EA SPORTS FC 26: Um Jogo Que Não Vale o Dinheiro e Só Entrega Frustração
EA SPORTS FC 26 somehow manages to take everything that was already bad in previous games and make the experience even more frustrating, broken, and irritating. For anyone who has not bought it yet: do not buy it. There is a high chance you will only end up angry and feel like you wasted your money.
The game still feels heavily pay-to-win, especially in competitive modes. Players who spend extra money to build overpowered squads and access better cards seem to have every possible advantage. For those who do not spend more, the experience often feels unfair, exhausting, and frustrating. Skill, game reading, and real football seem to matter less than broken mechanics, artificial advantages, and abusive squads.
The gameplay is awful, possibly one of the worst in years. Players feel like they are skating on ice: they slide too much, take forever to stop, turn strangely, and make defending feel ridiculous. Winning the ball back becomes extremely difficult, especially when opponents exploit the broken movement and unrealistic physics.
Honestly, it feels like the people who created this game have never played football in their lives. It is as if they have no understanding of movement, defending, positioning, passing, finishing, or anything that actually happens on a football pitch. The result is a game that does not represent football, does not respect the player, and does not deliver a decent experience.
The online mode is also ruined by players using Zen and other tools to gain unfair advantages. In a game already filled with delayed responses, inconsistent defending, poor movement, and broken mechanics, facing players with external advantages makes everything even worse.
The bugs and repetitive broken plays are unbelievable. Many matches become the same thing over and over again: players running in a straight line with Mbappé, scoring from almost anywhere, abusing cutbacks from the goal line, or repeating mechanics the defense simply cannot handle. Instead of football, the game often turns into a frustrating loop of exploitative plays.
What makes it worse is that the game does not seem to reward real football. Build-up play, smart passing, intelligent defending, and tactical awareness are often destroyed by bad physics, bugs, pay-to-win elements, suspicious scripting, and exploitable mechanics. It feels like the game was designed to create frustration and push players to spend more money, not to provide a fair and enjoyable experience.
EA is lucky there is almost no real competition in the market. Because of that, they keep selling overpriced, poorly made football games year after year. FC 26 is expensive, broken, full of problems, has terrible gameplay, a contaminated online mode, and a structure that favors those who pay for advantages.
For anyone thinking about buying it: save your money. FC 26 is not worth it. You will probably only end up frustrated.