See, this is what disturbs me about life post-patch in the next-gen era. Your comment presupposes that it's a definite, settled fact that there are now 'weightier ball physics'. I object to the smuggling in of your perception as a settled fact. I don't see it myself and nor do many others.
I know from the past two years when the same post-patch hysteria took place that it's a waste of time trying to establish any kind of objectivity in the community about patches. Hell, in PES2010 there was a boots n balls DLC that was hailed as the greatest ever gameplay patch. Then as now, the emperor remains butt naked.
I was and still am enjoying PES2012, for the record, but it remains this morning pretty much the same game it was yesterday morning.
"OMG! If you can't see the changes you must be BLIND...!!!"
Like I say, I'm fully aware of where the argument goes after this point, so I'll just bow out. Which leaves the floor wide open for the patch-atistas to whip up the familiar frenzy, but so be it.