Here’s how to save every sports game from being pay to win 1. Micro-Transactions-GONE, you should earn coins by winning games, and then you can open packs, and you should earn more coins depending on how big the win is. Win 1-0? Win like 500 coins. Win 9-4? Win like 2,500. And the same thing for basketball and football. 2. Give career mode more attention, arguably the best game mode, just doesn’t get enough attention from the developers. That’s all I have to say, it needs more attention. I know this will never happen, but it will be nice if it did
Streamers also made the ultimate team mode so bad. When it first came out people played different styles and different teams. Now u see everyone plays same tactics similar teams and just find exploits youtubers tell them to do game is not skill based its just flat out money making scam from ea and streamers.
Ultimate team was a very clever business idea, it came out when Millennials were at the end of playing video games and Gen Z would know no other version of these games. So by the mid 10s, they no longer had to please Millennials with the context that they came to expect and could just send unfinished games with micro transactions because Gen Z know nothing else
I love master league so much. The regens can be silly sometimes Totti regen in my save file is Lazio's Bandiera 💀 so i waited for him to retire again near 2040, moved to Roma and immediately sign him
My main reason Ultimate Team is ruining the game, is that the teams are all looking the same. Malaga, Emmen of Nantes filled to the brim with legends with the same qualities. I really enjoyed finding out what strategies work best for my team lacking in certain areas. Me and my friends used to play with the teams you were dealt with after pressing 'Random Team' a max of three times. Imagine the excitement beating your buddy's Real Madrid with Southampton
I loved UT in the 2011-2016 era. Gameplay felt much more smooth compared to base game movement. Plus I loved building a sweaty cheap South American team that couldn't be caught down the flanks and just a simple cross and tap in. Easy mode. Use to send those who spent vast amounts of cash to get the best players possible in a mass tizzy and spam hate messages. Ah, I love the toxic players out there.
The Title should be how USERS ruined sports games. If USERS don't buy into it. They will quit making it but because ppl are addicted to it and pur money into it This becomes the focus of the game rather than improving the game itself.
Microtransactions in the single-player content is what's ruined Madden and NBA games - rather than treating Ultimate Team as a separate game mode and cash cow, they decided to expand microtransactions into the career modes which represented a large chunk of the single-player offering, and made progress in these modes a tedious grind to incentivise the purchase of these boosters
And this is why I’m afraid to try College football 25. It looks like it’s just gonna be a reskin of shitty madden. Also, stopped buying FIFA. The only game I ever bought every year it dropped
I am a firm believer that ea keeps making the gameplay worse each year for fifa so the pay to win mechanic becomes even more pivotal. The worse the gameplay , the more the difference you feel in the quality of your players
EA has no financial incentive to fix career mode. It should work more like Football Manager, but they don't need to fix it because of the Ultimate Team money.
I think the main problem with Ultimate at least on FIFA/FC is just how money hungry EA has gotten. Up until FIFA 18, you didn’t have to have a full expensive team to be competitive. There were plenty of gold rare cards and even gold common or silver cards (in older FIFAs) that could be used the whole game cycle, but since FIFA 19, those lower rated cards are absolutely useless after a certain point. Each year that certain point becomes earlier and earlier. With each year bringing new promos and new flashy cards, it creates a massive Fear of Missing Out Effect on the whole community and EA knows exactly how to exploit it. It limits how much freedom of expression the player has because we’re basically forced to play the most meta cards at all times. If you come up against a player of the same skill level as you, but they have Mbappe and you don’t. They will win 8 out ten times.
Very well done 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 for a lot of us this might be common knowledge, but hopefully through informative videos like yours, more and more people will have conversations about what needs to be changed to improve these games and limit how these corporations profit off of encouraging gambling and micro transactions within their pay to win platform
Like others have said, I actually really liked UT when it first came out for FIFA. It was a blast crafting your team, grinding for coins and searching for those diamond in the rough type players. Matching chemistry added a layer as well. But over time it became impossible to find those guys because people just price lock them. And it feels like everyone has insanely stacked teams that they just bought. It used to be rare to face someone with a 95+ player, but now it seems everyone has them across the board. It might be nostalgia but over time it seems like it's just gotten more greedy and over the top.
Inherently theres nothing wrong with the idea/concept of ultimate team. If t stayed how it was during its first years or so it wouldve been perfect (madden 10-13), its when they went full greed around madden 25 & 16 going forward that it ruined the mode & the consequently, the whole game.
To me the big problem with a lot of current sports games is rubber banding and predetermined outcomes, with matching animations. For ultimate team modes to make money, it requires players to be engaged as long as possible. So the game uses an algorithm that ensures every player has a win/loss record that hits the sweet spot. The system will then activate this rubber banding throughout play to make sure it get the result it wants. This makes the games feel cheap and unfulfilling, I walk away feeling that I either didn't deserve the win or was cheated out of victory. Although there was some rubber banding in games before, it has become much greater since the introduction of these game modes.
I knew i was not tripping last year when i always end up within the same wins record every single week ( average player , usually 9-10 win on Futchamps ) It didn’t matter how well or shit i started. First year i ever played FUT and i’m never touching it again lol
2k5 did it perfectly with the quick draft mode where you basically did a fantasy football team draft against your opponent and then play with those teams. (QB, RB, WR1, WR2, TE, and DEFENSE) Ultimate team is a cash grab piece of trash.
The Show is the best one in terms of playing ultimate team no money but you still have to put in like 6-8 hours a day to keep up. It also feels like diamond dynasty(like every other ultimate team) is taking away too much attention from the single player modes. You're telling me my 18yo drafted in the 13th round player is going straight to AA? its been like 15 years and still no rookie ball and/or single A? Even if its like 20 games give me SOMETHING. Why is franchise CPU trade logic still THAT ass? The amount of 26yo 90 OVRs that get traded to one bad team for another 26yo 90 OVR on a different bad team makes 0 sense. The lack of innovation or progress is just disappointing. TLDR; If other game modes held their own and werent held back nobody would even complain about UT.
Ultimate team is cool, but they really should make Ultimate team a game of it's own. It's taken away the focus that the other modes need, like franchise mode in madden.
With all due respect, if they did that they would just stop making the franchise mode game. They make ALL THEIR MONEY off ultimate team, that's why things are the way they are.
@@JUnit41484True, I wouldnt put it past them, but at the same time I believe there is a large community still out there that play mainly franchise mode or are holding out for more passion put into that mode. Hell even Draft Champions was huge until EA put it behind a pay wall.
@@DrButsie but I'm not arguing that point, I also believe there's a huge audience who doesn't care about UT and wants to play dynasty, me included. The issue is that those people only pay for the game, and no microtransactions after the initial purchase, so EA just doesn't really care about them as much. They've proven that for the last decade+
Around a decade ago, I didn't think playing FIFA and Tiger Woods to a very high level would I see anything as gross as EA charging like €6 for individual DLC golf courses in the TW series. So young. So naive. Simpler times. Better times.
Im 44 played the first fifa on megadrive and played every year. Since 2009 when they first did ultimate team it wasnt that bad as you could earn points kinda easily and they have just got worse ever since. And a couple of years ago stuffing the packs with women players has just made it so slow to collect anything. I'm m a cheap git and have never and will never spend money on ultimate team just wish everyone would do it for a couple of years as that would hit EA but unfortunately getting gamers to band together sometimes is insane.
ultimate team makes the games slightly pay to win or grind to win but it means that it is the profit center and all other aspects of the game are neglected. the gameplay is worse but the problems is other game modes are broken and severly glitched an have not been given proper attention for years.
Ultimate team is gambling praying on the weak, how many stories has it not been about kids maxing parents credit cards with FT purchases. When it comes to the Fifa games (I know they changed the name) I think most of the money comes from Europe, maybe it is time to get the EU on board to ban it, if the EU succeeded the UK would be the only mayor place that didn't ban it. I only play career mode as I don't care for online play, I buy the game every few years and play it casually but even I can see how FUT has ruined the game as everything else take a back seat.
Ruined sport games how? People are in delusion if they think old games career mode are as good as current career mode, just that it's not the upgrade they had hope for. Meta critic definitely took UT into consideration, so they grade every sport games low because of the mere existence of UT. UT isnt what ruined sport games, monopoly did. Exclusive deals in sport game is one of the most anti competitive shit i've seen, why is it still allowed by the law?
Ultimate team makes them so much money, makes no sense for them to change anything as a business. Only way it’s going to change if people stop spending money on it which isn’t going to happen.
When it's done well it isn't boring. When this all started it was way more fun, I remember in early 2k days I had to take a team of guards against a team of centers, or challenges where you're allowed 1 gold player on a team of bronze scrubs. Even up to like 2k20 I was still enjoying UT without having to spend real money (it was a grind, but it was fun to play the game). It used to be an actually fun game mode, back before they realized all that mattered was getting people to buy packs.
One thing I am grateful for with FIFA Ultimate Team is it made me aware of my gambling addiction early. I worked it out and by 15 I’d spent well over £2000 on packs. I spend my dinner money on packs and survive off a pack of crisps or sweets for a whole school day😂😭
@@megaplexXxHD it is over a few years tbf. But I used to get £15-£20 a week for my dinner money, then I also got £50 a month as pocket money from like 14. Then birthday/Christmas money aswell, mainly small amounts but it all added up in the end 😂
@@BigPurp9 aaah alright i see. Man but congrats on actually realising abiut your addiction and admiting it to yourself. Takes a lot to see your own errors and do something about it and wish you all the best 💪🏽
I hate on wwe 2k and I think nba 2k where the opening screen opens up with a menu with this bs.!if you accidentally click on this you either have to finish making this team or close out and restart because they don’t let you back out. I’ll never care for this and will never play it, I’m not against it being there but let me go thru the menus and click on it if I wanna play this dumb shit
Dude, ultimate team is the best thing happened to fifa. I played fifa all my life since 94. It got boring after 1 month of playing career mode already. Since I play ultimate team (fifa 13) I never invested more than 50€ a year, sometimes when I bought ultimate or preorder I did not spent a penny. It is more fun to try to have a good team without buying packs, you can do objectives and all that stuff and still have a good team. It’s not a fifa problem that you keep buying points it’s yours.
The problem is people keep pouring money into this garbage. As long as these corporations keep making money they’ll keep pushing it
Very annoying indeed, most of the people doing this can't play well is my experience
Yea, they are straight up preying on gambling addicts
The problem is UA-camrs are the ones playing UT and paying for it
Here’s how to save every sports game from being pay to win
1. Micro-Transactions-GONE, you should earn coins by winning games, and then you can open packs, and you should earn more coins depending on how big the win is. Win 1-0? Win like 500 coins. Win 9-4? Win like 2,500. And the same thing for basketball and football.
2. Give career mode more attention, arguably the best game mode, just doesn’t get enough attention from the developers. That’s all I have to say, it needs more attention.
I know this will never happen, but it will be nice if it did
Streamers also made the ultimate team mode so bad. When it first came out people played different styles and different teams. Now u see everyone plays same tactics similar teams and just find exploits youtubers tell them to do game is not skill based its just flat out money making scam from ea and streamers.
pro clubs/11v11 should be THE mode. and EA should earn money with cosmetics
My biggest issue with Ultimate team game modes is that it's basically like a mobile gacha but it just resets every year
All I want is to play football with a season career mode offline and casually by myself but I cant even do that. EA has ruined sports games.
That doesn't make EA money that's why they don't invest in career mode
@@laoch5658 this is why I miss the 90s
Have you played Football Manager?
@@Noblehammer16not everyone wants to play football manager
@@Noblehammer16not everyone is a soccer fan
Ultimate team was a very clever business idea, it came out when Millennials were at the end of playing video games and Gen Z would know no other version of these games. So by the mid 10s, they no longer had to please Millennials with the context that they came to expect and could just send unfinished games with micro transactions because Gen Z know nothing else
This used to exist as a free mode in Pro Evolution Soccer. It was called Master league.
I love master league so much. The regens can be silly sometimes
Totti regen in my save file is Lazio's Bandiera 💀 so i waited for him to retire again near 2040, moved to Roma and immediately sign him
Its funny cuz i never play UT. Tried it a bit in FIFA 17, didn't get past a bronze level team lol... Im thru and thru a career mode sports sim player.
Any game mode that has transactions that can generate this much cash removes all incentive to improve gameplay beyond the one with transactions
Single Player Gamer to Multiplayer Gamer:
“Wow, sucks to be you.”
My main reason Ultimate Team is ruining the game, is that the teams are all looking the same. Malaga, Emmen of Nantes filled to the brim with legends with the same qualities. I really enjoyed finding out what strategies work best for my team lacking in certain areas.
Me and my friends used to play with the teams you were dealt with after pressing 'Random Team' a max of three times. Imagine the excitement beating your buddy's Real Madrid with Southampton
I loved UT in the 2011-2016 era. Gameplay felt much more smooth compared to base game movement. Plus I loved building a sweaty cheap South American team that couldn't be caught down the flanks and just a simple cross and tap in. Easy mode. Use to send those who spent vast amounts of cash to get the best players possible in a mass tizzy and spam hate messages. Ah, I love the toxic players out there.
The Title should be how USERS ruined sports games. If USERS don't buy into it. They will quit making it but because ppl are addicted to it and pur money into it This becomes the focus of the game rather than improving the game itself.
The video essay style of videos is definitely workin for you my guy. Should definitely do more
More on the way soon!
They could, at least, make the games cheaper, especially when they’re making so much from the in game purchases
Microtransactions in the single-player content is what's ruined Madden and NBA games - rather than treating Ultimate Team as a separate game mode and cash cow, they decided to expand microtransactions into the career modes which represented a large chunk of the single-player offering, and made progress in these modes a tedious grind to incentivise the purchase of these boosters
And this is why I’m afraid to try College football 25. It looks like it’s just gonna be a reskin of shitty madden. Also, stopped buying FIFA. The only game I ever bought every year it dropped
College Football is different to madden for sure. Definitely prefer it
I am a firm believer that ea keeps making the gameplay worse each year for fifa so the pay to win mechanic becomes even more pivotal. The worse the gameplay , the more the difference you feel in the quality of your players
EA has no financial incentive to fix career mode. It should work more like Football Manager, but they don't need to fix it because of the Ultimate Team money.
I’ve never liked any of those modes
You're the problem if you keep buying them...
I've always been a career mode guy in fifa and other sports games. At least i am playing and enjoying the game for 70 bucks.
I think the main problem with Ultimate at least on FIFA/FC is just how money hungry EA has gotten. Up until FIFA 18, you didn’t have to have a full expensive team to be competitive. There were plenty of gold rare cards and even gold common or silver cards (in older FIFAs) that could be used the whole game cycle, but since FIFA 19, those lower rated cards are absolutely useless after a certain point. Each year that certain point becomes earlier and earlier. With each year bringing new promos and new flashy cards, it creates a massive Fear of Missing Out Effect on the whole community and EA knows exactly how to exploit it. It limits how much freedom of expression the player has because we’re basically forced to play the most meta cards at all times. If you come up against a player of the same skill level as you, but they have Mbappe and you don’t. They will win 8 out ten times.
Very well done 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
for a lot of us this might be common knowledge, but hopefully through informative videos like yours, more and more people will have conversations about what needs to be changed to improve these games and limit how these corporations profit off of encouraging gambling and micro transactions within their pay to win platform
Just make ultimate team a separate game because its ruining the rest of the game
The background music is fire
Like others have said, I actually really liked UT when it first came out for FIFA. It was a blast crafting your team, grinding for coins and searching for those diamond in the rough type players. Matching chemistry added a layer as well. But over time it became impossible to find those guys because people just price lock them. And it feels like everyone has insanely stacked teams that they just bought. It used to be rare to face someone with a 95+ player, but now it seems everyone has them across the board. It might be nostalgia but over time it seems like it's just gotten more greedy and over the top.
Inherently theres nothing wrong with the idea/concept of ultimate team. If t stayed how it was during its first years or so it wouldve been perfect (madden 10-13), its when they went full greed around madden 25 & 16 going forward that it ruined the mode & the consequently, the whole game.
This is wut I like about CFB 25. There IS ultimate team, but they put more work into road to glory and dynasty
Imagine the creativity of the live content team working on single player 😮
To me the big problem with a lot of current sports games is rubber banding and predetermined outcomes, with matching animations.
For ultimate team modes to make money, it requires players to be engaged as long as possible. So the game uses an algorithm that ensures every player has a win/loss record that hits the sweet spot. The system will then activate this rubber banding throughout play to make sure it get the result it wants. This makes the games feel cheap and unfulfilling, I walk away feeling that I either didn't deserve the win or was cheated out of victory.
Although there was some rubber banding in games before, it has become much greater since the introduction of these game modes.
I knew i was not tripping last year when i always end up within the same wins record every single week ( average player , usually 9-10 win on Futchamps )
It didn’t matter how well or shit i started.
First year i ever played FUT and i’m never touching it again lol
@@Aokijidonis22 i mean that how it should work, you can have hot streak but you should revert back to your actual skill level
2k5 did it perfectly with the quick draft mode where you basically did a fantasy football team draft against your opponent and then play with those teams. (QB, RB, WR1, WR2, TE, and DEFENSE)
Ultimate team is a cash grab piece of trash.
Great Video but as a Gacha player I'd say pull better
Based.
ill lever pay for comestics, vbuck, vcoins, ultimate team, season pass, etc
Its like Pokemon football. I choose you Barry Sanders
The Show is the best one in terms of playing ultimate team no money but you still have to put in like 6-8 hours a day to keep up. It also feels like diamond dynasty(like every other ultimate team) is taking away too much attention from the single player modes. You're telling me my 18yo drafted in the 13th round player is going straight to AA? its been like 15 years and still no rookie ball and/or single A? Even if its like 20 games give me SOMETHING. Why is franchise CPU trade logic still THAT ass? The amount of 26yo 90 OVRs that get traded to one bad team for another 26yo 90 OVR on a different bad team makes 0 sense. The lack of innovation or progress is just disappointing.
TLDR; If other game modes held their own and werent held back nobody would even complain about UT.
Ultimate team is terrible in theory and practice
For FIFA it’s not ultimate team, it’s the Frostbite engine and the now no longer working staff that initially coded the games there to fix the game
Admittedly promos used to be few and far between but now basically one every two to three weeks which has certainly opened a PTW game
Ultimate team is cool, but they really should make Ultimate team a game of it's own. It's taken away the focus that the other modes need, like franchise mode in madden.
With all due respect, if they did that they would just stop making the franchise mode game. They make ALL THEIR MONEY off ultimate team, that's why things are the way they are.
@@JUnit41484True, I wouldnt put it past them, but at the same time I believe there is a large community still out there that play mainly franchise mode or are holding out for more passion put into that mode. Hell even Draft Champions was huge until EA put it behind a pay wall.
@@DrButsie but I'm not arguing that point, I also believe there's a huge audience who doesn't care about UT and wants to play dynasty, me included. The issue is that those people only pay for the game, and no microtransactions after the initial purchase, so EA just doesn't really care about them as much. They've proven that for the last decade+
EA released Fifa World, but they shut it down two years later.
Around a decade ago, I didn't think playing FIFA and Tiger Woods to a very high level would I see anything as gross as EA charging like €6 for individual DLC golf courses in the TW series. So young. So naive. Simpler times. Better times.
Chill it with the sound effects
Since 2019 I hve never played fifa career mode...been playing ultimate team en my club
Im 44 played the first fifa on megadrive and played every year. Since 2009 when they first did ultimate team it wasnt that bad as you could earn points kinda easily and they have just got worse ever since. And a couple of years ago stuffing the packs with women players has just made it so slow to collect anything. I'm m a cheap git and have never and will never spend money on ultimate team just wish everyone would do it for a couple of years as that would hit EA but unfortunately getting gamers to band together sometimes is insane.
I loved UT when it first came out I could have a nasty team with out spending money now I don’t even buy any sports games
ultimate team makes the games slightly pay to win or grind to win but it means that it is the profit center and all other aspects of the game are neglected. the gameplay is worse but the problems is other game modes are broken and severly glitched an have not been given proper attention for years.
Ultimate team is gambling praying on the weak, how many stories has it not been about kids maxing parents credit cards with FT purchases.
When it comes to the Fifa games (I know they changed the name) I think most of the money comes from Europe, maybe it is time to get the EU on board to ban it, if the EU succeeded the UK would be the only mayor place that didn't ban it.
I only play career mode as I don't care for online play, I buy the game every few years and play it casually but even I can see how FUT has ruined the game as everything else take a back seat.
This is why fm is amazing
I only play pro clubs, the only mode that isn't scripted.
5:22 Good lord 🤦
10:03 bro signed Bellingham for Portsmouth with 90+ overall and isn't even the best player
Insaaane
If they really cared they would do a weekly limit or remove them altogether. They don't give a 💩 about you
go back with fut to fifa 12 times, without those shitty events with cards that are given to players out of nowhere
Career mode >>>
Ruined sport games how? People are in delusion if they think old games career mode are as good as current career mode, just that it's not the upgrade they had hope for. Meta critic definitely took UT into consideration, so they grade every sport games low because of the mere existence of UT. UT isnt what ruined sport games, monopoly did. Exclusive deals in sport game is one of the most anti competitive shit i've seen, why is it still allowed by the law?
It's not for everyone you have to fucking pay on consoles to play it
Ultimate team makes them so much money, makes no sense for them to change anything as a business. Only way it’s going to change if people stop spending money on it which isn’t going to happen.
Good video.
Ut is so boring how can anyone play it
When it's done well it isn't boring. When this all started it was way more fun, I remember in early 2k days I had to take a team of guards against a team of centers, or challenges where you're allowed 1 gold player on a team of bronze scrubs. Even up to like 2k20 I was still enjoying UT without having to spend real money (it was a grind, but it was fun to play the game). It used to be an actually fun game mode, back before they realized all that mattered was getting people to buy packs.
Pay2win
+rep
One thing I am grateful for with FIFA Ultimate Team is it made me aware of my gambling addiction early. I worked it out and by 15 I’d spent well over £2000 on packs. I spend my dinner money on packs and survive off a pack of crisps or sweets for a whole school day😂😭
Good diet though bro
Where did you get that much money while beeing in school bro?😮
@@megaplexXxHD it is over a few years tbf. But I used to get £15-£20 a week for my dinner money, then I also got £50 a month as pocket money from like 14. Then birthday/Christmas money aswell, mainly small amounts but it all added up in the end 😂
@@BigPurp9 aaah alright i see. Man but congrats on actually realising abiut your addiction and admiting it to yourself. Takes a lot to see your own errors and do something about it and wish you all the best 💪🏽
@@megaplexXxHD thanks bro you too!🙌🏿
I hate on wwe 2k and I think nba 2k where the opening screen opens up with a menu with this bs.!if you accidentally click on this you either have to finish making this team or close out and restart because they don’t let you back out. I’ll never care for this and will never play it, I’m not against it being there but let me go thru the menus and click on it if I wanna play this dumb shit
Dude, ultimate team is the best thing happened to fifa. I played fifa all my life since 94. It got boring after 1 month of playing career mode already. Since I play ultimate team (fifa 13) I never invested more than 50€ a year, sometimes when I bought ultimate or preorder I did not spent a penny. It is more fun to try to have a good team without buying packs, you can do objectives and all that stuff and still have a good team. It’s not a fifa problem that you keep buying points it’s yours.
I really wish I weren't here right now!