Feedback / Issues with Manager Mode

[UK Jack Bauer]

Somebody suggested I make a categorical list so that all the problems can be passed on more easily to the various departments of the development team. So here you go!


LISTED CATEGORICALLY


Crashing, freezing and saving issues

1) There is a strange Manager Mode freezing bug that doesn't allow you to progress any further, usually preceded by this error. [SCREENSHOT]
2) It has been reported that with some people transfers “lock” altogether after a certain amount of seasons (being linked to a disc problem). [INCIDENT 1]
59) When saving a Manager Mode game, when it's finished saving, why are you prompted to save your profile as well? This is with autosave turned on!
74) The Manager Mode freeze bug on the simulating screen, that was present in FIFA 09, is back. [ALL REPORTED INCIDENTS]


Assistant Manager and AI manager issues [poor decision making etc.]

15) The assistant manager, even when turned off, will swap your players around when you buy or sell a player. Player roles are also reset.
16) The assistant manager AI is terrible. It will choose players with no fitness (10%-20%) to play out of position, over players with 100% fitness who can play in that position. See below for more info.
17) The AI management of other clubs is terrible. Examples; Chelsea play Terry at LB with Cole at CB in the same match, Man Utd play Vidic and Ferdinand as LB/RB with Brown and Evra as CBs in the same match, Giggs gets played at LB occasionally, etc. etc. etc.


Tactical and Team Management issues [all teams below EPL having the same tactics etc.]

3) All teams below the Premier League have their tactics set to all-70s. Applies to other leagues/teams as well, see Australia, Brazil and others.
28) The overall rating of a player changes before/during the game. So if one of my strikers has an overall rating of 83 (including his form), when I pause the game and go to Team Management his rating can drop by 10+. What value is actually being used by the game? The pre-game rating or the paused-game rating?
33) When you have a player injured, the game forces you to remove him from your team before going to the pre-game screen. You don't want to remove him from your first-choice team, you want to remove him at the pre-match team management screen, like in FIFA 09. But now you can't do that.
54) In the Squad Management screen before a fixture, set it to display the OVR rather than fatigue bar, then select a reserve and swap him with another reserve. I've seen both of their OVRs change.
55) The Edit Formation screen is buggy. If you nudge one position around, then go to change the role of another position, it thinks the second position is where the first is. Sometimes it'll move it so they overlap, and you have to drag it back to where you want it. This was also the case in FIFA 09.


Injury issues [they never seem to happen etc.]

20) I’ve seen one injury in two seasons; Marcel promised this lack of injuries – and especially this lack of SERIOUS injuries – was fixed for FIFA 10. This is simply not true. The most widely reported injury is whiplash, which isn't a common injury, and which only affects the player for a week.
21) Injuries don’t last for a long enough period of time. For example, a hamstring injury should keep a player out for a month – in FIFA 10 it’s a week.


Board issues [getting the sack, expectations etc.]

13) The board sack you even if you occupy first place. You can expect to be fired at the mid-way point of the season if you lose a cup game, even if you’re in the top four of the league, especially in the Premier League. Even in the lower leagues, I’ve seen situations where games are won 6-0 every week for months and suddenly you’re fired the moment you draw 1-1.
14) When playing against teams who are better than you, your board always expect you to beat that team. I mostly play as a League 1 team, and if I’m beaten by a Championship or Premier League side I get a board comment that states I was “expected to win the game”, and occasionally you will get the sack for this. This may be because teams aren’t recognised in their correct division; for example, when losing against a team from the league above you, you will occasionally get a message that says you should have done better against “lower league opposition”.
37) As a manager with a reputation level of half-a-star, you sometimes get comments from the board that “a manager of your calibre should be performing better”.
38) You lose respect with the board when losing a game on penalties. You should be given the same increase/decrease you would be given for a draw rather than a win/loss in these circumstances (if I play as a one star team against Man United and lose on penalties, I shouldn't have my relationship with the board suffer because of it).
57) Your board can give you an objective, e.g. avoid relegation, but you're given no indication as to where the relegation zone is, e.g. playing as a Polish league side the board objectives for the first season are to get to the QF of the cup and to "aviod the relegation zone". Where is it? Bottom 3? Bottom 2? I'm in position 14 out of 16, how are we supposed to know if that's safe?
58) The board will often tell you to invest in new players, when the transfer window is closed and there's nothing you can do about it.


Transfer issues [signed players disappearing etc.]

5) Players you loan out can be sold by the clubs you loaned them to.
6) Newly signed players vanish from your squad with no warning. They just disappear, and then if you look them up they’re playing for someone else.
7) When trying to sign a second loan player, sometimes I am told by the game that I already have two – when I only have one.
8) When signing two loan players, I then tried to (permanently) sign two free agents, and I’m told I can’t sign them because I “already have two players on loan”.
11) Signing players is practically impossible, even when offering maximum wages and maximum bonuses, even if you can get their interest level up to 85%+. (Even if you start out as a manager with no reputation, you should be able to sign really poor players with no reputation who aren’t getting first-team football elsewhere.)
12) Signing your own players is just as difficult, regardless of how well the team is doing. They refuse to sign even when you offer the maximum wages allowed. But if you wait until the end of the season, you get the same screen you get in FIFA 09 where you can just tick a box to re-sign a player and they will sign for peanuts! Strange one!
34) Often you are not told why a player has refused to sign for you. No explanation is given on the Negotiation History screen for these players and it seems that they are never permitted to sign for your club, for no apparent reason. You never get an explanation for the affected players.
35) Sometimes when trying to sign a player they’ll say e.g. they get a “bad vibe” from your current players. Try to sign them again next week and they’ll sign for you. Doesn’t make much sense.
36) You can list a player for sale/loan who is garbage, e.g. 42 overall when the rest of the players in your squad/division are 60+, and instantly you get offers from the top teams in your division/country for him. Sometimes even top-flight teams from other countries make an offer; they have no possible reason to loan in a player who is literally twice as bad as any other player they have. It seems that every player you ever list you MUST receive an offer for, even if they are terrible, and it’s always a good team that has no need for a poor player which shows interest.
43) Some players will sign for a club and then the next week they’ll have signed for somebody else!
45) When buying a player, they are given a squad number already in use, and it messes up the squad numbers for the entire team. Why can’t they be given a number that isn’t in use?
52) People are reporting that they can go from having millions to spend to being BILLIONS in debt. [INCIDENT 1] [INCIDENT 2]
53) For the new season it was said by the development team that you receive new transfer funds and a new wage budget to reflect the new income for that season. People are reporting they start the new season with the same money they ended the last one. [INCIDENT 1]
68) Some people are experiencing an issue where the transfer window is listed as having "one week left" when there's actually e.g. four weeks left. Also in some circumstances the transfer window continuously says that there is "one week left" and it gets stuck like this forever.
69) This has been reported by a Manager Mode player suffering from the transfer window bug where the game says there is "one week left" when there are actually e.g. four weeks left. "I put players up for sale until the message came up that said the board will not allow you to sell any more players. I left it at eight players, and now that the transfer window is open, none of the players are set as for sale and I get that same board message as soon as I try to list a player. It's like it remembers I listed the players but it forgets it took all of them off sale itself."
73) Starting a Manager Mode game as Notts County, a forum user signed a free agent called Andros Townsend and he appears in the squad twice. This kind of thing is being more widely reported now.


Form and fitness issues [teams constantly rebounding between star levels etc.]

18) The effect of form is far too severe. It makes your team go up/down by a whole star rating within a few games, so with a 3 star team you can yoyo to 2 star and weeks later 4 star.
19) The form system seems to be totally random. I can win 2-3 games in a row by 2-3 goals and the form will get worse. A striker can score six goals in a game and his form will DROP!
29) Form should never affect physical attributes. For example, a striker who is on hot form wouldn’t see his pace increase.
30) Playing as a League 1/2 team, you have literally no fit players left after 3-5 games of the season. I don’t care how bad your fitness coach is, a group of professional players would have enough players fit to start a game after 3-5 games of the season. (You’re forced to spend £1m to upgrade your fitness coach to a realistic level.)
32) When simming games instead of playing them, two things to note. Firstly, the level of your fitness coach isn’t taken into account, so the players lose 25%-75% more fitness than they should. Secondly, when simming, you actually get to see some injuries! Plus they last for a decent period of time (e.g. metacarpal fracture, player out for four weeks)!


Stadium and graphical issues [forever playing in the same conditions etc.]

9) 90% of matches in England are played at night in the rain regardless of stadium choice. I’ve yet to see a match played in the daytime with sunny weather.
10) Seasonal changes don’t seem to affect the weather. So in England, in the summer, you will see rain and even snow with no games being played in sunshine.
22) When playing in the snow the ball used is white, which is incredibly difficult to see, and you can’t change the ball yourself.
31) The league table that shows up at the start of each game is never correct (same as FIFA 09). It always shows you in 6th-9th position regardless of whether you’re in the top half or the bottom half of the table, and your opponents are shown in an incorrect position as well.
46) A stadium will never fill up with people. I can play a Champions League match against a five-star team and all stands will still have large empty sections.
48) Occasionally the wrong stadium picture is displayed pre-game. For example when playing at the Emirates a picture of (what looked to be) the training ground was displayed.


Stats issues [player ratings etc.]

4) All assists are credited to the goalkeeper.
39) The leader of the assist list seems to be the player who keeps the most clean sheets.
40) Players who are substituted show no ratings at full-time. So if my striker gets a hat-trick and I substitute him, his rating is blank after the game. (Yet substituted players can receive Man of the Match awards, so a rating must be getting calculated by the game? I presume they’re just not being displayed?)
41) Goals/assists that occur in cup competitions, e.g. the FA Cup, aren’t counted in the player’s statistics. Also goals from the Charity Shield game aren't counted and yet the game itself counts as a game played.
56) The OVR number disappeared from a player's bio. It used to be next to the player's list of positions. Why has it been removed?
63) For some reason only ten characters are permitted for first names and surnames now, when this wasn't the case in FIFA 09.
64) Friendly games (possibly Community Shield and cup games too) are counted as league games on the Manager History screen. So the recorded points/league position is false.


Incorrect data issues [wrong number of substitutions allowed etc.]

23) Only 5 benched substitutes are allowed in FIFA 10 below the Premier League. All English league and cup competitions now allow 7 substitutes in reality.
24) Friendly games should allow 12 substitutes on the bench (and also you should be allowed to use all 12). Currently it’s restricted to 7 on the bench (with only 3 substitutions allowed).
26) FA Cup games and the Community Shield game are played at night when they’re only ever played in the daytime now, including the final.
51) People playing as League Two teams (e.g. Bury) are reporting that they are not entered into the English league cup competition.
60) The Belgian league is missing playoffs.
61) The new Europa League format is not in the game.


Scheduling issues [playing two games within 48 hours etc.]

25) Friendly games include matches against teams in your own division. This doesn’t usually happen in reality.
62) Incorrect teams make it into European competition. As someone has said, "I got 4th in career mode but a team that ended up 12th goes to europa league while I don't". [INCIDENT 1]
67) Teams from lower English leagues are appearing in European competitions which they shouldn't be eligible to appear in. [INCIDENT 1]


Scouting issues [wrong data being reported etc.]

42) When scouted players are presented to you for purchase, they are always said to play on the opposite side to their preferred foot. For example, a left winger will always be shown to prefer their right foot. Yet if you buy the player, most of the time, they will actually prefer the appropriate foot.


Player search issues [filter constantly being reset etc.]

44) When searching for players their form ratings are displayed, rather than their actual ratings. This means you have no idea what the player’s actual ratings are.
47) The player search parameters you input will reset when bidding on a player. So if you search for e.g. a defender, CB, rated 50-60, playing in League Two, then you bid on one and you want to search for a midfielder with the same rating, the parameters have been reset meaning you have to input each one again.


Shortlist issues [shortlisted players not accepting your offers with no explanation etc.]

27) The shortlist was supposed to allow up to 20 players to be stored, but seems to only allow 10 players.


Created player issues [trying to purchase created players crashing the game etc.]

49) Creating a player (not a Virtual Pro) to sign in your Manager Mode career seems incredibly difficult/buggy. If you create a player and assign him to the free agents pool, the game freezes. If you assign him to a national team, he doesn’t show up as a free agent in Manager Mode. If you assign him to a national team and THEN move him to the free agents pool, you won’t be able to find him anywhere but in the “Created Players” section and you’ll see that his assigned team is referred to as something like "team1932as12309" – you can’t then find this team/player in Manager Mode to sign the player.


Commentary/sound issues [incorrect statistics spoken about etc.]

50) Commentary gaffes happen every 1-2 games, e.g. “5 minutes to go and they lead 1-0” when it’s 1-1, “I have to say he’s on one of the worst runs of his career” when he’s already scored in the match you’re playing, etc. etc. etc. and also, when playing as your Virtual Pro, you find the commentary refers to you scoring your 20th goal every time you score once you’ve reached that point. So for example when you score your 21st goal the commentator will say it’s your 20th, etc. (not sure if this only applies to Manager Mode or other modes as well).

70) Going 5 games unbeaten is recognised as winning 5 games in a row from the commentators.

71) Commentators falsely call Pienaar captain even when the captain is set to Cahill.

72) Crowd noise, for derby games, has a major bug where the home team support goes silent if they score. Play as a London team against Arsenal at the Emirates and when they score, instead of the crowd shouting or cheering, the crowd fall deathly silent while the Arsenal players celebrate. At kick-off, the noise level returns to normal.


In-game issues [substitutions etc.]

65) CPU substituted players remain on the field. Example; playing as Blackburn against Bolton, they subbed Kevin Davies for Elmander and you see the animation of him going off - couple of minutes later you notice he's still on the pitch and nearly scores a header.

66 Players sent off after 30 minutes can still win the Man of the Match award, which is ridiculous.

[chucky_uk]

Originally Posted by Placebo

Sensible advice and the guy gets slaughtered, welcome to the EA forums.....

I learned the habit of making multiple saves years and years ago, you're always at risk of losing your save if you're relying on just 1 save, if the game doesn't corrupt it then the hard drive could, if the hard drive doesn't corrupt it then the memory card could, have none of you ever had the electricity drop out whilst you're in the middle of a game? What do you think happens if you're saving your game at that point? Never had a family member walk past the TV, step on the console power pack and accidentally unplug it? What do you think happens if you're saving your game at that point?

Was the said person wearing flippers when they walked past???

[manofsteel75]

I still want to be able to put my full surname in as a manager but it's limited to only 10 characters. It wasn't like that in fifa09!

Can we add that faux pas to the list?

[Djbugu11]

quick question WHO TEST'S THE GAME BEFORE ITS RELEASE? .....cause i havent read one good feed back to manager mode as yet.....and not to mention the gameface AND online play 0_o

[iScoTTyy]

Read this thread says it all ...

http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/f...ager-mode.html

It's actly a joke and really really needs to get sorted soon before everybody has anoth of it.

Ifnot its £40 less i'll be spending next year..

Joke

[shadow82mi]

Hi guys,I`d like to know if those bugs are on both consolles because last year in fifa 09/ps3 there were more bugs than in the xbox360 version,especially in the gameplay(ex.:famous crub walking)and adv rule.ea didn`t admit this fact but I`ve got xbox360 and ps3 and I can say you the true!!!fifa soccer runs better on xbox.so now I have to decide for wich consolle I have to buy the game.could you help me???or better:have I to buy the game or turning on pes after 3 years???tanks for your attenction.

[slothbd]

Please EA just tell us something!!! I don't want to play this game...and that saddens me

[LUFC-CARLOS]

i love the game but im finding it very tempting to snap the disk it's lalalalaing me off that much. just lost another player, this time i got the money but didn't even get a message asking me to accept or reject the offer or even a message with an offer. this is the lalalalaing THIRD! time it has happened and the times before i didn't even get the money!
i want my money back for this game now, at least then i can wait for pro evo where they won't cut so many lalalalalalalaing corners and actually test the game, why release the game if it isn't finish you fools?

[THE5RIVERS]

Hey guys, David Rutter has posted in the Fifa 10 PS3/360 MM sticky. EA have received the MM bug list that was compiled by Chris Davies (UK Jack Bauer).

Manager Mode Questions and Answers

[MrMoose]

Jack Bauer - one more for the stats section. Friendly results count in the W-L-D and points statistics in the Manager Stats screen. So in a Premiership season, it will look like you've played 42 games, with anything from 0-12 extra points shoved on the end of your season total.

There's no way anyone at EA tested MM for more than 20 minutes.

[osiris7786]

In QaA marcel said that he plays 7 seasons in MM......so i have a question.....he never had one of this bugs ??? in 7 seasons?? strange....but ok

[zerominty]

Oringinal thread is amazing...spot on uk jack bauer, but im affraid youve wasted your time, E.A WILL NOT FIX EVEN 1/4 OF THE ISSUES YOU STATED.!!! when you right it down in a list form like you have, wow you can see we have all been ripped off for a beta....E.A if they had any customer service would answer the 1000000000000000000000000000000 threads regarding bugs, glitchs and damn right lalalala programing. but i wont be holding my breath.

[Weegian01]

Originally Posted by zerominty

...E.A if they had any customer service would answer the 1000000000000000000000000000000 threads regarding bugs, glitchs and damn right lalalala programing. but i wont be holding my breath.

My thoughts exactly no one from EA has addressed these issues with direct answers since release.

C'mon EA give us some communication on this.

[ManUman1690]

Originally Posted by Weegian01

My thoughts exactly no one from EA has addressed these issues with direct answers since release.

C'mon EA give us some communication on this.

I hope EA will fix this, but i agree with you i doubt that they will.

With all the build up for Manager Mode this season, like everyone else its been a big let down, i didn't relize how many mistakes and bugs there were until i read thru that list, as i'm going thru the list one by one i seen alot of them that i have seen in game, some that have been there for the past seasons.

Another thing that they didn't fix was for Swedish & Norwegian clubs to enter European competition after winning their league.

[Placebo]

Originally Posted by ManUman1690

Another thing that they didn't fix was for Swedish & Norwegian clubs to enter European competition after winning their league.

In fairness we were told in advance this wouldn't be fixed, it's the stuff we were told that would be fixed and isn't that's the most annoying, and of course the 50+ new bugs they managed to introduce and somehow not pick up during alpha/beta/gold master.

[ForrestInc]

Wow.

The list of MM bugs is very worrying. Looks unfixable with just a patch.

[ManUman1690]

The Audio guy had promised more focus on the clubs position in the table during a game, if they were top of the league, maybe they are playing the 2nd or 3rd placed teams, there is none of that here.

[chucky_uk]

Originally Posted by osiris7786

In QaA marcel said that he plays 7 seasons in MM......so i have a question.....he never had one of this bugs ??? in 7 seasons?? strange....but ok

He must be playing with different code if he hasn't noticed it, or he could be David Blunkett in disguise

[LUFC-CARLOS]

think i've found a new glitch, i can sign any player thats for sale aslong as i make sure he is the maximum he can be interested in your club, and for the lowest ammount i can possibley pay for them.

for example if essien is up for sale for 14million i offer chelsea the lowest that the game will let me so like 6million and aslong as the player is interested which they always are you can sign him.

so basically my point is why the hell would chelsea take 8 million less than there asking price?

[xoferbean]

Oi, EA you lalalalain' thieves. There are thousands of fans thoroughly lalalalaed off at you guys for this lalalalae game that you've released when it isn't even finished. Tell us if you're going to fix these problems or if we need to return the lalalalain' game and get the money back that you've nicked and are probably already spending on child-prostitutes. How dare you start a feedback thread and then ignore the feedback. Hopefully swearing will get a reply of you lalalalas.

[Jax_demon]

(26) FA Cup games are all played at night when they’re only ever played in the daytime now, including the final.

And FA Community Shield.

[xoferbean]

I suggest someone replies to us and EA recalls the game. It's been a pathetic waste of my time.

[Jax_demon]

Originally Posted by UK Jack Bauer

Somebody suggested I make a categorical list so that all the problems can be passed on more easily to the various departments of the development team. So here you go!


LISTED CATEGORICALLY


Crashing, freezing and saving issues

1) The Manager Mode freezing bug (where you can’t progress without your console locking up) still occurs. One person has suffered from this and noticed that in his last save before this occurs, one of his midfielders changed into a goalkeeper with no name, and his overall rating becomes “-10118”. Apparently downloading the latest squad file and loading the game again can fix the situation. [SCREENSHOT]
2) It has been reported that with some people transfers “lock” altogether after a certain amount of seasons (being linked to a disc problem). [INCIDENT 1]
60) When saving a Manager Mode game, when it's finished saving, why are you prompted to save your profile as well? This is with autosave turned on!


Assistant Manager and AI manager issues [poor decision making etc.]

15) The assistant manager, even when turned off, will sometimes swap your players around. Player roles are also reset.
16) The assistant manager AI is terrible. It will choose players with no fitness (10%-20%) to play out of position, over players with 100% fitness who can play in that position. See below for more info.
17) The AI management of other clubs is terrible. Examples; Chelsea play Terry at LB with Cole at CB in the same match, Man Utd play Vidic and Ferdinand as LB/RB with Brown and Evra as CBs in the same match, Giggs gets played at LB occasionally, etc. etc. etc.


Tactical and Team Management issues [all teams below EPL having the same tactics etc.]

3) All teams below the Premier League have their tactics set to all-70s. Applies to other leagues/teams as well, see Australia, Brazil and others.
2 The overall rating of a player changes before/during the game. So if one of my strikers has an overall rating of 83 (including his form), when I pause the game and go to Team Management his rating can drop by 10+. What value is actually being used by the game? The pre-game rating or the paused-game rating?
33) When you have a player injured, the game forces you to remove him from your team before going to the pre-game screen. You don't want to remove him from your first-choice team, you want to remove him at the pre-match team management screen, like in FIFA 09. But now you can't do that.
45) When selling a player, the whole squad gets moved around. Player roles are also moved around.
55) In the Squad Management screen before a fixture, set it to display the OVR rather than fatigue bar, then select a reserve and swap him with another reserve. I've seen both of their OVRs change.
56) The Edit Formation screen is buggy. If you nudge one position around, then go to change the role of another position, it thinks the second position is where the first is. Sometimes it'll move it so they overlap, and you have to drag it back to where you want it. This was also the case in FIFA 09.


Injury issues [they never seem to happen etc.]

20) I’ve seen one injury in two seasons; Marcel promised this lack of injuries – and especially this lack of SERIOUS injuries – was fixed for FIFA 10. This is simply not true. The most widely reported injury is whiplash, which isn't a common injury, and which only affects the player for a week.
21) Injuries don’t last for a long enough period of time. For example, a hamstring injury should keep a player out for a month – in FIFA 10 it’s a week.


Board issues [getting the sack, expectations etc.]

13) The board sack you even if you occupy first place. You can expect to be fired at the mid-way point of the season if you lose a cup game, even if you’re in the top four of the league, especially in the Premier League. Even in the lower leagues, I’ve seen situations where games are won 6-0 every week for months and suddenly you’re fired the moment you draw 1-1.
14) When playing against teams who are better than you, your board always expect you to beat that team. I mostly play as a League 1 team, and if I’m beaten by a Championship or Premier League side I get a board comment that states I was “expected to win the game”, and occasionally you will get the sack for this. This may be because teams aren’t recognised in their correct division; for example, when losing against a team from the league above you, you will occasionally get a message that says you should have done better against “lower league opposition”.
37) As a manager with a reputation level of half-a-star, you sometimes get comments from the board that “a manager of your calibre should be performing better”.
3 You lose respect with the board when losing a game on penalties. You should be given the same increase/decrease you would be given for a draw rather than a win/loss in these circumstances (if I play as a one star team against Man United and lose on penalties, I shouldn't have my relationship with the board suffer because of it).
5 Your board can give you an objective, e.g. avoid relegation, but you're given no indication as to where the relegation zone is, e.g. playing as a Polish league side the board objectives for the first season are to get to the QF of the cup and to "aviod the relegation zone". Where is it? Bottom 3? Bottom 2? I'm in position 14 out of 16, how are we supposed to know if that's safe?
59) The board will often tell you to invest in new players, when the transfer window is closed and there's nothing you can do about it.


Transfer issues [signed players disappearing etc.]

5) Players you loan out can be sold by the clubs you loaned them to.
6) Newly signed players vanish from your squad with no warning. They just disappear, and then if you look them up they’re playing for someone else.
7) When trying to sign a second loan player, sometimes I am told by the game that I already have two – when I only have one.
When signing two loan players, I then tried to (permanently) sign two free agents, and I’m told I can’t sign them because I “already have two players on loan”.
11) Signing players is practically impossible, even when offering maximum wages and maximum bonuses, even if you can get their interest level up to 85%+. (Even if you start out as a manager with no reputation, you should be able to sign really poor players with no reputation who aren’t getting first-team football elsewhere.)
12) Signing your own players is just as difficult, regardless of how well the team is doing. They refuse to sign even when you offer the maximum wages allowed. But if you wait until the end of the season, you get the same screen you get in FIFA 09 where you can just tick a box to re-sign a player and they will sign for peanuts! Strange one!
34) Often you are not told why a player has refused to sign for you. No explanation is given on the Negotiation History screen for these players and it seems that they are never permitted to sign for your club, for no apparent reason. You never get an explanation for the affected players.
35) Sometimes when trying to sign a player they’ll say e.g. they get a “bad vibe” from your current players. Try to sign them again next week and they’ll sign for you. Doesn’t make much sense.
36) You can list a player for sale/loan who is garbage, e.g. 42 overall when the rest of the players in your squad/division are 60+, and instantly you get offers from the top teams in your division/country for him. Sometimes even top-flight teams from other countries make an offer; they have no possible reason to loan in a player who is literally twice as bad as any other player they have. It seems that every player you ever list you MUST receive an offer for, even if they are terrible, and it’s always a good team that has no need for a poor player which shows interest.
43) Some players will sign for a club and then the next week they’ll have signed for somebody else!
46) When buying a player, they are given a squad number already in use, and it messes up the squad numbers for the entire team. Why can’t they be given a number that isn’t in use?
53) People are reporting that they can go from having millions to spend to being BILLIONS in debt. [INCIDENT 1] [INCIDENT 2]
54) For the new season it was said by the development team that you receive new transfer funds and a new wage budget to reflect the new income for that season. People are reporting they start the new season with the same money they ended the last one. [INCIDENT 1]


Form and fitness issues [teams constantly rebounding between star levels etc.]

1 The effect of form is far too severe. It makes your team go up/down by a whole star rating within a few games, so with a 3 star team you can yoyo to 2 star and weeks later 4 star.
19) The form system seems to be totally random. I can win 2-3 games in a row by 2-3 goals and the form will get worse. A striker can score six goals in a game and his form will DROP!
29) Form should never affect physical attributes. For example, a striker who is on hot form wouldn’t see his pace increase.
30) Playing as a League 1/2 team, you have literally no fit players left after 3-5 games of the season. I don’t care how bad your fitness coach is, a group of professional players would have enough players fit to start a game after 3-5 games of the season. (You’re forced to spend £1m to upgrade your fitness coach to a realistic level.)
32) When simming games instead of playing them, two things to note. Firstly, the level of your fitness coach isn’t taken into account, so the players lose 25%-75% more fitness than they should. Secondly, when simming, you actually get to see some injuries! Plus they last for a decent period of time (e.g. metacarpal fracture, player out for four weeks)!


Stadium and graphical issues [forever playing in the same conditions etc.]

9) 90% of matches in England are played at night in the rain regardless of stadium choice. I’ve yet to see a match played in the daytime with sunny weather.
10) Seasonal changes don’t seem to affect the weather. So in England, in the summer, you will see rain and even snow with no games being played in sunshine.
22) When playing in the snow the ball used is white, which is incredibly difficult to see, and you can’t change the ball yourself.
31) The league table that shows up at the start of each game is never correct (same as FIFA 09). It always shows you in 6th-9th position regardless of whether you’re in the top half or the bottom half of the table, and your opponents are shown in an incorrect position as well.
47) A stadium will never fill up with people. I can play a Champions League match against a five-star team and all stands will still have large empty sections.
49) Occasionally the wrong stadium picture is displayed pre-game. For example when playing at the Emirates a picture of (what looked to be) the training ground was displayed.


Stats issues [player ratings etc.]

4) All assists are credited to the goalkeeper.
39) The leader of the assist list seems to be the player who keeps the most clean sheets.
40) Players who are substituted show no ratings at full-time. So if my striker gets a hat-trick and I substitute him, his rating is blank after the game. (Yet substituted players can receive Man of the Match awards, so a rating must be getting calculated by the game? I presume they’re just not being displayed?)
41) Goals/assists that occur in cup competitions, e.g. the FA Cup, aren’t counted in the player’s statistics. Also goals from the Charity Shield game aren't counted and yet the game itself counts as a game played.
57) The OVR number disappeared from a player's bio. It used to be next to the player's list of positions. Why has it been removed?


Incorrect data issues [wrong number of substitutions allowed etc.]

23) Only 5 benched substitutes are allowed in FIFA 10 below the Premier League. All English league and cup competitions now allow 7 substitutes in reality.
24) Friendly games should allow 12 substitutes on the bench (and also you should be allowed to use all 12). Currently it’s restricted to 7 on the bench (with only 3 substitutions allowed).
26) FA Cup games are all played at night when they’re only ever played in the daytime now, including the final.
52) People playing as League Two teams (e.g. Bury) are reporting that they are not entered into the English league cup competition.
61) The Belgian league is missing playoffs.
62) The new Europa League format is not in the game.
63) Incorrect teams make it into European competition. As someone has said, "I got 4th in career mode but a team that ended up 12th goes to europa league while I don't". [INCIDENT 1]


Scheduling issues [playing two games within 48 hours etc.]

25) Friendly games include matches against teams in your own division. This doesn’t usually happen in reality.


Scouting issues [wrong data being reported etc.]

42) When scouted players are presented to you for purchase, they are always said to play on the opposite side to their preferred foot. For example, a left winger will always be shown to prefer their right foot. Yet if you buy the player, most of the time, they will actually prefer the appropriate foot.


Player search issues [filter constantly being reset etc.]

44) When searching for players their form ratings are displayed, rather than their actual ratings. This means you have no idea what the player’s actual ratings are.
4 The player search parameters you input will reset when bidding on a player. So if you search for e.g. a defender, CB, rated 50-60, playing in League Two, then you bid on one and you want to search for a midfielder with the same rating, the parameters have been reset meaning you have to input each one again.


Shortlist issues [shortlisted players not accepting your offers with no explanation etc.]

27) The shortlist was supposed to allow up to 20 players to be stored, but seems to only allow 10 players.


Created player issues [trying to purchase created players crashing the game etc.]

50) Creating a player (not a Virtual Pro) to sign in your Manager Mode career seems incredibly difficult/buggy. If you create a player and assign him to the free agents pool, the game freezes. If you assign him to a national team, he doesn’t show up as a free agent in Manager Mode. If you assign him to a national team and THEN move him to the free agents pool, you won’t be able to find him anywhere but in the “Created Players” section and you’ll see that his assigned team is referred to as something like "team1932as12309" – you can’t then find this team/player in Manager Mode to sign the player.


Commentary issues [incorrect statistics spoken about etc.]

51) Commentary gaffes happen every 1-2 games, e.g. “5 minutes to go and they lead 1-0” when it’s 1-1, “I have to say he’s on one of the worst runs of his career” when he’s already scored in the match you’re playing, etc. etc. etc. and also, when playing as your Virtual Pro, you find the commentary refers to you scoring your 20th goal every time you score once you’ve reached that point. So for example when you score your 21st goal the commentator will say it’s your 20th, etc. (not sure if this only applies to Manager Mode or other modes as well).

EA I hope you have seen this massive list, I can understand if these bugs where from millions of players playing it online and that could not be expected. But MM is offline and these bugs exist.

Remember this thread EA

http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/f...l#post11288986

[pjburrage]

Scouting Issue: When searching for a midfielder through my scout I keep getting GK's with rating 0-10, and no nationality.

[jonesy27]

I am about to start my 5th attempt at the manager mode!
Every time i start getting into my season the game decides not to load up after a certain point!
About 5 or 6 games into the season!
I remember the same thing happening on fifa 09.
It's so frustrating as i'm a massive fifa fan! How much BETA testing do EA do with their games before releasing them?
From what i've been reading on these forums i'm not the only person to have these problems!

EA needs to start getting more testers playing they're games before releasing them. You have to get rid of these bugs as it's unfair to the gamers who spend they're time playing through the game just to have it wasted by it's faults.

I realise that at some point in the next week or 2 when EA have identified the problems that i'll put on my game and there will be an update to fix these problems but there will be planty of people or kids who don't have access to the internet and will be stuck with these problems!

EA sort your act out!! It's a great game but i'm sick of restarting my xbox!