FIFA 21 Feedback & Reviews

What annoys me is that in player career modes, players are played out of position. I had a career at Real Madrid, and Ferland Mendy was playing at CB. My current career, Virgil Van Dijk and David Alaba are being played in CM. It is affecting our teams performance and it is ruining my experience. I wish they resolved this issue but they never fix career mode.

Make no mistake - Electronic Arts breaks American federal law, every day, overtly. It doesn’t take a lawyer to understand this - look up the definition of child gambling, it’s an open and shut case. Why has EA not been banned from doing business in the U.S. despite overtly breaking this law? Because none of us have the finances to actually take them to court, they can just extend the case and make it so expensive that you have no other choice but to drop it - the people who do have the finances have better things to do. Trust me, EA knows this is the case and it’s why they will continue to break the law. Do not expect anything else from them. To you, EA, I wrote this message in hopes of one thing - that someone, anyone in your company reads this message and is forced to look themselves in the mirror - you are abusing your power, and the main victims are adolescent children. Shame on this company, I wish Harvard paid more attention to how their alumni behave.

I like how smooth the gameplay is but you have to fix Pro career mode. I scored 2 goals and my shots to goals percentage is at 0%. I also had 3 assists in the same game. My average match rating is at 4.00. This was also my first game of the season. Please fix this ASAP.

About FUT:
For the first time after years and years I'm finding intersting and competitive SBC, Rooney and Jones my favourite one.
I like the future stars mission and cards.
You have to leave the possibility to the costumer to grow up his team even if he can't spend money for packs or he is not a pro. Remember that is a game. Continue in this way, you are doing well and I'm sure you can do even better.

About the gameplay:
Is ridicoulus that you can shoot only if there is not a defender close to you, the ball NEVER pass close to a defender, is not what happen in the reality.

Cheers.
Andrea
FUT player since 2014

This is the most glitchy fifa I’ve played to date, I don’t play online like most fifa players, and I have noticed how you as a company are more interested in making more money from players rather than providing loyal fifa fans with a game that is actually worth the money.

Manager mode and be a pro are extremely poor. Be a pro in particular. You build your pro, get a good rating etc when playing but if you’re substituted your rating drops to 4.0, which is just stupid. So you score a hat trick and you’re sitting at a 10 rating, get subbed and it erases everything, you then lose your starting spot, and spend most of the season simulating games. How is this value for money? Come on.... you guys really need to look at your employees and how they’re programming this game. Second thing is the games defending. Computer controlled defenders dont press the ball, run behind an attacking player instead of blocking his route to goal, they also part like the Red Sea and are weak in the challenge. Football is a physical game, aggression and contact is expected in the challenge whether it’s a standing tackle, aerial duel or sliding challenge. Stop using the example idiots like Neymar etc set by rolling around after being pushed abit. Sort it out please, this game promised so much but delivered nothing new or better. I’m really disappointed with this game, and seriously considering going to PES for the first time.

Noodle Arm Youth Academy Players - starting year 2 or 3 almost all new players have the arms of a 90lb 5th grader but the rest of their body is normal. Really they just look ridiculous on the field. There still seems to be an issue with youth players with an undershirt kit assigned to wear short sleeves in the winter. If you could fix both in an update that would be great.

Youth Academy Idea for Fifa 22 - Instead of a scout going and finding random players have a recruiting setup similar to NCAA Football 14 where each country gets a new batch of players each year and you recruit them during the season to sign with your club. Each club would have coach and prestige ratings, league ratings etc that play into what type of players they can go after instead of just a scout bringing back random guys based on their rating. The bigger countries would obviously have more players to pick from and the smaller countries wouldn’t. Just some thoughts. Thanks!

My internet is good. My record is ruined because some of the times, I am being disconnected in Squad Battles, even though I won. If it wasn't for that disconnection issue after a match in Squad Battle, I would have a good win-loss record. But nope, your server is trash and needs improvement. Mind you again that my internet is not slow. It is not the ISP's fault. Its your server. It needs to be fixed, or have a solution for the Squad Battles that when you get disconnected, it will not result to an automatic loss on our end. I am absolutely disappointed. I just want to enjoy the game. If you truly are reading this, please fix your server. I am from an Asian country that you might consider to have low pool of FIFA players, but please fix your server so that it will be playable across every country. Gameplay is good, but your server is one of the worst, given that you are a big company.

Ive been playing fifa for 6+ years but the AI defenders have never even attempted a tackle. For the game to be realistic, please let them also make tackles.

Dear EA,

How about you at least pretend to care about the seasons part of the game? I won't even start complaining about the game itself, which is worse and worse every year. It feels that you actually want to make it worse and you simply laugh at the people (including me) who spend money on in over and over again. I really think that this was the last FIFA I bought for some time. Maybe I should try PES. I've heard that they actually give a s*** about their players.

I play FIFA since FIFA 11. It is a nice game but, like any other game, it needs improvements.
There are some things in this FIFA 21 that really need to be changed in order to make it more realistic (more like a simulator, not an arcade game > please, don't do that).
I will put some general comments that I remember now, which can help to make this game better:

>GAMEPLAY
- When playing against CPU, if they start to pass the ball in the last third of the field, a lot of times the midfielders just watch them doing it, without helping the defenders. It doesn't make any sense and it's very unrealistic.
- The storyteller screams goal without enthusiasm (probably because the narration is from the penalty shootout).
- Goal scored at 55min and storyteller saying "last-minute goal".

>CAREER MODE
- A player has started the season in my team. He scored many goals. He was loaned, called back shortly before, and all his stats had disappeared as if he had just arrived in the team.
- Interviews after a title with everyday questions.
- News on the newsfeed after a title not highlighting the title (as if it was a normal match).
- Interview saying that the players are tired (and the last match was 3 weeks before)
- Team in the first position on the league, not losing any game, and reporters asking how the team feels after a defeat.
- Sometimes, there is no announcement about when a player is going to retire. A lot of times, players with 33 years old retire and they don't even warn us.
- There should be a system in which the players, after being loaned to a certain team, give the preference to return to this team (even without the release clause).
- Sometimes the coach's outfit is the same as the players' outfit.
- Statistics from previous seasons should be available (such as the league table, the squad, goals and assists, etc.).
- There should be an easy way to check previous matches against the teams you have played before.

There are a few notes I have thought of. I would really appreciate some response.
Thanks.

Do you guys even read the comments how do you feel about people complaining about your game like this? Do you even care about how the people feel about this game? You guys need to start over because the truth is you guys have not gotten it right for a very long time most times i don’t even understand the line of thought like this is an instance : how can you be winning a match get logged out and still get a loss atleast just have the person play that same match again not give the person winning the loss and the worst part is the problem that would log the person out is from your servers come on you can’t keep doing this to us we pay money for this we work and get money and pay for this it’s not fair i can understand the workload but we all have our parts to play ea and i would just say i am very disappointed. Skill moves dont work passes are terrible and unrealistic hell you can rarely even score from a corner then rewards are so bad.


Look ea this game is really bad and if there were other games on the market at the same level alot of us would not be playing this and i mean no disrespect the passes don’t work as they should a clear passing lane and the pass gets overhit the gameplay is so boring like fifa 20 as all the skill moves have been botched only if you have a neymar mbappe or inform ronaldo. The game was so fun in the beginning and you guys fumbled it badly i wont lie passes need recalibration open easy passes are overhit and its the weird through balls that aren’t supposed to go through that glitch your defenders you really need to start all over with the passing and skill moves as casual players cannot even do skill moves anymore the rainbow flick is destroyed, elastico is destroyed, nothing works!! Earlier on the game was so fun. This is something that makes this game so bad in comparison to other games things like skill moved and good normal passing creates a skill gap you remove or butcher those things and essentially there’s no skill gap. This wouldn’t be the same case in other games. I am begging you to fix the passing and skill moves i mean no disrespect i know the previous year was bad but you guys had something here and i dont know how you guys messed it up so bad its as boring and lame as fifa 20 please fix this

Hey!
Fifa 21 is really really bad compared to 20.

1) very difficult to defend with L1 key, players move very slowly

2)The ball is too fast, through passes, through air passes, we have very fast control difficulties

3)The players move as if they are playing on the ice rink The maneuver is too weak
@FIFPlay

fix your broken game...
how on earth can you play competitively when your game is a piece of crap.
I'm winning my game of FUT champs, the other guy pauses the game, my game decides to crash but when I get the lose.
You have no vision on making this game fun for the people. You money hungry pieces of crap.

Trash game period. Fifa has downgraded so much that any attacker that has over 90 pace is just unstoppable. Game does not take actual skill to play anymore you just hit that triangle and the ball teleports to the enemys attacker who somehow got to your penalty box in the space of a heartbeat. And dont you get me started on that L2 button. Players now dont have to judge your players movements or predict them they just hold that L2 button and suddenly a brick wall has appeared in front of your player and you can't ever seem to bypass it.

EA for love of the god fix the Referee, i dont think defenders can make “screen” in the game its not basketball. Moreover Varane is not a god, he is the worst defender. Fix your bugs or Fifa will be forgotten in the future and make a fair matches in fut champ ( gold rare team vs a team full of legends and toty players )

.worst fifa ever bro the center backs keep breaking the offside line for no s***ty reason.i really regret buying the game 2020 was a bit better at least the defenders really stick to their positions.
.Varane can catch up with fast players thats a cap we all know he is the worst defender and he is not that good.
.bugs must be fixed
.The GK is the worst thing in this game must be fixed.
fifa in future will be cap and no one will even buy it.

Full of bugs.

Every year it gets worse. I’ve been playing since 2014, and this year was the last time I bought it, unless I see gameplay to at least tries to become a football simulation.

I do not have the power, or will to enlist everything here, but I will mention just two.

1. Superman players who pass behind their back (180 degrees) all the time.
2. Stupid AI Defenders that do not follow the AI superman attackers.

fifa 21 is the worst fifa i ever played, the content is good but the gameplay is terrible so many penalties against me where was no foul and penalties from a foul from outside of the box, so many dissconnects and a lot of nerves, the script is real. THIS GAME IS S***

I didn't want to buy fifa 21 eventually I bought it and now I regret it. I will never buy fifa again. Switching to PES. EA are the worst developers yet. Why not give our money back and fix the game like cyberpunk did?

The latest update has made the game unplayable. Fouls are no longer counted, nor penalties.

Won't buy FIFA again until you fix the scripting. In fact you can't even play a skillful/tiki-taka game unless you know every bit of script. Ultimate Team is toxic and totally not enjoyable.
On the other side, career mode improved slightly and is actually playable, but Legendary difficulty is out of question.
FIFA 19-21 are all trash

Dear whom it may concern,
I don’t understand why you can get banned if you buy coins to buy players. This does not make any sense, why have an option for this in the first place if you can get banned. Lastly, whenever i am doing my fut champs and i am winning it keeps freezing and shutting me out the game can you do a new update to correct this inconvenience.
Kind regards
Nadia

Fifa 21 is absolute garbage.
I have players like Mbappe, Ronaldo, Rooney (EoE) and they can't score a goal because of the dropback bulls*** meta. I have uninstalled the game for the 3rd and final time. I will not be picking up a new version until EA loses the ability to implement DDA (scripting) and the micro-transactions.
This is by far the WORST version of FIFA I have ever played in over 10 years.
Unresponsive controls, terrible servers, blatant scripting, and just s***e modes. Taking away seasons from online, making objectives more rivals focused, it's all trash. F*** FIFA.

In career mode, I have clearly given my scouts instructions for searching but it insists I haven't. As a result, I'm having to do all my own scouting!!

Why dose every player weather there 56-98 rating can keep up with a fast players like messi son vardy and the lies but real life only a few players in the world can do this its supposed to be realistic ain't it f***ing bulls*** I see it as pointless having good players if the entire f***ing worlds players can keep up or out pace them and further more you play a team with an 64 rating and 44 chemistry soon as you go to harder difficulty they play like there 100 on both clearly there stats should remind the same regardless of what level of difficulty it's on if it remains like this I'll just go back to pes

This Fifa has been ruined. After countless number of time and money I have invested in to this game.
They decide to “ patch” skills but what they really have done was make them pretty much uncontrollable once you Perform one.
Game play just feels slower and slower.

Please explain to me how my mbappe toty can’t flick a ball up and control it?
Plus my Neymar won’t perform the skills he usually does.

Awful game and I can assure you any complaints or anyone involved in to making these changes either do not play Fifa or are in fact absolutely terrible at the game.


People like this should simply not own a console or simply get a life

On player career mode the squad hub rating system is broken I’ve scored 18 goals and 12 assists in 12 games and my rating average is 4.8 ? But when I compete matches my rating is always high ? I don’t understand why it’s like this and it effects my targets as it says I’m below rating target which makes no sense pls fix

F*** FIFA 21 I have not seen ONE f***ing cross from the computer (I play legendary). They only play with the ball at their feet.
2: Why does the computer CB just running back for no reason and break the offside line?
3: I can see my coach in Carrer Mode dress like a football player.
4: Why is there always penalty, if you touch the opponents a little bit, they give penalty???????? FIFA 21 is much more worse at the other FIFAs at this point. S**t as game.

Adding Copa Libertadores was great, really great! Not being able to manage any teams in Career Mode outside Argentina,Brazil or Mexico... lazy. You've literally already added them to the game, where are the rest of the leagues in South America?

Also. Viewable stats in Career mode for all players/leagues/ cup competitions adds realistic scouting or finding new talent(for example managing a team in Spain, seeing who the top goalscorer of the PL is). Stats from previous seasons need to be viewable. If I scored 20 goals with my striker last season I should be able to still see that next season not reset to 0(same with all stats). Same should be with transfers, if I sign someone for 5m and then 3 seasons later sell him for profit/loss I should be able to check my transfer history from previous seasons, so I can see profit/loss. These seem like basic mechanics.

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This is the worst fifa ever. gameplay. matchmaking. everything.

Just in career mode , manager is wearing soccer gear on the sideline. A bit weird. You dress the manager the way you want to that's the way it should stay . Commentary is so reputative, absolutely no thought has gone into it and is the same every year , so tired of it!!.. I like to hear a bit more about individual players ad history about the clubs and more dialogue during gameplay not the same thing every time the score is 5-3 or a goal is scored. It's awful!!

I’ve been Loyal since the early days. Until now, how is it that I still spend $600 on this game, but I can’t get the good pack. I grind it out week by week but get your s**t cards. Something has to be done with your system. If someone ever decides to spend more than regular game price on this game, then they deserve the players. Last time I ever buy a game from you guys. Crazy how I even decided to spend $600 on this game for nothing! I hope others leave, don’t appreciate the customers that DO PAY!

I’ve had it! I’m sure some have too, they just have too much invested! I’ve spent $600. Now recently another bill, to not get a walkout! Wth is wrong with your system fifa? What do I have to do? I grind it out, pay, so what now? Do I have to be famous to get the good cards? Fifa is rigged! Last time I buy from you again, I hope many follow. I’m tired of it!

Theres some real weird logic going on with the transfers.. some players seems to have a non negotiable price, selling.. This is bugging alot of players and a petition is made with already thousands of signature for the game to be banned.. This logic needs to be fixed asap

Strikers belonging to other clubs gets transfered to easily on career mode. You guys needs to fix this asap or ppl will abandon this game!!!!!!!!

I will no longer be buying any Fifa products until you fix your glitches. That includes some players ability to play with the Soccer Aid team online. Figure it out

Hi EA I played FUT champs this weekend and Achieved gold 2...
I was rewarded with a normal player pick instead of red player picks...

This made me extremely agitated as I worked extremely hard to gain gold players. I don't even know if I got the packs from weekend league.

Please fix this problem.

Luke

Come on EA the defending its still none existing, you have made some changes to reduce the score at least not to be 9-6 or 8-5, but this reduction its not from update defenders, but i think from some script or goalkeepers, doesnt really matters. Still this dribble and tricky moves are almost imposible to be stopped. Its just like the defender running away from the striker, really really there is no joy at all to play fifa 21. I love fifa19 but there defending is possible, of course there in 19 is this script as well but at least if you lead 3 goals you can hope to win. In 21 with this goast defence evyrything is possible. Make the defending possible we are not proffesional players, we play for fun. Most of the cases i do know exactly when the opponent will make a dribble and tricky move and cannot be stopped or when the start to spin its just annoying.

Uhm Fifa can you please add other icons to Soccer Aid or atleast give up the choice of choosing who you want in your offline team....can you just add all 100 icons to offline mode

Cause i would love to play with Drogba and Lampard in my team and not

The defending is so s*** in this game. World class defenders can't mark the s***tiest attackers properly. Sometimes, players just ignore the ball and the player changing algorithm on the pitch just sucks!! Fedup of matches ending in at least 4 to 5 goals for each side. I mean who scores 5 goals in a single UCL final match (except Bayern).
Gameplay got even worse after the 2nd update.
Love the game still, but would really appreciate if these things are fixed.

It would be really nice to jump into a real live season with career mode, instead of starting in august 2020.

For example, jumping into the Chelsea season with real live stats. From there on just play the game.
Or any monthly/weekly update..

Shouldn't be a major issue. Please bring it with the next update.

Much love,

Fifa Veteran

Any match where you have a chance to pass the relegation threshold in seasons mode, 99% of the game commentary is about avoiding relegation. Its fine if it were the 9th or 10th match of the season the, but it still does it in game 4 when you're 3-0 and have 6 matches to get 1 point. Incredibly annoying to listen to when its so irrelevant.

Please fix this, its never been a problem in previous years. I haven't seen any new features added to seasons mode in 10ish years, so how did you manage to add a bug?

How can someone do keep ups on their players knee from one end of the pitch to the other n score a goal . The 2nd n 3rd times they tried it and I tackled them a foul was given and I had a player red carded. Total total bull s***. No realism too football in the game any more. It’s become an arcade game where the more tricks you to do to win.
Will head back to PES

Common EA make the defence possible and maybe i am wrong but when the striker start to make dribble at the last part of the tricky movement he just literally speed up so fast i feel like he reach 100 km/h and of course impossible to be stop. Defenders are useless at 85 % of the time. Every game is like a scoring festival (9-6, 8-5 and when the result is 2-3 or even 1-2 this is consider as a paranormal). this game results are coming not from players i am sure about that, how its possible in fifa 19 to get results with much less goals per game, but in Fifa 21 not. Maybe you guys from EA didn't still realize the consequences of that game, but i am sure next year your profit and sales will be dropped down big. When the players loose once the joy and excitement from the game they will try to find it in other game. Maybe when you see the numbers from sales and accountant next year and especially from micro transaction from FUT there is a chance FIFA 22 to be better with real defence, less script to decide who to win or loose, less goals at 45th min and 90 + 6 min. If you delete the script the games in divisions online will be much more fun, there will be crash between people skills not people against AI or script or whatever is called. Without script the game will be much more interesting.

Once PES gets all the licensing and y'all lose your lawsuit for stealing players rights and profiting billions off micro transactions of their rights y'all are over and done for. This game is not football it is the most rigged bulls*** video game on the market. Y'all deserve to go to prison for the way you promote and profit off of gambling and I can't wait to see that happen. The players you are making money off of are against you and you are losing your community by only caring about making money off of microtransactions. This game is a failure if it wasn't for y'alls monopoly on licensing you wouldn't make any sales. Also y'all should really get people working for you who actually played the sport because you clearly have no one on your team who has ever kicked a football let alone play a damn game. Seriously from the bottom of my heart f**you all at EA

The devs of fifa should be in jail, eventually ea will get whats coming to them, FUT is an online casino that should be banned and ea know exactly what they are doing...they rig gameplay so that you will open packs and they rig packs so you will continue to buy them. This game is a huge scam and everyone should stay away from it, unless people wake up and do something then the future of gaming as a whole looks very bad..
EA dumped money, time, people and resources into s***ty volta that no one likes or actually plays lol and before volta it was the s***ty journey that f***ed it up. EA made over 1 billion from FUT alone in fifa 20... and this is exactly why there scamming bulls*** will continue to go on.

Fut mood in division rivals good but fut champs weekend league gameplay is cheat....my players cant run cant pass but opponents players more faster than me...its a cheat of game and dnt want thatbu win or gamplay is terrible usually, gameplay on weekend leagues really terrible..i start to bored from fifa21 ..

I understand the game has to be scripted to increase engagement but really the amount of times games are decided in the last 3 minutes to increase scripting is a little disappointing. The whole point of fifa is to seem realistic yet fun. However when no matter what you do all match it let’s you or the opponent win or draw in the last 3 mins of the game it’s becomes monotonous and the opposite of exciting. All I have to say about FUT is that it’s too predictable now and that’s not why I play fifa or watch football. Sorry EA, I have been a big fan for years but even I can see through the bs now so please improve your strategy to get more people to buy in to FUT. And trust me, most games I am the ‘lucky one’ that sneaks a goal in the end. Just not fun anymore.

This game has gotten better but slightly better s*** is still s***. This games is ridiculous the glitches are insane can I just play one f**king game without my manager wearing a players kit!!!! And the defending is horrible I'm getting dribbled passed by bloody Burnley defenders. Such an unrealistic game and waist of money. I'm buying PES next year..... So over this s***

Dear fifa

Please can Sbc be easier and can there be fut draft tokens in objectives

Thx from Jamie