So this post is long as hell, and it's alot of complaining. But it's legitimate. Someone else come in here and tell me what your experiences are with the game online. Do you ONLY do quick ranked 1 v 1 matches with all assisted passing or what? Because for those that don't want assisted, we can't get a game for lalalala. In 1 v 1 or online team play. WHAT IS GOING ON?!
Here me out real quick, I recall during a period last year during FIFA 09's life-cycle the devs were trying to figure out why the game was playing so poorly online. Rutter surmised that maybe people were accidentally choosing ANY as their control scheme when looking for ranked/unranked matches and that might've forced them to get matched up with a player who was playing on manual. This would explain, he suggested, the sluggish passing and all of the other issues. Well that was absolute lalalalalalalala, we know this.
Cut to FIFA 10's development where in one of the early FIFA blog on EA's website, one of the devs says something about the control schemes in regards to "any." He says, and I quote: "No more ‘any’ setting that imposes settings on you. This was a bug, and ‘any’ now means what it should have meant in the first place: ‘I don’t care for that setting’."
Before I continue on, anyone care to take a stab at explaining what exactly the lalalala he mean't by that. Because either I'm very bad at reading, or that doesn't make any sense.
By default in FIFA 09, the control scheme was set to 'No Restrictions' which was why, if I made a manual match, NOBODY would ever show up. So wouldn't the ANY setting do just that? It will search for a game with any control scheme at all, and make you play under it right? It certainly can't mean "I don't care for that setting." What setting? "No restrictions" would mean, I don't want to play with anyone that forces setting on you. End of.
The reason why I'm asking this is because in FIFA 10 they've gotten rid of the "No Restrictions" tab and now only have "ANY." I recall in 09 making an Online Team Play match and restricting it to only people with a DNF under 5% just to see what would happen. As I thought, some of the dudes that were on my friends list who had DNFs above that weren't able to join. I put it back to ANY and it's fine. Why then, in FIFA 10, if I change the control scheme to something like semi-manual or manual for either Online Team Play or a regular unranked match, do I never get any hits if the default is "ANY." What the hell else could ANY mean besides, any control scheme out there?
Furthermore, why can you no longer create your own Online Team Play match unless you go to the lobbies (where only people in the lobby can join as well). I can only create an Online Team Play match by searching for a match with like 10 minutes halves, with manual passing, and slow speed because I know that I won't find one, at which point it asks me if I wanna create one. I do it, I use the default settings because it appears that you can't get any hits if you don't, and the game fills up to 20 before I even get in there, never allowing me to be the captain.
Why the hell can you not find a game on anything but the default settings? I search for a manual or semi match and I find nothing. I make one and I find nothing. This is both Online Team Play and regular 1 v 1. I've had the game for about 5 hours now and have played literally 5 matches total because I either can't find one or nobody joins what I create. And the games that I did get were ruined because for SOME REASON you can no longer kick people that choose ANY along with you. You can't kick anyone AT ALL. So you have 3 ANY players at the back screwing up the defense and just letting the team get scored on every 10 seconds. And I can do NOTHING about it.
What was all this talk about filters? They don't work at all. At all. If someone wants only Assisted controls, they should switch to that. If someone chooses ANY, which is the default, they should be able to find my game whether or not it has semi or manual passing. And thanks EA for making the default speed Normal, so for those that actually wanna see what the game plays like in Online Team Play with slow settings, we'll never know unless we invite everyone that we want to play with. Why not make that ANY as well. It might sound a bit like tricking people but honestly it might be a good way to get people to experience a different control scheme that maybe won't allow them to perform the spin around one touch pass to a man 40 yards away and hit it with perfect accuracy.
Did you seriously set out to lalalala up every...single...game mode in this entire game.
I mean, WE CAN'T KICK PEOPLE ANYMORE? REALLY?
With the wacked out MM the only thing that I'd really want to play is Online Team Play with a buddy or 2 but I can't even do that because I can never be the captain in MY OWN ROOM. Unless I wanna sit in a room that nobody ever joins because I changed the control scheme or the game speed. Why even have the options if you can't match us up with people that use them?
And seriously, can someone explain to me what ANY is supposed to mean?
Yes this was copied and pasted from a post I just made at EA's forums. A lost of lalalas going around.
Am I the only one having problems like this though?