dannysheard

I'm like you that I've been playing for years and years and know I must be really good at the game. The sad thing is, I don't even have to do 25% of the things that I could do (manage training, change tactics depending on opponents, manually scout, do set-pieces myself...) to absolutely overpower the AI. And once you're ahead, with a half-decent team, even setting loads and loads of manual restrictions on yourself, like leaving all scouting to the (rubbish) AI, it's impossible to not just steamroll the leagues for ever more and have £1bn in the bank.

Next you'll be saying lapel badges weren't worth it, either,

I think some people would genuinely prefer a few new animations over realistic matches.

I was thinking the same... if FM24 is broken and all they've done is added manager hearing aids and a handful of Japanese players what is the complete rebuild for FM25 going to be like?!

Not bought this yet as it sounds like there are more genuine immersion/realism-killing bugs than ever; is that about right? P.S. Not interested in whether they've added a few nice new animations if each team scores 200 goals a season but doesn't make any subs.

I'll skip it until they sort out all the junk that people are talking about in the game (terrible AI and way too many goals)

Was he the Tea and Busquets guy?

As an aside, I can't even see that comment I made now. The last comment I see in this thread is from Thursday (page 3). I think I'm being censored

True, but Liverpool couldn't come close to signing him for financial reasons. The finances in FM have always been terrible for big clubs, as shown by the Aresenal guy making 10+ major (and half a dozen absolute marquee) signings in one window.

True. I always get caught up in a debate with the 'I don't find it too easy, so you can't either' crew on here. I make it my mission to have at least one person say 'humblebrag' to me each year. My grandma would've told me to stop playing with my food.

I guess it's what most people want, and that's fair enough, I think. They need the masses to buy the game and a lot of people don't find it easy so I don't believe just upping the difficulty of the base game is ever going to happen. If they did, it would be a crazy steep learning curve for new players. I'd just like to have a sensible chat around what is possible in terms of difficulty levels.

SI will already have the metadata of % of players that win the league/Champions League with each team, and probably if some of those players are save scumming, so they'll know it's way too high, certainly for some of the better players. I have no interest in 'proving' to people who don't find the game too easy, that I do. We're at different levels; it's pointless. For me, this debate is about whether we want to do something about it, like virtually every other game does with difficulty levels, or not.

Let me try to break this down for you (again). I don't think I'm a tactical genius, quite the opposite as the game doesn't need you to be. I start a game, create my own, fairly basic, tactics from scratch (just like you, well done) and then win a lot more games and trophies than I should be able to with the team I have. Nobody on here is saying that Liverpool shouldn't win most of their games; of course they should as they have the second best squad in the league. But there is a difference between it being easy to win most games (which should be the norm with Liverpool) to being easy to win nearly all the trophies, which it obviously shouldn't be with any team. Example: City and PSG in real life. And before you say, of course Liverpool win everything, they're OP in the game; that's what everyone on these discussions say every time one of the good players comes on here and says they're playing as Utd or City or Arsenal or Liverpool or Spurs or Chelsea. They can't all be OP, can they? And I've played as underdogs and it's still really easy to overachieve (four or five or six promotions in a row). I genuinely don't think you know the difference between how many games your team wins and whether the game is easy or not.

Mate, give it a rest. You obviously don't find the game easy which is why you don't believe it when people say they do. You're not that good at the game. It's OK. There are lots of things I'm not very good at.

Aren't you the same guy that asked me this last time and I pointed out that I'd actually written it was nine times in a row on FM21? So you've said it wrong twice now; nice. And I genuinely have no interest in proving anything to anyone who thinks that making up achievements on a forum like this is something that would make me happy. Tl;dr, you don't find the game easy, I do.

I had the same in last year's where I won the league at a stroll as Liverpool (not that amazing) but then in the summer window I signed Haaland for about £50m and Mbappe on a free... didn't bother starting the second season

Or if some people said, can you make a separate low-calorie version for some of us, please. And then people jumped in and said, "don't you dare make a low-calorie version, I like the full-fat one". You would then be expected to prove you prefer the low-calorie version and detail exactly how it would be made.

Bringing your own salt wouldn't even be the suggested solution on here, it would be don't eat in a restuarant, eat in a graveyard. And close your eyes. And don't use your hands. Or your mouth.

I've put two-and-two together that a) the last 5-10 iterations of the game have all been too easy and b) lots of people that have played the demo are saying this version is too easy to conclude that this version is the same as previous ones. Would love to be proved wrong. I feel like you're actually agreeing with me here that you know you can over-perform with Liverpool (or any team) in the game. Will you answer my questions: - do you not find the game too easy (far too many promotions for lower-league teams, for example)? - do you believe some people do find it really easy (and don't use cheats, downloaded tactics)? - do you believe, in general, when a product isn't fit-for-purpose for certain users, those users should not go back to the manufacturer and want to discuss changes to the product? - do you think that once a player reaches competence on the game, they should never be able to play with the top 4-6 teams in each league? I'm genunely curious as to what it is that won't let you ignore something that wouldn't affect you.

A background +1 bump to player attributes that I wouldn't notice in any meaningful way, but would just give me the odd extra headache to deal with? I can live with that, they do it in every other game pretty much. Go on, humour me, answer the questions. Please.

You're not out, though, are you, really? You come back every year when people legitimately state that for them the game is way too easy and you offer arbitrary, realism-killing solutions rather than letting those of us that this actually effects have a candid discussion about what could be done to improve it? Honest questions: - do you not find the game too easy (far too many promotions for lower-league teams, for example)? - do you believe some people do find it really easy (and don't use cheats, downloaded tactics)? - do you believe, in general, when a product isn't fit-for-purpose for certain users, those users should not go back to the manufacturer and want to discuss changes to the product? - do you think that once a player reaches competence on the game, they should never be able to play with the top 4-6 teams in each league? I'm genunely curious as to what it is that won't let you ignore something that wouldn't affect you.

- FM21: played one save and won the first nine Champions Leagues in a row

Dave, SI make the game. That's the reason I want them to do it. That's how the consumer relationship works. Their product isn't fit-for-purpose for a (unknown) number of players so they should look to remedy that. As for your solution, I'd need to constantly edit my team (every time I signed a new player, for example) to keep on top of it. If it was a fixed squad I had, I would very happily take that option. For me and a lot of other players, the game being fundamentally unchallenging is the biggest problem. By far. Not bothered about making the match animations prettier or adding FitBits to manager profiles.

So you think I'm making up achievements to ask for difficulty levels which I don't actually need because I'm making up how easy I find it?

Oh Dave, you must be good enough to need a harder difficulty setting by now, mate? You've been playing for years, man. DM me. It would work like this (and this is me thinking about it for all of 10 seconds)... when I play Arsenal, for example, for that game all their players' attributes are bumped up by +1 or +2 (maybe more for condition) for that match. +