Steering a Course for the Future of the FIFA Series

[roswell0075]

Agree with most of this. FIFA's basic AI (mapped to the Dpad on PS4) offer very limited differences. The changes to the AI stratgegy seem to be limited to the use of these 4 strategy changes (possession, counter attack etc...) in addition to the attacking and defensive levels. To be fair teams do use these differently...i.e. Liverpool and Spurs press and attack more often than say West Brom BUT those changes are not very dramatic and FIFA's Ai seems to be more reactive to what the user does. So if you play without changing your strategies very often the CPU AI generally is static as well. If on the other hand you really vary your DPad strategies then the game offers more variety.
Where PES seems to differ is that the CPU AI is more proactive...meaning it doesn't wait to react to you it forces you to react, which generally leads to the varied gameplay. BUT my issue wiht that is that in the PES Master League the changes are way over the top. I mean player mentality will change for seemingly no reason and the Team Spirit is too easy to rig...just never change your tatics and your squad spirit grows no matter wins or losses. Yes this leads to a lot of variety but not very realistic.
Somewhere there has to be a happy medium...oh to dream!

[Resurrection403]

Not only have I not played a single game of FIFA 17 (even the demo) I haven't missed it one little bit.

So long as EA continues to glibly ignore folks like myself who want to play a manager/career mode I won't give them a penny of my money. Good riddance to bad rubbish made by lazy devs who only care about bilking little kids out FUT money.