It seems the desired outcome is to reduce the numbers playing in WL (who knows, maybe its a server demand solution). Or certainly to remove those "easy" first 10 games against people like me. Therefore it makes most sense (if we can assume sense is being used) to have fully open matchmaking and detach WL from Rivals…
To be fair to the FIFA Community (not something I like to make a habit of) but in general they do seem to get the importance of SBMM much more than other franchises. In any online game its imperative and it is based on the 50/50 principle mentioned in the post by @Noo above. Other sites like CoD forums have been filled…
If it helps, the BBC Sport website has recorded the kick of time as actually occurring at 6:01pm in their live commentary updates. So it likely did kick off after the item was released into the game.
EA get a lot of criticism here, but at the end of the day they are a massive multinational company and they deal with this sort of stuff very efficiently and effectively and in this case probably very fairly.
There was a "Big Transfer" SBC where those who did all the James objectives but didn't want to keep them could exchange them all for a Rare Player Pack.
I haven't packed any future stars this week so I thought Id do it as there was no chance of a duplicate and it would be nice to get a Future Stars card regardless of how poor. Its like my mind was read. Duplicate RTTF Grimaldo.
Ill go for Dan-Axel Zagadou The maybe Smith-Rowe over Saka I think Fati is a hard one to ignore unless you already consider him a "current star" rather than a FS. OP went for Zinchenko for storyline, i think a PL LB is very likely. So rather than copy I'll go for Masuaku. And Dean Henderson.
I've been using Cannavaro and I don't notice hes there, which is quite the compliment for a defender. Usually if I take notice of a player its preceded by the words "Right, who the bleep was that, you're getting hooked at half time".
Due to the amount of packs being opened I dont really expect much, particularly this week. I have opened a lot of packs however albeit not very good packs, and its not so much the fact that theres very little of any use thats annoying, its the fact that what I am getting is brutally poor. Norwegian League, Japanese League,…
This post has been far more reasonably accepted than I expected. Very disappointing from an entertainment point of view. A proper anti-climax. I have played more online games in the last 10 days than in the last 10 years, and I am quite happy to acknowledge that I often enter short phases of panic. And when you're panicked…
This is a genuinely positive and well thought out post. Some of the ideas are very interesting indeed and the idea of accepting FUT as the main game mode and incorporating everything into that as a way of opening up the rest of the game to what has probably become a closed audience is enlightened. Its also done in a way…
Here's a (very in-depth) article on the similar problem that Manchester United (if i can use their name on a forum) have with Sports Interactive - the makers of Football Manager over the use of their name. A matter which is further down the road and is more likely what tipped off Agents in the first place, before Beckham…
I had actually gotten into the way of reading most posts on this forum and excusing them as being from 12 year olds. However, most of the people commenting on this thread don't seem to be the usual offenders. Perhaps if its not a post about how every issue in the world is EAs fault and not their own they don't bother with…
My best in the three packs was an untradeable Fabian which means I can now sell my tradeable Fabian, although I don't know if I should wait and see if his price goes up. Its decisions like this that keeps me involved.
Its probably best if we stop referring to them as friendlies. They aren't friendlies in the same way they were in previous FIFAs, they are "Objective Lounges". They come with their own set of rules and one of those rules is that contracts don't matter. It is what it is. Like every single thing about this game, some will…