Double0Seven

Im sorry but how does this help us? Of course we are not stupid, we understand there can be problems. But there is an issue if you are not honest about it. And right now there's no transparency or communication at all.

Warlock Ive seen and respect your opinion a lot around these forums. But calling us other loyal fans that have been here for decades toddlers for not willing to fall into lies, broken promises, marketing ******** and what not is a joke. You are part of the problem, I just have to say it. This is why exactly SI get away with what they do year in year out. People like you who do not understand others opinion and just keep on buying a full priced game with broken features that they promised for.

As a loyal customer for years and having said this feedback before. SI are now EA in my books. No better than that scum. Release a game with features that were marketed but did not work. That is what you call a lie. A blatant lie. I will skip another year. I vote with my wallet. Unfortunately, the majority of you dont and SI keep getting more and more copies sold of a broken game that is majorly 95% the same every year. This game will keep going this route if people keep falling for it. The innovative hard working SI that I saw from decades ago is no more. Marketing and profits are all that matters now. Us fans are nothing more than money in their eyes.

Like I said before. They do not care. Look at the amount of people buying the game blindly. They do not care a main feature being advertised is not working and isn't guaranteed to work at release. SI is just like EA now. No competition, no incentive to improve at all. And to be honest, would you if you were in the same position? You can put out nearly the same game every year, make more money, not fix longstanding bugs and the community still eats it up.

If you cannot confirm updates for the full release, you are basically admitting that you are releasing a game with a broken AI feature that was already admitted here somewhere on the forums. You are selling a full priced game with a feature you advertise that is not working. I dont understand. How can you work all year on a very longstanding issue, it still does not work and say nothing about it in public? Do you expect everyone to dig around forums? BE HONEST, like I said before. Just say to customers it doesn't work. Instead we have to rely on being on these forums which 99% of the buyers are not. Here are more users with the same issues. What is going on in one year of development? How can you sell this as a new feature when its the same old problem? Do you understand what kind of joke this is to us loyal customers? Ive been playing since FM06 and this issue has been over a decade a problem. I understand it might not be easy to fix, but marketing PR its improved while hiding in forums its not improved is not good. Please explain this to me. Who can accept this?

Year in year out same issue. There is a problem. No fix at full release. Game still releases at full price with no public acknowledgement and you have to dig deep into forums to find issues. People still buy. SI does not do anything. Same next year. What no competition does to a franchise. We are no better than FIFA at this moment. Tell me the difference. Maybe the game is not a casino, that's all.

You and me brother. Saying it as hard as I can every year. But seeing as the sales number are only going up nobody cares.

https://www.reddit.com/r/footballmanagergames/s/wrRZvSBalF Once again, another issue that has persisted for years and does not seem to be actually fixed despite being promised to. If years of reports can't fix it, I don't have faith it will be fixed by next week. I find it more worrying that SI is willingly advertising AI being smarter to sell more copies. Yet the only way you can find it's not fixed is by browsing the dedicated forums with promises that it will be fixed. Not everyone will do this. Your average Joe will not. As someone who was nearing 2 decades of playing this game, im increasingly disenchanted by this way of selling the game. Be honest, don't sell features that don't work. Do not become fifa where broken promises and features are made because they know customers cannot buy an alternative. Please. I never expected to go down this route, but it's becoming more and more scummy. I'm usually not that harsh, but after years of seeing the same issues it's getting hard to stay positive.

It is confirmed by SI that it is now an issue. Again, completely unacceptable in my opinion that these "bugs" are the same every year. Every year we go through the same cycle. Issue from last year still persists > SI acknowledges it > problem does not get fixed before full release > still charge people full price for a game they know is bugged in some perspective for years > people like me give feedback and get completely ignored. Fix this before release AND really fix it so we dont end up having this discussion again. Only then I might consider buying the game. Otherwise I will once again skip another year. We should not accept paying full price for problems that plague the game for years yet every year the same "promises" are made and it isn't fixed at all. I rather hear honestly "hey we cant fix it this year" than promising it will be fixed. Because Ive heard these promises before. You cannot advertise a feature that's "new", doesn't seem to work and then promise to fix it in future updates. I dont like how the gaming industry is moving, because this seems to be the standard. Were paying full price for games with features that dont work with broken promises. Like FIFA... and we all know how they went down that road with no competition.

Seems like I will skip FM for another year. Its beyond frustrating that we are being charged a full price game for problems that have been in this game for years. I said it before and I will say it again. We cannot be having this discussion again every year. It feels hopeless. We are talking about problems that are in the game for a decade. When will SI fix this beyond marketing PR promises? It feels like us customers are not being taken seriously, because every year people just keep paying for almost the same game again. I dont want or need interactions that dont even work. Put time and effort into the important things. Feels like I've been saying this year in year out and just getting ignored. Frustrating to say at least.

I dont get it. This has been an issue for years and there are not even attempts to solve it? How should such obvious examples be raised as bugs everytime. Ive been here for years and it feels like were discussing the same things over and over. I know we need bug reports to solve issues, but it feels like nothing is being done. This was an issue 10 years ago. 5 years ago. 1 year ago. And its still here. Ive seen countless reports and threads over the time and I feel like its not being addressed at all. I once again feel like were going in circles and that frustrates me as someone who has been playing since FM06. The lack of competition is showing again. I care little to none about the graphical improvements and new engine if we cannot fix the same issues plaguing FM since years. Im saying this as a longtime fan, it feels like were heading in the wrong direction year after year. Too much focus on graphical and UI things. Changing things for nothing. Adding more interactions that people do not really care about. Better 3d managers and what not. All of this is not important compared to the core gameplay. This and the youth development bug not being fixed after 2 years almost. I respect all the work that SI is putting in, but to see such minor improvement year after year while charging full price because there is no competition is making us fans not happy.

I dont understand. How is this still a problem after so long. I was checking in after years again and it seems like every year its still the same problem. I understand it might not be hard to solve, but I have no hope by now.

Has this issue been solved? Its 2 years by now and even though I haven't played in some time, I was curious to check out again. Im getting older and dont care about all the fancy match engine stuff. Ive complained lots back then and it seems were getting a new one in FM25. Sounds like my feedback among the many others got through. But has the core gameplay been improved in 2 years? Is AI doing better squad building? Are managers attacking better, doing subs etc when behind and not just sitting there waiting for their loss? Are players finally not mad about every single small thing wanting to blow up issues like its nothing? I would be disappointed if none of these issues were addressed in 2 years...

My point is that youth and newgens seem to be bugged over and over year in year out. Not the exact same issue, but yet another issue surrounding it. The issue of low newgen did get fixed in FM22, but people were playing a broken FM21 despite paying full price for it. It got better but only after multiple updates months after FM21 released. Is this ok to you? And waiting a full year for FM22 to fix it. Now FM23 is plagued with yet another youth bug. In FM21 they took months to better it and a new iteration to completely fix it. If it repeats again, people are gonna be pissed. They already are, but as someone who has played since FM06 I see this happening over and over again. Release a version that is bugged, not fixing it fast enough, postponing it a bit to next year and oh look there is another big bug. I hope im wrong. But if the past tells me anything...

Funny, this youth developement bug remembered me of FM22 where it was also an issue. And FM21. The funny part is that the exact same person (LeoFM in FM21 pointed out in latest reply of first thread how it is still an issue) is pointing out again how it is broken. 3 years guys. And people really believe this would be fixed in 2 weeks when they cant fix some of these youth development bugs in years? I would be happy if they could, but think logical for a moment.