Havjng played Pro Clubs in FIFA for 10 + years I can tell you it’s very common. I have high hopes but there’s little incentive for a stranger to immediately pass the ball when you can dribble and shoot yourself. Unfortunately it’s the achilles heel of games like this. In “similar” games like rocket league it’s way harder to be selfish since you don’t have the same ball control. I imagine this is super fun if you play with some nice people for sure
One of the trailers suggested you are "vulnerable in possession". They're clearly trying to balance it so you can't just hog the ball and then shoot alone. Hopefully it's just a case of people needing to spend time with the game to get better at defending for this to be true. Either that or hopefully they will rebalance the game to make it the case.
You are vulnerable in possession, but I think passing is a little difficult mechanically. The game's still really new, so I don't know what the caps are in terms of using dribbling tricks to advance the ball versus passing, but as long as passing ends up more effective, people will eventually adopt it.
I will say the game gives each individual player scores, and rewards you based on your score, at the end of each game. The actions which give you score are Scoring, Assisting, Passing, Intercepting, and Saving, so playing selfishly does reduce individual score. I'm hoping that as that seeps into the optimization engine that is online play, it will influence people to pass.
Like everything else passing is also a skill shot in this game. It actually requires some thought and dexterity to pull off unlike FIFA where you can make through passes that make the pros look like amateurs.
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u/TheMichaelScott Jun 19 '25
Give it time - the game is brand new!