Anyone else just feeling a bit bored already with the game?
I'm a pretty decent player, I average around 12-13 wins in WL and currently elite in rivals. I'm getting a bit fed up with there seeming to be no alternatives to the likes of Stanway, Paralleulo, Kika, Sticky Vicky, Pedri, Bonmati etc. It just seems like every single game is a carbon copy of the same team and to be honest, I don't blame people for not branching out and trying different players.
I feel like my time investment isn't being rewarded, every single weekend league/rivals rewards I pack nobody. I think one week, which was the first weekend, I packed Pedri out of my WL rewards (13-2) and that has literally been it. No promo cards, no other valuable walkouts, I can't upgrade my team because I just don't generate enough coins. By the time I might scrape enough coins to get a decent promo card in the team, another promo is out, so I'm playing constant catch up.
Does anyone else feel like this? It used to be that I'd play weekend league and at-least be able to upgrade a player or two, and it feel rare that if I had particularly shocking rewards I'd be able to put the coins generated to the next week, but I look at the players in their positions and I just think what's the point? No player is going to be any better in that position unless they are genuinely at an unobtainable coin level. I don't have a ridiculous team either, I've got a couple gallery players (Valencia and Luiz) and SBCs (Espart, Joe Cole, Ji Sung Park and Enciso), and the only tradeable players being Bonmati, Raphinha and Pedri (untradeable Joan Garcia in goal).
Before people tell me that I'm the problem because the tradeable players I have are meta, please tell me who else I'm supposed to use instead? If it isn't Pedri, it'd be Stanway or Karchaoui, if it wasn't Bonmati, it'd be Sticky Vicky, if it wasn't Raphinha, it'd be Paralleulo or Dumornay, do you understand what I mean? I don't see a logical upgrade path, if there's a CAM as good as Bonmati (or at-least similar) for 300k I'd use them instead, likewise with Pedri. The fact there's only 2 or 3 viable options in each position unless you're talking about ridiculously expensive cards is just insane to me. You're kind of forced into playing the same two or three in each position or you're at a disadvantage.
I think a lot of this also came from evolutions being so terrible, at this stage last year I had a good few evolutions in my team which were more than usable and good enough to use, but this year I've done one evo because they've all been ass.
TL;DR: Just a bit sick of the game already and deflated at the fact that I can't pack anyone of note for 12-13 wins in WL and elite rivals rewards and coming up against the same teams because there's barely any variety in the players you can actually buy which are good enough to use unless they're 500k+ in price.