TSNYC wrote

When I first got the game I was full of nothing but praise for ultimate team. In the proceeding weeks I noticed a gradual but significant dip in my opinion of the game as the flaws which were not immediately present begin to expose themselves. After trying several different times to get myself back into it I have come to the sad realisation that this is probably the worst UT to date. You may be asking why I think this so I shall tell you some of reasons behind my thoughts.

1. Goalkeepers (Shouldn't need further explanation)
2. Horrible bounces every game
3. Scripting (Please don't try and tell me this doesn't exist because it does)
4. Ruined fitness (it was fine the way it was before why now are my players dropping so much fitness every single game)
5. Ibra 4* skills is a joke
6. Once again ratings and card stats mean nothing, i.e. John Terry catching up Gareth Bale (okay EA that seems realistic)
7. Touches (Why are 86 rated midfielders taking horrible touches it makes 0 sense)
8. Player ratings (Fabregas only 84, Van Persie better than Bale, Shearer only 89 rated despite being the top BPL goal scorer and other legends being rated higher when they are clearly worse, Ozil 86 hmmmm.... do EA even watch football or do they just use random.org for the stats I could go on....)
9. Removal of the latency bar in lobby, (which genius thought it was a good idea to get rid of this)
10. Can dominate a match and then concede the most random/lucky goal ever.
11. No originality in teams (another BPL team with Sturridge well done mate +1 creativity)
12. Everyone tries so hard to win in anyway possible (not necessarily a flaw with the game but I remember the FIFA 10,11,12 days where everyone had sick squads and would skill/longshot which was so much fun)
13. Boring playstyles (rarely see people skill/longshot or try and dominate the game in a realistic way it's just all through balls)
14. IF upgrades are horrible and don't feel any better anyway (why bother?)
15. Still no flexibility with team (why can't I play Sterling as a CAM and get full chem it makes 0 sense)
16. Tiny little players out jumping beastly defenders in the box I mean seriously
17. Constant rebound goals
18. Penalties for no reason (the amount of times if made a great tackle only to concede a penalty is a joke)
19. Packs why am I constantly getting silvers in my gold pack? If I wanted silvers I'd open a silver pack.
20. Game feels very linear (forced to play in the same way to get results)
21. No proper custom formations
22. Everyone spending so much money to upgrade there team like seriously why spend 100+ just to get a team that is better on paper but in reality is no different?
23. Coin sellers/sponsors they are just relentless aren't they? + They ruin the market/game.
24. People that watch ZERO football in real life that think they know everything there is to know about football, sorry but real football is not like ultimate team.
25. EA just using UT as a cash cow to generate profit every year with seemingly zero improvement to the game (can be seen as inferior from its predecessors to be honest)
26. Defending is so bad this year. I used to be so good last year and this year it just seems like my defence is bad, the decisions made by 84/85 rated centre-backs is ridiculous, oh I won't bother closing him down, actually let's not win that header against the 4ft player, hmmmmm other guys on the counter so let's make sure to move out of his way so he's through on goal. No matter how good you are it is practically impossible to counter this.

A lot of this seems to stem from the fact that EA don't seem to care about it's customers and know that they will make loads anyway so why waste time trying to better the product.
+There is no competition in reality at the moment so no motivation for EA to try and improve to try and get more sales as there is nowhere else to go.

I could go on.

I have really lost motivation with UT this year, from what I've played of Seasons it seems decent so I'll probably end up playing that as it seems more realistic and fun. I haven't played Career yet but that's always quite good so I will start a career but UT has really gone down in my estimations.

Obviously this is just my opinion so please respect it and don't hate.

Let me know what your thoughts are!

LWR wrote Just me who's enjoying it then?

I agree that some of the ratings are off, but I think it's not bad this year.