Three Reasons for Career Mode Players to Try Ultimate Team in FIFA 16

[Gnemi]

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Maybe EA actually read this forum and noticed how upset everyone is with career mode, but rather than fixing the many issues they decided to once again not do anything and ask everyone to try UT.

PS: Notice the current patch being released? How many career mode fixes are there.........

lol...ZERO.

I now think we're stuck with whatever issues there are in FIFA 16 offline mode until next year, when they'll fix them. Of course, FIFA 17 will also have plenty of problems that won't be addressed with two meager patches.

EA really need to change their model for releases. I'd rather just subscribe to FIFA at this point. FIFA: Career Mode subscription. Shove all that UT garbage down the pokemon crowd's throats and get it away from me.

[Erithtotl]

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This year was the first year I didn't buy FIFA in like 5-6 years. I'm done with the game until they put some serious investment into the offline experience.

[Retropyro]

HAHAHAHA ......Hell no.

[Resurrection403]

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this thread brought to you be EA sports (kidding. but not really)

[dubcity]

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The negatives outweigh pretty much all the positives. Number 1 being you are at a severe disadvantage if you don't put additional money into the game. You just don't earn enough coins for playing each match to make it fun overall.

Nevermind the fact that playing people online is typically way more frustrating than fun. You're mostly playing against extremely competitive people, who are more interested in winning than having a fun gameplay experience. They would rather break the game and win via a glitch/exploit than lose fairly. It's a self-esteem thing for a lot of people, as sad as that sounds.

[Turbojugend]

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At the risk of sounding like a FUT apologist, it is possible to play FUT entirely offline and never spend a single dime. I've done it for years, mainly because I enjoy the card collection/trading aspect. You can compete in cup tournaments, TOTW challenges, and seasons with promotion, all offline.

Having said that, I've pretty much ditched FUT this year in favor of Career Mode. Even with its shortcomings it still is a more rewarding mode than FUT. For me the appeal of card collecting has worn off and the new Draft Mode is a bust. But the main negative is that FUT shoehorns you into playing with the default settings and six-minute halves, which just doesn't cut it.

[DirectFX]

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I hate everyone one of the UT for any of the sports games. I despise that they ever were included as they are just $$$ pits for game companies. I never got why see videos on YouTube of FUT players going crazy over opening up virtual packs for virtual players? It's a combo of fantasy football and Pokemon cards. Go play Pokemon or magic if u like virtual card games . There is absolutely zero realism in the games as the teams are all the same superstars and nothing like real teams. I remember getting excited in younger years open a real sports card pack and you pull a great rookie, jersey or auto but UT is just some horrible mix of games/cards that I just never get excited about or will ever spend more money on.

[10]

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I've never played the mode and never will but let me tell you why it's bad and so is everyone who plays it.

A lot of the reasons why fut is bad that are given here are pretty much wrong and based on assumptions and generalizations. You don't need to put in any money to get an advantage. You do need patience to play games to upgrade your team slowly and time to learn how to trade. The vast majority of my games (over 100, as high as division 2 so far) have not come against the people that abuse high pressure or other exploits. Sure those people exist but it's been far from the norm for me and a lot of other people. Most of these exploits are completely beatable if you know what you're doing also.

I completely agree career mode needs more features and attention. To tell everyone who plays fut to go play magic (not even sure what you're referring to here) pokemon or fantasy football (not interested in either of those) because you like a different mode more is laughable. Some of you made very good points, but nothing can convince some people to play online, which is completely fine! Try and convince me to play a highly unrealistic career mode filled with bad transfers, lack of depth and repetitive AI.

[KG]

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I don't understand the Pokemon jabs. To me UT reminds me of being a kid and buying baseball cards. You open packs and hope that you either get a card of value or a favorite player.


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[Turbojugend]

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To me UT reminds me of being a kid and buying baseball cards. You open packs and hope that you either get a card of value or a favorite player.

Exactly! That's what drew me into FUT in the first place, that old-timey feeling of collecting baseball cards. I can see why some people disagree with what it represents in today's market, but not everyone is a pace-abusing 12-year-old who spends their birthday gift cards on FUT coins. Like I said before, I've never spent money on FUT and managed to enjoy it for years.

As for the Pokemon comparisons, well, we shouldn't be throwing stones should we? Outside of the sports video game bubble we live in, the FIFA video game is a lot closer to playing Pokemon than playing the real sport.

[godquality01]

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And the FUT apologists are here. EA should do more for CM bcos if they spend half the time and manpower on CM as they do FUT, then our complain won't be that many would it?
Anyway I see no usefulness of FUT but who am I to judge? If anybody enjoys it then good for them. Why should I be excited to open a virtual card am I 10 years old or something or both?.

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[mfp]

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I don't understand the Pokemon jabs. To me UT reminds me of being a kid and buying baseball cards. You open packs and hope that you either get a card of value or a favorite player.


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Totally agree. And it's a lot of fun being able to try out so many different players.

Again, if they'd just let us change the half length settings for FUT single player, I'd play it a lot more. No idea why it's fixed to 6 minutes.

[10]

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And the FUT apologists are here.

Anyone with a differing viewpoint than mine is wrong and is an fut apologist!

EA should do more for CM bcos if they spend half the time and manpower on CM as they do FUT, then our complain won't be that many would it?

Aside from fut draft, the mode has had minimal changes over the last 4 years. There are also two different teams that work on fut and career mode.

Anyway I see no usefulness of FUT but who am I to judge?

He says, before calling people who play it 10 year olds and those who support it apologists. You also don't have a very good understanding of the word apologist.

If anybody enjoys it then good for them. Why should I be excited to open a virtual card am I 10 years old or something or both?.

Good stuff here. Not a good point or particularly insightful, but still good.

[onin9190]

Until they make FUT/MUT a mode where you don't spend actually money to get better players I will never contribute. This is why we say they care more about modes that bring in money. It's a shame that they charge us $60 for game that are worth half of that and still have the audacity to make us want to spend more money to acquire FUT/MUT card packs to get better players.

[ZekeRoberts]

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I haven't seen the biggest reason NOT to play FUT yet (at least for me)...

You can't change game speed or sliders on offline FUT. So it is truly a different game if you get used to making some settings changes in your CM. Also I am highly skeptical that FUT is wired the same as Default Normal to begin with. Whoever just said it is two different teams working on the two modes lends some validity to that theory....

(Really frustrates me too, because I WANT to enjoy FUT and I even shelled out the extra $10 for the deluxe version to get weekly packs... I can't believe I fell for that!)