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EA Responds to Concerns About Men and Women Playing Together in FC 24 Ultimate Team Mode

gamerant.com EA Responds to Concerns About Men and Women Playing Together in FC 24 Ultimate Team Mode

Representatives of EA Sports respond to criticism of the company’s decision to include both male and female players in FC 24’s Ultimate Team mode.

Tldr: The mode is meant to be a fantasy and that players should turn to EA Sports FC 24’s Kick Off mode for a more realistic experience.

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Jesus Christ.. the incel/neckbeards have no shame. It's a fucking game you twats.
- I have no skin in the game with FIFA, I enjoy watching a good game of football but haven't played a game in years. That said, is it a game or a simulation? People play FIFA as they want to feel like the part of the sport they watch from the terraces/on TV every Saturday, and in that Sport, there's no mixed league.
  The cynic in me says that this is just a way for EA to pad out the card pool with loads more low stat "trash" players from the woman's game forcing people to grind/pay more to seek a good pull.
  
  You started out asking whether it's a game or simulation, then ended up talking about card pulls. Clearly it's a game then right?
  
  The publisher responded to arguments that it was unrealistic by explaining that Ultimate Team mode is meant to be a fantasy and that players should turn to EA Sports FC 24’s Kick Off mode for a more realistic experience.
  
  It's a game. In the UT mode you can use players in your team that have long been retired or dead. You have cards that make up crazy what ifs scenarios, like what if Ronaldo was a center back or Messi a right back (don't know if those cards actually exist but you get the point). You can make crazy teams that are completely unrealistic. Now they are expanding that with women.
  I don't see the issue personally. I just played it for fun and to make crazy teams. My front line right now is Leao, Raúl and Mahrez. Wouldn't mind changing Mahrez for Beath Mead just for fun. 🙂

I want to know why I can't have male v female fights in the WWE games. My sister only makes female characters, and I usually make guys. We can't pit our characters together and it's dumb.
- i believe it's part of their contract with mattel toys to not show intergender violence, but the upcoming AEW game has mixed gender matches!
  
  Aew fight forever has already been released. It is not very good though
  
  I wonder if the previous contract with FIFA prevented EA from having mixxed football as it's not someone done as standard in the real world?

EA response: “Toughen the fuck up you whiny little pricks”.
- The correct response.

There's an alternate universe where this article was never written because people there didn't lose their minds over whether their video game pixels had a penis or vulva concealed by their clothes.
- Should a sports simulation game not seek to emulate the sport as it's played in real life?
  
  It does. Play the mode where it does. It also has this mode where all players can be on the same team. How can more options be bad? Just opt to play how it is in the real world if that's what you want.
  I hate that we humans are so dumb most of the time. Just let people have choices. Why are female and male characters able to raid together in wow? Why does a female bloodelf maintank have as much HP as a male tauren? Never seen that discussion.
  
  Sure, I wasn't aware that the addition of the Ultimate Team mode removed the ability to play in a way more closely resembling the real-world sport though. Care to point out where they've stated that those other modes will no longer be available?
  
  Well, it does. In the non-fantasy mode.
  The publisher responded to arguments that it was unrealistic by explaining that Ultimate Team mode is meant to be a fantasy and that players should turn to EA Sports FC 24’s Kick Off mode for a more realistic experience.

I get the complaints, it's at best lip service to women's sports. It's trivial to remove women if it becomes a problem. This was a lazy way to add women, they could have added a second mandatory team, but that would require work.

Hard to imagine someone having such a bleak, pathetic life that they can muster any kind of a shit about a game mode where men, and women play together.
Yet, here we are. Now that EA has put their head over the parapet with this game, maybe we can have a fantasy league in the next UFC, and all these incels will have a virtual outlet for their sad viewpoints?

As someone who actually plays this mode regularly, I don't know how to feel about this.
- Why would you feel in any way about that?
  
  Now that I think about it, I think I lean towards be in favor of it
- The cynic in me says EA have realised this lets them stuff the player card pool with a load more players from the women's game, forcing people to grind or play more to find good cards.

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