won't touch ML in it's current state.
I think thats it. If you gave ML a go and avoided all the fluff as best you can, it ain't perfect but you'd still have the league mode in some form. Don't use the boots or training, turn player development off, switch transfers to only me and don't make any, switch off the extra managerial budget stuff, and only play for one season at a time if you're worried about contracts running down and stuff. Its annoying, but you've actually got the game now, it surely wouldn't hurt to give it a try.
I'm primarily an online player and the amount of exploiters, abusers, disconnect cheats, lag cheats, fk glitch abusers and others can almost ruin it for you. But when you do get good games, it almost justifies the whole thing and makes it worth it.
Yep, Master league is still great. The whole magic boots thing was completely blown out of proportion. No wonder Konami told that idiot over at that other site to STFU.
A few of us on here were avoiding the meltdown and said to wait until the game was released, that you could probably ignore it, calm down it won't ruin the game etc. but we were laughed at for being blind loyalists to Konami. Now, guess what? I can hardly hear anyone talking about magic boots, however distasteful the idea in principle.
However I'm still unhappy about the whole "lock on" system of defending, as it doesn't feel natural and organic as it used to be. It's pure mechanic and dull and boring to defend, IMO. The art of defending in PES is no longer pure since PES 2012. This "lock" system reminds me of NBA Live series circa 1999/2000 when you had a button that locked and all you had to do is keep it pressed to follow the ball carrier.
I use a combination of free movement, with the natural 360 degree movement, and the contain button when necessary to delay/hold up attackers. That way you can vary the styles of defending. if you're ONLY using contain and/or defensive tracking then I'm not surprised you feel "locked on". IRL players do hunker down in defensive stances, and also mix it up with "free-er" movement.