Re: How's Your FIFA 14 Career Mode Going?
It's not bad and as you've pointed out, it's ostensibly better than doing what you described - buying the "superstar" or OP player agreed upon by the community.
I do neither.
I look at SOFIFA for guys that my team would REALISTICALLY pursue. E.g. - Same nationality as my manager or other players on the team, playing on a team where they're not playing much, etc.
The GTN does this to some extent, I'm sure, but it's an incredibly tedious mechanic. Six scouts running around and coming to me with a box full of turds to populate my football team is not entirely interesting nor is it efficient.
I can use the plentiful filters available through SOFIFA to do the very same thing. In other words, I prefer doing the scouting, scouring, and scrubbing of data myself rather than leave it up to a poorly written piece of EA code masquerading as some form of feature.
There is a 10% chance I've rushed to judgment and now that I'm playing FIFA '14 on a PC where the tedium of a slow PS3 isn't plaguing my experience, I'll give the GTN another shot. However, I think hiding the OVR of players is neither compelling nor realistic. In the modern age, scouts are just as incestuous as the FIFA nerds @ Operation Sports when it comes to drooling over talent and the "agreed upon superstars" of the footballing world.
Furthermore, it's preposterous to create a feature in 2013 (where realism is concerned aka. the world wide web / modern communications) that basically implies that scouting of talent is so crude that a football club has to send six punters with clipboards all over the planet before they can determine whether or not Juan Mata is a good footballer.
I get that it adds to gameplay for some of you so far be it from me to talk you out of it, but it's hardly realistic. It might be deeper, sure, but it comes with a heavy price tag for me: TEDIUM.
It's not bad and as you've pointed out, it's ostensibly better than doing what you described - buying the "superstar" or OP player agreed upon by the community.
I do neither.
I look at SOFIFA for guys that my team would REALISTICALLY pursue. E.g. - Same nationality as my manager or other players on the team, playing on a team where they're not playing much, etc.
The GTN does this to some extent, I'm sure, but it's an incredibly tedious mechanic. Six scouts running around and coming to me with a box full of turds to populate my football team is not entirely interesting nor is it efficient.
I can use the plentiful filters available through SOFIFA to do the very same thing. In other words, I prefer doing the scouting, scouring, and scrubbing of data myself rather than leave it up to a poorly written piece of EA code masquerading as some form of feature.
There is a 10% chance I've rushed to judgment and now that I'm playing FIFA '14 on a PC where the tedium of a slow PS3 isn't plaguing my experience, I'll give the GTN another shot. However, I think hiding the OVR of players is neither compelling nor realistic. In the modern age, scouts are just as incestuous as the FIFA nerds @ Operation Sports when it comes to drooling over talent and the "agreed upon superstars" of the footballing world.
Furthermore, it's preposterous to create a feature in 2013 (where realism is concerned aka. the world wide web / modern communications) that basically implies that scouting of talent is so crude that a football club has to send six punters with clipboards all over the planet before they can determine whether or not Juan Mata is a good footballer.
I get that it adds to gameplay for some of you so far be it from me to talk you out of it, but it's hardly realistic. It might be deeper, sure, but it comes with a heavy price tag for me: TEDIUM.
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