EA's three problems have affected FIFA 15

For many weeks and even months, FIFA 15 managed to dominate the best seller gaming charts in the UK. Electronic Arts FIFA has proven that it’s miles ahead of its competitor Pro Evolution Soccer (PES), but the storied franchise has consistently dropped the ball in gameplay and content.

EA has done a remarkable job with the physics engine, gameplay, presentation and licensing, but they have added new features and policies that has deteriorated the game.  There are three consequential problems that have affected FIFA 15 gameplay.

Offline gameplay has been totally ignored

We can all accede that FIFA Ultimate Aggregation (FUT) and online bold modes are the best appearance of the games. We all accept been chip somehow to arena online with adolescent gamers all beyond the world. FUT allows you to body your dream aggregation and a lot of can altercate that this is conceivably one of the a lot of accomplishing things in the game. FUT has become so immense in FIFA that abounding are proposing a standalone adaptation of the game.

EA’s attraction with FUT has affected them to carelessness offline gameplay. It is bright that they spent the atomic absorption on this feature. Seriously, alfresco of Career Mode, what abroad is there to do? There aren’t abounding absorbing offline bold modes. Whenever the servers are down (which is often), it is acceptable a lot of of us can’t play. No one wants to decay time of the Training Ground or play the Legends.

Park the Bus was simply wrong for gaming

Real life football teams employ Park the Bus as a defensive tactic, so EA introducing it in FIFA 15 would appear plausible. However, it has been severely exploited by gamers and using the tactic is no longer strategy or fun gaming. The idea has potential, but it can make super teams impossible to beat. Having extreme offensive and defensive strategies are necessary in gameplay, but Park the Bus should not be a necessary evil.

Cheating with Coin Sellers

Here we are again discussing FUT. Sure enough, people have figured out how to abuse the coin system in Ultimate Team. FIFA 15 coins sellers make it much easier to build your dream squad. This is a serious problem for genuine players, because the quality of a team now depends on who can afford the highest. Much like gaming and movie privacy, this is issue has spread like wild fire without no real way of stopping it. Ultimate Team loses its legitimacy due to sellers and buyers who don’t play fair.

How to beat formations in FIFA?

EA has provided a top notch product in FIFA 15 for the next gen gaming consoles, PS4 and Xbox One. We all may not be able to do a successful rabona or a scorpion kick, but after this tutorial you will at least know how to dive!

Many believe diving is a cheap trick to gain possession of the ball in world football, but you can’t deny that it is effective and often used in big leagues.We all can agree that diving makes football The Beautiful Game, producing some of the most theatrical performances. Diving is even more deadly if a player can win a penalty kick in the box.


Though this is not clearly mentioned or accomplished in EA tutorials, diving can be done, so actuality we go.

While you’re running, a amateur will ability out his duke to cull your shirt or shoulder. That’s the cue!

Simply put, as anon as the opponent’s amateur begins to arrest your player, hit the button to accomplish a lob pass/slide tackle/cross (X on Xbox or aboveboard on Play Station)

If the brawl is a brace anxiety advanced of you, that’s absolute to advertise the foul
ALSO, if you are confused how to beat formations in FIFA? See our article.

Taking better Corner Kicks

For a long time, people have taken free kicks by simply shooting straight into the crowd hoping to find someone with a header. Let us just say that’s not the most effective way to take a corner kick. There are a couple ways to be a bit more tactical, hence having a higher scoring chance.

You can control the player who will receive the cross – you have better control of who receives the ball, perhaps your player with best header
You can select one of four different options on your D-pad for tactics (or as they appear on your controller after pressing down on the D-pad first)
Crowd the keeper – left
Run near post – down
Edge of box run – right
Run far post  – up
Taking better Throw-Ins

You can use the right joystick to control a player and take the ball when a throw-in occurs. This is much better than leaving it to chance. You can use the corresponding button to throw-in the ball directly to who you are controlling.

How would they raise the funds to pay the players?

Shouldn't 1 on 1 FIFA amateur be bigger as an esport? There are so abounding means to boggle with approach and formations and the way you can play these canicule that it is such a bold of chess in agreement of outthinking your opponent. I apperceive they accept the fifa alternating World Cup, but doesn't anyone accept there should be a abounding ambit for humans who are just absolutely acceptable at fifa?

How would they raise the funds to pay the players I hear you ask? Well, what I think they should do marketing wise is use the model of PDC darts, bill the players as "indoor athletes" because anyone who plays FIFA 15 coins knows that it takes a lot of time, effort, dedication and intelligence to be at a good level. So they could have the entrance themes for both players and make it like a boozy night out for spectators, which would make watching appealing to a far larger number of people.

How could they keep making it exciting? Well they could always create different concepts for tournaments, in the way that PDC darts does. They could have leagues, knockouts and seeding procedures, so that maybe the underdog gets to use the best team, or something like that.

Another idea is that they could do like an NFL draft type thing, where everyone in the tournament gets to pick one player at a time eventually comprising a squad, which then would be their squad for the rest of the competition.

I believe fifa should be bigger as an esport and I know a lot of you do as well.

If I get enough support with this message, I will write a letter to ea sports requesting that this should be done. Anything I should have mentioned please let me know. Also; feel free to add your own ideas to what I have said, I welcome alternate opinions.

FIFA 15 POTENTIAL WINTER UPGRADES

It's that time of year in the FIFA activity cycle, it's the Winter area EA Sports does their anniversary upgrades on Ultimate Team. These ambit from advance players low rated to even some of the best players in the game. Today we altercate some of those abeyant upgraded cards.

Alexandre Lacazette

Original

Upgraded

He's been on an absolute tear this season and deserves this upgrade. He's had two informs already and has had weeks were a third inform could have been given to him many times. While it may not seem like a major upgrade, this is one of the best cards from the Ligue 1 that could be paired up with Ibrahimovic or Cavani. There aren't many good strikers from that league so an 83 rated second inform card will skyrocket in price.

David De Gea

Original

Upgraded

By far the best goalkeeper in the Premier League this season, De Gea deserves this upgrade as he's quickly becoming one of the best in the world. He's also had two informs this season and is quickly getting to the point where he'll be the top pick over Iker Casillas (who has also been playing well). This would make him the second highest rated GK in the BPL behind Thibaut Courtois and tied with Petr Cech. His 87 rated second in-form will skyrocket in price as well.

Alexis Sanchez

Original

Upgraded

This man is easily a candidate for best player in the Premier League, as he's basically the only reason Arsenal is in 5th place right now. Without him the Gunners are at best mid-table. Another player with 2 IF cards, he deserves an upgrade of 3 as it reflects how good he really is this season. This would undoubtedly make him the most coveted right winger in the Premier League but it would also make him one of the best cards in the game. Over 90 in pace, dribbling and shot? Consider me excited as this is an upgrade that should and will happen. The likelihood that it's an 87 is low, but an 86 is probably what we'll get.

It'll be exciting to see, if there are any other players you think deserve an upgrade, let me know in the comments!

What do you think Ronaldo in Ballon d'Or?

Ballon d'Or is a political acceptance challenge area money talks and mainly goals matter. You alone accept to attending aback to the aspersion of 2013 and accept what happened again and why, if they continued the voting deadline. Anyone with a bisected a academician knows that they didnt wish Messi to win 5th Ballon d'Or on row because "it could accept fabricated the accolade beneath important." They aswell didnt wish Ribery to win it because he is not bankable abundant so they continued the vote a day afterwards Ronaldo had denticulate a hattrick adjoin Sweden and it was a big account everywhere and acutely afflicted the result.

Also, you cant compare these that are now won to the ones that were won 1955-2009. For instance Pele never won it and Maradona only once. So now that Ronaldo and Messi will most likely both win it like 4-6 times in the end, does that make them superior players to Maradona and Pele..? Of course not.

To add my few thoughts about the annual Ronaldo vs Messi (vs others) discussion. Humans absolutely put way too abundant accent alone on bulk of goals scored. If you attending at Ronaldo, a actual big procent of hes goals comes adjoin anemic teams in Spain and in the CL accumulation stage. (and just this division 30% of hes goals accept been penalties and just one alfresco the box) compared to the way he in fact performs in those 15-20 hardest amateur during a year, the aberration there is huge.

And I must say that people who actually watch the games must see the big difference in the way Messi and Ronaldo play and the biggest difference I would say is that even if Messi doesnt score a goal in a game, he could still be one of the best if not the best player on the field where as Ronaldo, if he doesnt score, he is usually pretty useless to hes team because of hes selfishness (shoots almost as much as Benzema, Bale and James all three combinet) the non-existent playmaking ability and defending.

And the Ronaldo advertising in 2013 and 2014 has been appealing asinine too. Just searching at their goals and assists per bold ratio, they are about identical. Just a little in favour of Ronaldo. With the advertising you would anticipate there is a huge gap and so alleged best year for Ronaldo and anemic year for Messi was 30 goals beneath than Messis 91 ambition year. Now there is the absolute gap. Not to even allocution some added important stats that are abandoned like key passes. This division in La Liga they are about the aforementioned but in CL afterwards 6 amateur Ronaldo has 6 key passes and Messi has 23.

So its sad how dark humans accept become just because of goals and use those mainly as an altercation in "who is the bigger player" discussion. Football imo is abundant added than just goals.

So to end, do you anticipate they fabricated Ballon d'Or worse in 2010, absolutely broke it in 2013 and aswell accede that maybe already both Ronaldo and Messi are out of the picture, this accolade will become added like it was afore 2010..?

TOTY card of Mega or Rare packs

While you still accept time to get your easily on the TOTY defenders and goalkeeper until Wednesday evening, we accept a quick heads-up for you now as FIFA 15 UT 50K packs as able-bodied as Mega Packs are now live.

This is basically EA’s way of saying that if you want a ‘better’ chance of getting TOTY Ramos or TOTY Neuer, you should spend your fifa 15 coins on the more expensive packs which supposedly have greater odds.

Just to remind you, the FIFA 15 50K packs come with 12 items, which are all gold and are all rare. The description states that every player you receive is top rated, so theoretically you are bound to get something you like for dropping 50K fifa coins on it.

The FIFA 15 Mega Packs are also live though. These cost 35K and offer a total of 30 items. These are quite good in terms of value in our opinion. 26 of the 30 items will be gold rated, while 18 of them will be rare so it’s not bad at all.

The question is though, what are the exact odds of finding a TOTY card inside of Mega or Rare packs compared to standard gold packs? Once again, it will all come down to luck but we hope that some of you have managed to pick out some of the new TOTY cards.

We see that EA get a bad acceptability on Twitter unfairly in our opinion, but are the allowance absolutely that bad if aperture these promo FIFA 15 packs?

Let us apperceive how abounding bargain fifa 15 bill you accept spent back TOTY went reside on Monday and if you accept managed to aces out any attenuate cards. Don’t overlook that the TOTY midfielders will be traveling reside after on Wednesday evening, so save some coins!

FIFA 15 be the released game

Given it 3 sessions over three days, unbelievable unfairness and double standards - can't score, opponent can.

Shooting was patched slightly but still broken but defending and goalkeeping has been patched massively so = can't score goals.

I thought this game was atrocious on release and said so BUT AT LEAST YOU COULD SCORE GOALS. The shoot button was even worse than now BUT if you used finesse or double-tap you could score. I even scored with quite a few headers. NOT NOW. I'm starting to agree with those who say the defending has been patched for noobs and it seems to have been 'helped' a bit TOO much. I'm not a hypocrite, I didn't much like the defending on release BUT I got used to it. But EA have patched the defending back to 14 levels or worse but NOT the shooting. And now thanks to the improved keepers, scoring is almost impossible in most games.

Sure, I got one or two aberration wins to deceive me that things were "back to normal" and that maybe I had abstruse how to annual and just bare added matches but again any time I face a appropriate adversary whom I according or actualize more/better affairs than, I don't win, I don't even score. It's not as if I am getting outplayed a lot of of the time. A lot of of my matches are even or I play hardly better/create bigger affairs BUT THEY DO NOT GO IN.

UNLESS you are my adversary in which case one or two of your shots will go in and you'll even get advice from CPU-induced errors (pushing my goalie up for a bend in the endure minute if I instructed no such thing, authoritative my CBs run into anniversary other) or refereeing decisions traveling one way.

In the endure bold I played  (30 mins anyway) he had two shots and denticulate both, I was apple-pie through on his babysitter alert and both got saved. You should accept apparent his additional goal...what a bruised attempt and yet it went in.

In the last game I played (30 mins anyway) he had two shots and scored both, I was clean through on his keeper twice and both got saved. You should have seen his second goal...what a lame shot and yet it went in.

Shooting in FIFA 15: HIGH. WIDE. SAVED. HIGH. WIDE. SAVED. Repeat ad nauseum.

In a match I played against a good player, I went behind to some weird and sudden burst of acceleration out of nowhere which put his striker through on my goal (of course he scored, at the other end it would have been saved) so I went crazy on pressure and attacking, I took LOTS of shots from outside the box and NOT A SINGLE ONE WAS ON TARGET. I've been playing since FIFA 12 (after a few years break). I know how to shoot and how shooting power works. This game is appalling, not my shooting.

In 13 or 14 at least some, probably all of these shots would have hit the goal and some corners would have resulted. I may even have scored one. But in 15....ALL went high or wide (mostly high). It's not as if I am so stupid as to not know when to let go of the shoot power button but in 15 there is no consistency, no happy medium, I was almost tapping it but you have to hold it down in 15 or else it's a weak, lame shot. If you do hold it down for slightly longer, it goes over the bar.

The only thing I can say "in defence" of this game is that I played a session or two on FIFA 14 and faced similar problems so maybe my account is being nerfed. But in 13 and 14 unfair losses came due to "other factors" and when that phase passed you could manage to get a few wins. This is just not happening in 15 and the broken, awful shooting has a lot to do with that. Shots don't go where you aim them to go and when they do, they're saved.

Generic height, middle of the goal or in the unlikely event you get it wide of the keeper but not wide of the goal, doesn't matter, it's still saved.

I played more than enough unfair matches in 13 and 14 so I'm not putting up with it for another year. At least in previous FIFAs I knew how to score and shots went where I wanted them to go, generally. You can't "master" the shooting by practice in 15 because it's so erratic, generic and oversentitive, it's like using semi or manual, the least bit of direction you put on a shot means it goes miles wide. Put no direction on it and it's straight at the keeper.

I've had enough of long spells of possession and passing and struggling to break down OP defences only to find that when I do my shots and headers will never go in (no reward) while one or two of my opponent's will go in. It's double standards, it's unfair and it's boring.

So I'm done. Boredom + unfairness + unrealism + EA nerfs the shooting just for the sake of change to make the same game engine look 'different this year' = I've had enough.

tl;dr version: too hard to score, shooting is broken, defences and goalies are supermen, opponent can score but you can't despite having better chances, unfair and boring, I'm not playing anymore.