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Daily Mirror
30 minutes ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
5 EA FC 26 changes I want to see including PlayStyles, Evolutions and FUT promos
EA FC 26 is a few months away from release, and I have a wishlist of what I want to see in EA Sports' next football game. As we approach the release of EA FC 26, the same questions in on everyone's minds. What's new? EA FC 26 is expected to release at the end of September by EA Sports, making it the third instalment of the EA Sports FC series. EA is still occupied by EA FC 25 with its popular Futties promo yet to kick off in Ultimate Team, but players' heads are already turning towards the future and what we can expect to see in EA FC 26. A host of EA FC 26 information has already been leaked on social media, including new FUT Icons and FC 26 pre-order bonuses, but not much gameplay-wise has been revealed just yet. This got me thinking: what are some new features or changes that I'd like to see in EA FC 26? Here are five changes I want to see. Competitive Evolutions Evolutions have been a godsend since they arrived in EA FC 24. If it wasn't for Evolutions, Ultimate Team would feel boring, but as good as Evolutions are, I still think there's progress to be made. That's why in EA FC 26 Ultimate Team, I'd love to see more competitive Evolutions with longer grinds, making the payoff much more rewarding. Adding objectives into Evolutions like playing 100 games of Rivals or winning 30 FUT Champions games for bigger upgrades would be fantastic. Not only will it help the elite players be rewarded with the upgrades before anyone else, but it also means that you won't be seeing the same players in every FUT Champions game, making matchmaking more exciting. I've seen enough Ruud Gullit's and Thierry Henry's to last me a lifetime over the last two months in Ultimate Team, but if EA offered upgrades based on competitive results, it could make Ultimate Team much more interesting, and it could also make Evolutions that little bit better. PlayStyle Plus nerf I was on board the PlayStyles train when EA FC 25 launched, but after the last few months, I think they are in big need of a nerf, with PlayStyles currently way too important. I've previously written about how I felt PlayStyles were ruining the game, and I still feel the same way. Stats almost don't matter anymore, and it feels like in every update EA brings out, the main focus is on PlayStyles. Gameplay has also become too reliant on PlayStyles, and right now, if my striker hasn't got Finesse Shot or Low Driven Plus, they almost feel unusable. In EA FC 26, I want to see Playstyles used like a luxury, the way they were intended to be when they were introduced in EA FC 24. Make stats the most important factor once again, and I'll be happy. No more 4 week FUT promos There may be a little bit of recency bias here, but EA has to stop with these extra-long promos because they are sucking the life out of Ultimate Team. Ahead of EA FC 25, Shapeshifters was one of the most popular promos in the FUT calendar each year, but right now we're in the fourth week of the Shapeshifters promo, and I don't think interest has ever been lower. Following the TOTS promo that was extremely tedious towards the end, these dragged-out promos simply lose hype quickly, and it makes Ultimate Team quite boring. EA needs to commit to having a new promo every one or two weeks, or limit promos and go back to how it was between FIFA 13 and FIFA 16. Online Career Mode An Online Career Mode is one of the most requested additions every year by players, and once again, I'm hoping this is something that EA would be willing to implement in EA FC 26. The ability to play with friends or other online players in the Career Mode format is very appealing, and it could be the perfect refresh needed to add some life back into the game mode with some of the most loyal users. Punishment for players who quit This is something that should have been added to Ultimate Team a long time ago. EA needs to implement harsher punishments for players who quit games if they want a less-toxic player base. Title Update 9 saw EA make its first steps towards fixing this toxic problem by rewarding wins to players when their opponents quit while drawing, but this only applied to certain circumstances and when a player quit through the menus, so it was quite flawed. Instead, EA should focus on punishing the player who quits the game, and this way, it will become way less of a regular issue. An idea that could work is to give out time penalties to players who quit games. If you quit a game, you can't enter a new one for 15 minutes. The more games quit, the longer the punishment.
Daily Mirror
19 hours ago
- Sport
- Daily Mirror
EA FC 25 Path to Glory Team 2 squad confirmed as huge Euro 2025 players included
The EA FC 25 Path to Glory Team 2 squad is now available in Ultimate Team, featuring live player items based on Euro 2025. EA Sports is keeping players entertained in Ultimate Team this week, with the EA FC 25 Path to Glory Team 2 squad joining Shapeshifters Team 4 in packs. Euro 2025 has officially kicked off, and to celebrate the biggest competition in the women's football calendar this year, EA Sports has released a Euro 2025-themed EA FC 25 Path to Glory Team 2 squad into Ultimate Team. After a strong start with the Team 1 release last week, the EA FC 25 Path to Glory Team 2 squad features some big names, including the likes of Patri Guijarro, Ewa Pajor, and Lauren Hemp. The Path to Glory Team 2 squad features players who will be playing in Euro 2025, with each player able to earn upgrades over the next few weeks based on their respective nations' performances. We've made a live upgrade tracker for the promo as well, so you can keep up to date with all the latest upgrades. The EA FC 25 Path to Glory Team 2 squad is now available in Ultimate Team packs until Friday, July 11 at 10am PDT / 1 pm EDT / 6 pm BST, when EA should revert pack to one promo in packs at a time, with the popular Futties promo up next. EA FC 25 Path to Glory Team 2 revealed EA has released another 15 players as part of the EA FC 25 Path to Glory Team 2 squad, with only 96 and 95-rated players included once again. All of these items are live, so they can all earn more upgrades over the next few weeks. These are all the players included in the Path to Glory Team 2 squad, along with official ratings. CB: Leah Williamson (Arsenal and England) - 96 OVR CDM: Georgia Stanway (Bayern Munich and England) - 96 OVR CM: Patri Guijarro (Barcelona and Spain) - 96 OVR ST: Ewa Pajor (Barcelona and Poland) - 96 OVR ST: Marie Katoto (Paris Saint-Germain and France) - 96 OVR LW: Lauren Hemp (Manchester City and England) - 96 OVR ST: Eda Hegerberg (Lyon and Norway) - 96 OVR CB: Magdalena Eriksson (Bayern Munich and Sweden) - 96 OVR ST: Amalie Vangsgaard (Juventus and Denmark) - 95 OVR CM: Eveliina Summanen (Tottenham and Finland) - 95 OVR CDM: Hayley Ladd (Everton and Wales) - 95 OVR CM: Jackie Groenen (Paris Saint-Germain and Netherlands) - 95 OVR RB: Catarina Amado (Benfica and Portugal) - 95 OVR RB: Kerstin Casparij (Manchester City and Netherlands) - 95 OVR CB: Guorun Arnardottir (Rosengard and Iceland) - 95 OVR EA FC 25 Euro 2025 Path to Glory upgrade path Here are the upgrades available for all the Path to Glory player items, along with the upgrade requirements: EA has also released a Shapeshifters Team 4 squad in packs as well, while more Path to Glory players are also available as SBCs and Objectives.
Forbes
21 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
EA Is Completely Shutting Down ‘Anthem' And No, You Can't Get A Refund
Anthem One of the biggest misfires of the looter-shooter Destiny-copycat era was BioWare's Anthem, a game that sapped loads of time and resources away from the likes of Dragon Age and Mass Effect to produce a half-baked release. I kind of loved it. Anthem had so, so many problems, of course, and it was not shocking that eventually, EA killed it instead of tripling down with more major updates. But now, EA has ended things for a second time. For good, It has just been announced that Anthem servers will be shut down entirely on January 12, 2026, six months from now. The game has still been able to be played all this time, even since its 'death' in February 2021, but now? Nothing. You won't be able to play at all. This is sad because Anthem will always be a 'what could have been' for me with genuinely fun combat and moves toward fixing itself near the end. But this raises another modern-era games question about a title that people paid for but now will not be able to play at all. Despite single-player elements including an entire campaign you'd play solo, because the game needs a server connection, with those servers offline, you cannot play it. And no, no refunds will be issued for the game. The FAQ doesn't address this, but it's true, though it does have a section about how you can still spend your premium in-game currency until it's shut down! Hooray! Anthem FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder The timing of this comes alongside a big movement called Stop Killing Games, a petition that has racked up 1.1 million supporters and is about exactly this: games that players paid for being summarily deleted from existence. Here's the description: Right now this is largely based in Europe, and in some countries, progress has been made regarding the process in some places. This current movement is UK-focused, as a petition like this will be considered to be brought before Parliament if it gets 100,000 signatures. It has certainly gotten that. A separate movement to register complaints in France about The Crew being shut down is also part of this. This is not some moneymaking scheme; Stop Killing Games does not want funding, but a genuine consumer movement, and now we can add Anthem to a long list of games that are unplayable because they were designed as online-only, even with single-player elements, and have shut those servers down so they are inaccessible. And no, no refunds. That seems very wrong. Follow me on Twitter, YouTube, Bluesky and Instagram. Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.
The Verge
a day ago
- Business
- The Verge
The end of an Anthem.
The end of an Anthem. BioWare's much-maligned live service shooter is shutting its servers on January 12th, 2026. It'll be playable until then, though you can no longer purchase in-game premium currency, and it'll disappear from EA Play on August 15th. EA says there have been no layoffs as a result, though jobs were lost at BioWare in January.
Geek Culture
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Geek Culture
EA's Failed Live-Service Shooter 'Anthem' To Shut Down Jan 2026
Electronic Arts (EA) has hammered in the final nail in Anthem's coffin, as BioWare's failed 2019 live-service looter shooter will officially shut down on 12 January 2026. Due to the title's online-only nature, this means that the game will be completely unplayable after its servers are taken offline, making it truly a dead game. Premium in-game currency has stopped being sold since 3 July, as though anyone is still buying those anyway, and the game will be removed from the EA Play library on 15 August this year, although it will still be available to download for those who already own the title, until its servers shut down next year. 'After careful consideration, we will be sunsetting Anthem on 12 January 2026,' wrote the BioWare team on a post announcing the game's shuttering. 'This means that the game will still be playable online for the next 180+ days. As of today, you can no longer purchase in-game premium currency, but you can still use your remaining balance until the servers go offline.' In a short Q&A accompanying the post, the team clarified that 'the sunsetting of Anthem has not led to any layoffs', which at least comes as a relief given that EA has gone through a series of massive layoffs over the past few years, including axing 50 jobs at BioWare in 2023, laying off around 670 staff and cancelling a Star Wars FPS title in 2024, and most recently, cutting around 400 positions an scrapping two more games in the works, including an extraction shooter set in the Titanfall universe. Anthem joins the long list of failed live-service titles over the past few years, such as Crystal Dynamics' 2020 action-adventure title Marvel's Avengers or PlatinumGames's 2022 RPG, Babylon's Fall , further cementing how blindly adopting the format, either due to greed or to chase industry trends, can and most likely will spell disaster for even the most respected game studios. Kevin is a reformed PC Master Race gamer with a penchant for franchise 'duds' like Darksiders III and Dead Space 3 . He has made it his life-long mission to play every single major game release – lest his wallet dies trying. Anthem BioWare Electronic Arts Live Service Games
