hmmm, hate to bring this up but, people complain about certain aspects for this game, when it´s all about the way konami developers found to make us work hard for our victories on every single season. The speed thing is an old one, I already knew this and I still payed the game over and over. The catch up thing was here as well for a couple years, everybody hated that, but still played the game... Now I remember of PES getting old after some seasons in ML, because I had such a great team, strong, fast etc, that I was unbeatable... booooring!
Now, we know there´s a code that stops us from winning every match, no matter what team you have. Is it realistic? No, for sure not the best choice, but they can´t code a realistic defense yet these days, so I´ll buy this option every day, rather than have a game that gets too easy and old after a couple seasons. I also remember people playing WE9, because it´s simply the best balanced game ever. Yeah right, then when you notice, we´re using some famous option file that actually reduced the speed of all faster players and other stats as well, to make it less easy. Funny isn´t it?
Fifa actually has fast players better represented, but I have no fun with it, because it does worse things to make the game harder. Easier levels are a run fest, harder levels are a mind f%$k fest. I simply can´t cope with all the things it does to make you loose. And I won´t even start talking about the tiki taka fest plague from the recent years.
So yea, right now, PES is still the best overall option around. Sorry for the comparison but I couldn´t avoid, it´s just like sometimes we talk like there´s a good option out there, but there´s not. This is all we have right now. There are things to improve, and in the end, all I care is how the game feels.
Damn!, people didn´t even noticed this on the pitch until someone proved it. Now the game sucks. come on!