JamesBond's blog: "Get Cheap FIFA 16 Coins"

Before I got into FIFA, me and my buds used to get on NHL 14 and play something called EASHL. Where it is almost the exact same thing as Pro Clubs, but for hockey. A cool thing that I can relate to, is that there is the ability to go into 'practice sessions' where it is no one on the ice except the people in the practice lobby, and two goalies on my Fifa 16 account. If they can somehow implement this into FIFA, I could see myself using it for practicing positioning and counter attacks with my club.
But I ain't got time to make 303 standing tackles or keep 200 clean sheets in a game where any form of jostling in the box will be called as a penalty against me.

The thing that gets me is that pro clubs is in an awful state, and yet it's still my favourite game mode. Just shows how good it could be with some adjustments.

I think the ai (randies, we call em) should either get better as the players around them improve or you should use eas cc points to buy better ones. How does it make sense that an attack consisting of a 90 rated cam and two 88 strikers have to play alongside Joao Marcelinho Borges who's rated 67 and can hardly make a tackle without falling on his arse?

What's funny is the clubs mode for 09, 10, 11 allowed the captain to wear the armband. They also changed the accomplishments every year between 10-12. fut16coin remembers getting 3 career hat tricks was one of them. They legit have recycled the same accomplishments the last three years in a row. The A.I needs to be GREATLY improved. The sad thing is I know NONE of these things will happen. EA just feeds off the people's love of football/soccer and make money from that alone. What a shame.

I'm starting to become quite comfortable on legendary in fifa 15 and I'm quite afraid that by the time fifa 16 comes around it wont be a challenge . Id like to see a new difficulty- maybe ultimate difficulty they have on fut offline. fut16coin don't really want to be playing with sliders all the time and trying to adjust them. Anyone else feel the same?

They need to rework the AI so it's not so damn predictable. Legendary isn't about skill it's about knowing what the AI will do because it's so obvious once you've played enough.

On offense you simply bomb down the flanks and shoot near post with power or take it close to the byline and cross it.On defense simply force them wide and watch them try to cross.The AI is predictable and easy to beat after you play enough times.
Depends, some really small players can simply outrun CPU players. I love this little Pole I have, Jakub Kosecki, as he just runs circles around the AI, even on legendary. There is no amount of rubber-banding/scripting which can hold that lil bro back.
Problem for me is when I'm using a lower league side. The players on both teams are shit, but my shit players don't have the game engine working for them sometimes.

Out of all the bullshit they should fix you think a more difficult mode is important? Huh. You could just change everything to manual and still be on legendary and I'm 100% sure you'll find it challenging.

Gotta go with Harry Kane and Felipe Anderson. Kane's been killing the Premier league, and Anderson proved to be a very successful signing for Lazio, by being one of the goalscorers of Series A, alongside with his assists. Also, Charlie Austin deserved at least 77 when his January Upgrade came out. Scoring 17 with QPR (sorry QPR fans:/ ) is inSané. Sane also deserves a big, big upgrade. Very good young talent from Germany (once again). So, that's about it for me. What about you guys?

Obviously every league is going to produce stars, but that doesn't make the league is strong. My point is that bad players can look great in the Portuguese league because it does not provide an adequate test for their Fifa 16 account. Also - I'm not sure Falcao and Hulk are strong cases for your argument. Hulk looks dreadful every time I see him in the national team and Falcao despite being a great player is not showing it too much these days.

Alls I am saying is that one is not necessarily a great player because he does well in the league there. Porto does okay in Europe - obviously they won under Mourinho some time ago. Since then Porto hasn't done squat and Benefica does well in the Europa league. I wouldn't exactly say that they do great in Europe. Better than the eredivisie? Yes. That is not exactly saying much though.

Porto won the Uefa League under Andre Vilas Boas year. Hulk and Falcao were under 80 ovr at the time.
Another example is the CB in the Portuguese League. How can Bruno Martins Indi only have 76 ovr? Outrageous! They pointed him to United. Lets see how much ovr will he get when he moves to a bigger club

here have been some flops. But take a look at all the players that left Portuguese League! I can't even count. I bet with you that next year Jackson will leave Porto and have like 84 rating. And so does Oliver Torres

That comparison is lacking some crucial dimensions. Most notably: to my knowledge, no one is bellyaching about the fact that we don't extend the same prestige and compensation to high school chess clubs as we do to grandmaster chess competition.
I love that we enable all levels of athletics through countless tiers and divisions, but there can only be one highest tier with huge number of Fifa 16 coins. That tier will invariably draw the highest ratings, earnings, and respect. More often than not, it will also be exclusively male. People who seek to change this through artificial constructs are absolutely undermining the very essence of competition.

Not soccer but i remember during the wonter olympics talking about the teams. They said that the women's team practices with high school men's teams. High school hockey is at a very different level from college, itself far from an NHL level as most the male players were in. Women and men are absolutely different physically at puberty onward. Only an idiot would suggest otherwise. Or a peddler. Not sure which better describes AS..

So we should segregate education by gender/race but basically let biology maul women in sports? Okay, you're not even a man-hater. You're a full-on misanthrope who wants to see people close themselves off until their feels drive them to beat each other up in sports. You just want to bitch about the world until there is no world to bitch about.

FIFA 16 is problematic because men are encouraged to abuse women by pelting them with rapidly moving balls which, if they strike effectively, could cause a female goalie to be pulled from her team.Plus since the game models the teams and players based on their real world performance, the male teams outperform the female teams and the games end up favoring the male teams completely. It's horrifically sexist.

A feminist once edited the Wikipedia page on sexual dimorphism and added a section that said the only reason men are physically stronger than women is because of the way they're raised. The source was some pseudo-scientific feminist book.
If there was mixed-gender football, there would have to be "forced diversity", otherwise managers of football teams wouldn't pick any female players. That's just the way it is. The idea that if they allowed it in a video game, it would be more likely to happen in real life is nonsense.

It would be unfair to put men and women up against each other in future sporting events and I don't know why anyone would want that. You can't ignore biological differences. It makes zero sense.

Goalkeepers:

Ospina 79

Szczesny 78

Defenders:

Gibbs 78

Monreal 77

Gabriel 77

Koscielny 83

Mertesacker 81

Debuchy 80

Bellerin 74
Midfielders:

Sanchez 86

Ozil 86

Cazorla 84

Rambo 83

Wilshere 81

Walcott 80

Coquelin 76

The Ox 80
Strikers:

Giroud 81

Welbeck 80

WHAT I THINK THEY DESERVE

Goalkeepers:

Ospina 81

Szczesny 78

Defenders:

Gibbs 80

Monreal 80

Gabriel (Haven't seen enough of him to judge)

Koscielny 85

Mertesacker 81

Debuchy 80

Bellerin 76

Midfielders:

Sanchez 88

Ozil 87

Cazorla 85

Rambo 84

Wilshere 81

Walcott 82

Coquelin 80

The Ox 82

Strikers:

Giroud 83-4

Welbeck 81

Rambo was 83 after his amazing last season. I think he will be downgraded to his current rating - 82 in 16.
Monreal should be a 79 because after last season he was still 77 and this year he has been our best full-back.
Mertesacker will probably be 80 or 81 as he's not been as good this season.Koscielny 83 without a doubt.

I think Walcott should be 80 this year based on his performances. It will be unfair because he is still recovering from his injury but I think that's something EA will do.

Sanchez 86 looks good enough. If he carried on his early season form then I'd wager he should be an 88, but I think 86 is fair (unless he starts being amazing again, in which it should be 87600 Fifa coins

I don't think Welbeck deserves the upgrade, 78 seems about right for him.I think both our GKs should be 79, if Ospina keeps up his performances then maybe he should be 80.

Manager mode is a great mode. Not because it has a lot of features, but because it fits Fifa like a glove. However, EA needs to change it, spice it up for Fifa 16, and I have some small, great ideas that would make it a lot more fun!

Online Mode: Play with your friends, or randoms. If you have ever played FM (Football Manager) you know exactly what I am talking about. Why not bring that in to fifa? For those of you who haven't played FM, I will explain to you what this mode is and why it would be so much fun to play with your friends.This mode is basically just playing manager mode, but with your friends in there with you managing a different team. 

You and your friends can battle to sign the best players, make deals, and compete, against each other. This mode would work great with Fifa, and I get a good feeling inside of me when I am thinking about playing it with a couple of my friends. It's something I don't have the feeling will come to buy Fifa 16 coins, but I'll leave it in here, as it would be amazing. This is something we might see if EA sees the idea in Fifa 17+.

Skill-rating upgrades Why is it that a player can go from 50 to 80 pace, but can't improve his skill moves? Something that is annoying if you advance far into the seasons on Manager mode, is that VERY few of the "random generated" players have more then 2-3* skill moves. Why can't they have a chance to develop into a 4* or even a 5*? There is nothing unrealistic about improving your skill, and it should be that way as well. And it would be fun to see who EA thinks deserves to have the potential to reach higher skill moves.

Custom Training and Coaches I can't remember which Fifa it was, but it had the option to upgrade your training facilities as well as the coaches, so your players would have increased potential growth speed, as well as developing faster and being more on form for matches. You had to pay for this, but it felt like something else to spend your money on. To this point, I would also like to add that you should be able to customize your teams buytraining. FM has this feature, and it works great.

Tuning and fixing the whole gamemode both Player Career and Manager Career needs fixing in terms of bugs, and weird events. If any of you watches Spencer FC and his Player Career series, you will see that he starts off at Portsmouth (2nd div) as a 68 rated player, and is the highest rated on his team. After just 2 pre-season games, they decide to drop him the third, and loan him out to Sheffield UTD (1st div) where he STILL is the highest rated, and goes straight into the Starting XI. This is unrealistic, and would NEVER happen in real life unless there were some huge problems.

There is also similar bugs in Career mode, that it's sometimes impossible to sign a youngster playing as an Important First team Player, in a bad club unless you promise him the same role in your club, even if you are managing Real Madrid.

I could go on and on about this, but this is just some of the most important changes I think EA should make to this gamemode in Fifa 16, and hopefully they will. This gamemode is a lot of fun. And before I get comments stating that if you wanna play career mode, play fm, I would just like to say now that it's two entirely different games. Yes Fifa's career mode should take something from FM, but what makes Fifa career so much more fun is that you can play yourself, and it's a lot easier to manage. You don't have to study tactics all day just to win the CL final, and thats how many of us likes to play.If anyone has any other ideas or features they would like to see in Fifa 16, please, share them with me and others in the comments!

My wish for FIFA 16 is that they don't waste time and resources adding useless new "features" to the game like emotional intelligence and the ability to see individual blades of grass.

Instead, just make my players more intelligent.Give them more "loose ball awareness" so they don't just stare at the ball like idiots when its rolling 3 yards past them when they could easily intercept it or recover the ball instead of running away in the complete opposite direction, or go completely clueless any time the ball is in the air without Fifa coins. ESPECIALLY in the box where theres a loose ball just bouncing around, none of my players go for the ball, and if they do, they take unnecessary extremely sluggish movements/touches on the ball that allow the defense to easily clear instead of my stupid player just kicking the ball into the net like they should.

Allow my players to know how to run TOWARDS passes instead of just being nailed to the pitch while the defender runs in and intercepts the ball.Along the same lines, give us a little help with the power on passes...especially in the box. So many times my players make these weak little dink passes (especially more common in the box) that dont even make it to the other player because they are so slow and easy to intercept. 

If you try to add more power, and add slightly too much, it goes to the completely wrong person. Passing on the demo seemed amazing - maybe it was because it was so starkly contrasted with 14 since that was what I was playing immediately before that but it has seemed to get progressively worse as the full game was released, and then patched.

Give my players more common sense when picking the path of their pass so they don't just kick it right at the shins of the defender standing DIRECTLY in front of them instead of passing around them for an easy interception.Lastly, fix the darn goalkeepers. Not a lot more needs to be said about this but sometimes it seems like the keepers are actively trying NOT to save the ball.

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I know a lot of this is easier said than done, programming-wise, but after so many iterations of FIFA over the years and countless useless features implemented year after year, you gotta start to think, if EA was instead devoting all of that time and effort strictly into improving gameplay and mechanics how much better of a game would we have on our hands???

I'm looking forward to an upgraded Jack Grealish, ideally as a CAM as that's where he's been utilised this season. But that's just me as a Villa fan. I'm really hoping that they're also more lenient with who they give legend cards to. It's pretty evident that they're not reserving them for the greatest players of all time (c'mon, Gary Neville), so I'd like to see legend cards go down as low as maybe an 83-84 and give them to a lot more club legends. They're always fun to use and would inject a load more players into the game for creative hybrids, so hopefully I'm not stuck playing against the same five or six teams for a whole year again.

Can't see any reason why he wouldn't be Irish, can't see EA changing his nationality until he says he's definitely playing for England, and I can't see him making a decision for another year or two. Also he'd be about double the price if he was English so hopefully he stays Irish.

I think he's only gonna end up going for Ireland if MON and Keane aren't involved by the time he gets an England call up. Iirc he had a few spats with Keane when he was involved with Villa, and I don't think he's a fan of MON (that is pure speculation though, he's a huge Villa fan and many of us are still bitter about how he walked from Villa with no notice, leaving lots of fairly mediocre players on extortionate wages).

As an Englishman, I'd be happy with him choosing either. As you said, he could be a legend for Ireland. For England, fut16coin could see him being a good player, but he wouldn't be the shining star like he would for Ireland.
I hope Reus doesn't go down, and that hopefully they implement the positioning feature everyone's talking about where you there's only one Position Change card and when applied you get the different positions that the player is able to play.
If you have enough Fifa coins, then Marco Reus fullchem striker or CAM would be awesome. Looking forward to KDB, Rodrigo, Ibarbo going down to Serie B, James Rodriguez, Pogba, Toure in Serie A, just to name a few.

You would be surprised how harder something like adding new characters can be in a video game. Thats simply your initial assumption of design. Secondly you are right about it being a different skill set to fixing bugs. However they could have chosen to higher a different group of individuals to fix gameplay issues instead of adding new characters.

In response to your third point yes they can spend time on other things getting rid of bugs however there are a lot of things people expect to see in the game. If something was gone from the sequel it can be seen as a huge downgrade from the gaming community and the game can get a lot of flaque for it such as skipping costs or trying to get the game out as soon as possible. It would be a big mistake for the developers to make a move like this. Finally yes they can fix bugs instead of kinect features and everyone would probably agree they should as I dont know a single person alive who enjoys kinect...

I don't think I agree with your argument. For one, adding more players is a LOT easier than fixing the other cheap Fifa 16 coins. Second, it isn't like the people who are adding the extra players could just switch to fixing the gameplay issues. Those are very, very different skill sets.In addition, we could make this same argument about so much of the game. They should have spent time fixing bugs instead of adding in that silly goal line technology stuff. They could have fixed bugs instead of adding the useless kinect features.

Your viewpoint makes you blind to the criticism. This additional content will take effort and time by team members to create and perfect upto the FIFA standard. The personnel, time, effort and money spent could be better used by fixing fundamental flaws within the game first, not going off on additional content.

Is that bad? If something is easy and cheap to do and gets more sales without making the game any worse (you don't have to play with the women's teams if you don't want to!) then why is anyone hating on them for doing it? They did something really easy that made some people happy... How can anyone hate on that!

This isn't about the women's teams being added but about adding things that are cheap Fifa 16 coins ps3. This is what is ruining games. Instead of fixing flaws you just redesign to make it look a little better while all the bugs are still there. I'm all for women's being added. They are a hell of a team. One of the best. EA always does this shit. Ubisoft is another. Look at Assassins Creed. Shit game. They don't actually improve the games. They add a couple features and call it good. That is not acceptable and I wish people would stop buying this shit.

So basically you can have any card you want. It could be Messi at Arsenal or Ronaldo at Bayern and you would have an untradeable version on your account but you have to give something to the Fifa gods in return. My example is a Liverpool Suarez and I would be willing to kick a small innocent child in return or get tazed.

If I did kick a small child I would probably end up doing both but seriously though I would at least shave my hair off. What do you want and what would you do for it?

TIF Silva would be so much better if he had a better weakfoot. Then he would be able to play that second striker role for you, imo (of course he isn't going to be Ronaldo). That's my only gripe with him. As of now, he's actually a really good left winger for Fifa coins. His stats don't really make the best FUT card though, so you have to be a bit more careful when using him. I have to say though, in game, he dribbles like Messi without the pace.Silva deserves at least 3* weakfoot and he also deserves around 80 pace. Hopefully next year his NIF card will get upgraded shooting too.

Ronaldo at striker for united. Obviously this is for two reasons 1) nostalgia 2) Ive never had ronaldo in fifa but i used him on seasons (portugal not real) and he's unrealistic. Now for what i would do for that card: .wrestle a bear .fight a lion with a sword .attempt to run over a gorilla with a smart car .sleep in a cemetery