Improvements for Fifa 09 to Fifa2010

[jelexVlijmen]

Everybody is loving the game. But we need to have some critisism here. Even though I am addicted to the game. (in 1,5 months since the game came out I played about 300 online games)

MY POINTS ARE ONLY BASED ON GAMEPLAY OF THE GAME AND NOT EXPANSIONS OF THE GAME TYPES

I REALLY HOPE EA WILL DO SOMETHING WITH MY POINTERS

First of all the “Better teams” as Man U and Barcelona (5 star teams in General) are really annoying to play against. Someone who cannot play the game well can just simply fire a shot with Ronaldo 35 meters from the goal and it goes in very easily. To easy if you ask me.


Also the difference between players with a rating of 85+ and players between 78 and 85 is way too big. This causes automatically that everyone will play with the 5 star teams only. This is very shamefull for the game since there are many other nice teams to play with. We have to keep in mind that 90% of the players in this game have rating below 78. So therefore I think players with Rating 78-85 should be little better. And the difference less to 85+ players.


Maybe it is a good idea to change the points for the ranking. Purely make it so that you get really low points for winning with 5 star teams in general. It is very frustrating to see that if you play 20 games in one evening that over 15 matches team were against Man U and Barca ( I do not want to point at any one, as I also sometimes play with Barca just to get some extra points:-) )

One more thing is that if the connection with Internet is lost due to internet connection you should not loose points. It should only give you the points if you close the game or if you select on purpose Quit game.

THE MOST IMPORTANT thing I would like to see improved is the defending. You people from EA say: “You have to learn your defending abilities”
(it was in an interview for Gamespot.com) “Defending is an art in this game”. That is completely true.
It is completely impossible to do good defending. Defenders even from 5 star teams (players which are earning millions per year and which have a rating 80+) can’t even proparly keep the ball to their feet.
They are always running the wrong way. Or holding/stopping runnning for a sec so the attacker can run through.

Also it is very annoying that quite some time defenders are just standing still looking at the ball and doing nothing. Same here for the goalie. You want to let the keeper come out but it just does not come.

I want to point out that I like attacking football better than defending football. But Defending football is very important part of the game. But like said with the current AI settings it is merely impossible. I tried out multiple settings of my team to prevent this but it does not help.
Long balls that are played over heads of defenders, which every defender could head easily back to the keeper in real life, fall in Fifa 09 in front of the feet of attackers.
If a defender is 80+ it should really be tough to get past them. But that is absolutely not the case. I sometimes have the idea that you can just as easily play with a team of defenders of 60-70. It does not make a difference. They are only a little slower.

This automaticall brings back the first point if you play against a player which is worse than you and you play with 4 star or minus team and then against 5 star they again fire a shot from 35 yards and it goes in.
VERY frustrating.

I would like to see some more possible settings for my team. So that you can give settings per player specific. For instance if you put a very offensive player on position RM and a defensive player on LM. The settings that you select are effecting all midfielders and I want only one player to be offensive and not both.

Thanks for reading this large post. And probably I have put t in the wrong spot. I am a bad searcher. There is probably already a topic about this.

Keep making the game as addictive as it is now.
PS3 Fifa name Jelex
currently level 11