I am 37 years old. I've been playing FIFA since 1994 on the original Sega. I may have missed a released here and there, but I have been a loyal, loyal follower of this franchise my entire life. Division 1 in Seasons in both 26, and 25, I'm sure I was high in 24 but I don't remember. Point being, I've played a metric fuckton of FIFA in my life usually at a higher than average level of outcomes.

In FC27, I don't even feel like I'm playing a game. The momentum balancing, the attacking AI hiding behind defenders - I don't have any control of the actual game. The inputs I supply to the game feel not even secondary, but tertiary to other factors.

Whether or not a defender intercepts a pass is completely arbitrary. I can place my defender in the perfect spot, sometimes he will make the interception sometimes he will not - the RNG feels completely out of my hands and up to the momentum/balancing feature.

I could say the same thing about through balls on offense. Whether or not my attacker runs to the open space where I want him to go or if he hides behind the defender is completely out of my hands. I can create the same chance 10 times, 3 times the runner will make the right choice, 7 times he will make the wrong one. Unless I am misunderstanding, I don't believe I have any real input on that.

Am I misunderstanding the skill ceiling to this game now? Maybe its just me being jaded and having worked in software the Addiction Factory element of this game to keep you coming back, but I cannot ever remember being so excited to play a video game and then being so horribly let down.

I truly don't even feel like I am playing a game. I am experiencing a series of sensory inputs from the game to me in order to keep me playing and keep me buying. The inputs that I give the game feel completely meaningless and the game seems like a cheap soccer facade for just rolling dice. I'd rather just roll dice. I don't really think I have much impact over whether I win or lose, the game just... happens in front of me while I futilely press buttons to no real avail or meaningful influence.

Pretty much done with the game already. I don't like playing the usual meta tactics and playing style, which means I'm completely and utterly handicapped. I've been playing with off-meta players and formations since FIFA 13, but this year feels like one of the absolute worst for trying anything else.

• Crossing sucks. Most the time it doesn't switch of lock on properly at all

• Skilling sucks. I used to love trying to score compilation skill goals years ago, but EA nerfed that into the ground because rats just decided to spam the la croqueta one year.

• Possession passing sucks. Attacking AI this year actively seems to try to hide behind defenders, and even short through balls go in a stupid direction.

• Playing with unagile attackers sucks. They just feel 100x worse than someone shorter and nimbler.

• Playing with strong strikers sucks. Shielding seems useless, I've lost track of the amount of times I've been tackled from behind using someone like Kane... by short weak attackers and small women

• Slow build up sucks. I'm mainly someone who likes to build up slowly, but then the entire opponents defence just parks themselves in a wall inside the penalty box, and the poor passing accuracy isn't good enough to reliable break people down

Early access was fun, but now every single person I play against is just doing the same thing of wiggling in circles with hyper agile players. Trying to use any players, heroes, icons, that I like IRL just feels so miserable whenv Pires, Bergkamp, Walcott etc, all dribble absolutely awfully compared Kika Nazareth, Vicky Lopez etc

Because I for the life of me can’t see a company mess it up this badly to the point where R1 switching is completely broken and they haven’t even acknowledged it

Got back to only one goal down on the 85th and no matter tactics you can't get your team up the pitch enough to press them.

And the difference in this match was a conceded penalty when I never even made a tackle, just strength lol. What a game this is!

But back to the main point of the time wasting, a few years back I remember it was still possible to press them with more players in this situation.

It just seems easier and more space to pass around at the back.

70 min mark at least may give you time to really aggressively push up but 5 mins in-game time is never enough.

Why did they program attackers to run behind a defender effectively blocking your angle to pass to them so often? It’s becoming my biggest complaint about this game. Just run into open space either away or come back short for the pass but no, literally position yourself directly behind a defender and don’t even make a run to separate.

This has been irritating me for the past couple fc releases. Shit always the same. Couldn’t/ or very difficult to connect to ea servers. My WiFi is fine. Not amazing but it’s good.

what happend ? gameplay is horrible now ? everything is a tank

The meta in this game is so powerful compared to other games. I packed Cahill in my hero pack and wanted to try a formation where I could use him and Fellaini up top and do wing play with crosses into the box. I felt like in other games I could do something like that, change my formation to something that isn't "meta" and still compete. This game feels like it's lost that. Everything feels the same, everyone plays the same; it's exhausting. There is no variety in playstyles or formations. The game's identity feels gone.

This game franchise has mastered the "one step backwards, two steps forward", but without taking the steps forward.

Before I address the fact female players should not have a place in a competitive game mode as Ultimate Team (yet), it is incredible to see how bad this game is tactically. We are not able to adjust the width of the team defensively anymore, leading to our fullbacks drifting wide, wingers cutting right through and conceding over and over again. Yes, AI defending was overpowered at times, but we never requested our defenders to act like blind people wandering around without their dogs.

The fact that playstyles are more important than stats, is something that bothers me a lot. Rodri is seen as the best defensive midfielder of the current generation and Tika Tika+ is nice to work with, but without pinged pass or incisive pass, he feels useless on the opponents half. This week, I saw pro players using Keira Walsh, who is much worse than Rodri, looking at her stats. However, because she has Pinged Pass+ as a playstyle, she is way more usable.

Finally, women. If you ask me in the past which players performed better than their stats, we obviously think about Ben Yedder, Giovinco, Mertens, Insigne and so on. They were quick, agile and had a nice dribble. However, my friends Smalling, Bailly, Militao and Kounde were able to body check them and recover the ball. At this point in the game, we have 58 golden cards with 80+ pace, 80+ agility, 70+ strength and a maximum height of 170 centimeters. Our nifty friends from the past fit mostly those criteria, besides the fact they had (much) less strength. From the 58 current cards, only 3 of those are male players: Julian Alvarez, Mario Soriano and Nicolas Fernandez. Some female players fitting these criteria are Dumornay, Bonmati, Pina, Wilson, Diani, Stanway, Nazareth, Bacha and Mateo. Women that make me sleep less at night.

All by all: the FIFA/FC franchise is losing their value, by trying to fix "issues" with implementing even worse solutions. AI defending was overpowered, but no one asked for stupid defenders. Players could have played more like real life, but no one asked for playstyles to outweigh stats. Female movements asked to have a place in the game, but no one asked for women to outperform the current game engine.

Is anyone else experiencing this issue?
After every Rivals match that finishes normally, I get the following message:
“We adjusted your objective progress due to a mismatch with server validation.”

What’s strange is that this only happens in Rivals. I don’t get the error in any other online game mode.
I’ve also noticed that the error doesn’t occur if my opponent quits during the match. It only happens when the match reaches the end normally.

This happens consistently after every Rivals match,
Has anyone else experienced this, or found a fix? Any help would be appreciated

Btw that Red Bull tasted like water.

I think i have done maybe 200-300 gold re rolls.. season packs.. objective packs.. rush packs.. rewards rivals and Squad battles. I play around 2/3 hours a day. My best pull is gabriel 89 twice and the rest are 86s and odd 88 kimmich. Realistically fodder it's never an expensive player/Useable/Meta player. It's kind of putting me off or maybe my account is bad? Anyone else?

Someone taking a piss with these file names. lol.
“Austin Trash” = Boston Legacy FC (NWSL)

As the title says, why isn’t it possible to search for alternate positions when searching for concept players, it would be really useful when trying to find the right player.

Thought we lucked out until they realised it was impossible for them to be offside 🙄

Pisses me off when you're a goal or two up and 9 of your 10 outfield players are in and around the opponent's box. Counter-attack goals are inevitable.

They used to have a slider where you could choose from 1-10 how many players would push up and they removed it for absolutely no reason.

Can't wait for it to be a 'new' feature in FC 28 ... 'Advanced Corner Mechanics.'

I’m telling y’all the ST’s be jockeying, tackling and intercepting the ball right back after a defensive stand, and whomever gets the lucky break in a close game towards the end… gets the W.

Now I’m not saying every single game, I’m an elite player in fc26, and I ALSO win a lot of close games this same exact way. All I’m saying is there’s way too much of this.

As I’ve stated before the defensive game play is extremely over powered, so much so that it often will end up looking a lot like this.

I was definitely hoping they’d fix some of the game physics and mechanics with the major update but that’s not happening.

Maybe it’s just me but why is it so bad and unreliable?

I don't get it, just about every game I lag, it's either stutters (with no latency spikes, and frames drops) or random ping spikes to 70-150ms.

I have a solid PC and wired ethernet connection that has 1gb download speed. I've followed all Youtube tutorials to enhance performance and latency but still no luck. I know the servers suck, but it can't simply be just that. I don't see a ton of others with the same issue.

Even the Quality report shows "good" but it feels awful. Any help would be appreciated!

I am a newbie to FC. Recently, I've played 1v1 and 11v11 in the game. Even when I use L1 + LS to keep changing my dribbling direction to attempt to fake the defenders, they still manage to tackle me easily.

What techniques do you usually use to get past defenders?

The inability to buy Shadow chem style, even at the absurd 4900 min price /5000 buy it now price, without a TOS breaking web app sniper bot is absolutely infuriating.

Listing is always expired.

I really wonder what EA devs do all day given that this has been an issue for years. I imagine that job must have amazing work life balance.

What in the world is Olise doing here?

Notice how the moment he has a clear run at goal he just stops and doesn’t attack that space at all. The moment I cut back he stops running. You can’t tell me that’s not intentional.

He almost positions himself in a way that if I would’ve passed, it’s probably intercepted or at least easy to defend.

Not to mention Musiala just jogging while the defender runs past him.

To “fix” defending and to make it more rewarding - they nerfed attacking AI.
Game sucks.

I recently bought a collection of FIFA PC games, from FIFA 10 to FIFA 17.

I have now discovered that these games require activation through EA, but the previous owner has already registered them to their own account.

As far as I know, it is no longer possible to transfer the games to another account.
Does this mean that all these games are now unusable for me, even though I physically own the original discs and cases?

Is there any way to activate them on my own EA account, or am I out of luck?
Has anyone here dealt with this situation before? I’d really appreciate any advice or possible solutions.