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Kybik22
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4 months ago

Career mode issues

Dear EA Sports,

when launching EA FC 26, you stated that you listen to the requests of players and fans of the game. I therefore firmly believe that you will also listen to mine. I have uninstalled FC 26 from my PlayStation. More often than not, the game makes me angry rather than happy. It contains a large number of errors and bugs that ruin my experience. Every year you charge 80 euros, yet the bugs remain and are carried over from one edition to the next. That is why I am writing this feedback, and I am curious whether you truly listen to fans who pay dozens of euros every year. Personally, I have contributed maybe around 2,000 euros to EA over my lifetime.

I play Manager Career Mode. I always create my own club. Below is a list of issues that ruined my experience. I hope you will release an update that removes them. If so, I hope you will let me know so that I can reinstall the game.

List of issues:

  1. When a player under the age of 23 has a “Crucial Player” role and I do not put him in the starting lineup, he immediately submits a transfer request, even though he is happy with everything. So I buy a player with great potential, but I cannot rotate the squad at all, otherwise he immediately asks to leave. This is especially frustrating with youth academy graduates—you develop a player for three years and then he submits a transfer request just because you once didn’t start him...
  2. When I create a club and choose a club focus other than “Football Giant,” the cup competition does not load, only the league.
  3. Likewise, the cup does not load if, after creating a club at the beginning, I have a 5-star youth scout among the scouts. (Imagine spending 20 minutes creating a club and setting up the season, and when everything finally finishes loading and the new season starts, you find out that the cup competition didn’t load at all, as if such a competition didn’t even exist...)
  4. The game offers me very few 5-star youth scouts (possibly due to bug no. 3). Every 7 days, new scouts are offered. When after 3 weeks there was still no 5-star scout available, I decided not to save the game and kept reloading the career over and over until I found a 5-star scout. Even after 48 reloads, the game did not offer me a single 5-star scout!! Because of this, I had to start a new career, where after about 30 attempts I finally got a 5-star scout. It then took another 25 attempts before the game gave me a 5-star German scout for a German club. When a 5-star scout does appear, he is often from Hungary, Switzerland, Kazakhstan, Romania, the Czech Republic, Austria, or Belgium—but from Germany, never.
  5. The green EA FC lineup presentation graphics show the sides incorrectly. Players from the left side are shown on the right and vice versa.
  6. I have a created team, and in the graphics the team name often appears as something like *Team2278773 instead of the actual name. This is a bug that has been carried over from year to year for about 5 years now.
  7. When someone creates a team and plays, for example, in Bundesliga 2, the team logo is displayed differently in the pre-match graphics compared to all other teams.
  8. Half of the players in the youth academy have a female appearance.
  9. With a created team, the club logo does not appear on the goalkeeper’s jersey. Again, this is a bug that has been recurring for at least 3 years.
  10. When you give a created manager a black club jacket with the club logo, in matches where the jacket is zipped up, when it rains or snows, the club logo appears on the back instead of on the chest.
  11. The first replay after scoring a goal always shows a center-back standing on the halfway line instead of the goal action. Only the second replay then shows the actual goal...
  12. In Player Career Mode in La Liga, it happened to me that the game threw an error during the match intro. I simulated the match, but the error kept repeating in every subsequent match...
  13. In Player Career Mode, it also happened that the camera got stuck in one position while the match continued. I could not see my player at all. There was nothing I could do except simulate the match...
  14. I don’t understand why, when creating a club, I can only choose from generic stadiums and not from all stadiums, as in the PC version. If this option were available on PlayStation as well, I would be happy and could create a perfectly beautiful stadium...
  15. Free kicks are a disaster... I aim for the top left corner, and the ball goes straight to the middle of the goal....

There are certainly other issues I may have forgotten, but this is more than enough to think about. A company that earns 800 million euros in the first two weeks from a game that is full of bugs—bugs that have been repeating for years.... I would be glad if you worked on this and possibly let me know when some of these issues have been fixed. Until then, I am keeping FC 26 uninstalled.

 

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