Metacritics Statistics: FIFA 20 has the lowest ranking EVER!
October 7, 2019 6:15PM
edited October 2019
I made a small statistic about the last FIFA releases and their ratings. The following graph is only based on reviews from metacritic.com.
The following graph shows:
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The interesting observations are:
Personally, I think FIFA 20 is better than 19. But looks like there are quite some unhappy people out there? What is your opinion on that one? Is FIFA 20 really that bad?
The following graph shows:
- Meta scores (such as official game magazine review) shown per platform in orange colors. Scale is from 0 to 100 (Y axis on the left)
- User Scores shown per platform in blue colors. Scale is from 0 to 10 (Y axis on the right)
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The interesting observations are:
- Starting from FIFA 12, the meta scores and user scores differs.
- The meta scores are (more or less) stable since more than a decade.
- The User Score is dramatically declining since FIFA 11. The only exception is FIFA 17.
- The user Score ratings for FIFA 20 are devastating!
Personally, I think FIFA 20 is better than 19. But looks like there are quite some unhappy people out there? What is your opinion on that one? Is FIFA 20 really that bad?
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FIFA can be quite a buggy game, but this time around it's like they've brought in better gameplay (& Volta) but just neglected every other aspect of the game, certainly seems the buggiest release I can remember.
imo EA has made the AI defending "dumb" so to speak. i understand they want defending to be more of the player's responsibility, which is the right thing, but having my AI players continuously do dumb things is ludicrous. such as my CB will leave his proper postition on his own and as a result leave a gaping hole in my defense which the opposition exploits over and over. i cant control every player on the field at the same time and this is unacceptable.
True, you have a point here. But if the average score is 1.1 out of 10 by considering 1379 Ratings, it's still devastating...
Ratings like that are easily gamed, happens on Rotten Tomatoes all the time
+ a general tiredness from EA as a whole. I guess after so many years of let downs.. the frustration is reflected in those ratings...
Now with reviewers, it's always hard for them to rate yearly games due to tiredness of the "same ol same ol". These reviewers sometimes have a lot of games on their plate, reviewing games like FIFA seems like a chore. I think they should just maintain the same score for a few years. Plus, we now have games being significantly marked down due to microtransactions. And then there's the whole EA being the boogeyman and it's just nice to mark their games down.
And scores have been reducing on almost EVERY game on Metacritic over the years, from COD to Far Cry to AC to NBA2K, compare those too. So overall you can't take reviews for yearly games especially FIFA seriously.
So just like EA, ignore the sane users and the glaringly obvious issues such as career mode.
SMH..
FIFA 15 was almost perfect, however the Usain Bolt pace killed it since it promoted throughball spam, if it was slower paced it would've been one of the top releases.
Do you play online? If so, from what country are you?
People that love the game as vocal as well and many people have never even viewed this board, but have tried to submit bugs and other issues on the Answers Board, if you visit it at all.
People that just be quiet if they are not exactly happy and continually take the scraps they are given might be why things do not improve quicker or in some cases at all. I get not complaining to the waiter about your food for fear of what the chef might do to your food, but this is not food... it is supposed to be a viable product that is fully functional out the door. They used to be able to make that happen, but with the increased internet capability they can be lazy not not have it even 85% done when they release it. EA builds this into their development time in the hopes of having a fixed game by Christmas buying season.
But there are many of those who have issues with the game but continue to buy the franchise... and EA loves that. They know that they can provide a poor product, make some improvements here and there through the year and people will keep buying.
If more people would wake up and not put up with this, EA would have to improve...
But sadly, too many sheep will keep up being sheep. But if enough people are vocal, many of the wall flowers may finally speak up as well...which I think is happening to an extent now. At least more so than in previous years.
EXACTLY!!!!
Source: https://imgur.com/a/8vC2317
We could argue that the popularity (or contant/talks) of FIFA series is decreasing since the last 5 years...
PES is terrible. I tried PES instead of FIFA this year. It was a real disaster. Went back to FIFA and like it this year much more than previous year.
I regret to have bought it.
FIFA19 is a lot better.
It is not terrible, it is just different. Gameplay, definitely feels like you are in control of the play much more than with FIFA. The feel is more realistic.
Graphics are not as good, content is lacking due to licenses, but many things are better in PES. Just as many things are better in FIFA.
Combine the two and it might for once be an extremely solid game.
Fifa 20's terrible defending system has me with no desire to play it. also, you mentioned something that i despise in every Fifa game. much of the time you feel like the result is out of your hands. you completely dominate your opponent and still get no result! if PES gives you much more control over the outcome of the game then im definitely for that! im buying PES tomorrow and it may be the start of a beautiful relationship.
However, I highly doubt I will be buying 21 and this is from someone who has had the last 14 versions at release, I dont even blame EA or the game, the community is just damn awful, the game will never be great online as too many people resort to b.s tactics to win at all costs.
Fifa needs to go back to bare bones with tactics unfortunately.