Onto the subject of handballs, a bit of confrontation etc and the odd bad offside call or random dive in the box. You guys have shot these ideas down, then responded by saying its because you want more realism!?! Have you ever watched football, you get bad calls every week, Pedersen throws himself around the box like a salmon, Gary Neville regularly screams at the ref - ITS REAL LOL
Oh and I believe FIFA themselves wont allow bad linesman calls, as they want the game to be represented in rose tinted glasses lol
If theres room for the more useless leagues and teams then surely, I can be allowed to play as any of the African national teams. Why are they missing, or will there be an African Cup of Nations update for sale soon?
Football games are also at least 90 minutes long and still have low scorelines. There are also drop balls, clashes of heads, leg breaks, streakers, pitch invasions, thrown coins, racist chanting, players dying on the pitch, etc.
There are a million billion things that happen in football which FIFA could implement to make the game more realistic. The point is keeping the balance with being fun. It's one thing to have a professionalism slider to determine whether a player's slide tackle might be dirtier than others, or having a trait like "plays for fouls" where a player goes to ground more easily when challenged, sticking a leg out to make sure they're caught for example.. It's quite another for one of your players to be deliberately targetted by an online player to exploit the 'rage' AI and make sure your best players get sent off, without you being able to do anything to stop it, or for EA to put in a dive button which then never gets used because 99% of the time it will lead to a booking, and when it does work people who were cheated online will be completely disenfranchised by the experience.
You could put in handball, but the fact is you'd then have to have some AI where the game can determine whether the player could have moved their hand out of the way (which would also have to be programmed) or if it was completely unavoidable. Bear in mind that in FIFA 09,
even the keepers weren't especially intelligent about using their hands.
Slide tackle animations are also fixed, so if a certain tackle is more likely to end up giving away a handball than others players are going to be less likely to slide in, thus greatly impacting the balance of the game and leading to huge threads in forums like this.
It's not that your ideas are completely wrong, but for the next 3-5 years they aren't something I imagine FIFA will really consider seriously. I think Dave Rutter has said in many interviews that he thinks in much the same way as this, which is good news.
I can't disagree with your comments on missing so many international teams though.
post where you like but credit FifaInformer.com as the source please 
Starting the season earlier is very good news, I wonder if friendlies will be in there too...
