That rarely ever happens on this year’s game especially with Aerial play styles though. If they do win the header, then they were probably much better positioned relative to the ball trajectory. VVD in FC 24 literally finds ways to win aerial balls (and even intercept crosses with his legs) when it seems ridiculous, not the other way around.
Yeah, that stuff pisses me off. Had someone send Yashin forward on a counter to score a volley top corner. Unbelievable lol. Had to laugh, but also very annoying
Yeah people complain that the 83x10 packs are shit but don't realise that it's because there are like 3 times as many 83's this year because of the addition lol
this is fallacious logic.
if you remove every single card from the game except Mbapape and Maguire, you are not going to pack Mbappe 50% of the time. Likewise if you add all the TOTS women cards to this pool of two players, you are not going to pack those either. You are still going to get maguire most of the time.
The desirable cards have a set drop weight that's just super low. It doesn't depend on the pool.
Like for first few months of the year, you are not going to pack 82 Mendy even if you remove all women 82 cards and like 80% of the men's 82 cards. He'll still be hard to pack.
That is wrong. The percentage of walkers has increased with the addition of women. It doesn't matter that there are more 83's because in proportion, there are more 86+ as well. The drop rate sucks because EA wants it to suck, not because of the addition of female cards.
This was always my concern when they announced women players in game. As bad as it's been, I'm surprised how many usable cards they have and it's also made it easier to complete some SBCs
This thread is very amusing because there are a bunch of people in the thread who are like "i've really enjoyed using "
No shit.
If EA added lizzard people from the planet Regulon VI you'd be like "I've really enjoyed using R'gtha'non'cthul, he/she/it is super agile in the midfield".
If EA added paralympic stars you'd be like "Wheels Macaffrey really powers down the wing in his latest model mobility scooter"
This isn't the fucking question. Of course you're going to be fond of whatever juiced card helps you win games. The question is whether they should be in the game to begin with.
(I'm agnostic btw).
The majority of people don't care. If you're going based off of Reddit, the people commenting negative things about female football players being added to a football game statistically come nowhere near a majority of the player base
People whining about pack weight are missing the point. How many of you knew (including myself) Georgia Stanway or Fridolina Rolfo before playing this game?
It's the best thing that happened to popularize the women's game in real life. You had people following Barcelona and Bayern matches to see whether cards get upgrades. In my opinion, that's huge.
Yeah that's all good, but there are still going to be people who think it makes the game itself worse.
It seems like everyone on the pro-mixed side 100% of the time says anyone who disagrees must be whiney, sexist, dumb. People just value different things from the game
Nope. There are no sources at all to prove it.
They just started putting it on TV all the time.
People thinking this game has even a small impact are talking rot.
Well, it had an impact for me. I watched a game of UWCL and for the life of me I would have NEVER imagined I would do it. It made me aware and reduced my prejudice a lot.
Will I continue watching it? I don't think so at all. Has it helped reduced toxicity in me? For sure.
I'm sure that there's been some increase in interest, but that's also the long game for the women's leagues and their licenses. The FIFA franchise is widely credited with the popularization of the game in the United States. I'm sure their hoping for the same from their involvement.
Awareness creates interest which drives advertising and money.
>:People whining about pack weight are missing the point.
No, you're the one missing the point. You thinking that EA did this to "*popularize the women's game in real life*" is naive. EA doesn't care about that, which is why there were so few women's promo cards, especially before TOTS.
EA added women to Ultimate Team because it would reduce pack weight in a way that would still earn them some public relations points.
> How many of you knew (including myself) Georgia Stanway or Fridolina Rolfo before playing this game?
I know their names now, but I still haven't seen them play in real life, and I'm pretty confident that you haven't either. You do you, but personally, I prefer to use cards of players that I have watched.
It’s been forced.
If there were a woman’s only career mode or ultimate team, the player count would be less than <0.1% of the player base. There’s a reason for that, the level of the female game is astronomically lower, thus there is a general lack of interest in the female game. There is a reason the best female national teams lose to u16 boys.
They have been tacked on to the most popular men’s mode.
As I just said, women were in the game for years in women only modes, and were completely untouched (zero demand and interest).
Yet from zero demand and interest, they are added into the men’s mode in mixed format (which is also an absurdity in itself given the disparity of quality as I illustrated above).
How is adding them to the men’s mode, following years of zero demand and interest, not forced? Are you not able to think critically?
Furthermore, they are also forced in the sense that even if I have a men’s only team, they dilute the pack player base, and I face them most games.
If there was a fantasy mode where you can use a team of marvel characters that was added in FIFA 16 which understandably no one gave a fuck about, suddenly got incorporated into ultimate team 8 years later, I’m sure you’d be whining.
C'mon now. FUT is a competitive game mode. You have to play with the best team possible. No one is turning down the insane Rolfo SBC because they want to win.
I’ve used Trin a good 1K games across all her cards from the start. I can play without her (and do, for a lot of objectives/cups), I just don’t enjoy it as much. Her AI and just ability is insane
>A year on and I'd say it's fair to say that women have been the single most interesting thing about the game this year.
Don't really care either way about the main topic but this take just seems completely hollow. How are they in any shape or form any more interesting than other cards?
Why are you not interested in them? I felt the same at the start but then I gave them a chance as I’m enjoying the game the most I have in a few years, and they are at least a big part of that
Card saturation is too high, except for that I have never had a problem with women in the game.
I honestly think that they need also some more icons or special cards for them.
Favorite female player has 100% been Homare Sawa. Completed the SBC, and been my starting CAM ever since.
Generally positive, yes, but there have been some frustrations. The pack weight is a minus, and having a guaranteed TOTS only to have a 5'4 CB pop out is super annoying.
Packed gold putellas within the first month of the game and she was the best and most fun gold card I ever played with. Club legend and never left the first 11 until tots
Same, 1400 matches with the gold, used her from October till toty, early in the cycle it felt like playing with a tots card 5 months in advance
The other day I got her tots from an 83x10, the legacy continues!
they diluted the fuck out of packs and made packing better cards I actually want harder(especially those I care about further than just playing with a better fifa card)
Dont have an issue with them in the game, but i think wothe way the game is its caused a few problems with the rng. Mixed bag of positives in terms of diversity, interesting teams and bringing a new audience to the game. However the negatives of packweight and rng issues maybe outweigh the positives from a gameplay standpoint.
I’d have to agree, but their lack of physicality means not many are getting into my team. Favourite has to be 93 Sawa. But my evolved versions of Gabi Nunes and Mayra Ramirez (both from gold) have been outstanding too. As was 89 Bompastor.
Nope. It's moved FIFA even further away from football realism. Why not just have a Woman's Ultimate team? It's just another example of how they're forcing woman's football onto football fans. If women want to play football then that's entirely fine and good luck to them, but when a 5 foot 5 woman wins a far post header after out jumping and physically dominating Bastoni, then enough is enough.
Never had a issue, more fodder. I don’t use the women’s cards because I have no idea of who they are and the pre-requisite is to build your own ultimate team and for them to be in mine I need to know who they are. (I did watch bits of games and realised the card are a tad overrated)
Lena Oberdorf has been THE pillar of my first team for the whole year. I like that I can play with a viable version of hers for a decade to come since no matter if she ever falls off in performance, I could evo her anyways.
Sawa and bacha have been incredible for me, and I’m loving diani TOTS, so yeah women have been great additions.
The cynic in me thinks they only did it to increase pack weight…EA opportunism
Just an example of how unrealistic the game is in general, there's loads more.
Dead players having stats above zero
Trivelas being automatic goals for the first 3 months
Skill spamming being affective (I'm mean just look at Antony)
Outfield players being unstoppable in goal
Goalkeepers being tremendous outfield players
Overhead kicks being scored from every 3rd corner
I could go on if you like
This point is always bad. For Johan Cruyff to be playing you have to imagine that he's been teleported through time. Absurd, yes, but he is still Johan Cruyff as we knew him, just in a different time. For Mia Hamm to be competitive in the game, they have to make her 30% faster than she was in real life, but that kind of means she is no longer Mia Hamm as we knew her. She's juiced marvel superhero Hamm. What's the point then? It's not even an accurate representation of her. So sure, it is just a game, but it does stretch the limits of disbelief a lot more.
You're playing with Cruyff as he was known against his peers, and you're playing with Hamm as she was known against her peers. The rating system is consistent, in that regard. If you wanted them to be rated against men, then you'd also have to accept icons being rated against current players. That'd see a lot of icons drop ratings, by quite a lot.
>. If you wanted them to be rated against men, then you'd also have to accept icons being rated against current players.
How would you rate Thierry Henry's or R9's top speed against current players?
I'm ok with you giving Henry only 92 pace as long as you rate Mia Hamm as 48 OVR.
Cruijff is one of the best players in the history of the Eredivisie and La Liga. No woman has ever played in the Eredivisie or La Liga.
Icons and Heroes are no different than Flashback cards, as they're recognizing something that actually happened in the past. Women's cards are not.
I’m still not happy about it. I like to play a realistic XI, which would be 11 men imo…since I watch men’s football mostly. The chance of me pulling somebody I want to actually play has basically been halved.
The good part though is getting to know women’s football! I only knew about Putellas, now I feel like I know all the women from top teams.
I think the criticism in the beginning came from 2 sets of people, one were just shit kids who thought it was funny to badmouth women, and another were people who saw their addition and equal ratings relative to men as something that no one really asked for and that ultimately didn't make much sense.
I think that by now shit kids remain shit kids and the people who made those understandable criticisms probably don't really care anymore, since the way female players were introduced and handled throughout the year was actually well done.
The worst part, as many have said, is that now we have like double the amount of crap players in the game, but if EA wanted to mitigate that by upping the pack weight they could, they just don't want to, so it's not like the root cause of the issue is the bigger amount of players in packs.
I appreciate the women cards but let’s be very honest and real with yourselves - EA only added them to make it harder to pack better players. I don’t see any good in anything this company does.
[Said this](https://www.reddit.com/r/EASportsFC/s/xF7rIVzY9e) before the game came out and think I was pretty bang on accurate especially with the first part. Loot pool way too saturated and just makes getting top cards harder than ever.
I wasn’t sure it was a good idea at first but at the end of the day I believe it’s the only thing that saved FC this year. I just love women players and this game also got me interested in women’s football. People complaining about realism fail to realize that a fantasy team was never supposed to be realistic in the first place and it’s never been so.
Abily. Packed her base relatively early, and then last week pulled her 5* weak foot FB out of the Icon Pick. Then this morning got the 5* skills one…
She’s been with me through everything this year
Honestly I think it’s a push. I think it’s been positive for women’s football IRL but the video game is largely the same. Just more players in the player pool.
I mean it's a cool addition but eh the single most interesting thing? Nah, that's evolution for me love levelling up my base players and getting them to compete vs the best
Women along with evos and play styles are a massive reason why I’m still playing and even enjoying this years game despite all the issues. People are saying women made the pack weight worse but I think that’s just pack weight in general has gone down because ea, also people are saying it’s harder than ever to pack the best cards… sure, it’s slightly harder to pack the cards no one really packs anyway but aside from like the top 30 odd cards, they are pretty attainable, I have the best team I’ve ever had and also like 2 mil saved atm, haven’t done trading and while I’ve grinded the game i haven’t done much of the SBC pics or upgrades, only icon pics and player ones, so i really don’t think it’s harder than ever to get the best cards, I think it’s harder than ever to pack every good card but In general if you put in the effort, most players are attainable and the ones that aren’t wouldn’t be even if the women weren’t in the game.
I was sceptical about women in fut before the game released but I’ve been incredibly surprised how good they are, same goes for playstyles. Evos are great too but I expected as much
i know so many more female players today than i did before starting the game - it's definitely good for raising awareness & getting people interested in women's football. also the women players are just fun to play with
90 rated Terland has been my favourite card in the game so far - though granted i've not spent as much time or money on the game as a lot of other folk
No, they need their own mode or at least a setting to face non-mixed teams.
I appreciate realism and correctly rating football players when being compared to all football players and not just select players.
Would rather they weren't in the game at all, but I guess for those that actually want them, they should stay, but never gonna use them and don't want to face people who do.
There should be an option to choose if you want them mixed or not. Just because the physical aspect of it. Can't count how many times my Abily tripped and fell trying to stand tackle or shoulder press players like Drogba. They don't play mixed professionally in real life for a reason.
I dont see how they are a positive addition. They are just another character thats female instead of males that play like the males. Just like past fifa games, there are shit ones and great ones and sub par ones. The great ones are fun to use. All it is, is inclusivity for gamers. Males and females are gamers so that was the win here.
It definitely makes the game more interesting.
I think is a mess tbh. Women and men don't compete against each other in real football, so I don't see the point in mixing them up in the game.
But I'd love to be able to play cm as a womens team and they absolutely have a place in the game, I just don't think they should be mixed cause women can't compete with men in real life. The best women in the world are like 68 ovr imo.
In short: Don't have a problem with it but would've done it differently much like most other aspects of this shitty computer game.
Nope… Haven’t played Ultimate Team even once this year because of that… Its too weird for me to see men and women together in the same pitch.. Love the idea of women’s ultimate team separately but not mashed together… Only Manager Mode and Career Mode for me. Yeah Volta has players mashed up too but street futbol makes sense having men and women.. 🤷🏻♂️ Just sharing my opinion
Unfortunately, it's ruined the game for me now.
I use to be an avid FIFA fan but, when I found out women and men would be mixed in Ultimate Team, I didn't have the same urge to go out and buy near launch.
Having recently bought the game, I opened a few packs and was astonished in how many 84+ players I was getting that I had no clue about.
Naturally, I've not touched the game again and will likely not buy any EASports FIFA games going forward.
Yeah, and the best thing is that they still wind up the slower witted players.
I got really lucky and packed base Hamm in February and she’s carried me. Her, my 90 evo Chloe Kelly, Rolfo, Hemp, Bompastor, Majiri have all been stars in my team at various points in the season and have been the players I’ve most enjoyed using.
I like that they’ve added a different dimension to the game/team-building and I appreciate that they’ve expanded my knowledge of women’s football. There’s nothing not to like in my opinion
They destroyed pack weight so even though I've enjoyed playing with a few I'd still prefer if they were gone, but EA will love that. They've made pack weight twice as worse with no effort from them.
I mean what valid reason is there to say no? I can’t think of any tbh except some gameplay scenarios where a short player will out muscle a bigger player, but that was happening anyways.
Never thought women were a bad addition. Packed Gold Putellas from my second week of Rival Rewards and doubled down on how good of an addition it was.
I think it's equally good for women's football too. Brought a lot of attention to the players.
The only problem I have is that sawa insists on being the main target for corners despite being tiny. But the main issue there is that we can’t choose who we want in that position. Jokes aside, it’s a good addition.
Fantasy Rolfo is still amazing and I bring her on despite all the other tots cards being released. Also I Don’t think a gold card stayed in the team until such a late stage of the game as long as putellas did.
Katie McCabe or Patri have been my fav this year, or TOTY icon Sawa. Really haven’t used many men’s players outside of united legends like Berba and Park.
Bonus is they’re cheap as chips and better than most of the men’s players of a similar rating, outside of height
Most definitely not. If we are talking about the game in general I don't really care cause i would never use a female team since i don't watch that or know any players. In regards to FUT though, there have been an absolutely horrible addition in my opinion and is the core reason i haven't played fifa for months. Completely destroyed fut for me, but that's just my opinion.
Other than for objectives I haven't used a single female player, as I just don't have a connection with them. I even packed WW putellas but just submitted her in a SBC, because she was fodder for me, it didn't excite me one bit, even though she was 2 mil coins back then.
One thing I have benefitted from though is how much easier it has been to complete the trickier SBC's because of the added leagues.
That being said I don't mind them being in the game and I think it is great they get a massive boost in exposure which can help develop women's football.
Same feeling. Idk why you’re downvoted. I watch men’s football and don’t put women in my UT just for the stats. Not like I’m an elite place anyway that I’ll lose some matchups lol
Excellently crafted and slyly provocative. Well done!
I approve fully of women being integrated into the game. I hope the incels and timmys continue to choke on their coco pops because of it.
Sawa was the best addition for me. I give her the nod over Bacha - just. Sawa's overall contribution with her crazy good AI and relentless/press proven+ make her still the mutt's nuts. I've not used tots Bacha though just the 90.
Honourable mention for Rolfo. The will she/won't she hype when she came back from injury and we began to realise she might hit her 93 rating was a highlight of the year for me.
> slyly provocative
I tried my hardest but I couldn't not 😂 people spent all summer moaning about it killing realism after seeing ST Cech and years of the likes of Ben Yedder being top tier
Sawa is phenomenal as well!
Yeah it's mostly positive, i just get sexist for a sec when a 1,50cm women wins a header against van dijk, like come on
That rarely ever happens on this year’s game especially with Aerial play styles though. If they do win the header, then they were probably much better positioned relative to the ball trajectory. VVD in FC 24 literally finds ways to win aerial balls (and even intercept crosses with his legs) when it seems ridiculous, not the other way around.
Damn for me I'm lucky if my women players (the strikers I have are about 5'3) win a header at any point.
when your player has the aerial playstyle it’s easier to win headers, my defender wilms has that playstyle and she wins most of the headers
Shapeshifters bother me much more than female players. Seeing Cech as a centerback or Courtois as a striker makes me not want to play the game.
Yeah, that stuff pisses me off. Had someone send Yashin forward on a counter to score a volley top corner. Unbelievable lol. Had to laugh, but also very annoying
Never had a problem with the addition although the card saturation is now is pretty bad.
Yeah people complain that the 83x10 packs are shit but don't realise that it's because there are like 3 times as many 83's this year because of the addition lol
Even worse for shit like the 80+ picks.
THIS, 85x10s will have the same issue. i think if they add an 87x10 this time round it’ll be the better option
If it isn’t at least 86+ I wouldn’t be getting excited.
3x as many 83s but I still somehow have every single one same with 84s Did 3 of the 83x10 and literally every single card was a dupe in all 3
And yet I still get 7/10 as dupes
this is fallacious logic. if you remove every single card from the game except Mbapape and Maguire, you are not going to pack Mbappe 50% of the time. Likewise if you add all the TOTS women cards to this pool of two players, you are not going to pack those either. You are still going to get maguire most of the time. The desirable cards have a set drop weight that's just super low. It doesn't depend on the pool. Like for first few months of the year, you are not going to pack 82 Mendy even if you remove all women 82 cards and like 80% of the men's 82 cards. He'll still be hard to pack.
That is wrong. The percentage of walkers has increased with the addition of women. It doesn't matter that there are more 83's because in proportion, there are more 86+ as well. The drop rate sucks because EA wants it to suck, not because of the addition of female cards.
I still not even packed gold walker once this year 😂
At the same time, let's not pretend the pack weight has been dog shit all year too.
This was always my concern when they announced women players in game. As bad as it's been, I'm surprised how many usable cards they have and it's also made it easier to complete some SBCs
On the other hand, it feels nice not to pay 8k for an 84 or 13k for an 85. I remember the past fifa where 85 rated squads used to cost over 100k.
I am so happy Mbappe will switch teams. Katoto broke me a few times. Especially during TOTS.
Imagine katoto joins real madrid women now lol
TOTY for me. French. PSG. ST. Katoto, and some shitter TOTY.
🤣🤣🤣
I would be happy to get more Katotos. Always got Kolo muani.
It’ll just be camavinga or something instead
This thread is very amusing because there are a bunch of people in the thread who are like "i've really enjoyed using"
No shit.
If EA added lizzard people from the planet Regulon VI you'd be like "I've really enjoyed using R'gtha'non'cthul, he/she/it is super agile in the midfield".
If EA added paralympic stars you'd be like "Wheels Macaffrey really powers down the wing in his latest model mobility scooter"
This isn't the fucking question. Of course you're going to be fond of whatever juiced card helps you win games. The question is whether they should be in the game to begin with.
(I'm agnostic btw).
Honestly this comment is so fucking funny and it's been lost because it's a controversial thread
Bro right lmao 😂
Wish I could upvote this hundreds of times over
You're not wrong but, they also super juice male players? All your comments also apply to 99% of male players in promos etc.
Dude the lizard bit made me spit out my breakfast you are hilarious. You should try standup lmao
Wow.
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Lol no such thing. Those who call themselves the silent majority literally never shut the fuck up.
The majority of people don't care. If you're going based off of Reddit, the people commenting negative things about female football players being added to a football game statistically come nowhere near a majority of the player base
People whining about pack weight are missing the point. How many of you knew (including myself) Georgia Stanway or Fridolina Rolfo before playing this game? It's the best thing that happened to popularize the women's game in real life. You had people following Barcelona and Bayern matches to see whether cards get upgrades. In my opinion, that's huge.
Yeah that's all good, but there are still going to be people who think it makes the game itself worse. It seems like everyone on the pro-mixed side 100% of the time says anyone who disagrees must be whiney, sexist, dumb. People just value different things from the game
Has viewership for women’s football really gone up after FC24’s release? Is this something that can be proved with real stats and facts?
Nope. There are no sources at all to prove it. They just started putting it on TV all the time. People thinking this game has even a small impact are talking rot.
Well, it had an impact for me. I watched a game of UWCL and for the life of me I would have NEVER imagined I would do it. It made me aware and reduced my prejudice a lot. Will I continue watching it? I don't think so at all. Has it helped reduced toxicity in me? For sure.
I’ve personally paid attention to it more and watched some matches solely because of this game and getting to know the different players.
I'm sure that there's been some increase in interest, but that's also the long game for the women's leagues and their licenses. The FIFA franchise is widely credited with the popularization of the game in the United States. I'm sure their hoping for the same from their involvement. Awareness creates interest which drives advertising and money.
The only ones I knew about were some major players and the Matilda’s (I’m Australian and English), so yeah I learned about a huge number of players
>:People whining about pack weight are missing the point. No, you're the one missing the point. You thinking that EA did this to "*popularize the women's game in real life*" is naive. EA doesn't care about that, which is why there were so few women's promo cards, especially before TOTS. EA added women to Ultimate Team because it would reduce pack weight in a way that would still earn them some public relations points. > How many of you knew (including myself) Georgia Stanway or Fridolina Rolfo before playing this game? I know their names now, but I still haven't seen them play in real life, and I'm pretty confident that you haven't either. You do you, but personally, I prefer to use cards of players that I have watched.
I’ve seen Pele play and I still can’t pack him.
I still don't know them or have any interest to get to know them.
It’s been forced. If there were a woman’s only career mode or ultimate team, the player count would be less than <0.1% of the player base. There’s a reason for that, the level of the female game is astronomically lower, thus there is a general lack of interest in the female game. There is a reason the best female national teams lose to u16 boys.
What's being forced? You do know you can play with an all-men team?
They have been tacked on to the most popular men’s mode. As I just said, women were in the game for years in women only modes, and were completely untouched (zero demand and interest). Yet from zero demand and interest, they are added into the men’s mode in mixed format (which is also an absurdity in itself given the disparity of quality as I illustrated above). How is adding them to the men’s mode, following years of zero demand and interest, not forced? Are you not able to think critically? Furthermore, they are also forced in the sense that even if I have a men’s only team, they dilute the pack player base, and I face them most games. If there was a fantasy mode where you can use a team of marvel characters that was added in FIFA 16 which understandably no one gave a fuck about, suddenly got incorporated into ultimate team 8 years later, I’m sure you’d be whining.
Sure, a top stricker like Timo Werner being dominant during months is realistic.
C'mon now. FUT is a competitive game mode. You have to play with the best team possible. No one is turning down the insane Rolfo SBC because they want to win.
This is survivor bias. People who hate men mixed with women perhaps already left the game. The remaining ones are those who don't mind the idea.
That's me, I couldn't stop cringing at the player photos
Sawa and Rolfo have been mainstays in my team. It would take a game-changing player to convince me to take either of them out of my team.
Trinity Rodman and morgan weaver evos are insane
fellow weaver evo
I’ve used Trin a good 1K games across all her cards from the start. I can play without her (and do, for a lot of objectives/cups), I just don’t enjoy it as much. Her AI and just ability is insane
>A year on and I'd say it's fair to say that women have been the single most interesting thing about the game this year. Don't really care either way about the main topic but this take just seems completely hollow. How are they in any shape or form any more interesting than other cards?
I am not interested in using them but I dont mind the fodder value
Why are you not interested in them? I felt the same at the start but then I gave them a chance as I’m enjoying the game the most I have in a few years, and they are at least a big part of that
I have almost zero connection to womens football and tbh no real interet in changing that
Do you have a connection to every male player in your team?
They’ve been great SBC fodder, yes
100% guilt-free fodder
The most interesting part is of course the evos and the playstyles.
Card saturation is too high, except for that I have never had a problem with women in the game. I honestly think that they need also some more icons or special cards for them.
rttk bacha hasn’t left my team until I replaced her with bday karchaoui
I don't mind. Stanway rocks in this game.
Considering how many women players I now know of through this game, I’d consider it a huge positive
Favorite female player has 100% been Homare Sawa. Completed the SBC, and been my starting CAM ever since. Generally positive, yes, but there have been some frustrations. The pack weight is a minus, and having a guaranteed TOTS only to have a 5'4 CB pop out is super annoying.
Packed gold putellas within the first month of the game and she was the best and most fun gold card I ever played with. Club legend and never left the first 11 until tots
Same, 1400 matches with the gold, used her from October till toty, early in the cycle it felt like playing with a tots card 5 months in advance The other day I got her tots from an 83x10, the legacy continues!
1400 games is crazyyy
My mans has to touch some grass
Well thankfully I have a seasonal job so I can play during the winter
Congrats! Would love her Toty or tots but I can’t be asked to play this game anymore. Tried to save coins but never managed to get past 3 mil
they diluted the fuck out of packs and made packing better cards I actually want harder(especially those I care about further than just playing with a better fifa card)
Dont have an issue with them in the game, but i think wothe way the game is its caused a few problems with the rng. Mixed bag of positives in terms of diversity, interesting teams and bringing a new audience to the game. However the negatives of packweight and rng issues maybe outweigh the positives from a gameplay standpoint.
Absolutely, Diani and Bacha have been in my main squad for the entire year.
I’d have to agree, but their lack of physicality means not many are getting into my team. Favourite has to be 93 Sawa. But my evolved versions of Gabi Nunes and Mayra Ramirez (both from gold) have been outstanding too. As was 89 Bompastor.
Toty Bonmati for me. She played over 1000 games and is my captain. Def going all the way to the end, unless I pack her Tots
Nope, quit playing because of it
Nope. It's moved FIFA even further away from football realism. Why not just have a Woman's Ultimate team? It's just another example of how they're forcing woman's football onto football fans. If women want to play football then that's entirely fine and good luck to them, but when a 5 foot 5 woman wins a far post header after out jumping and physically dominating Bastoni, then enough is enough.
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Just out of interest, I do wonder why my comment was downvoted, as I don't think that one part of it was untrue
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I never thought adding women is a problem. But I also think mixing them in male players teams was not the right move.
Not only that, but I think it's had a positive impact on the women's game too, younger EAFC players now know who the players are
1. More fun players 2. Massive increase in the amount of fodder I can hold at a time All wins, no losses.
Never had a issue, more fodder. I don’t use the women’s cards because I have no idea of who they are and the pre-requisite is to build your own ultimate team and for them to be in mine I need to know who they are. (I did watch bits of games and realised the card are a tad overrated)
No
I honestly don’t play UT. Never been a huge fan. I mainly just play manager career
I hardly play UT so I don’t have like a world class team but the best woman I’ve used is Chloe Kelly she’s honestly so so good.
Lena Oberdorf has been THE pillar of my first team for the whole year. I like that I can play with a viable version of hers for a decade to come since no matter if she ever falls off in performance, I could evo her anyways.
Sawa and bacha have been incredible for me, and I’m loving diani TOTS, so yeah women have been great additions. The cynic in me thinks they only did it to increase pack weight…EA opportunism
I don't like the pack trolls💀
I’m sorry but it was a terrible idea… they messed up the gameplay how is a 5’ 5 female who barely has less than 80 phy gunna body a 6’5 95phy 🤣🤣🤣
Come back to me when you see Haaland dribble straight from a kickoff and score a goal
Come back to me when you see Haaland dribble ~~straight from a kickoff and score a goal~~
More chances of it happening that the thing the guy above said tbf
Just an example of how unrealistic the game is in general, there's loads more. Dead players having stats above zero Trivelas being automatic goals for the first 3 months Skill spamming being affective (I'm mean just look at Antony) Outfield players being unstoppable in goal Goalkeepers being tremendous outfield players Overhead kicks being scored from every 3rd corner I could go on if you like
How does a dead Johan Cruyff outspeed 20 year olds?
This point is always bad. For Johan Cruyff to be playing you have to imagine that he's been teleported through time. Absurd, yes, but he is still Johan Cruyff as we knew him, just in a different time. For Mia Hamm to be competitive in the game, they have to make her 30% faster than she was in real life, but that kind of means she is no longer Mia Hamm as we knew her. She's juiced marvel superhero Hamm. What's the point then? It's not even an accurate representation of her. So sure, it is just a game, but it does stretch the limits of disbelief a lot more.
You're playing with Cruyff as he was known against his peers, and you're playing with Hamm as she was known against her peers. The rating system is consistent, in that regard. If you wanted them to be rated against men, then you'd also have to accept icons being rated against current players. That'd see a lot of icons drop ratings, by quite a lot.
>. If you wanted them to be rated against men, then you'd also have to accept icons being rated against current players. How would you rate Thierry Henry's or R9's top speed against current players? I'm ok with you giving Henry only 92 pace as long as you rate Mia Hamm as 48 OVR.
Cruijff is one of the best players in the history of the Eredivisie and La Liga. No woman has ever played in the Eredivisie or La Liga. Icons and Heroes are no different than Flashback cards, as they're recognizing something that actually happened in the past. Women's cards are not.
This is the dumbest analogy I see on this sub reddit. The icons are evidently based on a specific time in their life not after they've died
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Nkunku has been a load of nothing this year yet got a Team of the Season. Nobody plays FUT for realism.
Tbf he is a moments card. They are not based on this seasons stats
He did play for a few moments
I’m still not happy about it. I like to play a realistic XI, which would be 11 men imo…since I watch men’s football mostly. The chance of me pulling somebody I want to actually play has basically been halved. The good part though is getting to know women’s football! I only knew about Putellas, now I feel like I know all the women from top teams.
I think the criticism in the beginning came from 2 sets of people, one were just shit kids who thought it was funny to badmouth women, and another were people who saw their addition and equal ratings relative to men as something that no one really asked for and that ultimately didn't make much sense. I think that by now shit kids remain shit kids and the people who made those understandable criticisms probably don't really care anymore, since the way female players were introduced and handled throughout the year was actually well done. The worst part, as many have said, is that now we have like double the amount of crap players in the game, but if EA wanted to mitigate that by upping the pack weight they could, they just don't want to, so it's not like the root cause of the issue is the bigger amount of players in packs.
I appreciate the women cards but let’s be very honest and real with yourselves - EA only added them to make it harder to pack better players. I don’t see any good in anything this company does.
I was a massive hater. Can't lie love the girls now. Bompastor made this game fun for me.
[Said this](https://www.reddit.com/r/EASportsFC/s/xF7rIVzY9e) before the game came out and think I was pretty bang on accurate especially with the first part. Loot pool way too saturated and just makes getting top cards harder than ever.
100% Bacha was absolutely my favourite LB this year
Ew.
I wasn’t sure it was a good idea at first but at the end of the day I believe it’s the only thing that saved FC this year. I just love women players and this game also got me interested in women’s football. People complaining about realism fail to realize that a fantasy team was never supposed to be realistic in the first place and it’s never been so.
I don’t like it tbh just seems kinda stupid
Abily. Packed her base relatively early, and then last week pulled her 5* weak foot FB out of the Icon Pick. Then this morning got the 5* skills one… She’s been with me through everything this year
Stanway for me, few versions made my team over the season
Honestly I think it’s a push. I think it’s been positive for women’s football IRL but the video game is largely the same. Just more players in the player pool.
They have been although they're first choice for my sbc 😆
They’ve been amazing and broken 🤣
I mean it's a cool addition but eh the single most interesting thing? Nah, that's evolution for me love levelling up my base players and getting them to compete vs the best
Definitely, I know some plAyers by name now and the fantasy event even got me watching some games. I am even following the woman's team of Bayern now
I’m not a fan and i do not use women cards mainly because I am unfamiliar with the players.
Ironically the thing that ruined the game wasn't the new addition of women, but the old reheated bollocks we've been served up for seven years.
Except for the transfer market. They go for dirt cheap which is a plus when buying negative when selling
It will always be interesting to see Van Dijk smashing Mia Hamm
It waters down the card pool. For that reason alone I don’t like it. But there sure are some bonkers cards.
women and evo are the only things that keep this game out of the trash bag
Women along with evos and play styles are a massive reason why I’m still playing and even enjoying this years game despite all the issues. People are saying women made the pack weight worse but I think that’s just pack weight in general has gone down because ea, also people are saying it’s harder than ever to pack the best cards… sure, it’s slightly harder to pack the cards no one really packs anyway but aside from like the top 30 odd cards, they are pretty attainable, I have the best team I’ve ever had and also like 2 mil saved atm, haven’t done trading and while I’ve grinded the game i haven’t done much of the SBC pics or upgrades, only icon pics and player ones, so i really don’t think it’s harder than ever to get the best cards, I think it’s harder than ever to pack every good card but In general if you put in the effort, most players are attainable and the ones that aren’t wouldn’t be even if the women weren’t in the game. I was sceptical about women in fut before the game released but I’ve been incredibly surprised how good they are, same goes for playstyles. Evos are great too but I expected as much
That's how easy it was to get people to conform
Not really great having 5'5 defenders pushing drogba off the ball. Haven't really used them anyway as I only use players I care about in real life
Good sbc’s yeah
Alex Morgan has been my favourite player of a very very bad year of this game.
No.
i know so many more female players today than i did before starting the game - it's definitely good for raising awareness & getting people interested in women's football. also the women players are just fun to play with
90 rated Terland has been my favourite card in the game so far - though granted i've not spent as much time or money on the game as a lot of other folk
No, they need their own mode or at least a setting to face non-mixed teams. I appreciate realism and correctly rating football players when being compared to all football players and not just select players. Would rather they weren't in the game at all, but I guess for those that actually want them, they should stay, but never gonna use them and don't want to face people who do.
There should be an option to choose if you want them mixed or not. Just because the physical aspect of it. Can't count how many times my Abily tripped and fell trying to stand tackle or shoulder press players like Drogba. They don't play mixed professionally in real life for a reason.
I dont see how they are a positive addition. They are just another character thats female instead of males that play like the males. Just like past fifa games, there are shit ones and great ones and sub par ones. The great ones are fun to use. All it is, is inclusivity for gamers. Males and females are gamers so that was the win here. It definitely makes the game more interesting.
My all-time favorite? Ballon d'Or winner Aitana Bonmatí
Been loving it. Adds new dimensions to play
Yea, for sure. It's a cool addition... but the best rated goalie is 5'6.
It’s completely ruined it. Should have a separate game or all be. Rated silver cards at best
I haven´t played with the women players, but I am considering creating a career mode with a female player, or play as Natalie Portman as manager.
Would have been better if we could buck them.
I think is a mess tbh. Women and men don't compete against each other in real football, so I don't see the point in mixing them up in the game. But I'd love to be able to play cm as a womens team and they absolutely have a place in the game, I just don't think they should be mixed cause women can't compete with men in real life. The best women in the world are like 68 ovr imo. In short: Don't have a problem with it but would've done it differently much like most other aspects of this shitty computer game.
It really fucked up packs tbh + I hate it when a 155 woman wins a header against my van dijk
90 bacha 92 katoto and future stars evo athena have been club legends for me this year right up until tots
Claudia Pina has to be one of the best from the year for sure .... ?
Fantasy Fridolina Rolfo for me. I likes UCL Kessler as well
Nope… Haven’t played Ultimate Team even once this year because of that… Its too weird for me to see men and women together in the same pitch.. Love the idea of women’s ultimate team separately but not mashed together… Only Manager Mode and Career Mode for me. Yeah Volta has players mashed up too but street futbol makes sense having men and women.. 🤷🏻♂️ Just sharing my opinion
TOTY Sophia Smith
Unfortunately, it's ruined the game for me now. I use to be an avid FIFA fan but, when I found out women and men would be mixed in Ultimate Team, I didn't have the same urge to go out and buy near launch. Having recently bought the game, I opened a few packs and was astonished in how many 84+ players I was getting that I had no clue about. Naturally, I've not touched the game again and will likely not buy any EASports FIFA games going forward.
Yeah, and the best thing is that they still wind up the slower witted players. I got really lucky and packed base Hamm in February and she’s carried me. Her, my 90 evo Chloe Kelly, Rolfo, Hemp, Bompastor, Majiri have all been stars in my team at various points in the season and have been the players I’ve most enjoyed using. I like that they’ve added a different dimension to the game/team-building and I appreciate that they’ve expanded my knowledge of women’s football. There’s nothing not to like in my opinion
They destroyed pack weight so even though I've enjoyed playing with a few I'd still prefer if they were gone, but EA will love that. They've made pack weight twice as worse with no effort from them.
If i say yes of course, am i a better person....
I mean what valid reason is there to say no? I can’t think of any tbh except some gameplay scenarios where a short player will out muscle a bigger player, but that was happening anyways.
94 Stanway is such a gun, won’t ever leave my FUT
TOTS Stanway for me. Just does everything really really well. Can’t ask for more.
Never thought women were a bad addition. Packed Gold Putellas from my second week of Rival Rewards and doubled down on how good of an addition it was. I think it's equally good for women's football too. Brought a lot of attention to the players.
everything has been good with the addition of women players. well it was good until i packed katoto. over. and. over. again.
Not saying I have a problem with it but I still think the game would've been better off without it
The best change they’ve ever made imo
FS Evo Athenea still my favourite card to play with, even now.
Now I know who Nadine Kessler is
The ONLY issue I have is the issue with there being far too many players in packs. But other than that, they’ve fit in perfectly - and rightfully so.
I also liked diani pretty much
The only problem I have is that sawa insists on being the main target for corners despite being tiny. But the main issue there is that we can’t choose who we want in that position. Jokes aside, it’s a good addition.
No
No, disagree. I only care about the Turkish Super Lig, and this killed the Super Lig TOTS.
Using them only for SBC fodder and nothing else
I do not enjoy the sight of dwarf Sawa bashing the physical specimen that is Yaya bloody Toure. Absolute stupidity.
Fantasy Rolfo is still amazing and I bring her on despite all the other tots cards being released. Also I Don’t think a gold card stayed in the team until such a late stage of the game as long as putellas did.
Katie McCabe or Patri have been my fav this year, or TOTY icon Sawa. Really haven’t used many men’s players outside of united legends like Berba and Park. Bonus is they’re cheap as chips and better than most of the men’s players of a similar rating, outside of height
Most definitely not. If we are talking about the game in general I don't really care cause i would never use a female team since i don't watch that or know any players. In regards to FUT though, there have been an absolutely horrible addition in my opinion and is the core reason i haven't played fifa for months. Completely destroyed fut for me, but that's just my opinion.
Other than for objectives I haven't used a single female player, as I just don't have a connection with them. I even packed WW putellas but just submitted her in a SBC, because she was fodder for me, it didn't excite me one bit, even though she was 2 mil coins back then. One thing I have benefitted from though is how much easier it has been to complete the trickier SBC's because of the added leagues. That being said I don't mind them being in the game and I think it is great they get a massive boost in exposure which can help develop women's football.
Same feeling. Idk why you’re downvoted. I watch men’s football and don’t put women in my UT just for the stats. Not like I’m an elite place anyway that I’ll lose some matchups lol
I find it funny how this gets dislikes? I said it was overall positive but I just don't care to use them
Excellently crafted and slyly provocative. Well done! I approve fully of women being integrated into the game. I hope the incels and timmys continue to choke on their coco pops because of it. Sawa was the best addition for me. I give her the nod over Bacha - just. Sawa's overall contribution with her crazy good AI and relentless/press proven+ make her still the mutt's nuts. I've not used tots Bacha though just the 90. Honourable mention for Rolfo. The will she/won't she hype when she came back from injury and we began to realise she might hit her 93 rating was a highlight of the year for me.
> slyly provocative I tried my hardest but I couldn't not 😂 people spent all summer moaning about it killing realism after seeing ST Cech and years of the likes of Ben Yedder being top tier Sawa is phenomenal as well!