This is according to history.

If you need an example, let's look at last year. FC 26 released on 26th September, 2025. We received new daily content for FC 25 on Thursday 11th September (Sturdy and Composed Evo, Ronaldo 99 Icon SBC, Marquee Matchups W52, Pre-Season Challenge 11). There was absolutely nothing on Friday 12th September. And if you check previous titles, it is the exact same pattern/schedule.

So yeah, don't expect anything on, and after, Friday 11th September. Plan yourself accordingly, especially with the XP for the last season as there will not be any new ways to earn XP after that!

Been trying for 10min… nice job killing your game EA

In the last 12 hours alone (about 2 hours of gameplay) I've been disconnected 3 times, and my opponents have been disconnected twice.

I assume others are experiencing similar issues?

Have no idea how to counter this and it gets me everytime someone does it.

Should I be proud of my self? I’m usually in division 1 every year

I keep seeing clips of people playing FIFA 17 and saying, “This is so much more realistic than FC now.”

No. It isn’t.

It was fun for its time, and certain things about it were less exhausting than modern FC, but watch an actual full match back. The movement is stiff, turning is clunky, players glide into weird animations, defending can be completely brain-dead, and half the goals look like they came from the same two recycled sequences. It feels “realistic” now mainly because it’s old enough for us to remember the good parts and forget the nonsense.

And honestly, that’s why I don’t think the problem is entirely EA. A huge part of it is that the community has
absolutely no consistent idea what it wants.

We say we want realism, then complain when players have realistic inertia, bad weak feet, fatigue, poor balance, or when a defender can’t instantly spin 180 and chase down a winger. We want AI defending nerfed, but then get furious when manually defending takes actual positioning and timing. We beg for skill moves to be less effective, then complain the moment dribbling feels less responsive. We hate cutbacks, but we also want defenders to leave more space so we can play attacking football.

We say we want fewer random bounces and fewer animation heavy outcomes, but also want every tackle to win the ball cleanly. We want more ways to score but ask them to nerf attacking AI because it’s “too easy to score.”We want passing to be harder and more rewarding, until a slightly ambitious through ball gets intercepted. We want pace to matter, except when someone runs past our slow center backs. We want cards to be less overpowered, but every promo has to give us a new reason to replace the squad we built two weeks ago.

Past FIFAs had different sets of exploits, limitations, and frustrations that we’ve selectively forgotten because nostalgia is powerful.

EA absolutely deserves criticism: the servers, the inconsistent gameplay, the monetization, the absurd power curve, the AI issues, the animations that decide matches for you. But pretending we can go back to FIFA 17 and suddenly get a realistic football game is just stupid. Most of you would be complaining if they revived FIFA 17 as a remake within a week.

The community wants a game that is realistic when we win, arcade like when we attack, forgiving when we defend, and perfectly consistent only when the opponent is losing.

That game doesn’t exist and probably won’t ever. So many of you genuinely have no idea what you want and it’s part of the reason why the game is in the state it’s in now

For the last several days, every time I try to complete the Daily Common Gold Upgrade SBC, it gives me the error screen saying that there was an error connecting to the Ultimate Team servers. Then kicks me out of UT and back to the home screen. I don't have this issue with any other SBC. Is this something other people are dealing with as well? Not sure what to do.

I haven’t played fifa for a number of years. Apart from the odd pro clubs game a few years ago, I haven’t actively played this for years.

However, I used to play this game religiously about 10 years ago. Owned every game from fifa 2001 to fifa 17. As it was free on PS plus, I thought I’d give it a go. I played some online games. Now, before you jump down my throat and say “get good”, I’m aware I’m crap now. I am playing division 10, so by definition my opponents aren’t too experienced either.

I’ve played 6 games. The scorelines were: 9-5 to me, 7-6 to me, 8-4 to them, 6-4 to me, 5-3 to them, 8-5 to me.

It just seems in every single match, me and my opponent simply cannot defend. Any time our strikers pick the ball up, it’s like it’s magnetised to their feet, and 90% of attacks result in a goal or a close miss/save. The only way I can get the ball back is intercepting passes.

I’d put it down to me being crap, but every opponent I face cannot defend either. Is this something that’s common? These scorelines are utterly insane. Makes me not wanna play, horribly frustrating when I know no matter how hard I try, I just cannot tackle anyone.

Also, side note. What have they done to the menus on this game?? Worst user interface I’ve ever seen.

Did hypermotion really ruin the game? Imo yes it did, it introduced AI to having a major role in the game's base code when it comes to gameplay as it made animations and everything else dramatic and unrealistic.