower OVR players barely gives enough tokens to reach meaningful rewards?! making it practically impossible for free to play or lowspend players to progress! The effort required does not match the outcome. Toty is supposed to be one of the most exciting events of the year but instead it feels frustrating and discouraging. Please reconsider the reward structure and drop rates because right now it feels like the community's time and effort are not being respected!

Unfortunately, I am unable to provide accurate feedback on this terrible event without violating the forum rules. 

Genuinely unsure whether this game has just become a scam.

I honestly hope this is the beginning of the end for the game as EA deserve nothing better.

New issue: Matchmaking for the midfielder TOTY token is “off.” I have a 119 OVR squad and am currently +5 FC Champions in VSA. However, I’ve played three TOTY VSA matches and they’ve all been terribly unfair. I’ve experienced ridiculously high ping +90ms in the one match that should have been winnable (where my opponent had an equivalent squad), but the play was so sluggish that I could barely convert half my chances. And in my other two matches I was paired with opponents who had substantially better squads where I never really stood a chance.

So what’s up with the matchmaking and why does it seem substantially different than regular VSA?

Couldn’t agree more — on all points.

How much more do you need to hear, EA? The jury is in. The community has spoken and you don’t need to keep this thread pinned for another three weeks because the message isn’t going to change… You guys blew it. The community is livid about the TOTY event and you need to take action NOW (mid-event) or you’re going to lose more and more of us — permanently. 

This is a simple litmus test as to whether you hold your user community in such contempt that you will go on treating us as “marks” for the remainder of a month-long event, or whether you will treat us as valued customers. You obviously brought forward this event redesign in a desperate attempt to generate revenue (by any means necessary). We didn’t ask for this and we certainly don’t like it. This was a completely self-serving move and, if you let it stand unchanged, you are effectively doubling down on the message you (perhaps unintentionally) sent when you launched the event — that you don’t give a rip about the F2P community (which is to say, most FCM users!). Every day this event continues unaltered you are telling F2Pers “you mean nothing to us if you don’t start spending.” 

The simplest near-term fix is to lower the gem price of draft vouchers in the store. This would make TOTY slightly less bad (because we’d still have massive uncertainty with regard to winning top players that might actually meet a need in our squad). However, the long-term solution needs to be a commitment to bring back the shard system. Put simply, you’ve damaged your relationship with a hell of a lot of us and you need to make amends. If the problem you’re trying to solve is a revenue issue then engage with the community on the topic. AsVelvetHammer24​ notes (and as I, and others, have repeatedly said), folks will pay for the game if you create real value by addressing long-standing points of pain regarding game mechanics so that matches are fun and players perform consistently. Absent this, you can continue to run the game like a casino and chase more and more users from the game as you chase diminishing revenues. It’s your call.

You’ve taken one of the two most anticipated events of the year (TOTY and TOTS) and quite literally made it the worst event since I started playing the original FIFA Mobile when it first came out.

This new event was a slap in the face to your long time players.  There is no purpose in playing the majority of the tasks as the rewards are pointless.  The market was already bad with the price controls and limited card stock, but this event has only made it worse.  

I understand the need for EA to generate revenue off of the mobile game now despite the initial purpose of it was likely as a loss-leader to drive players to the console version.  However, this can also be done via a combination of ads, an annual or one-time game fee, and buyable packs.  But, that will only be accepted if the game is worth playing.  TOTY was a massive step farther down the misguided path that EA has been on with this game for the past few years.

Horrible TOTY event. Players who joined recently are exploiting the system by creating and deleting free-to-play accounts and opening drafts repeatedly until they get all 117 rated players. As a result, they end up with better teams than players who have been grinding the game consistently. The event design rewards exploitation over effort. EA should take inspiration from eFootball to make gameplay more realistic and skill based rather than luck based. It is time to grow up and respect the loyal player base.

Players are getting very little gems to exchange draft vouchers

And the system is too much **bleep**, too much lag, opponent are scam,

When we are auto tasking, it lags more than a village 

Why do ppl getting soo many good players but we don't 

Give me kylian mbappe

I stopped playing online matches because I don't like playing against players who have Mbappe and Dembele and I only got Pirlo and I also stopped watching adds because gems lost value and points in events too. You killed this game. Only you from EA should play it among yourselves.

In the previous shard system, if you played every day, you easily earned 3K shards in a month, and you could choose either 2 x 1500 shard players or three x 1000 shard players, so you had at least 3 players with maximum OVR. Now you are dependent on what EA decides to give you, and they usually give you a player in a position you don't even need. Before this upgrade, I looked at all the adds, of which EA certainly has a financial (not to mention that adds can sometimes not be turned off without activating the link to the given add) benefit. Now I won't do that anymore because I don't play this game that much anymore, when EA doesn't reward players who play every day and gives better rewards to players who play once in a while, it just shows how much EA cares about everyday players. I wonder what you'll do when most of your regular players stop playing it and only casual players play it. Then EA employees will probably have to play against each other and use cheats against each other. Stop making everyday players into scumbags. EA should fire someone for this update. A lot of people are stopping playing this game because of your treatment of players, who is responsible for that EA? Shame on you all at EA!

EA has no respect for the grind. They only want your money.

Even a lot of the content creators are starting to speak out about the pack luck (or lack there of) and the minimal effort SBCs.

I only purchased this game because of the World Cup hype. It has been a huge letdown. I don't plan on purchasing future FC games or possibly ANY future EA games.