If you don’t want to buy therapy sessions then stay away from this game... it’s a disease. PLEASE READ THIS WHOLE REVIEW!!
This review is based of the Ultimate team mode but every mode has this terrible gameplay. Everybody knows that some games feel like they are rigged against them. It’s because they are. It’s called dynamic difficulty. They want to make the matches easier for people who spend extra money or have bad records. And pack luck is the exact same algorithm. Furthest thing from fair. It’s never who wins deserves to win(and it’s not that I’m bad because most of the games I win, I don’t deserve).
Dear EA sports, if you were to ever somehow read this take this as constructive criticism... make the game fair for everyone, stop making ultimate team pay to win and a gambling mode. And it’s obvious EA has money like it’s no tomorrow, put a decent amount into servers (better gameplay—> happier consumers and happier consumers —> better chance at spending some FIFA points).
And please how hard is it to release a squad building challenge for a pack reward daily, would make your consumers so much more happier.
But back to FIFA points, they are just terrible because when I got FIFA 15(my first FIFA). I was the definition of addicted for spending FIFA points. Hundreds of dollars and I got nothing in the packs. You can’t make a game, target to people like me back in 6th grade and make it gambling. That’s just illegal. How do you expect a child who doesn’t understand the value of a dollar to not spend money. Or at least hundreds of dollars on a game. It’s just not ethical. Packs are not “surprise mechanics” like the representative stated for EA in court. It’s gambling there’s no other way to put it. Coins get good players, you can get more coins when buying FIFA points, you get a good team and you destroy everyone. It’s not a surprise when a child gets mad because their team sucks and throws all their money away and gets absolutely nothing.
You have to make your game more fair, if there is in game purchases.. let us buy coins so at least the consumer knows exactly what they’re getting when they put their money in. But you don’t want that because you would be cheap with coins and nobody would buy them because they would be a ripoff. So you make a secondary currency that can’t buy players just to get a tiny amount of coins after a ton of packs that were just a complete let down.
I hope EA gets sued if they don’t change anything because they took advantage (and still do) of people who just want to throw all their money and don’t understand that it’s not worth it until it’s all spent. There’s a reason children can’t just walk into a casino. I have younger family members who just started playing FIFA and I tell them don’t buy any points. It’s like the talk parents give to their kids about not doing drugs. Because I’m worried they’re going to fall into the trap I did.
I love FIFA and I love soccer, but this game really needs a huge makeover.
If anyone somehow read until this point, I honestly thank you for reading and applaud you. Therefore, if you are debating to buy this game... your money would be better spent elsewhere. Trust me, you would realize it 5 minutes into playing the game.