I’m tired of this. I want to come home from whatever I am doing and play with my friends. But this game isn’t a casual game anymore. Without following a meta, being ratty and sweaty and grinding, this game is *SO* unfun. It is also so bad with the gameplay. Heck, even with a meta and sweat this game is SO UNPLAYABLE. The promos are so bad with the pack weight. The only way to pack someone good is to send your income and life savings to buy promo packs. AND SOME OF US CANT DO THAT!! THIS GAME NEEDS TO IMPROVE *ASAP*
And then they actually let you pay a full amount for this game. Without the option to grind te game. so technically you pay for acces, not even to play the game.
And it’s also crazy you have 2.5million followers and EA radio silence a creator like you CRAZY!!!Thank you though Matt for getting the community point across!👍🏻❤️
Funny thing is all the TH-camrs don’t understand that THEY are the driving force behind why EA can put out such insulting garbage year. You facilitate it, your content encourages it.
They with the coins and packs but the gameplay is just terrible. If I can’t switch or pass correctly in a game even with all of then play styles it’s just a bad game. Like I need EA to fix passing and player switching! Then fix shooting and dribbling. I mean the game is gonna be broken it’s halfway thru the cycle it’s not gonna get better
I agree they are lazy people who they say is their job to live and they looking only their asses that’s what content creators are . If we were all normal people who play this game the game would be more simple
true. but that's the reason why. everyone is buying fc points and promo's. if people stopped doing it would improve the game. but it's talking to a brick wall since most content creators do it to earn more money from views and videos and others just being gambling addicts.
Biggest issue that I have is the pressing is so overpowered, aggressive play and spamming tackles are getting rewarded… It feels like MMA for 90 minutes long on the pitch
There many issues but this is one of the main issues, I totally agree. Relentless pressing coupled with what feels like 0 stamina loss for doing so. If you do beat the press, it doesn’t matter since the defensive team recovers instantly and can read everything you’re going to do.
@@Blobonator8000 it’s just tackle spam from the defensive team. Many impossible tackles from behind in the box, ai tackling for you, defenders being beaten with good play/skills but then instantly recovering, turning and recovering instantly and tackling you anyway. It’s just b.s. especially when your attackers make the worst attacking runs, not making themselves an option for a pass, standing behind defensive player’s. It’s just a terrible game.
Don't have no issue with there being a competitive mode specifically for the better players. Not everything is for everybody. But I do agree, menus are shit and so is the game
Casual player here. I don’t play FUT Champs or rivals anymore, the rewards don’t match the grind for me. I have to do more work for less rewards no thank you. Honestly, it feels I’m just collecting cards. Also, they reduce squad battles games, why? There is about 20 promo packs in the store and I’ll not spend a dime.
Same here. I’ve been playing FIFA since it started, and Rivals since it started. Used to snatch a few games here and there during a working week. Win a few lose a few, get some half decent rewards and want to repeat week after week….now it’s lose every game as whatever formation you choose the servers are against you…if you lucky you can scrap 15 points to get the 1st stage…ive not played it all for a week, and plan on keeping it that way. They have ruined the beautiful game.
I agree, absolutely nothing feels rewarding anymore , shit seasons, rivals isn't worth it when you get dog trash packs, my players cant get up after a tackle. The only thing decent is the coins you get.
Agree with you. I have pretty much stopped even trying for FUT champs... was really enjoying RUSH at the start, but too many AFKs now I am getting very bored of that... FC 24 I probably played at least 2 games every day. I actual just didn't play this weekend.. and considering that's supposed to be when the majority play that says alot for the game.
As a consistent, casual FIFA player ever since 2014 I normally wait for the game to go on sale before buying it. Seeing all the gameplay and general problems with this game is honestly just sad, it's the first time I've ever had no desire whatsoever to play the game. Feels like I'm one of many casual gamers who have completely given up on the franchise
Its worth the 35 on sale currently, as a casual gamer its not all about ultimate team, there's clubs, rush and career mode you can also play. You can also get up the season pass by playing games in other game modes which is a godsend. I only bought the game 1 week ago and already finished the pass and have done the icon pack without spending a penny
Don't give any money ever again to EA, you will get the game for free if you're on PS+ in May 2025. If you ask me, I wouldn't play FC25 even for free. Why ? Because I played FC24 for free this May and it's enough to see how the franchise is not getting better. As long as you keep giving EA free money, they wouldn't change. Why would they change if they can make bad products but people keep buying it ???
I am pretty sure the devs don't play the game. What is the point of having 2 separate evolution challenges in the each stage of the evolution where 1) play 2 games and 2) win 3 games. Can anyone win 3 games WITHOUT playing 2 games? NO! IT'S LOGICALLY IMPOSSIBLE. THE EA DEV WHO CAME UP WITH THESE OBJECTIVES IS NOT ONLY UNCREATIVE BUT HE IS A CRETIN
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Matt your are completely wrong about getting fodder , there is like 19 different packs in the store, I think it only totals around £700 to open them all , it’s dead easy , remortgage the house , get a personal loan and you can get Mbappe! It couldn’t be easier! 👀👀. In all seriousness the game is a mess , they seem to have taken the decision to make the store the only place they will be investing their time and resources in, it’s a sad state of affairs 😞
it is sad. but not a surprise with how many people buy and spend like crazy on fc points. and then the content creators who all do it complain like hypocrites. if they care and want a better game stop buying fc points like the sheep and idiots that they are
I have been playing fifa since fifa08 and daily since fifa 15. I have never stopped playing before OCTOBER. After 1 month! The earliest was fifa21 and that was January because of Study etc. even EAFC24 the second worst game after 25 I played till June.
3 wins from 5 is a joke. I use to comfortably get 10 wins in fut champs previously but now I struggle to qualify. Ppl just seem to be using all the meta players and it doesn't help if u get delay like most of us do unless your on pc
Why would he lie? I have a few mates who struggle to qualify no other game makes u qualify for a ranked mode at best u just have to play casual mode then after 30 40 games u can play ranked mode SBMM ar ruined fc is so dead@@FiveSeven1904
Thank you for this, Matt. Greatly appreciate you speaking out about the horrid state of the game. It's obvious they're trying to shove us into the store for packs, but why in the hell would anyone spend extra money on this mess of a game?
Oh and if you want to go deep into it, it's aimed at button tappers - no doubt, Autism. They could be an organisation exploiting people with undiagnosed disabilities.
The "the game got too serious" angle should be talked about way more. Now it's just about meta and store packs. EA shouldn't made FUT the e-sports mode - Pro Clubs would be way better for this. FUT was way better in Fifa 12, 13, 14, where you would see people playing with silver players. That said: Early Access for UFL starts tomorrow - full release is next week.
This game just puts me in a bad mood even when I’m winning I rage because the game doesn’t do what I want when I want.. Rush solo is just horrible.. I really hope UFL won’t be a flop, it would force EA to fix there sh*t game instead of focusing on promo packs 🤦🏻♂️
Same as efootball. My players have such a slow movements, I tap shoot and the player waits 3 seconds and then shoots, 99% of long passes are intercepted, you can't even touch their players because referees are always on their side and are playing foul for them. It is so bad, you can't even play it because whatever you do, the players don't respond, or are just too slow and of course you lose the ball every time...
There are simply too many animations for the game to handle. We just want simple gameplay where the passing actually works. Its the first year I genuinely struggle to stream gameplay
Good idea, but not sure it’s enough. People need to stop playing it, not just saying how bad it is while playing. If we all stop playing, EA shit their pants
Nothing will change until enough of us stop buying the game to make a statement. I did that for the last 3 years, why couldn't all of you? I sacrificed my "new FIFA" to take a stand but all of you more vocal critics I see on social media keep on buying it
They will never change this my friend. The scripting is so embedded in the game its what gives them cash. They dont give a f*** about us or the game they made.
fifa 14 vet. and i literally couldn't believe the state of this game the second i touched it. the worst fifa gameplay wise easily, i actuslly cant believe that this is just a product that was released, its crazy.
I played a game today and lost 7-1. I was so close to messaging my opponent to rematch as I felt every goal was gifted to him and I there was nothing I could do about it. Luckily I matched him a few games later and I was winning 5-0 within the first 30mins and could have gotten to double digits if he didn’t rage quit. I honestly think the game predetermines a winner and will do everything in its power to make such they win.
Everytime i load up the game the menus are always freezing and i keep getting kicked out this games really had a downfall but thank u matt for expressing everything
I mainly play career mode and even that is broken and keeps crashing, glitches in menus, ultimate team, always seems to glitch the sqaud screen so I cant even view my team properly. Entire game is shocking really.
Remove Pay to win in this game, the game will be already 50 % better ... The people that put money in this game, thats what you deserve & you guys destroyed the game with ur wallet !
I found this video literally a minute after losing a rivals game to delay and thinking "I'm wasting time, energy, and nerves. This has to stop"... I believe in "signs". I'm quitting the game for a while.
I literally play the game and narrate to myself probably 30 times a game “There is nothing I can do” It’s just RNG. Absolutely no point in manual defending cos you won’t win the ball it’ll ping back to them.
The game is delayed offline too. Player touches turns passing all delayed. The ball has weird physics. It's as if it's a rock being thrown to the destination it's meant to go, and just lands there waiting. The AI is just dumb
I'm a bit disappointed in these TH-cam content creators. They are all saying the gameplay is bad, which it actually is but not addressing the issues that make the gameplay bad. I'll do my best to list out a few. Defending: For some weird reason, when the cursor is on your defender and trying to defend, the AI tries to run towards the attacker when you're trying to get in between the attacker and the goal post; instead the defender runs towards the attacker and the attacker obviously out runs the defender and scores. Lobbed through pass: When you're attacking and you do a lobbed through pass to your winger, many times the ball goes towards the goal, which isn't your intention because that would actually meet a defender and you'd lose your attack. Why the ball can't just go straight beyond the winger is beyond me. Passes in front of goal: When you're attacking and working up to score a goal and you try to pass the ball to the best person in front of goal, the game automatically selects the wrong person everytime. Why? I don't know. But it's programmed that way for some reason. I think it just tries to select the person with the closest proximity to the goal, which, most of the time isn't the best person to score and of course that messes up your chance to score. Cursor change: pls don't get me started with this. This is but to mention a few. So saying I conceded goals and it was no fault of mine doesn't really explain anything. Thanks
Bro, when will people wake the F up and realize the EA and FIFA (or FC) has long been using algorithms, just as bad as CoD, but even worse, to get people to spend money. Why are people surprised at the shit gameplay anymore? ITS INTENTIONAL! EA’s gameplay is 100% subjective…. not skill based, not connection based… it’s all based on spending. Boggles my mind that no one over the last 6 years has accepted and argued this as the primary culprit in EA’s annual release of game and its incompetent servers…. ITS BC THEY DESIGNED IT THIS WAY! PLEASE STOP BUYING
Remember the fc point boycott most streamers agreed to? They are a massive part to why the game wont change. Ea know they're gonna make money regardless
Thanks MATT, this is so true, back in the days i was exited for 40 games och champs, now i cant even find the lust for the quallies, insane that SB is by far the best mode on this game.
Having the best connection is the biggest advantage in FUTChamps, you will never master the gamep play b/c of the random BS that happens. I have 4 pings and i can't even do a ball roll in champs with out a delay.
I saw one thing that was exciting which was that you would get Benzema from watching 15 minutes on TH-cam but then it turned out it was a loan🤦🏻♂️ in the app it didn’t say it was a loan.
I had okay gameplay in the past few months. It's just a bit more demanding in DR and champs. But the latest patch really turned my opinion around. Glitches even in sqb, unbelievable
EA made Star Wars battlefront years ago a pay to win monopoly with characters you’d have to spend money on for an advantage. There’s a reason why they’ve been banned from making those games again. I’m not surprised fifa themselves want to make a game now. They need looking into through a court. Football should not be a gambling monopoly for competitive advantage it should be purely skill based,
Do you really still believe that the delay and issues with "bad" servers are in the game by mistake? Dude. The same problem has been in the game back in 2009 and it is quite shocking that there are still people who believe that the problems occur because of some shtty coding....
I’ve given up on champs, and barely do rivals now they lowered the points required. Gameplay is soo sluggish, glitchy and unresponsive that it essentially is only a team building/card collecting game for me now.
Imagine how bad it’s gonna be next yr in terms of players leaving to play other games!! GTA 6 COMES OUT No one gonna be playing the game from November to January if FC26 is gonna be like this
I stopped playing when it basically just refused to save my tactics correctly. Every time I load up my save it bugs my tactics and I have to fix them before playing a match, which is a nightmare because of the awful UI they instituted.
I still have no idea why people play this online, especially spending money on it packs etc. way too much, is out of your control no matter how good you are. Technical issues aside, you never know when your keeper will do something silly, your defender takes a bad touch. Not much of a win or loss will be anything to do with skill. Career mode is the only reason I get the game, even that has its issues.
A million issues on this game, but I think the biggest in my opinion has to be the reliance on abusing broken in game tactics to succeed. I was lucky enough to pack Vini last week when he was 1.4 million coins and was so pumped to use him. But unless I’m annoyingly holding lb/L1 until someone presses and then just speed boosting around them, there’s hardly any difference between him and my Rashford evo that cost like 50k. Every champs game is either people speed boosting and shot canceling, or running straight down the line and passing in the box from the baseline. I really enjoy trading and have 3 million in the account right now and see no reason to upgrade anything since I’m just trying to play tiki taka. Decided I’m just going to do a Madrid past and present with Benz and Ronaldo up top to make it feel like it is Fifa 17 again.
0.18 what happend to our beautiful football game?? Right after For fast and reliable coins...... to be honest the whole coin buying also fucked up the market!!
I’m certainly a casual player. Life doesn’t allow me the time to play 20 games of rivals and most certainly not champs now as I’m very average at the game. Previous games have still been fun, played the odd champs etc, built a good team, completed a lot of sbcs. It’s not possible to that in this game. I’m a Pes player at heart based on age. Gameplay was a lot of fun back in the day. Football gaming desperately needs an alternative and ea may be unintentionally making room for one.
Man I called you out last year in a live for opening fut point packs but credit where it is due, fair play for this video Matt standing up for the community 👏👏👏
Matt, you are THE LEGEND . Seriously, true football gamers share all of your points and opinion about horrible state of fc25. We all support you and thanks for your consistent but meaningful criticism of EA. Great summary of serious flaws / bad things on this disgusting game . I would add one more - speed of menus is shocking bad … no other games menus are so terrible , where in fc 25 you have to press 2-3 times , before something happens.
I agree massively I was winning rush mode literally non stop and I’d get the odd loss I literally took a week off the console a WEEK! And I ve not won a single rush game since. that’s not normal
it's sooo frustrating...most matches you're playing against the game not your opponent...wins also don't feel rewarding when you know that the game this time just let you and gave it to you
Big up Matt, been a regular watcher of your channel back in the day. This is the first FIFA/FC game I haven’t bought cause last year was enough for me. I found that last year the game play was awful and the way EA have made it so apparent that the way to get the best is if you spend ££££. Back in the day you’d still be competitive if you did a road to glory style but now it seems unless you spend you are massively behind the curve
UFL going to wipe the floor with FC 25 and guess what that is EA's fault. It doesn't take much to beat these triple A titles because they aren't even trying. They expect fans to just come back to play garbage year after year. Hope they are ready for money to dry up real quick after UFL releases tomorrow. I've checked out from EA fifa games for 3 years now and life is better.
To be honest, I hope that UFL will make EA look into the mirror and scratch their backs so bad. Because they need to indeed make a huge change in the game and add more things that will get everyone excited. Lets say for example: Co-op Weekend league, where you and a friend of yours can play the game together and get rewards together with maybe a way that you can both combine your teams and play with the best of each others Ultimate team. And just simple the option to play 2v2 with friends without having to crack a difficult code and just normally invite the ones you want to play against. And for sure I would like to see more tournaments stuff inside Ultimate Team with the theme of the real life football events like the Champions League. EA has the licenses right correct me if I'm wrong but it would be fun to actually play a Champions League theme game mode inside or outside Ultimate team to get packs, coins, and maybe special cards: UCL,UEL, and Conference League. Online career mode: Just like the mobile app OSM where you can invite each other in 1 or more competitions and just play against each other. But then that you can actually play the game if you want and control your players like you have now in career mode obviously. But with the option to sim if you should schedule a match against a friend of yours for example. so if lets say 1 of you guys is Liverpool and the other is Man Utd and 1 cannot play at the date that your match is scheduled the games gets automatically simmed. But if you were both down to play against each other. You just play vs each other like a normal match. And maybe for the ones without friends that you have the ability to join other career modes from people around the world. And of course just realistic fun and simple good gameplay. With more details to the players especially the players in the spotlights like Icons, heroes, and big stars that are still playing in real life to take it to the maximum level of making them unique as possible. Just like E football is doing with bringing out cards like Lionel Messi '09 that looks exactly like how he looked in 2009. I think if EA would do that as well it would be a lot more fun to play with certain types of cards especially flashbacks cards or other promos where you see that on the cards itself for example Mbappe his TOTY Card where he had blue hair that you will see him play with blue hair if you have his TOTY and if you have the normal one just his normal color hair so that the card is made special in a different kind of way then they are doing now already. I don't know about you guys but in my opinion this would make the game way more fun to me. Ps sorry for the long bible text😂
Absolutely great video. This summed it all up for me. I was doing my usual insane grind. Every objective. Every game mode. Every SBC. The FOMO was real. My LAN port on PS5 broke (and the game can't be played on WiFi obv) so I sent it off to get fixed. While waiting I downloaded BO6 as free on Xbox. Haven't played since BO2. It's great. It's really enjoyable and when I get in a tough lobby, I feel like I'm only losing because the other players are better. Even when I forget to plug in the LAN cable I usually don't notice the difference. PS5 came back. Put loan Mbappe and Rodman in my NWSL/Real/Serie A team and played 2 games. Both were awful won the second game 6-1 and hated every minute. Turned it off. Went back to BO6. And I now only play clubs and that's more for the social aspect. The game is trash and we just accept it. Other AAA. Titles show that smooth, consistent, fair gameplay is achievable and we shouldn't accept anything else. Even when I didn't play the game I used to do a lot of menu grinding. I've now run out of fodder so I'm gone until the 84x10 repeatable surfaces
Great video & you hit every point. Last year i done almost every Evo but this year the greed is unreal. Ive spent about 500k on a Rangers Evo team but ive stopped. Paid evos aren't the answer.
Feels like gameplay changes everyday Was playing fut champs this week everything was fast good touches just played rival today everything is so slow players take ages to turn
I stopped playing this game three weeks ago after years of hoping EA would improve, yet get it constantly thrown back in my face. Been playing FUT since FIFA 13. Just can’t do it anymore, there’s no longer any FOMO for this game. We need competition so EA finally wake up.
I am from Belgium. No points = no packs = no fodder. I win about 9-11 games in champs. I don't even bother playing anymore. My UT account actually goes back to 2011. shocking.
How come no one talks about how the menus freeze when you do literally anything? You try to search your club for players in the middle of an SBC, it freezes for 3 minutes.
Iv spent over 300 alltogether quit in champs on sunday 6 games in just dont wana play games that are tht broken just stress inducing iv played fifa since 1998. Iv been through thick and thin. This year was the straw
Bravo Matt! This is the perfect summary of the current state of FC. It’s the Matt’s and the Neps of the world that projecting their voices on behalf of the entire FC community. We salute you 🫡
Had the worse time with fc25, account hacked lost 750k coins and had to wait 10 days for the transfer ban to be removed... lost all hype I had for the game because of it.
matt next year there is going to be a classic ultimate team. which is based on fifas from 09- 18 for example it could be FC15 2.0 which would have next gen graphics but the core game would still be the same as fifa 15 this is going to be insane 1 year playing these older fifes was not long enough and now we are going to be able to play them again.
I'm currently doing a Ruben Amorim Manchester United career mode and for some reason Ruben Amorim looks like he gpt struck by lightning, his hair is insane
Thank you for saying what needs to be said! I’ve been a loyal player for 10 years but this year since bo6 came out I’ve only been playing squad battles
I have to turn the game on and off if usage want to make a change to my tactics starting line up. In seasons. Shocking that it’s still has this bug. They are taking the mick.
Thank you for speaking out for the community! It's so bad, it's unbelievable how they have messed it up. I think that if the word is spread, EA will take action, and we could probably, just probably, get a decent game again.
The point of playing fifa was to relax and forget about life problems, last 2 years fifa became the life problem, it just makes you sad when you play this abomination of a game.
I’m tired of this. I want to come home from whatever I am doing and play with my friends. But this game isn’t a casual game anymore. Without following a meta, being ratty and sweaty and grinding, this game is *SO* unfun. It is also so bad with the gameplay. Heck, even with a meta and sweat this game is SO UNPLAYABLE. The promos are so bad with the pack weight. The only way to pack someone good is to send your income and life savings to buy promo packs. AND SOME OF US CANT DO THAT!! THIS GAME NEEDS TO IMPROVE *ASAP*
And then they actually let you pay a full amount for this game. Without the option to grind te game. so technically you pay for acces, not even to play the game.
Words!
@@rijnvandommele4130 Real
The new meta is to uninstall it…
Play clubs or season. They actually feel so good compared to UT. Idk how but it's like a night and day experience
"What has happened to our beautiful football game FOR CHEAP AND FAST FC COINS" I laughed so hard
To be fair it’s got to be done 😂😂
Bro literally, it’s laughable and embarrassing
@@MattHDGamergrind never stops 😂
And it’s also crazy you have 2.5million followers and EA radio silence a creator like you CRAZY!!!Thank you though Matt for getting the community point across!👍🏻❤️
Bro answered his own question. 😆
Funny thing is all the TH-camrs don’t understand that THEY are the driving force behind why EA can put out such insulting garbage year. You facilitate it, your content encourages it.
They with the coins and packs but the gameplay is just terrible.
If I can’t switch or pass correctly in a game even with all of then play styles it’s just a bad game. Like I need EA to fix passing and player switching!
Then fix shooting and dribbling. I mean the game is gonna be broken it’s halfway thru the cycle it’s not gonna get better
Literally
They would do more good but not playing and talking about this game than they do by such content
I pre ordered this game for £90 and have stopped playing it already it’s by far the worst football game ever made.
You never played beach football then haha
Same here mate this is the worst game rite now
It surely is the worst football game I have ever played and I have been playing football games for 20+years
Why would you pre order this piece of shit game ,fc24 was bad ,fifa23 was bad ,fifa22 was bad you are the reason ea doesn't make a better game.
Me too, waste of money. Not only fut is awful the other modes really bad, only playable mode is pro clubs.
Let’s not forget content creators are a massive reason why the state of FIFA/EAFC became what it did
That’s not true.
Oh yeah absolutely true
I agree they are lazy people who they say is their job to live and they looking only their asses that’s what content creators are . If we were all normal people who play this game the game would be more simple
@@DimMast-ps3yhrite
no, Thats not true content creators is Why alot of people play this game.
Every content creator hypes up the new promos but in all honesty I just want a FIFA/FC game with good gameplay
and no cheaters
All of them doe is crazy
true. but that's the reason why. everyone is buying fc points and promo's. if people stopped doing it would improve the game. but it's talking to a brick wall since most content creators do it to earn more money from views and videos and others just being gambling addicts.
Be interesting to see what content creators do now. Viewership is done, I think they might have to get a full time job soon
And no P2W aspect
Biggest issue that I have is the pressing is so overpowered, aggressive play and spamming tackles are getting rewarded… It feels like MMA for 90 minutes long on the pitch
I can't agree any more with you its so hard with such pressing and so many animations its so difficult to pass as well this year with input delay.
There many issues but this is one of the main issues, I totally agree.
Relentless pressing coupled with what feels like 0 stamina loss for doing so.
If you do beat the press, it doesn’t matter since the defensive team recovers instantly and can read everything you’re going to do.
Mateeeee, this ^^^^^^ Amount of games where my opponent has 90+ tackles and they've given away 0/1 fouls is absolutely unbelievable!
@@Blobonator8000 it’s just tackle spam from the defensive team. Many impossible tackles from behind in the box, ai tackling for you, defenders being beaten with good play/skills but then instantly recovering, turning and recovering instantly and tackling you anyway.
It’s just b.s. especially when your attackers make the worst attacking runs, not making themselves an option for a pass, standing behind defensive player’s. It’s just a terrible game.
Thissss
The menu grinding is the worst, 3 wins in 5 to qualify sucks for casuals and the points for div rivals, they destroyed it from last year
Don't have no issue with there being a competitive mode specifically for the better players. Not everything is for everybody. But I do agree, menus are shit and so is the game
Casual player here. I don’t play FUT Champs or rivals anymore, the rewards don’t match the grind for me. I have to do more work for less rewards no thank you. Honestly, it feels I’m just collecting cards. Also, they reduce squad battles games, why? There is about 20 promo packs in the store and I’ll not spend a dime.
Spot on about the grind not being worth it 👊
Same here. I’ve been playing FIFA since it started, and Rivals since it started. Used to snatch a few games here and there during a working week. Win a few lose a few, get some half decent rewards and want to repeat week after week….now it’s lose every game as whatever formation you choose the servers are against you…if you lucky you can scrap 15 points to get the 1st stage…ive not played it all for a week, and plan on keeping it that way. They have ruined the beautiful game.
I agree, absolutely nothing feels rewarding anymore , shit seasons, rivals isn't worth it when you get dog trash packs, my players cant get up after a tackle.
The only thing decent is the coins you get.
Agree with you. I have pretty much stopped even trying for FUT champs... was really enjoying RUSH at the start, but too many AFKs now I am getting very bored of that... FC 24 I probably played at least 2 games every day. I actual just didn't play this weekend.. and considering that's supposed to be when the majority play that says alot for the game.
@@RussellTaylor72 The beautiful game is real life Football not FIFA
I’ve never quit a fifa/Fc so early. Haven’t touched the game in 4 weeks.
As a consistent, casual FIFA player ever since 2014 I normally wait for the game to go on sale before buying it. Seeing all the gameplay and general problems with this game is honestly just sad, it's the first time I've ever had no desire whatsoever to play the game. Feels like I'm one of many casual gamers who have completely given up on the franchise
Its worth the 35 on sale currently, as a casual gamer its not all about ultimate team, there's clubs, rush and career mode you can also play. You can also get up the season pass by playing games in other game modes which is a godsend. I only bought the game 1 week ago and already finished the pass and have done the icon pack without spending a penny
Will see if Futties brings people back this season
Don't give any money ever again to EA, you will get the game for free if you're on PS+ in May 2025. If you ask me, I wouldn't play FC25 even for free. Why ? Because I played FC24 for free this May and it's enough to see how the franchise is not getting better. As long as you keep giving EA free money, they wouldn't change. Why would they change if they can make bad products but people keep buying it ???
@ yeah normally does for me, don’t know about this year tho
@@bhvillaman4401It’s not even worth the 35.
Like the video if you agree with the state of this game
Yet people spend thousands on it when they say it’s the worst thing to ever happen
What’s the best formation to use Matt
I am pretty sure the devs don't play the game. What is the point of having 2 separate evolution challenges in the each stage of the evolution where 1) play 2 games and 2) win 3 games. Can anyone win 3 games WITHOUT playing 2 games? NO! IT'S LOGICALLY IMPOSSIBLE. THE EA DEV WHO CAME UP WITH THESE OBJECTIVES IS NOT ONLY UNCREATIVE BUT HE IS A CRETIN
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@@zs48880-0-0-0 it's called the uninstall formation.
Matt your are completely wrong about getting fodder , there is like 19 different packs in the store, I think it only totals around £700 to open them all , it’s dead easy , remortgage the house , get a personal loan and you can get Mbappe! It couldn’t be easier! 👀👀. In all seriousness the game is a mess , they seem to have taken the decision to make the store the only place they will be investing their time and resources in, it’s a sad state of affairs 😞
it is sad. but not a surprise with how many people buy and spend like crazy on fc points. and then the content creators who all do it complain like hypocrites. if they care and want a better game stop buying fc points like the sheep and idiots that they are
Yeah nice profile picture man
100% true
Same thing every year, not sure why everyone is surprised
Yeah but this is really bad this one
Over the past 20 years playing Fifa its never ever been this bad tho
It feels like you cant even dribble in the new fifa and the manager career simulations are so untealistic and unreal its unbarable @markbeall3091
It gets worse every year tho
I have been playing fifa since fifa08 and daily since fifa 15. I have never stopped playing before OCTOBER. After 1 month! The earliest was fifa21 and that was January because of Study etc. even EAFC24 the second worst game after 25 I played till June.
3 wins from 5 is a joke. I use to comfortably get 10 wins in fut champs previously but now I struggle to qualify. Ppl just seem to be using all the meta players and it doesn't help if u get delay like most of us do unless your on pc
lies. i have so many friends who are 9-11 win players and qualy every weekend lol.
im on pc and have experienced a lot of delay today idk if its as bad as on console though and I have an ethernet cable connected.....
@@idkimtryingit’s worse on console i just play manager mode and mycareer
Why would he lie? I have a few mates who struggle to qualify no other game makes u qualify for a ranked mode at best u just have to play casual mode then after 30 40 games u can play ranked mode SBMM ar ruined fc is so dead@@FiveSeven1904
Thank you for this, Matt. Greatly appreciate you speaking out about the horrid state of the game. It's obvious they're trying to shove us into the store for packs, but why in the hell would anyone spend extra money on this mess of a game?
Because they want the end credits of the match to call them a winner.
It's psychological manipulation
Oh and if you want to go deep into it, it's aimed at button tappers - no doubt, Autism.
They could be an organisation exploiting people with undiagnosed disabilities.
The "the game got too serious" angle should be talked about way more. Now it's just about meta and store packs.
EA shouldn't made FUT the e-sports mode - Pro Clubs would be way better for this.
FUT was way better in Fifa 12, 13, 14, where you would see people playing with silver players.
That said: Early Access for UFL starts tomorrow - full release is next week.
This game just puts me in a bad mood even when I’m winning I rage because the game doesn’t do what I want when I want.. Rush solo is just horrible.. I really hope UFL won’t be a flop, it would force EA to fix there sh*t game instead of focusing on promo packs 🤦🏻♂️
Yep that all
Makes sense
Same as efootball. My players have such a slow movements, I tap shoot and the player waits 3 seconds and then shoots, 99% of long passes are intercepted, you can't even touch their players because referees are always on their side and are playing foul for them. It is so bad, you can't even play it because whatever you do, the players don't respond, or are just too slow and of course you lose the ball every time...
Crazy thing you’re barley now finding out. I remember this being the issue since about 22
@@MattHDGamer 2k will take advantage of this i think especially now that they have the FIFA IP
@@SxpectBeats Lol "them" are just other players, you know that right? So the game is out to get you personally? Come on man.
There are simply too many animations for the game to handle. We just want simple gameplay where the passing actually works. Its the first year I genuinely struggle to stream gameplay
lets we wait for UFL bro
remember when “ultimate packs” were actually worth is? what a joke!!
Same with 100k packs EA try and force store bought packs
Fair play to you mate for actually speaking out! Thank you
Said it for weeks thought I’d put it into a video
Good idea, but not sure it’s enough. People need to stop playing it, not just saying how bad it is while playing. If we all stop playing, EA shit their pants
@@Paquetesousa it's their job they will not just stop playing this game to make a point they get money from it
Nothing will change until enough of us stop buying the game to make a statement. I did that for the last 3 years, why couldn't all of you? I sacrificed my "new FIFA" to take a stand but all of you more vocal critics I see on social media keep on buying it
@@thrasherdave1428 they are all sheep that's why nothing will change when people will keep buying it and that's a shame
Finally a creator has addressed this! Let’s hope EA watch this and change if not I certainly won’t ever buy a EA game ever again!
They will never change this my friend. The scripting is so embedded in the game its what gives them cash. They dont give a f*** about us or the game they made.
fifa 14 vet. and i literally couldn't believe the state of this game the second i touched it. the worst fifa gameplay wise easily, i actuslly cant believe that this is just a product that was released, its crazy.
The thing that annoys me the most in this game is the manipulated gameplay! It's shameful how you can have the perception that the game is sabotaged!
I played a game today and lost 7-1. I was so close to messaging my opponent to rematch as I felt every goal was gifted to him and I there was nothing I could do about it. Luckily I matched him a few games later and I was winning 5-0 within the first 30mins and could have gotten to double digits if he didn’t rage quit. I honestly think the game predetermines a winner and will do everything in its power to make such they win.
I totally agree with you. It seems like it’s you vs your opponent and the AI. Everything that could go wrong will go wrong.
Everytime i load up the game the menus are always freezing and i keep getting kicked out this games really had a downfall but thank u matt for expressing everything
You just get what makes good content!
I mainly play career mode and even that is broken and keeps crashing, glitches in menus, ultimate team, always seems to glitch the sqaud screen so I cant even view my team properly. Entire game is shocking really.
Remove Pay to win in this game, the game will be already 50 % better ... The people that put money in this game, thats what you deserve & you guys destroyed the game with ur wallet !
fair play for speaking out Matt we all know the lag is terrible, we know how inconsistent it is, and the content is terrible this year too
I found this video literally a minute after losing a rivals game to delay and thinking "I'm wasting time, energy, and nerves. This has to stop"...
I believe in "signs". I'm quitting the game for a while.
This is only game that summons the devil in me
I literally play the game and narrate to myself probably 30 times a game
“There is nothing I can do”
It’s just RNG. Absolutely no point in manual defending cos you won’t win the ball it’ll ping back to them.
The game is delayed offline too. Player touches turns passing all delayed. The ball has weird physics. It's as if it's a rock being thrown to the destination it's meant to go, and just lands there waiting.
The AI is just dumb
Fair mate but if people keep buying it there’s no need for a change is there
I'm a bit disappointed in these TH-cam content creators. They are all saying the gameplay is bad, which it actually is but not addressing the issues that make the gameplay bad. I'll do my best to list out a few.
Defending:
For some weird reason, when the cursor is on your defender and trying to defend, the AI tries to run towards the attacker when you're trying to get in between the attacker and the goal post; instead the defender runs towards the attacker and the attacker obviously out runs the defender and scores.
Lobbed through pass:
When you're attacking and you do a lobbed through pass to your winger, many times the ball goes towards the goal, which isn't your intention because that would actually meet a defender and you'd lose your attack. Why the ball can't just go straight beyond the winger is beyond me.
Passes in front of goal:
When you're attacking and working up to score a goal and you try to pass the ball to the best person in front of goal, the game automatically selects the wrong person everytime. Why? I don't know. But it's programmed that way for some reason. I think it just tries to select the person with the closest proximity to the goal, which, most of the time isn't the best person to score and of course that messes up your chance to score.
Cursor change: pls don't get me started with this.
This is but to mention a few.
So saying I conceded goals and it was no fault of mine doesn't really explain anything.
Thanks
Bro, when will people wake the F up and realize the EA and FIFA (or FC) has long been using algorithms, just as bad as CoD, but even worse, to get people to spend money. Why are people surprised at the shit gameplay anymore? ITS INTENTIONAL! EA’s gameplay is 100% subjective…. not skill based, not connection based… it’s all based on spending. Boggles my mind that no one over the last 6 years has accepted and argued this as the primary culprit in EA’s annual release of game and its incompetent servers…. ITS BC THEY DESIGNED IT THIS WAY! PLEASE STOP BUYING
Agree most fun i ever had with fifa was fifa 13
Remember the fc point boycott most streamers agreed to? They are a massive part to why the game wont change. Ea know they're gonna make money regardless
Thanks MATT, this is so true, back in the days i was exited for 40 games och champs, now i cant even find the lust for the quallies, insane that SB is by far the best mode on this game.
Think everyone stopped playing after a week, tragic
Having the best connection is the biggest advantage in FUTChamps, you will never master the gamep play b/c of the random BS that happens. I have 4 pings and i can't even do a ball roll in champs with out a delay.
Biggest problem is packs and gameplay the game used to be fun but now it's just angering with delayed inputs
I saw one thing that was exciting which was that you would get Benzema from watching 15 minutes on TH-cam but then it turned out it was a loan🤦🏻♂️ in the app it didn’t say it was a loan.
I had okay gameplay in the past few months. It's just a bit more demanding in DR and champs. But the latest patch really turned my opinion around. Glitches even in sqb, unbelievable
I miss icon swaps so much.
EA made Star Wars battlefront years ago a pay to win monopoly with characters you’d have to spend money on for an advantage. There’s a reason why they’ve been banned from making those games again. I’m not surprised fifa themselves want to make a game now. They need looking into through a court. Football should not be a gambling monopoly for competitive advantage it should be purely skill based,
And yet you’re still advertising for those to buy coins for the game. Disgusting and hypocritical of you.
Totally.
Do you really still believe that the delay and issues with "bad" servers are in the game by mistake? Dude. The same problem has been in the game back in 2009 and it is quite shocking that there are still people who believe that the problems occur because of some shtty coding....
It’s all about getting you to buy more packs, making you think your team will get better.
@Bee_Bill287 Exactly
Best vid you have ever made well done for telling the truth inconsistent game play!!!
The mood here is everything!
I make fun teams and none of them can fluidly defend. There is no balance and either I win each game by five or lose by 5
I tip my hat to you sir 😅.. this surpassed a rant video and climbed to elite tier of content 👌 let's hope our game gets better😅
I’ve given up on champs, and barely do rivals now they lowered the points required.
Gameplay is soo sluggish, glitchy and unresponsive that it essentially is only a team building/card collecting game for me now.
So happy I didn't buy this trash this year I jumped on b06 honestly the best cod I've played in year's thank you fc25 ❤
Wild that you're only allowed to play 2 games lol
@@jdevlin1910some people don’t have all the time of the world to play games.
From one trash game to another well done mate
This was amazing bu you matt , much needed video. I love this franchise but this is unacceptable
Imagine how bad it’s gonna be next yr in terms of players leaving to play other games!!
GTA 6 COMES OUT
No one gonna be playing the game from November to January if FC26 is gonna be like this
Fc26 will be carried by open world mode and people will glaze it
@@Adz_Plays nobody playing ts game when gta 6 is out, let alone other big games next year.
@@Adz_PlaysFC26 is getting an open world mode? I thought that was supposed to be the future FIFA made game
Plus FIFA 2k coming
Brilliant video Matt covering several of the major issues
Miss the fifa 11 and 12 times man not much content but it was the best time of my life.
First time I don’t buy fifa since 2008. And I honestly feel better not stressing over a garbage game
FIFA games have been terrible since 15. FIFA 12 was the last great football game released by EA. No idea why they can’t go back to that.
I stopped playing when it basically just refused to save my tactics correctly. Every time I load up my save it bugs my tactics and I have to fix them before playing a match, which is a nightmare because of the awful UI they instituted.
I still have no idea why people play this online, especially spending money on it packs etc. way too much, is out of your control no matter how good you are. Technical issues aside, you never know when your keeper will do something silly, your defender takes a bad touch. Not much of a win or loss will be anything to do with skill. Career mode is the only reason I get the game, even that has its issues.
thank you for being a creator who is willing to speak up!
A million issues on this game, but I think the biggest in my opinion has to be the reliance on abusing broken in game tactics to succeed. I was lucky enough to pack Vini last week when he was 1.4 million coins and was so pumped to use him. But unless I’m annoyingly holding lb/L1 until someone presses and then just speed boosting around them, there’s hardly any difference between him and my Rashford evo that cost like 50k. Every champs game is either people speed boosting and shot canceling, or running straight down the line and passing in the box from the baseline.
I really enjoy trading and have 3 million in the account right now and see no reason to upgrade anything since I’m just trying to play tiki taka. Decided I’m just going to do a Madrid past and present with Benz and Ronaldo up top to make it feel like it is Fifa 17 again.
Yeah trading is good but be careful bro don't get banned
0.18 what happend to our beautiful football game?? Right after For fast and reliable coins...... to be honest the whole coin buying also fucked up the market!!
Not playing this game online does wonders for your mental health. You still get screwed by the gameplay, but it's easier to just laugh about it.
And what the hell is happening with the pack weight, honestly it's the worst I have ever known....
I’m certainly a casual player. Life doesn’t allow me the time to play 20 games of rivals and most certainly not champs now as I’m very average at the game. Previous games have still been fun, played the odd champs etc, built a good team, completed a lot of sbcs. It’s not possible to that in this game. I’m a Pes player at heart based on age. Gameplay was a lot of fun back in the day. Football gaming desperately needs an alternative and ea may be unintentionally making room for one.
Man I called you out last year in a live for opening fut point packs but credit where it is due, fair play for this video Matt standing up for the community 👏👏👏
Matt, you are THE LEGEND . Seriously, true football gamers share all of your points and opinion about horrible state of fc25. We all support you and thanks for your consistent but meaningful criticism of EA. Great summary of serious flaws / bad things on this disgusting game . I would add one more - speed of menus is shocking bad … no other games menus are so terrible , where in fc 25 you have to press 2-3 times , before something happens.
Switching from player to player when defending is the worst. like a real pain.
I agree massively I was winning rush mode literally non stop and I’d get the odd loss I literally took a week off the console a WEEK! And I ve not won a single rush game since. that’s not normal
it's sooo frustrating...most matches you're playing against the game not your opponent...wins also don't feel rewarding when you know that the game this time just let you and gave it to you
Yeah, sometimes I play so good and destroy the dude, and than im thinking, was it really me?
Great video Matt, although I am enjoying the evolutions on this game I did hardly any last year but my team is almost a full evo team this year
I brought the game at the weekend. Starting UT is a chore and the slow gameplay doesn’t help.
Big up Matt, been a regular watcher of your channel back in the day.
This is the first FIFA/FC game I haven’t bought cause last year was enough for me.
I found that last year the game play was awful and the way EA have made it so apparent that the way to get the best is if you spend ££££.
Back in the day you’d still be competitive if you did a road to glory style but now it seems unless you spend you are massively behind the curve
UFL going to wipe the floor with FC 25 and guess what that is EA's fault. It doesn't take much to beat these triple A titles because they aren't even trying. They expect fans to just come back to play garbage year after year. Hope they are ready for money to dry up real quick after UFL releases tomorrow. I've checked out from EA fifa games for 3 years now and life is better.
It says it all when there’s over 20 promo packs available on the store. They aren’t even hiding the fact they are just out to grab our money
To be honest, I hope that UFL will make EA look into the mirror and scratch their backs so bad. Because they need to indeed make a huge change in the game and add more things that will get everyone excited.
Lets say for example: Co-op Weekend league, where you and a friend of yours can play the game together and get rewards together with maybe a way that you can both combine your teams and play with the best of each others Ultimate team. And just simple the option to play 2v2 with friends without having to crack a difficult code and just normally invite the ones you want to play against.
And for sure I would like to see more tournaments stuff inside Ultimate Team with the theme of the real life football events like the Champions League. EA has the licenses right correct me if I'm wrong but it would be fun to actually play a Champions League theme game mode inside or outside Ultimate team to get packs, coins, and maybe special cards: UCL,UEL, and Conference League.
Online career mode: Just like the mobile app OSM where you can invite each other in 1 or more competitions and just play against each other. But then that you can actually play the game if you want and control your players like you have now in career mode obviously. But with the option to sim if you should schedule a match against a friend of yours for example. so if lets say 1 of you guys is Liverpool and the other is Man Utd and 1 cannot play at the date that your match is scheduled the games gets automatically simmed. But if you were both down to play against each other. You just play vs each other like a normal match. And maybe for the ones without friends that you have the ability to join other career modes from people around the world.
And of course just realistic fun and simple good gameplay. With more details to the players especially the players in the spotlights like Icons, heroes, and big stars that are still playing in real life to take it to the maximum level of making them unique as possible. Just like E football is doing with bringing out cards like Lionel Messi '09 that looks exactly like how he looked in 2009. I think if EA would do that as well it would be a lot more fun to play with certain types of cards especially flashbacks cards or other promos where you see that on the cards itself for example Mbappe his TOTY Card where he had blue hair that you will see him play with blue hair if you have his TOTY and if you have the normal one just his normal color hair so that the card is made special in a different kind of way then they are doing now already.
I don't know about you guys but in my opinion this would make the game way more fun to me.
Ps sorry for the long bible text😂
Absolutely great video. This summed it all up for me. I was doing my usual insane grind. Every objective. Every game mode. Every SBC. The FOMO was real. My LAN port on PS5 broke (and the game can't be played on WiFi obv) so I sent it off to get fixed. While waiting I downloaded BO6 as free on Xbox. Haven't played since BO2. It's great. It's really enjoyable and when I get in a tough lobby, I feel like I'm only losing because the other players are better. Even when I forget to plug in the LAN cable I usually don't notice the difference. PS5 came back. Put loan Mbappe and Rodman in my NWSL/Real/Serie A team and played 2 games. Both were awful won the second game 6-1 and hated every minute. Turned it off. Went back to BO6. And I now only play clubs and that's more for the social aspect. The game is trash and we just accept it. Other AAA. Titles show that smooth, consistent, fair gameplay is achievable and we shouldn't accept anything else. Even when I didn't play the game I used to do a lot of menu grinding. I've now run out of fodder so I'm gone until the 84x10 repeatable surfaces
Great video & you hit every point.
Last year i done almost every Evo but this year the greed is unreal. Ive spent about 500k on a Rangers Evo team but ive stopped. Paid evos aren't the answer.
Feels like gameplay changes everyday Was playing fut champs this week everything was fast good touches just played rival today everything is so slow players take ages to turn
I stopped playing this game three weeks ago after years of hoping EA would improve, yet get it constantly thrown back in my face. Been playing FUT since FIFA 13. Just can’t do it anymore, there’s no longer any FOMO for this game. We need competition so EA finally wake up.
Love coming to your stream everyday ❤
I think the menus don’t need more content just the gameplay should be better like old days
OMG has it been THAT long since I've watched Matthdgamer? WOW
I am from Belgium. No points = no packs = no fodder. I win about 9-11 games in champs. I don't even bother playing anymore. My UT account actually goes back to 2011. shocking.
You overlooked one aspect; to combat this hacker, EA permits you to report a player only by their unusual nickname, not by the behavior of the player.
How come no one talks about how the menus freeze when you do literally anything? You try to search your club for players in the middle of an SBC, it freezes for 3 minutes.
Iv spent over 300 alltogether quit in champs on sunday 6 games in just dont wana play games that are tht broken just stress inducing iv played fifa since 1998. Iv been through thick and thin. This year was the straw
Bravo Matt! This is the perfect summary of the current state of FC. It’s the Matt’s and the Neps of the world that projecting their voices on behalf of the entire FC community.
We salute you 🫡
100% true
game feels like a dogshit
Had the worse time with fc25, account hacked lost 750k coins and had to wait 10 days for the transfer ban to be removed... lost all hype I had for the game because of it.
matt next year there is going to be a classic ultimate team. which is based on fifas from 09- 18
for example it could be FC15 2.0 which would have next gen graphics but the core game would still be the same as fifa 15
this is going to be insane 1 year playing these older fifes was not long enough and now we are going to be able to play them again.
You know it sucks when an OG FIFA youtuber has to step in and say something about it
I'm currently doing a Ruben Amorim Manchester United career mode and for some reason Ruben Amorim looks like he gpt struck by lightning, his hair is insane
Thank you for saying what needs to be said! I’ve been a loyal player for 10 years but this year since bo6 came out I’ve only been playing squad battles
I have to turn the game on and off if usage want to make a change to my tactics starting line up.
In seasons. Shocking that it’s still has this bug. They are taking the mick.
The problem is not in the number of servers but in the source code instead
Thank you for speaking out for the community! It's so bad, it's unbelievable how they have messed it up. I think that if the word is spread, EA will take action, and we could probably, just probably, get a decent game again.
The point of playing fifa was to relax and forget about life problems, last 2 years fifa became the life problem, it just makes you sad when you play this abomination of a game.