This is why fm is amazing

I am a firm believer that ea keeps making the gameplay worse each year for fifa so the pay to win mechanic becomes even more pivotal. The worse the gameplay , the more the difference you feel in the quality of your players

I think the main problem with Ultimate at least on FIFA/FC is just how money hungry EA has gotten. Up until FIFA 18, you didn’t have to have a full expensive team to be competitive. There were plenty of gold rare cards and even gold common or silver cards (in older FIFAs) that could be used the whole game cycle, but since FIFA 19, those lower rated cards are absolutely useless after a certain point. Each year that certain point becomes earlier and earlier. With each year bringing new promos and new flashy cards, it creates a massive Fear of Missing Out Effect on the whole community and EA knows exactly how to exploit it. It limits how much freedom of expression the player has because we’re basically forced to play the most meta cards at all times. If you come up against a player of the same skill level as you, but they have Mbappe and you don’t. They will win 8 out ten times.

Ruined sport games how? People are in delusion if they think old games career mode are as good as current career mode, just that it's not the upgrade they had hope for. Meta critic definitely took UT into consideration, so they grade every sport games low because of the mere existence of UT. UT isnt what ruined sport games, monopoly did. Exclusive deals in sport game is one of the most anti competitive shit i've seen, why is it still allowed by the law?

EA has no financial incentive to fix career mode. It should work more like Football Manager, but they don't need to fix it because of the Ultimate Team money.

I’ve never liked any of those modes

Inherently theres nothing wrong with the idea/concept of ultimate team. If t stayed how it was during its first years or so it wouldve been perfect (madden 10-13), its when they went full greed around madden 25 & 16 going forward that it ruined the mode & the consequently, the whole game.

Like others have said, I actually really liked UT when it first came out for FIFA. It was a blast crafting your team, grinding for coins and searching for those diamond in the rough type players. Matching chemistry added a layer as well. But over time it became impossible to find those guys because people just price lock them. And it feels like everyone has insanely stacked teams that they just bought. It used to be rare to face someone with a 95+ player, but now it seems everyone has them across the board. It might be nostalgia but over time it seems like it's just gotten more greedy and over the top.

i truly believe NBA2k16 had one of the best career modes, and should be looked at in reference for new games no matter what sport it is

the game feels so buggy too, like nearly unfinished. You can’t skip the cutscenes that are duplicated over and over every game, you battle your way up to starter just for the game to reset you back to 3rd or 4th string when you restart the game or start a new season (i didn’t forget to save)

there are lots of features from ncaa 14 that we hoped would be preserved but they were removed without replacement. like a small example is taking away hs (which isn’t that big of a deal) but it wasnt replaced with any story other than studying/training/etc by holding the x button and no other mini game like the old ncaa games. make me do math/history questions for studying, mini games for training, outside activities for extra coach trust. i’ll never be a starter if i can only gain 500 coach trust per week riding the bench

Since 2019 I hve never played fifa career mode...been playing ultimate team en my club

Microtransactions in the single-player content is what's ruined Madden and NBA games - rather than treating Ultimate Team as a separate game mode and cash cow, they decided to expand microtransactions into the career modes which represented a large chunk of the single-player offering, and made progress in these modes a tedious grind to incentivise the purchase of these boosters

What if it wasnt yearly release? Game released every 3 (?) years, with only small updates in between (like squad changes etc.) would be so much better

I hate on wwe 2k and I think nba 2k where the opening screen opens up with a menu with this bs.!if you accidentally click on this you either have to finish making this team or close out and restart because they don’t let you back out. I’ll never care for this and will never play it, I’m not against it being there but let me go thru the menus and click on it if I wanna play this dumb shit

Ultimate team makes them so much money, makes no sense for them to change anything as a business. Only way it’s going to change if people stop spending money on it which isn’t going to happen.

Very well done 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 for a lot of us this might be common knowledge, but hopefully through informative videos like yours, more and more people will have conversations about what needs to be changed to improve these games and limit how these corporations profit off of encouraging gambling and micro transactions within their pay to win platform

The background music is fire

It's not for everyone you have to fucking pay on consoles to play it

The Title should be how USERS ruined sports games. If USERS don't buy into it. They will quit making it but because ppl are addicted to it and pur money into it This becomes the focus of the game rather than improving the game itself.

Its funny cuz i never play UT. Tried it a bit in FIFA 17, didn't get past a bronze level team lol... Im thru and thru a career mode sports sim player.

2k5 did it perfectly with the quick draft mode where you basically did a fantasy football team draft against your opponent and then play with those teams. (QB, RB, WR1, WR2, TE, and DEFENSE) Ultimate team is a cash grab piece of trash.

Around a decade ago, I didn't think playing FIFA and Tiger Woods to a very high level would I see anything as gross as EA charging like €6 for individual DLC golf courses in the TW series. So young. So naive. Simpler times. Better times.

I really wish I weren't here right now!

Any game mode that has transactions that can generate this much cash removes all incentive to improve gameplay beyond the one with transactions

My biggest issue with Ultimate team game modes is that it's basically like a mobile gacha but it just resets every year

I only play pro clubs, the only mode that isn't scripted.

If they really cared they would do a weekly limit or remove them altogether. They don't give a 💩 about you

If only they followed the most important feedback they were getting given. Dont make a shitty hero shooter clone. Make a better version of cod. But no they chose the shitty hero shooter game. Now xdefiant has been forgotten as people get hyped for bo6. But this videos quality is amazing dude. Keep up the content quality like this i can see u hitting a million by the end of the year

yes great point. you have a maybe an hour or two to play how about get randomly allocated with kids that kill you every single time bc you " roll the dice" great point. this some sweaty gamer logic here at play.

And now just like cod its riddled with cheaters 😂

10:03 bro signed Bellingham for Portsmouth with 90+ overall and isn't even the best player Insaaane

Good quality video, surprised you dont have more views and subs. Keep at it man, you got this 👍

Honestly, if they supply a good stream of content, fix the hit reg and server issues, and simply keep communicating with their community, i think they'll be just fine. Even when black ops 6 comes around, i think there will still be a sizeable community still playing xdefiant simply due to the game being fun and actually having devs who will listen and care about the communities thoughts. Activision wont allow their devs to make the best game they can since they wouldnt be able to sell the cut content for the next game and that's why, in regards to the multiplayer side of cod, they will keep losing their multiplayer playerbase to other games.

Good video but the game isn't good and will be dead in a year or so

50k sub level content, keep it up

I think online gaming just ruined real single player gaming I miss the feeling on playing a game and knowing I have a new world to play in and now it's like yeah graphics sick but gameplay is trash and it's just buy battle pass this and pre order that and wait till we patch the game to fix it even tho you already bought it for 70 fucking dollars

ultimate team makes the games slightly pay to win or grind to win but it means that it is the profit center and all other aspects of the game are neglected. the gameplay is worse but the problems is other game modes are broken and severly glitched an have not been given proper attention for years.

The problem is people keep pouring money into this garbage. As long as these corporations keep making money they’ll keep pushing it

Streamers also made the ultimate team mode so bad. When it first came out people played different styles and different teams. Now u see everyone plays same tactics similar teams and just find exploits youtubers tell them to do game is not skill based its just flat out money making scam from ea and streamers.

go back with fut to fifa 12 times, without those shitty events with cards that are given to players out of nowhere

Dude, ultimate team is the best thing happened to fifa. I played fifa all my life since 94. It got boring after 1 month of playing career mode already. Since I play ultimate team (fifa 13) I never invested more than 50€ a year, sometimes when I bought ultimate or preorder I did not spent a penny. It is more fun to try to have a good team without buying packs, you can do objectives and all that stuff and still have a good team. It’s not a fifa problem that you keep buying points it’s yours.

I loved UT in the 2011-2016 era. Gameplay felt much more smooth compared to base game movement. Plus I loved building a sweaty cheap South American team that couldn't be caught down the flanks and just a simple cross and tap in. Easy mode. Use to send those who spent vast amounts of cash to get the best players possible in a mass tizzy and spam hate messages. Ah, I love the toxic players out there.

Xdefiant on top!

Ngl FIFA 23 kinda fixed it, I didn't spend a penny on FIFA points and I still had a team that can compete because of SBCs but FC24 completely went in on the pay to win asspect of the game and it became so boring

Just make ultimate team a separate game because its ruining the rest of the game

They could, at least, make the games cheaper, especially when they’re making so much from the in game purchases

I've always been a career mode guy in fifa and other sports games. At least i am playing and enjoying the game for 70 bucks.

Career mode >>>

Imagine the creativity of the live content team working on single player 😮