FIFA 20 is officially out now for PC, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox One, and while the likes of Ultimate Team and Kick-Off have received some fun new updates, Career Mode has been left in a fairly stagnant state. EA Sports has added a few new features into the mix, but many of the game mode's persistent problems from previous iterations - and some new ones - have evidently upset fans. As a result, Career Mode FIFA players have taken to Twitter to complain en masse, which has caused #FixCareerMode to recently trend on Twitter.

We'd stated that Career Mode feels miles behind the other modes in our official review, which is a problem that has slowly grown year-over-year for the current console generation. While many of the usual complaints hadn't been addressed between FIFA 19 and FIFA 20, there are a few new ones that seem to have caused many fans to reach a breaking point.

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The major complaint that gamers have lies in how AI runs opposition managers, in that they're often completely nonsensical. Many gamers have reported top Premier League teams benching their star players in favor of reserves, resulting in some rather strange looking lineups. Their arbitrary selections seem to extend into the transfer market, too, with some AI managers doing things like splashing cash on four goalkeepers in the same transfer window, or selling their star players while bringing in no replacement. As a result of these choices, teams like Manchester City, Liverpool, and Chelsea keep ending up in the bottom half of the league table, with some fans even seeing them get relegated in their first career mode season. For a game which prides itself in the authentic presentation of real tournaments, the AI behaves far too bizarrely for Career Mode to feel realistic.

 

 

Some of the new additions to Career Mode are press conferences and post-match interviews, which use a conversation system borrowed from The Journey. However, fans are complaining that there's little depth to the new feature: after fielding one or two interviews, players will be able answer essentially any question knowing what answer will help boost team or player morale, making each press conference become a bland and repetitive experience. Beyond that, there are plenty of typos in the questions themselves, and some of these questions don't make sense - for instance, we had a reporter talk about an MLS side nearing relegation, despite the fact that relegation isn't even a possibility in the league.

EA Sports also included text-based private player-to-coach conversations into the game, though this new feature has issues, too: sometimes players will request more game time, and then get upset that they were asked to play when they didn't want to. Beyond that, there aren't many unique conversations to be found: gamers playing through Career Mode can expect to see the same two or three conversations play out several times throughout the season with different players.

Players have also reported issues where editing players causes their game-locked positions to become permanently altered, and those who have already played a few seasons into Career Mode are reporting that sometimes the annual Champions League and Europa League competitions fail to take place entirely. Given how important the continental cup competition is to fans - and how badly Career Mode needs diversity in its gameplay - those are a big miss.

EA Sports community lead Corey Andress has taken to Twitter to assure fans that the issues are being looked at, though he says a patch for Career Mode will take some time. For its part, EA Sports support has confirmed that it has opened investigations into why AI managers field weaker-than-logical starting elevens, why top Premier League clubs seem to consistently take a dive into the lower half of the league table, and why conferences have journalists asking nonsensical questions. There's evidently a lot to look into, so there's no telling when the next title update will address some of the issues - but at least they're being looked at.

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