it's genuinely great that people accept this but I don't know how. Fouls are as important as tactics. They change and influence games dramatically .
I think everyone agrees that fouls are important. But there's
a lot that's important when it comes to replicating the sport and both games are lacking in certain areas. We just pick and choose what's most important to us and which flavor of football we prefer.
Granted I've not played PES since it's been patched, but I preferred FIFA over PES this year because while the lack of fouls is frustrating, PES's poor AI, defensive positioning, and the way the game is utilizing stats in recent years, are a few examples of important areas -
to me - that pushed me away.
I think the other thing to consider too about fouls is that while fouls can have a critical and determining role on match outcomes, whether it be through a penalty kick or cards or through just a quality shooting opportunity from a spot kick, fouls are relatively marginal in the overall flow of gameplay (and it's not as if
we can't foul if we so chose for tactical reasons, while fouls by the CPU aren't
entirely absent from the game). And so it's a little easier to not be so bothered by it compared with something like core gameplay mechanics, like AI or how stats are working, which can influence just about every moment of gameplay.
Also, no one should get there hopes up about fouls being fixed in a patch. It was just like this in the beta, and the fact that fouls have been lacking for years now indicates that the issue is bigger than a simple patch fix. And let's be real - fouls are only an issue in the single player game and EA are not going to devote much effort to the fix unless it's super simple and easy. And if it was simple and easy, we wouldn't still be talking about it as an issue like we are.