Who gets excited about a new 80-rated Icelandic goalkeeper, other than people making an Iceland team? With how easy players were to get, most of the upgraded players weren’t exciting. There were some highlights, such as a boosted Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Neymar, but most of them were slightly upgraded versions of unusable cards. We knew from the mode’s release that we’d be getting new players after each day’s matches. Instead, they sat on what they already had, giving the main FUT mode most of the exciting additions. They should have flooded the mode with new things to do throughout every stage. EA needed to add new things to the World Cup mode – whether that be players, SBCs, or modes – and they did to start with, but they failed to add enough that kept the attention of the player base that was invested in the real-world tournament itself. However, how easy it was to get the best players meant things became stale quickly, from a team-building standpoint. Loads of players came back to the game to see the new mode, the gameplay was pressure-free and therefore more fun, and there were SBCs to work towards. While the Ultimate Team section of the World Cup mode in FIFA 18 was little more than a re-skin of the main FUT game mode, it combined the excitement for the World Cup with players’ desire for something new in FIFA. To pretend like it never ended, we could jump into the World Cup mode on our favorite football game, FIFA 18, but since EA Sports neglected it during the tournament, it’s not anywhere near as fun as it should be. With it being a few weeks until most European domestic league seasons begin once more, football fans are missing the World Cup and the excitement it brought with it. No more “Football’s Coming Home” and no more VAR controversy, but congratulations to France.
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