FIFA 22 Review (dodosuke)
The last FIFA I played was FIFA 12 and I had no interest in FUT back then. I picked this FIFA up just to see the FUT experience for the first time. I grinded to Elite division very quickly also got rank 1 in the old FUT Champions system. To be honest my experience started off very good, the game was very fluid.
It all started on Black Friday and that time I realised what I got into. EA started bursting out packs non-stop. Until that point I felt like the pack system was okay and fair but after Black Friday I saw what FUT really is about. Nonstop gamble + the pressure of FOMO. Luckily I'm not a huge gambler and I don't believe in spending fortune on an RNG. Paid content like battle passes or quality of life upgrades are fair in games, but paying money for RNG is nothing different than going to a casino and playing slot machines.
After the Fire/Freeze promo I also started experiencing the muddy gameplay where your players start feeling like bronze players. This still happens almost %20-30 of the time. Happens a lot on Fridays when Fut champions start, or a new promo gets released. Btw according to EA my connection quality is 99/100 and I have 500/500mbit fibre. There was a huge forum thread about this in the EA forums and they never did anything to fix it. I then found out that this was an ongoing problem that happens in almost every FUT season.
One good thing about FUT is that it definitely rewards you if you grind the game. A lot of usable SBC players, couple of squad foundation players, and also a lot of packs are given by the game, if you do the achievements and objectives.
Overall though, when you get to a certain point, the only thing that keeps you in the game is that moment when you pack a really really good meta player, which never happens because it's like one in a million chance. I can guarantee that it will not happen to you either unless you are a very very very very lucky person. Gameplay becomes boring when you get into it. Some basic skill moves, ball roll, driven passes, left stick dribble with lean/unique high agility players, green timed shots and that's it, you're in elite division and get to at least rank 3 in the new FUT champs system.
EA constantly puts out promos and boost the stats of same players over and over again, If you want to keep up with the game but if you don't want to spend money on promos that will go to waste when Fifa 23 comes out, I suggest you don't buy this game and don't invest your precious time.
I have 800 hours, I've done everything that is possible, all the achievements, elite division and rank 1 Fut champs but I can assure you that I don't feel satisfied. All the time I put in this game will disappear when the new one comes out. All the money that people spent is also gonna disappear when the new one comes out. Same players over and over, getting their stats boosted +1 every month, until all the cards hit 99.
Stay away and save your time.