Rant: What happened to the game I love?

What’s happening to EA? Why each year the game gets less enjoyable than the year before?

I never posted a rant before, but this year I literally lost my love for the game.

I’m a full time employee, I play every day around 2- hours during the evening on weekdays. I consider myself a good player since I’m always in Division 1 and I usually reach Elite by July/Aug of every year. I don’t grind the game and don’t do much SBc’s (don’t have that much time, I’m a casual player).

This year just feels different, the market price of players is at an all time low, way too many Evos that’s ruining the game (I loved Evos when they first introduced in Fc24, but they’re ridiculous now), females being physically stronger than men in gameplay (Pina literally shoulders Van Dijk easily), everyone plays the same rat formation and use the same META players (Pina, Pfeiffer and others are literally on every team I play against) and the goalkeepers are horrible.

What happened to Past & Present teams? What happened to people representing a certain nation with their team? What happened to unique teams in general? Everyone nowadays have the exact same team just because of META players.

In previous games I would be jumping if I packed a 94 rated player in April; this year a 94 rated in April is useless! Way too many promos so our teams lose value extremely fast. If I don’t play for 2 weeks the power curve makes my team useless,… So many things are wrong.

And last but not least, the gameplay. I don’t mind losing games to better players, I really don’t. But when I’m having 17 shots per game and the goalkeeper saves them all, and I concede 4 goals from 4 shots despite having the same goalkeeper as the opponent, that would be totally unacceptable! (it happened to me 4 games in a row yesterday which was the nail in the coffin for me hahaha). Scripting is disgusting.

Sorry for the long rant, I’m just fed up.