I can safely say UFL is not the saviour of football gaming. I played one game online, won 2-0, then deleted it. Mostly because it was basic as football games come, but also because I want to maintain my 100% winning record.
I know it's only a beta, but when presenting something to gamers, you do need to have something going for it to keep them playing, even during a beta. For me eFootball still feels like it's in beta, but it is way ahead of UFL. eFootball and EAFC have nothing to worry about from UFL. In it's defence, UFL online was very smooth, but the gameplay was so basic and shots were so random that I lobbed the goalkeeper for my first goal by just pressing the shoot button without any modifier button. Animations were also limited, so there was a weird lunge forward thing going on with almost every pass and the ball physics were as basic as I've seen since PS1 days.
It was also the first time in years I played a football game with assisted passing and it was so easy to beat my opponent. People often don't realise just how much easier it is with assisted passing and feels like a cheat mode. Manual is so much more satisfying and you can actually have better levels of ability when enforcing that on all players. I'd play online if manual passing was mandatory. I just find assisted passing so easy and boring, that I skip playing online as it's almost impossible to find other manual passing players in random or ranked matches.
Over to you 2K to step up, or perhaps eFootball can bring back the slower gameplay from last year and deliver the offline modes they said would come...