FIFA 21 Feedback & Reviews

You have to make career better there are a lot bugs in career mode please fix it with the next update

I consider myself as a loyal supporter of Fifa since I have played the game since 1998. But oh boy what a bad game has this become. Not in terms of graphics or gameplay in general, but the scripting/momentum makes this game to something that crawls under your skin.
You would think that the online seasons were developed to create a fair distinguish between good, medioker and ok players, but non of this is true. The more you play it the more scenario's you can predict what is going to happen. Or you create 20 chances and the opponents goalie saves all of them, meanwhile the opponent scores 3 out of 3 chances. There is as well the game where your team seems to have a severe handicap and are playing their first football match ever, no power in kicks, wrong directions, slow runners, losing all duels,... On the other hand if you are lucky you are granted the invincible mode and you score all the goals from all angles. Fun? For me, yes, for the opponent? No!
The game has become a gamblers choice, trow the dice and hopefully you are lucky. This way of scripting results in almost half of the games to be quit. Saddest thing is that I am paying for a PS online subscription with the sole purpose of playing fifa online. Besides that I tricked myself again in buying Fifa 21.

I say no more - you have lost a customer after 22years.

How many times do I have to get fouled before the other player sees a fkng yellow/red card?! People tackling from behind get nothing! And can yall allow more time on the fkng celebrations?! Stupid sht runs out of time while attempting to do a fun one! Come one yall! Fix the yellow card bulls***!!!!

Hello EA,

This negative review comes after numerous attempts to overlook and accept the gameplay issue’s that appear to be occurring for everyone all the time.

Goalies - They make little to no attempt to save the ball - goals scored from ridiculous angles with the goal keeper flopping on the spot.

Defending - Players running next to a striker or suddenly dropping off to allow a one on one goal shot.

Rebounds - Appear to always benefit the attacking team - whether by shot deflection from the goalie or a defending tackle where the striker just runs through your defence but keeps the ball.

Pace - bloody pace.

Defending AI - massively overpowered with certain defenders always putting in a foot or diving last second tackle.

Defending options - such as ‘stay back while attacking’ - and noticing your CB or LB,RB, in the opposing teams box.

Following the above - not having offside trap as an option in ‘custom tactics’ and also not being able to make your own customisable formation.

Overpowered players - when stats don’t matter because some players are clearly better than their card.

Patches - when the gameplay was fine then suddenly a patch and it is like playing a while new game..but not in a good way.

These are just some of the issue’s have led to me deleting this years game and going on to play GTA or Battlefield since i’m fed up with another butchered edition of this game I used to enjoy.

I’ve been playing this game since 98, and it’s just getting worst each year. Online seasons is just a joke now .The defending has gotten so hard it’s unreal. The fouling is ridiculous and you don’t even get a yellow card. Last man slide tackles don’t get a red which it’s denying a goal scoring opportunity. The penalties are a joke get a pen for the slightest touch some games but others no pen. You’ve made Liverpool and PSG too good it’s so unreal. Allison is so fake he’s not that good! The goalkeepers can have man of the match performances or they don’t save a thing apart from what’s hit straight at them.

In de carrière modus gebeuren de onderhandelingen niet door de vooraf gecreëerde avatar, maar door een neutraal samengestelde avatar. Bij regenweer draagt de avatar niet de vooraf gekozen kledij, maar een clubtrui met op de achterkant rugnummer 99... Dit zijn toch zaken die in de vorige edities beter op punt stonden

Hi fifa I don’t know if it’s just me or anyone else is having this problem there are two first one while playing career mode as in manager when you go buy a player loan or sell a player the created manager you created does not appear it is a random player that looks like it’s a free agent so your manager will not show up and second one when playing a game sometimes the manager is where the clubs kit soccer boots and everything please fix this issue I don’t know if it’s just me maybe everyone is having this issue

This wasn't FIFA's best release to begin with, but the most recent couple of updates have thrown it into even more chaos. It's really frustrating to play. Several times during a seasons match the controller just stops responding, or falls out of sync where the controller input is completely delayed and players start moving in the direction instructed by controller seconds after the specific button is pressed.

Also a lot of unrealistic interactions. For example a small attacker such as Timo Werner can collide with Virgil VanDyke, throw him into the ground without any impact to himself, then execute a 120mph shot without any run up or even serious pull back of his leg. (I have videos of this)

Other unrealistic issues involve an attacker without clear shot of the goal (being blocked by a defender) execute a shot across the goal into the far post and score from outside the box while being surrounded by players.

Other unrealistic issues involve two defenders within a few inches of the defender, but unless you are controlling them, none of them will actually take the ball and just jockey or worse, stop and let the attacker go through while you are controlling another player or closing down passing lanes. When a defender is physically face to face and touching the attacker, it's a no-brainer that the CPU should take over to tackle unless the player is controlling the player and for some reason does not wanna tackle (I can't think of any scenario where a player WOULDN'T wanna take the ball from an opponent when it's within touching distance.

Frustrating to the extreme. Been playing this game since 1995 and seems like the most recent ones have become so unrealistic.

Why is a 40 pace defender chasing down my 92 pace striker? the game doesnt make sense. you would think a soccer game would be realistic but it seems like the stats are all fake.

please fix your matchmaking for gods sake. its ruining the game.

On top of all the other mentioned problems with career mode when you win a trophy it’s matte black. Completely ruins it! Sometimes the crowd is as well, just blacked out so you can’t see it
How has this been left to go on for so long?????
I’d never have paid for this game if I knew it would have even half of these problems
I’ll wait months before thinking about buying next year. Check the reviews first

As someone who has played every year since 1995.. it is beyond me how they haven't employed someone to progress the game engine rather than focus on the money that ultimate team brings in.
It is by far the worst FIFA released ever.. which is the case every time they release a new game.
Have returned to shop and will not purchase again.

Hello EA , you really need to get it together with Fifa, for 6 years you released Fifa unfinished and add updates. By the time you get the game right? The next game is out!! This is very close to fraud. I really hope someone else comes out with something different!!

Hi...
So my team and I who really enjoyed playing pro clubs on fifa 20. But we struggled to find matches since the release of fifa 21. Okay, obviously everyone is playing 21 now, so we go ahead and buy it as well, hoping to find matches almost instantly..

So, we create a team and lobby up, with almost 70K players online! But, much to our demise, finding a Pro Clubs match in Fifa 21 is also a pain! Struggled to find games in Div 10 and even down to 8!

This is really frustrating, having paid so much and getting the same crappy results...

Disappointed much...and cannot understand why this is the case!

If anyone has methods on how to find Pro Club matches fast, please drop a line here..

Thanks in advance.

I like the gameplay and career mode this year, but there's a lot of bugs and glitches in the game.
The manager created have another face and he's bald, also the other managers when I negotiate to buy a player, they have the same face.
In the pitch, my manager have the correct face that I created, but he's wearing the club shirt with 99 number.

Far from bugs, when I want to sign a player for free in January (pre-contract), most of the available players to sign for free are renewing their contracts, it's a good feature but it's exaggerated, because not all players renew their contracts in real life, out of more than 600 players, I can only sign 3 players.

Hello
I buy this game just to play career mode and this year I want to say this year game is obviously big update from last version BUT unfortunately career mode has big glitches and bugs, specially when you’re creating manager’s face, it’s absolutely useless and waste of time because after all you get generic face for your manager you were created. They go to transfer negotiations with football jerseys and have exactly same faces and bold head.
EA please fix this if you still want to keep your fans happy !!!

Where do I start. This game is so bad, I don.t know how the developers could have passed this. I have player this game on FUT and Career mode, and both of them are terrible. FUT is one of the stupidest FUT's that I've played since I started playing in FIFA 12, not to mention the fact that you guys are just money grabbing b*****ds, who don't care about the game and know people will buy it, the ratings are s**t, the defending is appalling, and the BS happens to me every game. And career mode is one of the worst ones in years, the last good career mode is FIFA 16. The problem I have with this career mode is that you have to sim every day, you can't just skip through days like in old career modes. Another thing is the gameplay, the fact that defending in this game is impossible is just stupid, the keeper cant save for the life of him, and the shots are either 1000km/h or 0.1km/h, also this has been a problem in FIFA games since FIFA 17 and its the fact that there is no off the ball movement, so when I'm trying to make a counter attack happen my teammates just stand still, and now in FIFA 21 for some reason when its a 3v2 where there are more attackers, the other defenders don't even attempt to come back the just act like a 4th or 5th attacker, not doing anything defensively. I would suggest that people save their money on a quality game, and not waste it on such a s**t game like this one, and FIFA team, your games just get worse every year, and its really disappointing, I do hope that next years game is better, because event though FIFA 20 was widely considered the worst FIFA game ever, FIFA 21 takes the cake.

In career mode a youth player had no body and the manager on the touch line is wearing a full kit. This shouldn’t be happening and needs fixing.

Fifa 21, Career Mode

Positive:
- training
- re-positioning players
- youth players in variable kit and boots
- playing time expectations

Negative:
- manager in team kit on sideline during UCL games
- generic manager (appearance and kit) in negotiations
- title wins by goal difference are not counted/celebrated at end of season

Please fix

This is the worst fifa yet, played all FIFA’s since beginning, problems all over, defending is shocking, cm stood in middle of pitch not doing anything, GK look too small for net, so every time attacking so much of net to hit, you might as well have no cm as they do nothing one pass every time and you through on goal, 1v1 with keeper and 9 out of 10 times it’s a goal, graphics haven’t improved, players faces and hair look rubbish, glitches on manager on sideline and in negotiations, why can’t we just have a well rounded game, it’s not cheap year after year, just pay us back with our loyalty and give us a game that’s playable and enjoyable, I have spent first week tweaking sliders and settings just to try and get it playable

Havnt bought fifa in 2 years and decided to buy this one. Worst fifa I have ever played, you can clearly tell the developers have never played the game it is broken to the core making the gameplay horrific to play. Do not buy this game, save your money

Please fix the bug in player career mode that doesn't count the assist and shots to goals conversion percentage
I even assists 3 goals and it showed 0 in list of pro
please fix it ea

Why, after season one, does my manager look completely different while he s in negotiations to buy a player. Even worse, the other manager he s negotiating with is his twin brother. To top it all off they both wear football kits instead of suits.

My manager feels the need to show up on the sideline in the team’s kit instead of manager clothing. Changing the appearance in the menu doesn’t change that.

Cmon EA....

In the later seasons of Career Mode, the free agents gets filled with regenerated players (the respawns of retired players.) This is all well and good, but it is EXTREMELY overpowered now. It seems that every other 80+ retired player spawns in the free agent pool. In my save alone there are MULTIPLE free agents valued over £100,000,000.

That isn't my issue with this feature, it's the fact they sit in the free agent pool for so long. There is a player now 87 overall, who in theory is a free agent and is just waiting to be called up. It has been 5 seasons and not a single club has gone in to sign him, I know this because I have him on my shortlist and whenever a team attempts to negotiate with a short listed player I am notified. If the Free Agents could form a team they would've won the champions league multiple times.

I don't think the quality of the players should be nerfed, if anything, there should be more wonderkid regens. Squads get stale very easily in career mode as league winning side's average age is closer to 29. However, the fact they're sitting in the free agent pool for so long is overpowered. Maybe you could add a system like, when you first set up your career mode save, all the free agents of a certain overall get sent to random teams in the game. Even if a 78 overall player gets sent to League 2, or the Irish League, it makes more sense than them having no team at all at such quality.

Please fix the new bags in career mode on the manager appearance at negotiating!!! It's very annoying and losing the fun of playing this game!

I don't get why fifa keeps denying people in manager career mode to watch the game in 3d real time instead they give us 2d models and quick sim,..... disappointed

Carrière truitjes uitbreiden het derde shirt van club Brugge , Genk, athletico Madrid,... . De pro laeque uitbreiden met 2 de klasse. Uiterlijk van bekende spelers en coaches kunnen gebruiken met je eigen naam in carrière !! De blokkages oplossen op carrière. Krijg je een penalty is er blokkage oplossen aub. Fut makkelijker goede spelers krijgen want bij het kopen van 100 packs geen enkel goede speler !!!

This is f*** insult to the all soccer players, users, and other game company.

Servers are getting even worse than ever before and EA still did not give a s*** and

inserted features they cannot even manage themselves and forced match fixing in order to stress their new feature and f***ed up in game play.

Many players are often seeing defenders play like a s***head avoiding the ball, and touching the ball like they are 10 years old girl and leave.

I already observed more than 10,000 times of defender doing their best to not touch the ball and provide the best chances for opponent from many of forums and my own play.

Moreover, more and more bugs and cheats are occurring than previous fifa series and many of major issues regarding with cheats, bugs, lagging and awkward game plays.

If EA does not have any passion and capacity to have appropriate management, please give up all of the rights regarding with professional league license and give opportunity to game producers who have a sense of responsibility and those who think soccer game as a tool to drag money out of sports fans with frauds. Currently, EA does not deserve to collect 1$ from players at all.

I've always loved playing career mode and it annoys me when things go wrong with it. Negotiations has gone ape since the last update, Ralph Fiennes and his twin sit there in dodgy kits! And my avatar stands on the touchline in a home kit instead of a suit and tie as I wanted. Attacking and defending both need tweaks. Too many goals from sub standard teams.

And also, the cup numbers don’t appear when I’m playing cup games and Liverpool still had champions badges after I had won the title previous season.

If the NBA were FIFA this would be a great game. However, teams shouldn’t score every time they go up the pitch. I would much rather play a 2-1 or 1-0 game than a 6-5 or 5-4 game. The defensive gameplay is atrocious to the point where world class defenders look like toddlers as long as the attacker has an 80+ pace rating. AI defenders will literally avoid the ball and will create gaping holes of space that will, you guessed it, lead to goals. Not every game should be a shootout with 10 goals. Please for the love of the game balance this out so I don’t have to buy PES.

Please fix the added time. If it's 1 minute added on blow the whistle. The game just keeps playing if you or your opponent is attacking even goes over by 3 or 4 minutes. this needs to be resolved.

My screen freezes then speeds up so I get in time with the game but in the game I'm standing still e.g I'm on a 1 on 1 and my screen freezes so I'm stood still in the game and can't do anything then everything goes fast and I can't do anything then I'm in time with the game then I'm already tackled or they tackle me when I'm stood still another e.g I get the ball in my box then my screen freezes and I'm stood still then it speeds up so Im I time with the game then they have scored and I can't do anything about it

i've been playing fifa for a long time and i normally love the games but i personally think this fifa is the worst i've ever played, it is all about dribbling and passing, and somehow crosses are very difficult and the balls fly to everywhere but not where I want to get it and that is quite difficult if you are a player who plays through the flank and gives crosses, I still hope that something will change in the coming months / next fifa's because I no longer enjoy myself.

thank you for reading this make fifa great again

Fifa 21 , PC version is having issue with customization of in game keys. Same set of key for running,shooting and other gameplay works fine in fifa 20 but not working in Fifa 21.
EA has return policy valid for only 3 days and right now there are no chat or on call support for Fifa 21.Their support team is taking 24-48 hours to respond to queries without any fix. So people facing problem with Fifa gameplay will lose their eligibility to get refund as they are waiting.

Do not buy Fifa 21 pc version now, until EA ensures the bugs are fixed and having a proper support coverage for the game.

EA SPORTS PLEASE ADD PLAYER FACES!!!!
Dear EA Sports, year after year I buy your Fifa games because I am a die hard football fan (Tottenham) and each year I get extremely frustrated and let down by the lack of new/realistic player faces. Here are some examples of poor Tottenham player faces that already exist: Erik Lamela, Davinson Sanchez, Harry Winks, Harry Kane, Eric Dier, Lucas amours, Dele Alli, Giovani Lo Celso, Heung Min Son. These players all have player faces but they’ve been the same for years! Erik Lamela hasn’t had a Mohawk since 2014! Davinson Sanchez hasn’t had a Mohawk since being at Spurs, Eric Dier has been bald for 2/3 years, Kane & winks have facial hair, Lucas moura has always been bald since being at Spurs, Lo Celso has facial hair, Son has a comb over/Styled hair & Dele has facial hair and his head hair is nothing like real life! If you’re not going to edit and change their facial hair and head hair at least let us do it. & here are some spurs players that despite their recognition in football, still have no player faces: Gedson Fernandes, Japhet Tanganga, Joe Hart, Jack Clarke, Sergio Regulion. Please please EA add player faces to these well recognised, important team players! It takes away so much from the game when the players you’re playing with look absolutely nothing like they do in real life! Thank you

I think Gabriel (Arsenal) deserve a 'real face'. And some other players too. So far I think Fifa 21's gameplay is better than Fifa 20 but still struggling to defend. Do not know how to 'pressing' with more than one player. When goes to attacking it is hard to call up supports from any other players especially fullback even I change the formation to attacking. They just hold back in most time. Not to forget third kit for Arsenal. Thank you. ✌

I have always played fifa right from the first one.i never play any other football game.This game is the best yet it is awesome however I think gut is crap and the other thing is so crap I can’t even think of it’s name at the moment please get rid of it and concentrate on career mode in the next one. The only thing I have to moan about is the fact that in career mode you select your manager and modify him to how you want him and then in negotiating transfers etc you end up with two Prince William look alikes and now to make things even worse they are now in dodgy football kits with day glo numbers on them!!! For Gods sake sort it out or I for one will God forbid have to start buying pes . And if someone is causing this on purpose I want them got rid of !!!!!!

I just wanted to comment about skill based match making in FIFA21, hopefully as some constructive feedback

- After the first 5 placement games I was allocated to division 5. I didn't win a single game in division 5 and was almost immediately relegated to division 6. My son was allocated to division 2 and unfortunately didn't win a single game in divisions 2 or 3 and was consequently relegated down to division 4. and eventually division 5. This also happenned to us in FIFA20. I don't understand why players are allocated in a division too high for their ability. It is very dissatisfying losing so many consecutive games until you find your level.



- Online drafts doesn't appear to have skill based match making. Is there any point for someone of our ability to even try on line drafts? I've had 3 draft this year and won 0. Last year I won 3 matches in this mode, from about 15 draft entries. I love the idea of trying elite players that you cannot afford but I don't want to play against the AI and I don't want to be thrashed by a division 1 to 3 player every time I give it a go.



- I initially liked the online friendlies which appeared to stop people from relegating divisions to complete objectives. However the 'Managerial Masterpiece' objective has me really frustrated. Having Mbappe on loan and being in everyone's team is not fun. Personally I think loan players shouldn't be allowed in an objective mode. Secondly if this is skill based match making in action why have I only won 6 games out of about 30, when if I played in rivals, I would be winning about 50% of my games. This does not make sense to me.

Whilst I love FIFA, skill based match making should mean that unless you are completely useless or a professional, if the matchmaking is appropriate there should be a balance of wins and losses. I shouldn't be losing by 5 or 6 goals in every game in a specific mode.

I would also like to comment on team names. Users seem to find it acceptable to create team names that may be of a paedophiliac nature "She was only XI" or a sexual nature "Inter Ur Nan". I don't find it funny and I don't see why this is acceptable, especially when we have players of primary school age playing on line games. If EA limited our team names to choose a location and then a pre determined prefix or suffix such as United or City etc. Its a shame that a minority could spoil the freeform text to create vulgur team names.

The game is currently unplayable because the servers are worse than anything I have ever experienced. If you want to play the game don’t bother buying this game because online is actually a joke because how bad it is.

So ea have decided to make fifa21 for under 10 year olds.
I play Legendary with controller on manual settings and won first game 10-7, absolute trash.
Used the slider bars for first time, put both user and cpu goalkeeper ability up to 100 plus shot error and pass error up to 95 to try and make the games some kind of challenge.
The game needs a complete overhaul, get rid of this frostbite/snorefest game engine and employ a team that actually watches and understands football to monitor quality control instead of Donald Trumps mum running the show.
Only interested in Career mode but this year I can no longer buy or loan Premier League players, have to watch transfer negotiation being conducted by Lord Voldemort and his twin brother, no crowd attendance or gate receipts (A bit too Covid) and still can’t buy a goalkeeper who can save anything.
It would appear FIFA is a lost cause created by money grubs, give it a miss and try PES

This game is absolutely dreadful. Shit defending system, player movement is amazingly s***, players move away from the ball when defending. Keeper missing ball that rolls on floor, SO MANY UNDERHIT AND MISPLACED PASSES AND SHOTS WHYYY??!!??!

EVERY YEAR ITS THE SAME S***, NO ACTUAL FOOTBALLING GAMEPLAY JUST S***TY LITTLE GAMEPLAY RINSE AND REPEAT LOOPHOLES.

HIRE FOOTBALLING PEOPLE INSTEAD OF COMPUTER VIRGINS THAT HAVE NEVER PARTICIPATED IN SPORT AND HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO KNOWLEDGE OF HOW A SPORT SHOULD TRANSLATE TO GAME.

DISGRACE OF A GAME
NOT EVEN TO MENTION ULTIMATE TEAM TO SPEND £60 JUST TO BE OUT BOUGHT FOR PACKS BY KIDS WITH DADDY'S CREDIR CARD NUMBER.
DISGRACE AND EA DOESN'T GIVE A S*** BECAUSE ITS ALL ABOUT THE MONEY
MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY

YOU RUINED FIFA YOU F***ING SCUMBAGS

Plz . Plllllleaaaaaase upgrade defense system . Its reallly annoying . It made me cry please ea . Just for once . Be a good lad and dont wait for next game to correct your mistakes.

I have seen many comments and complaints about EA and especially FIFA games, all of which I agree with. I have yet to see any reply from EA who appear non-contactable and only available for taking our money.
FIFA 21 career mode, another example of the EA scandal...

Fifa you do know there is low scoring games out there and defenders that can actually keep a clean sheet not every game has to be 6-5

I can tell no one knows anything about football in your company.

I thought fifa 20 was bad but somehow EA have outdone themselves. Abysmal doesn’t have touch the sides when describing fifa 21.

I’ve bought every fifa since 03 and have had some great times in the earlier ones. The previous enjoyment is the reason I stupidly buy the new one year after year in the hope that they might fix fifa, of course they never do.

The gameplay is absolutely hideous.
1. The goalkeepers simply don’t save anything. A shot on target is a goal.
2. If you bring your keeper out then the AI will chip you every single time and this will be a goal every single time.
3. The defenders don’t know how to play football. The positioning is shocking; playing people onside constantly for no reason, leaving their man constantly, missing the ball, not tackling.
4. The tactics and stats don’t work. ‘Stay back while attacking’ apparently means the centre back should run up the pitch for no reason.
5. Passes constantly go to the wrong player as they have done for about 10 years now. They usually have absolutely no power so don’t reach anyone.
6. Players constantly go off balance so that their shots and passes go horribly wrong.
7. The servers are beyond a joke. The game just freezes and kicks you off despite nothing being wrong with the internet connection.

I wish there was a rival game because I can’t remember the last time I enjoyed this game. Please do not but this game if you value your mental health.

I dont know how you manage to ruin this game its just frustrating I ended up a game with the score of 8 - 8 heavily script gameplay tons of bugs in the career mode overall i regret buying this game shouldn’t do that anymore.

Goalkeepers are killing me. It seems like everyshot my opponent takes goes in the net. I have tried different goalkeepers but it is the same result. Is there a button or something I got to do other than R analog stick. In instances the goalkeeper just stands watches ball go through. Sometimes it just dives late or dives a little early. Do I suppose to control goalkeeper now? Its not assisted? Worst fifa.

I can't figure out how to advance in the Career Mode, there are 2 Board Objectives that I can't figure out how to do these. It seems that it might not work, or perhaps I need more clarity on the instructions.

1) Sign a young player - what does that mean? Is there an age requirement? Do they need any other certain other criteria? I was reading about something arcane about an International Rating of 3 or greater, or a need to develop them 10+ before you play them? That doesn't sound right. I've signed 17, 18, 19 and 20 year old players already but the objective still shows that it's incomplete.

2) Promote 2 players from the Youth Academy and play them in 10 games as either a starter or as coming onto the pitch as a sub. Then there is a 0/63 to the right of that board objective, but I don't know what that means. And I've played the players in games and it doesn't seem to have counted.

I honestly don't know where to start. I've been a loyal fan of this game for a very long time and it appears that I encounter the same issues year after year. Maybe it's just me? I doubt it. For context, I mostly play FUT.

1) Offsides. Can't you provide a proper angle for showing offsides? VAR certainly doesn't look at offsides on weird angles, it's looked at HEAD ON, yet every year, it's the same thing. Weird angles that you can't fully tell if the player is actually offside (had one tonight where my player was clearly onside, yet was called off. Bollocks).

2) Refereeing. For the love of all that is holy, can you PLEASE fix calls? I reckon 90% of 50/50 challenges go to the AI and the AI rarely, if EVER gets called for fouls, even it's completely egregious. Last week I had a player tackled in the box (should have been a penalty) but nothing. Didn't even give me the run of play. Come on. How can this not be fixed? Does your dev team actually watch football?

3) Extra time at the end of halfs. Really? I'd say in almost every game I've played, when the announcer claims "2 minutes have been added" (or whatever the extra time happens to be), if the AI has control of the ball (no matter where it is on the pitch, but especially if it's just inside my half) the amount of time added is ludicrous. I've had halfs where, e.g. 3 minutes have been added, but the game has actually added an extra 2-5 minutes ON TOP of the initial 3 mins. One game went an extra 10 minutes, even when I won the ball back and attempted to clear it. Every. Single. Game. Generally, it adds anywhere from an extra :30-:60s in EVERY HALF. I'm actually shocked if the whistle blows when it's supposed to.

4) Passing. I get the mechanics of the game change, and things like this are (supposed) to be improved year after year, but I've never had so many passes either hit with not enough strength (when I clearly have pressed the button hard/long enough to warrant what I'm intending to do) or gone to the wrong player. It's honestly bonkers.

5) Packs. Enough of the s***e cards already. Can't players unpack ONE proper, +85 player at least once a year? Yeah. I said year, because participating in challenges for packs etc. only provides more crap. I get that the game isn't going to reward users with top-notch players on a consistent basis, but ffs ... it's laughable. Buying packs (which I've done once or twice) is a complete waste of coins. If I could put coins at centre field and burn them instead of buying packs, I would. It's a joke.

6) I've completed weekly objectives and not been awarded the XP, pack, whatever the "prize" is. This year more than ever have I noticed this.

I love this game but the frustration levels this version has left me with is unbelievably high. Nothing but agita. All this said, my biggest gripe is the refereeing and offsides. Travesties, both of them.

Why is there not separate leagues in FUT and any other tournaments within FIFA world for those who play with manual settings vs they who only need to hit the shoot button to score or give a troughpass ? Seriously EA, the automatic players (most) have it way to easy and i bet they have the top 1000 list in all games. Frankly i dont see why people think its fun, its not You who score the goals or give the perfect pass. Please have some sort of ranking for this or give the manuel players a fair chance to compete in this game.