Urgent to the Developers

I second what zxugznfremmd​ said wholeheartedly. Gameplay is currently miserable. I’ve logged on everyday for 18 months and played several hours a day for most of that time, but I have much better things to do with my time than suffer through the current misery. The game feels exceedingly “heavy” and unresponsive and just isn’t fun.

In recent months EA has re-engineered the rewards system (drafts, shards, etc.) to make meta players more rare and more expensive than ever before. This has made the overall customer value proposition the worst it’s ever been. When you now throw in the exceedingly poor matchplay since the update, many of us see no reason to continue. I, for one, am frustrated to tears with the current situation. I’ve played EA titles for +30 years, I love football, and I’ve never been more disillusioned with EA. I manage a full league and many are in the same boat. They feel abused and increasingly disgruntled at EA’s greed. The company has under-invested in gameplay improvements while systematically increasing the cost to remain competitive. We’re not stupid. We all see it. And we resent it.

So, if improvements aren’t made immediately I’ll be ending my relationship with EA and I won’t be coming back. I value my time and money too much to continue to patronize a company that doesn’t respect me, the sport I love, or the community that surrounds it. Words are cheap. No amount of saying “we care” or “we’re listening” is enough if it’s not backed by action and results. EA is failing right now with respect to the latter and has got to start SHOWING it gets this. Stop resting on reputation and pushing out poorly executed game “improvements” that make the game objectively worse and rediscover the sense of pride and purpose that used to make EA games the best in the industry. Otherwise, a whole hell of a lot of us are just going to walk.