I can see why it would be much more of an annoyance online, but I am sure it will be further refined in the coming Fifa 13. Other things I want to see in that are, in no particular order:
1. Take a leaf out of Pro Evo's book when it comes to formations. You pick up a man, and move him exactly where you want - no need to save a new formation either. Perfect for when you want to cover that gap your CB has made by getting himself sent off.
2. Let's be able to put a price on our players? That's a big part of the fun of being a manager. I've got players that the game values at ?2m but I value at ?10m and I want to be able to put that price on them, or to simply say that they're not for sale!
3. International management. Come on, EA! (I know it won't happen though, especially now, not with Euro 12 coming up. I wouldn't pay what they're asking for Euro 12, but if it meant implementing International management into the main Fifa game, I'd happily pay it).
4. Make more of the 'talk to press' feature - and allow us to hold post match press conferences as well if we want to whine about offside decisions and the like.
5. Following on from that, and I'm getting bored saying this, but EA take a look at how Pro Evo handles offsides! They're completely unpredictable - you think you've scored, the commentator says so, the crowd celebrate, then up comes the flag...
6. Learn what is and what isn't an own goal! I've seen goals where the defender blatantly gets the last touch, yet it doesn't go down as an own goal.
7. Again, like Pro Evo, more life around the pitches! Let's have moving cameramen/policemen/etc.
8. If you make players who have just broken their legs walk off the pitch by themselves without so much as a couple of guys to help, I'm going to report you to the real Fifa. Stretchers please EA, where appropriate!
9. Following on from that, when a player is injured, don't immediately give us the exact nature of his injury. Make it vague like 'knee injury'. That way, we can talk about the player going for a scan after the match, and then comes the email with the really bad news. Just because a player leaves the pitch in agony doesn't always result in a long injury lay-off.
10. Proper FA/League/Euro draws (skippable, of course - for those who don't want to sit through them).
11. Injuries to goalkeepers. At the moment, the goalkeeper on the subs bench is just taking up valuable space.
12. Impact Engine to take into account impacts from the ball, goalposts, adboards and so on - along with refinements to the current system.
13. Make the crowd chants louder, and allow the flow of the match to affect the excellent custom chants feature - because at the moment, it doesn't.
14. If a team drops down to the Championship, let's see Championship shoulder patches - ditto if a team goes up to the Premiership. If a team wins the Premiership, they get the golden Premiership shoulder patch.
15. When the heck are you going to actually let us see exactly how much stoppage time is left?
16. Following on from that, aggregate scorelines need to be on the screen at all times, just below the main scoreboard.
17. Following on from that
I don't know about you guys, but I hate this idea of three letters representing team names on the scoreboard. For those who want it, let's be able to see the whole team name up there, so we can remember who the heck we're playing when it's some obscure team.
18. Different levels of rain. Wet matches don't always make the pitch act like it's been waterlogged - sometimes (most of the time), it just slicks the pitch up a bit, making the ball 'skip' over the surface more.
19. Following on from that - dynamic lighting and weather in matches (although I've got a feeling that we're going to be stuck with this lighting/weather system until the new engine comes with the new consoles. And no, I don't mean snow, rain and sunshine in the same match, EA.
20. Again, I'm getting bored saying this, but different celebrations should accompany different levels of importance when it comes to goals. Look at the City players celebrating after Aguero's accursed last minute goal - that's what we should see in similar situations in Fifa. At the same time, the odd goal in a 7-1 thrashing shouldn't have players leaping on each other.
21. Following on from that, if you haven't got the 'team celebrations' working properly, go back to the cutscene format - it's more exciting.
22. Following on from that
let's have controllable trophy celebrations. If you want to run around the pitch with the cup, you can - for example - and there can be button press combinations for different 'moves' such as the whole team doing the 'Klinsmann' dive; or if you want the whole team to go after the manager armed with champagne. A system like that if correctly implemented, would bring an end to the boredom of seeing exactly the same cutscene whenever you win a trophy, regardless of what the trophy is.
23. Speaking of managers, let's see them on the sidelines. They don't have to have real faces - just have some sort of representation of the manager and his reactions down on the sidelines.
24. Once again, EA: have a look at how Pro Evo does it 'Virtual Pro' type stuff. Combine Pro Evo's BaL system with Fifa's massive content and you're on to a sure fire winner.
25. If we make a league in Creation Centre, for example the Conference, it should be fully implementable in Career mode. You should be able to be promoted from it, and face teams from it in the FA Cup. For me, Creation Centre has never worked properly - not once. All I get is errors about downloading user content and I've followed the instructions to the letter.
I'm sure I'll think of much more, but that's enough for now.
Happened with me couple of days ago.
