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The past few years they just seem to be adding features that make a feature that is already there more complicated and not fixing broken/useless stuff. I hate what they have done to scouting for example, it's so complicated nowadays. There is about 5 tabs at the top of the page that do a similar thing. I have thousands of hours since changes, I still click about 3 different tabs because I don't know what half of them do still. I pray that FM just strip it back next year and minimize the information and menus. Give us quality of life additions & fix what's broken. Don't make more things in the game even more complicated! I dread to think what I would be like as a new player, I am overwhelmed now and I have been playing for 15 years. I read my review from FM2018 earlier, I was saying the exact same thing about the menus then. That was 5 years ago! Really poor stuff. I do some UI design occasionally, and I can tell you that FM's is an absolute nightmare.

I feel the same mate, I am so disappointed because I truly love this game - but this really has killed my motivation to play the game.

Nothing in my post is referring to any bugs. Unless they play on completely releasing a completely new menu system on release then all of my points stand.

Being brutally honest, I wish I could refund the game and get my money back. I have owned every FM since 2007 and rarely had a complaint but this edition is unacceptable. Not one of the new “features” have improved the game - and BASIC issues that have chipped away at the player base for years and years now have not been fixed. The game menus / UI have become unplayable, and are the cause of building on top of the same skin for 15 years. It needs a NEW and fresh look from the bottom up. You can click on any of the tabs on the left of the screen, and when you go on the page you will be presented with another 5+ tabs on the page with information which you really don’t care about. It is SO cluttered, and the default skin doesn’t even work with half the stuff within the game. I find myself doing more admin work in FM then I do in my actual job. SI need a refresh from the very top, or at the very least they should be listening to the player base that will continue to buy the game no matter what because like myself, we love the game. New creative direction needed that caters for the demands of the player base. And I am already guessing based on previous versions next years main feature will be the woman’s database - which is just adding another league.

I agree mate. This is the first version of FM I am feeling extremely short changed. The guys at SI need to respect the loyal fan base it had, people want features - not restructured ways of doing the stuff you could already do and then call it a feature. I am feeling fatigued with the same look and feel of the game & generally underwhelmed so far, the game has been desperate for graphical improvements for years - not just the visual match engine but regen faces & the menus are genuinely shocking, and are of a quality that a one man indie game company could produce. We need better SI. For me this is not an improved game, it's an update.

Sorry but the low specs argument has never held up for me. Let's not give SI an excuse for blatently neglecting a part of the game that they shouldn't be. The game has decreased in graphical quality over 10 years, that's pretty inexcusable for me. If your PC cannot run it, then there will be graphical options within the menus to make it run smoother.

waiting all day for this

Good idea releasing it at this time at the same time as COD. It was clearly ready prior to this. Probably another Miles decision.

yep and me, typical

Hurry up chaps I don't have all day. I have spent all day refreshing.

I have looked into my crystal ball and I say.... TOMORROW!

it would happen during working hours if it were today, i would say if we reach 6pm any day then it's not that day.

They'll release it when we get to page 2023, so get posting.

Has the beta come out exactly 2 weeks before in the last couple of years? I seem to recall it coming a few days early last year - or am I imagining things?

Music to my ears chaps. It hasn't been an effective way of playing since FM19. The last two editions have got boring very quick for me because whatever you do tactically you just always revert to the same style of play. Adding variety to the way the match engine works will improve the game more than any features. The most fun I have had on FM was playing overly defensive football succesfully, as weird as that is to a lot of people!

I am in that horrible position where I really wanna play FM but I know that if I start a new save it'll be pointless because it'll come out as soon as I start enjoying it! So with that in mind the main thing I want to see from FM is: - The ability to play dour defensive football. - Stopping gegenpressing being the only way you can play succesfully. That's all I want, seeing as my dream of improved look of the game is in tatters. I beg that they add some variety in the way you can play the game.