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This new "feature" makes it almost impossible to play as teams in lower ranked leagues that irl (and previously in-game) make 90% of their profit from buying, developing, and selling youngsters.

Wow, huge cred for the great work

Saying "newgens look fine" is not the same as actually statistically going through the data as OP of this thread did. And, as other users above pointed out, the newgens don't actually look fine. Their technical stats look absolutely terrible.

We're currently the 2nd biggest club in the world after winning the CL and PL back to back. Can't sign any young (right now 15-17 year olds) newgens from any clubs whatsoever. Can't even negotiate with them. What are these "measures" that are in place? Why are they in place? What was wrong with how it was handled previously?

I'm playing as Chelsea and can't buy a single youth player from across the world, including from within the UK. Youth players from League One don't even want to talk to me.

No one is expecting a flawless game during beta. What should be expected is simply this: better and more transparent communication regarding such a game breaking bug (that for many, including me, renders the game unplayable. Hold SI to a higher standard or keep seeing our favourite gaming franchise devolve into an unplayable mess (with basically zero positive progress in terms of gameplay). As aj6658 said above, bugs such as youth prospects being overlooked or youth ratings being broken are never fixed. Countless other bugs as well. Should we just accept a one sentence answer for issues like this? Where's the accountability?

As the poster above said, this bug means the game is literally unplayable for a sizable portion of the player base. I'm not asking for a magic wand, I'm asking for transparency, a much more in-depth answer (rather than a one-sentence one), and hopefully an improvement for similar "known issues" in the future. Knowing that newgens don't improve as they should is a huge problem and should absolutely have been communicated. I work in software development and if we're shipping a product/release to customers you can be damned sure that we'll inform them of known issues that are relevant to their interests.

How about more than one whole sentence from SI on this huge and frankly game-breaking bug that absolutely needs to be fixed for release? This is a type of known issue that should have been communicated here in the forums (at the very least) if it indeed was known. Any generation of newgen will be broken before this fix is implemented, and probably after as well unless it is save-game compatible.