I guess these new generations of Konami developers have no idea how football or video gaming at all work, they are stuck in their own world it seems.
The problem we (career mode enthusiasts) have right now is there is nothing besides football manager 2022 to play a proper immersive career mode on.
What are our options for 2021-2022 season?
A) Going back to older PES or the latest ePES 2021 won't be immersive as now there is conference league, nations league, world cup expansion to 48 soon, VAR, and so on. It might work for a few months, but it will get old and boring eventually, and modders will not update team rosters further. We may only get stadiums and other cool stuff, but ML wise we are stuck.
B) Going to efootball 2022, blindly hoping for a master league with proper randomly generated youth teams, 3 european international leagues(fake but it doesnt matter), edit mode, and ability for it to be modded, at the earliest, we can expect these to happen by 2035 efoot update.
C) Going to fifa 22 where EA will now be forever lazy and won't feel the need to upgrade their career mode anymore, and although to be fair, it is much better than any of pes ones, fifa still lacks modding and edit mode to get your own team/league/players in the game or modify existing ones, and until either one of the those happens it's still very hard to go the fifa way for the career. As far as online and street/volta go, those are fun.
D) Waiting for some miracle from that UFL game, or a 2k/ubisoft/nacon/sony/whatever announcement that they are making their own football game.
Very dark future...
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