Which is exactly what I meant. You have two sides shouting at each other. One extreme side shouting "you guys ruined everything and are not football fans" and the other shouting "you and your realism, this is not fun".
This is, probably, your first post which I can take as an actual discussion and respond in serious manner.
The difference between "us" (offline/career mode players) and FUT crowd is that we dont want the whole game to change to make us happy.
Let them have their rainbow flicks and missile shots - we do not care how they play.
What we dont want is to have FUT features affecting our career mode.
We dont want special boosts, sharpness, timed shots, arcade dribbling. We just want to have AN OPTION to go to our dark, lonely corner and play a fair and challenging match against the AI.
Not ending with 8:3, or 9:4... we want to feel rewarded when we score a goal. We dont mind 0:0. Quite often - scoreless result can be more thrilling than 8:3.
What EA doesnt seems to understand is that a lot of people just want to play a football match.
And even with that - I know there might be people who also want these features in their career mode. And thats fine. Just give us a god damn option.
You will say - there are options to switch it all off. And maybe there are. But it honestly doesnt make much of a difference. Sliders dont work. Slowest match speed still plays like ping pong.
Errors are almost non existent. AI aggressiveness- non existent. Core gameplay is rotten and no settings can fix it.
Split the gameplay. Dont let your patches to dumb down AI affect our career mode. We need AI. Without AI there is no football. Its 11v11 sport, not 1v1.
People in here really dont expect miracles. We just want a decent football game with settings that actually work.
And dont give me this "Fifa was never a sim". Neither was PES. It was a fun mix of arcade/sim, where sim was mainly driven by AI and attributes.
And FIFA also had that. It even had option to choose Arcade or Sim in the past.
From 2010 onwards, for a few years - FIFA was actually closer to SIM than PES was.
FIFA 14 and 16 are still considered one of the best football games (ironically - crowned "most boring ones" by FUT players)
Thats why we will never ever get a good football game. Because EA can get into their heads that you cant please everyone with one gameplay. That online and offline and two vastly different worlds with vastly different expectations.
And until the gameplay is split and there are two separate teams working on offline and online gameplay - we will always end up clashing.