CAF and custom characters have always been a huge appeal for any sports game: WWE, NBA, Fight Night, and especially UFC. People love playing as non-fighters, fictional characters, people they know, or even themselves.
I played UFC 3, 4, and 5, and have noticed a stagnancy in CAF features. We barely get any new face/body/hair options, and the ones we do get are now locked behind points or a paywall. The archetypes system from UFC 4 remained exactly the same in UFC 5, apart from having a Fight Night style online career mode that is so limited in that you can’t even show off your fighters, you can only have a few fighters, and they stay only in that mode, which is what this post is sort of about.
If we had a point-buy system that still allowed us to create 4-star CAF for Online Championship while allowing us to spec into our own stats/moves, it would encourage so many more people to use CAF.
If not, just add more archetypes, we’ve had the same ones for two games. Give us more to play with without locking it behind a paywall because it’s been the same stuff for years.
Or at the very least, don’t limit Online Career Mode fighters to that mode. People want to fight Jon Jones as their 1-star fighter just to see what happens. Or with their friends online or on the couch.
Can’t believe this post has to be made… EA would actually be remembered for something greater than another corporate gaming company. Listen to your devs and fans once in a while, read posts and comments like these, maybe you’d get somewhere.