#FC Devs you need to act now!

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fluid glen
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Take-Two has now publicly reaffirmed GTA VI for November 19, 2026, and they’ve said Rockstar’s launch marketing will begin in summer 2026. Once that marketing machine starts, a slip becomes extremely unlikely, and the whole market’s attention will shift hard.

GTA VI is the kind of release that pulls in almost everyone. That means FC 27 will be fighting for attention and wallet share in the worst possible window. In my own friend group, the majority already says: “We’re not buying FC 27 if GTA drops shortly after.” And once people are locked into GTA, they won’t come back later “just to give FC a chance.”

So if you want to keep the remaining core community from quitting, action has to happen now, not “we’ll fix it at launch.”

What needs to change urgently:

  1. PlayStyles: either remove them (unlikely) or heavily tone them down so gameplay feels less “pre-programmed” and more skill-driven.
  2. Evolutions: nerf the power creep and stop pushing them into a Pay-to-Win direction.
  3. New strategy: focus on retention and trust, not short-term monetization. Give players a reason to believe the game is being built around fair competition again.

Right now, too many people feel like the game is designed to extract, not to reward mastery. If that perception stays, GTA VI won’t just compete with FC 27 — it will finish it for a lot of casual + semi-core players.

Please don’t wait and dump everything into “FC 27 release fixes.” The window is closing.

trail ginkgo
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GTA VI will probably crush FC 27; the current reception of FC is awful. Many things need to change: playstyles need to be removed, defensive AI needs to be balanced, and roles need to go. Honestly, the best option would be a game running on a new engine, because it's kind of absurd to imagine that we're playing a football game that runs on an FPS engine. And besides this new engine, the game needs to go back to basics; take what worked in the past, like FIFA 20, and apply it to the new game.

fluid glen
# trail ginkgo GTA VI will probably crush FC 27; the current reception of FC is awful. Many thi...

yeah bro agreed. gta vi is gonna eclipse basically everything in its launch window — not just fc 27, but cod and pretty much any big release around that time

that’s exactly why ea needs to protect the core community that’s still here and still playing even after toty. because if you lose the committed players now, you don’t just hurt fc 26 — you’re basically sabotaging fc 27 before it even launches

ea can’t do the usual “we’ll fix it in the next title” approach this time. they need to act now, make meaningful gameplay + progression changes, and show they’re prioritizing a fair, skill-based experience over short-term exploitation

if they can’t keep the hardcore base engaged, fc 27 won’t “compete with gta” — it’ll just drop into the void. the real question for a publisher is: how do you survive next to gta vi. and the answer starts with retention and trust, right now, not next september

winged cargo
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Yeah, you forgot the part to mention to focus on gameplay. Everything else is irrelevant if the gameplay is not sorted. It’s the same cycle every year that screams and repeats itself but doesn’t get acknowledged.

winged cargo
kind wave
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EA are gambling with that pointless open world mode.

I can't wait for it to be opened once and never again like Volta.

All they need to do is invest in a new engine and focus on making a fun football game.

fluid glen
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This open world mode won‘t impress anybody

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Basketball and open world mode fits much better I don‘t think football is a good fit for open world in general

surreal solstice
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ahah do you really think EA business analyst will look at your analysis?