Adding More Teams to FIFA is Simply Not Good Enough

Sean Halliday of Ready-Up looks at the alarming trend of EA never addressing the issues in FIFA but instead adding more filler content:

''The addition of women’s national teams to FIFA 16 has oddly resulted in a lot of people becoming suddenly happy to praise EA. Why is it odd? Simply put, EA covered women’s sports with their UFC title, but this was pretty much ignored.The addition of women’s football shouldn’t be a shock to people who actually bother to follow the sport, even more so given the dramatic increase in coverage it’s received in recent years. But simply adding more teams is not enough to fix the slowly sinking FIFA ship.''

[WilDRangeRfc]

Scripted gameplay that means skilled players can lose to people with less skill,host advantage,shitty EA servers,unresponsive AI,not buying Fifa again until they sort their shit out,how can EA have such bad servers???
Traded in Fifa 15 for PES 15 and it was a great decision.
Got tired of 9 year olds dribbling from half way line with Cristiano Ronaldo,beating all my players and scoring,the defending in the game is terrible.
And I was top 40,000 in the world out of 447,000 people so it is not that I am bad at the game I am very good.
PES requires skilled build up play where you cannot always go forward every pass,it requires of thinking ahead to your next one or two moves,the passing and shooting are way more responsive and accurate,plainly put Fifa is trash

[demonicale]

I found pes to lack atmosphere and i really hated the lack of proper teams and player names.

[Nes_Daze]

^ This is why I haven't gone to PES yet, if it had these things plus a bit more, I'd certainly switch over, EA seems to be more concerned about being cute and looking nice than actually producing a quality product.

[pompombrum]

I'm envious, I really wished I could get back into PES. The scripted/momentum gameplay has pretty much all but killed my enthusiasm for online play in Fifa which just leaves me with a fairly dull Career mode to play. Hopefully Konami really swing for the fences this year and deliver a quality PES experience as I'd love nothing more than to ditch Fifa for it.

[3-4-5]

Playing sports games online is never a good way to judge a game.

Fifa 15 in offline Franchise mode is fine, and I'm assuming Fifa 16 will be better.

[pompombrum]

The scripted/momentum stuff exists in both offline and online play. On professional difficulty, I can actually fairly accurately guess when the computer is likely to score.

[jukins]

Sounds like you need to stop playing with popular 5 star teams and try some lower level teams. I mean if you keep playing against those superstars you're gonna keep getting the same results regardless if it's cheap or not. Learned this year's ago not to mention it's much funner when there's no god mode player on the pitch

[WilDRangeRfc]

It happens with all teams,one time you could play Bolton v Cardiff and Bolton win every 50/50 tackle,every header and can spray the ball around for fun,the next time with same teams it could be the very opposite,scripted unbalanced play mate and I have had enough of it.

[chrisx]

buggy gameplay, scripted gameplay where u see the likes of messi outjumping john terry for a header and scoring and online issues.these are what ea should be working on. the game is already bloated with way too much teams that nobody ever touches. looking forward to pro evo

[Psychotica]

Like Madden they screw everything up with that Ultimate Team crap. All I want is a simple season mode, select a team, play a schedule and try to win a championship.

[DillyDilly]

Imagine the nude mods on PC

[Speak_da_Truth]

WildRangeRfc you said i all man adding more teams mean nothing if they don't improve the game. Even the graphics looks meh!!!

[WilDRangeRfc]

Yeah I know try PES 15 mate much better game,vote with your wallet pal

[rainslacker]

Was adding woman's teams to FIFA meant to fix all that other stuff? Seems like it was added to make the game inclusive of women's sports, which seems like it would be a good thing. I don't understand why that was a problem to anybody except people who wanted to be annoyed over the current SJW things going on. But adding women's teams doesn't take away anything from the game.

All the other stuff people have problems with in the game are a completely different issue.

[PixelGateUk]

No, no one is even claiming that. That's just a silly thing to say. You seem to of missed the point. The is broken, there's so many faults, and instead of EA admitting that they instead say 'LOOK MORE TEAMS!!!'. It causes frustration within the player base.

You seem to be confusing your agenda/belief/agreements/disag reements with the points presented in the post. Or did you just merely look at the thumbnail?

[rainslacker]

yeah, I understand that. My point is, is why are people upset EA is adding more teams? Just because they aren't fixing the other problems doesn't mean that adding more teams isn't a good thing. There's nothing wrong with being upset about the other problems, and there is good reason to be, but EA doing this likely had no bearing on those other issues.

The part about SJW is also true, which is why I brought it up. There are a lot of people who are making this into a SJW issue, and the two issues are getting confused. But again, EA possibly addressing that issue still doesn't really have anything to do with the other problems.

I'm sure the same technical problems will exist for the women's teams, and realistically, adding in teams/players would have taken nothing away nor added anything to those technical issues since it's likely done by a different group of developers within the project itself, unless of course you believe that players and teams are created from scratch and not just a single object with values assigned to them from database stat sheets. Most of the time spent on their inclusion was probably character modeling, which would be mostly facial work, and that is done by the art department which has no bearing at all on technical issues.

I believe it's you who are confusing your agenda/belief/whatever into the argument. My belief is that I know how games are designed and implemented from experience, and I know that none of that would change the technical issues.

You want to try and say that it's not good enough. But what you really mean to say is that you want the problems fixed. Since adding womens teams into the game isn't a technical issue, I'm not sure why you would try to correlate the two. EA isn't dangling this new shiny in front of you to avoid discussing the technical issues, they are doing it to drive more sales of the game to new demographics. Realistically, EA doesn't address these issues anyways, so it wasn't a matter of misdirection, which you seem to imply. So in the end, be mad that EA doesn't address the issues, and leave the new features out of it. Given the current state of women's issues within gaming, you'd be better off for doing so.

If you think I just looked at the thumbnail, I would suggest that you read your own headline and description. You are the one that made more teams, and they being woman's teams into part of your argument. Not me.

[PixelGateUk]

Thanks for proving my point, it was never a question of gender, well for you it was.