#I've played football games for 30+ years...

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dreamy night
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...and I can't understand how people can root for this gameplay style. Players skate and dribble like on meth. Shooting feels worse than ever before, while goalkeepers are doing rng miracle saves. Defending is like gambling, move one false step and your opponent runs circles around you. Often you 100% know what is going to happen, yet anticipating with your defender is either to risky or the attacka are simply undefendable.
Variation in goals gets less and less as people abuse the one or two ways they can score.

I've played thousands of online games in seasons over the years/decades and even now managed to reach Division 1. But this gameplay lacks depth, fun and realism imho. In EAFC 25 I was able to play as direct and fast as everyone does is now in 26, yet I was in control and could easily press in defence, which is now almost impossible.

dusk nest
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10 years ago it was the same, there were no heavy touches or animations that slowed the player, nowadays people are just better

austere shadow
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Bro you are delulu. The only way it would be possible to have played football games this long is to have a sega genesis back in the day, which FIFA originally launched in 1993. I have also played since then. The games have never been realistic ever. And ever since before FIFA 18, the game was Arcady, which is fun. Most people playing a video game, don’t want to deal with the annoying things that come with the realism. Stupid bad touches, stupid bad passes, not being able to move, players turning like trucks, taking time to move like they need to be spun up to move, nobody wants that, except you. It’s just a bad take. It’s no surprise their games from 10 years ago sold millions more copies. Ever since they dropped this dookie you call fun, millions have fled the game. An easy google search or chat gpt can answer that for you. Reality is, what you want, is not what most people want, and what you want has lost EA millions of players, and bet a lot more then millions of dollars. If they have any IQ above room tempature, they will stop doing this dumb shii you are talking about. Games are supposed to be fun. I want to dribble by three people and score. It’s what makes me happy. It’s what has made me play fifa games for over 30 years, and it’s what people want. So sit back and enjoy or peace out stick to authentic in career mode

full remnant
# dreamy night ...and I can't understand how people can root for this gameplay style. Players s...

Join the BF6 servers, reel players from there to this discord. Stop playing FIFA 26 for 2 weeks and occasionally complain or check the complaints.
Ea cannot afford to lose players.

They can clearly have an authentic online game mode with the former new patch. They can have a competitive game mode as well with the early access version. All they need to do is for UT to be competitive and the rest to be authentic. A huge drop in players ensued with the patch before yesterday’s update.

full remnant
# austere shadow Bro you are delulu. The only way it would be possible to have played football ga...

This is illogical.

Only a minority prefer this fun version. If EA made only UT arcadey and keep the rest of the online modes as authentic, it won’t be long before there’s very little on that UT mode.
Think about it. Why even claim to listen to the community and assert there will be an authentic mode in this game? Who wanted that? I don’t think you’re that dumb? OGs clearly prefer that.
Why the new patch before yesterday? Who gave feedback for those? Clearly there was enough for that as well.
Fc 25 flopped cause people were fed up by the lack of realism.

Ea can give both people want they want. Both an authentic and a competitive online modes. They can cater for that with the original new patch and the early access version. Don’t understand why they wouldn’t just do it already.

dreamy night
# austere shadow Bro you are delulu. The only way it would be possible to have played football ga...

Funny that you are supposed to be my age, because you sound like a whiny 12 year old. You and I clearly have a different view what is fun. I want a football game to be a blank canvas, where I can be creative and not getting handed a quick satisfaction of dribbling past 3 defenders and scoring. I've done that tens of thousands of times. It gets stale if it feels unearned and that is also why less people play.

fair shale
austere shadow
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Imagine calling me whiny when I literally just explained how and why you are delusional. Which rings out true, because you resorted to that nonsense after I made it pretty clear why they are doing what they are doing. Money. Not rocket science. And @full remnant you have no idea what you are talking about. More than 5 minutes of research would prove your points incorrect. You call my points illogical, while they’re based off research I conducted to try and understand why they make the decisions they make. And the results of the decisions they make. Your points are literally your feelings, there’s zero evidence to support them besides what you feel and what you think. I used actual evidence, like millions of less sold copies, and the discussion of the differences between the core of said gameplay and copies sold. That is quite literally the definition of logic. I’m not responding anymore so don’t bother. Neither of you have an iota of a clue of the reality of this game and it’s community, and thankfully, EA has realized that, 5-6 million players lost to realize that, but they finally have, and your stupid realism Randy takes are being sent to the oblivion. All is what it should be.

full remnant
austere shadow
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Bro. I want to be respectful, but you are acting like someone with insufficient mental faculties. Find the information yourself. It’s not hard. But why would you ask me to find the information for you. I can can take the information and change/present it in a favorable way for me. I’m so confident what I’m saying is true, I literally just want you to take less than 3 minutes of your time to look it up and see. It’s also extremely clear you don’t know what you are talking. I’m 2018 EA changed to a new engine, which allowed for them to add in new animations. When they introduced it, it was never about making people happy with adding the realism. It was a marketing tactic to get people to buy the game. Over time, the engine struggled to keep up with the animations, which has led to these issues with input delay, bad gameplay, and things that make no since because the engine literally can’t handle the inputs while also in real time having all 22 players update properly to the situation. This is why they have bled players. Also, if anybody was ever wondering how, well to be honest lacking intelligence you are, you literally say, provide the evidence because you don’t have it, and in the same breath said nothing o said is factually correct. You would have to actually be aware of the information that couldn’t be more easier found online, to be able to make that determination. Which you are not knowing, or you wouldn’t have to ask. You also accused me of fallacies without naming the specific fallacy. Which in this case wouldn’t even make sense because my point is literally look at published evidence of games sold, active users, and reviews, and make a hypothesis based on that factual information. And then you are supposed to be believed when you didn’t even know they didn’t intentionally try to make the game more realistic with the frostbite engine, it just feels that way in some instances due to its issue operating at full speed and added animations. You don’t even

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Know that but I’m to believe that your opinion is founded on ??? Well tbh the only thing that has been established is it’s all based on what you think and feel. “All you said is a big load of bull” no it’s just assumptions that any logical person would make with the wealth of information available online. I’m sorry bro you are an actual donut.

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You also know it’s against this discords rules to post external links so why would you even ask that

wicked smelt
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Why bother using logic against him

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Just call him a clown he is a clown

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@full remnant 🤡

flat bluff
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Old fifas was king, if you started playing Fifa from 17, though I don’t blame you and respect your opinion, only an idiot would think the game is in a good condition, the game has became more Ai simulated where manual control is not a matter of skill, but who does less and abuses the mechanics. In the past you could score how ever you wanted now it feels you have to play how the game wants you to play. Don’t get me wrong I’m all up for realism but when the manual input and Ai doesn’t go hand in hand, its becomes a game of randomness I can’t even tell the difference from every opponent as everyone just plays exactly the same.

warped brook
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You need to get laid fella!

umbral nebula
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Absolutely agree with everything you said. The gameplay feels chaotic and unbalanced—like it's rewarding speed and randomness over skill and control. Defending is a nightmare: even when you read the play perfectly, you're punished for trying to anticipate. And the lack of goal variety just kills the immersion. It’s frustrating when you know you’ve got the experience and tactical understanding, but the game mechanics just don’t let you express it anymore. EAFC 26 feels like it stripped away the depth that made previous versions enjoyable. You're not alone in feeling this way.

full remnant
# austere shadow Bro. I want to be respectful, but you are acting like someone with insufficient ...

No. You’re the one purporting those bs ‘a Google search away’. Show it to me then. No need to spew fallacies or resort to a straw-man fallacy.

The very least would be to at least quote the title of the article or the outlet that reported your claims. A big paragraph of straw-man fallacies for nothing?

Ironical, innit? Questioning my intellectual capabilities, only to fail to link me calling bull on your ‘Google search’ crap…

Now, onto the game.
‘It just feels that way in some instances’. Did you even read what you typed? Did you even understand that phrase?

This year EA made a big deal about the authentic mode. That’s the only way they could reel back the ‘casuals’, ergo the majority of the players.
They got THAT patch owing to major complaints about realism in online modes. Doesn’t take a genius to figure out that as well.

Here’s a tip: Resorting to a straw-man fallacy won’t work on me. I couldn’t care less. A long load of crap is still a load of crap. Stick to the factual argument.

Either quote the titles/outlets and shut me up, or try, in vain, with the fallacies.

inland merlin