We were always joking about this but since the release this game truly feels like it is updated by a single person.
When the game was released, they butchered Messi's face, made Ronaldo look like he was straining himself taking a hard giant shit on the pitch, and these guys were, and still are, the premiere cover athletes for the series. They were made into memes. It tells you everything you need to know about their dev team, or lack thereof.
People need to understanding something about F2P games. Many F2P games utilize grinding mechanisms in their games to force players into their monetization schemes. You can grind out for 6 months+ building a team, with half assed ball physics and dumb AI frustratingly costing you matches here or there, or spend money on coins buying legends and premium cards where players in those cards have 90+ stats in 2 or three of their play styles, and you build your perfect squad in a span of a week, making those growing pains less of a reoccurring thing. There are some F2P games that only monetize maps, costumes and other cosmetics, but the gameplay isn't affected. That's not the case here. If you want to compete against a squad full of Kahns, Romarios, Ronaldos (the fat one), Haalands, and Neymars, you need to pay up. Better well rounded players that are available in premium packs or POTW cards play better than their original counterparts. The stats in these cards are a lot higher than the original.
But here's the problem: even if you have a squad full of players with their stats all in the 100s, the game is still boring as fuck. The dream team league is so fucking bland that it doesn't matter how good you are because you're playing for nothing more than bragging rights.
Trial matches are a joke. AI events are not fulfilling. AI events are nothing more than exhibition matches for GP, that's it. Boring.
There isn't fuck all to do except buy POTW cards and play night matches over and over again with the same set of players you see all the time in the opposition. The last time I played this game, I played against 4 dream teams with Haaland or Neymar in their squad, along with the usual core of legends that we've all seen a bunch of times. You don't even need to rotate your players because there's no fatigue system. Squad depth is useless. It doesn't matter whether you have a big or small squad. If your player is out with a red card, he's out for one game. He can accumulate cards, and the worse that can happen to him is he's out for one game, just like in the pros... 🙄🤣. I don't even know why this game bothers to have substitutions when you can play a whole match without using subs. You can play bunch of consecutive matches over and over again with your first 11, and it doesn't have any affect on their health or stamina. You're lucky if you can pick up an injury because injuries barely exists in efootball.
So you can buy the best players in the world, show off your skills on youtube and twitter, but you lose out either way, and Coinami wins because the got your money and all you have is a dull game lol.
