I started this game about 3 days ago, and I feel like quitting after clocking more than 24 hours in game. It's a great game, but I just think I suck at it. I play fifa, and I think I was expecting a bit too much from this game, tbf. I need some tips or even a more in-depth guide into the mechanics of this game so I can be better, and I won't feel like bashing my head into a wall every time I try to do something and it goes completely left. Thank you in advance.

Just realised I'm up to like 500,000 points I had been saving for upgrades, but don't have many players with potential as good as my team. Where is best to spend the points?

It feels way to random for me and i need it for the objectives

Hadn't played it since the first day it came out and I think mechanically it feels a bit better now, but Jesus Christ the IQ of people in this is actually insane how bad it is.

And I know people on here have complained about things like people not passing, not defending etc. but I actually understand them because those are conscious decisions to not care about the result or to be selfish.

It's the things like standing 10 yards offside and calling for a through ball, or sprinting straight into the keepers hands when 1v1, or having a first time tap in to an empty goal but taking 2 touches before shooting and it getting saved because the keeper has had so much time to recover etc. that really annoys me because it's sheer stupidity.

I was trying to get some assists when I was playing because there's some objectives for it and scoring is easier so go for the assist where possible but I actually think now that relying on teammates who seem to be trying their hardest to ruin a goal scoring oppportunity is the video game version of hell.

Some form of SBMM/ranked can't come soon enough.

You’ve all heard the marketing about what GOALS is, but playing the game paints a different picture.

So, let’s discuss who GOALS really is and who the people behind the game are.

### **People**

**Oskar Gabrielson:** Direct connection to one of the biggest loot-box controversies in video game history. [Push Square](https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2017/11/ea\_removes\_microtransactions\_from\_star\_wars\_battlefront\_2\_for\_now\_at\_least)

**Ebba Ljungerud:** Executive experience in the gambling industry, although she publicly rejected the idea that gambling and video games/loot boxes should be equated. [GameStar](https://www.gamestar.de/artikel/paradox-interactive-spieler-sollen-keine-angst-haben-weil-firmenchefin-aus-der-gluecksspielindustrie-kommt%2C3332990.html)

**Sebastian Knutsson:** Decades of experience in F2P, mobile gaming, and monetization through King/Candy Crush. [Andreas Thorstensson on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andreasthorstensson\_im-thrilled-to-share-that-weve-successfully-activity-7313160193394073601--0Bi)

**Nicolas Julia:** Interesting because Sorare explicitly positioned itself as **not relying on traditional random loot boxes**, instead selling transparent digital cards. [Sifted](https://sifted.eu/articles/gerard-pique-investment)

**Andreas Thorstensson:** Ceo, Former ONLINE Counter-Strike world champion and well known netcode exploiter [deadmen][ (https://deadmen.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=554.0)

Those people have created a game called GOALS that evidently features:

* Free-to-play

* Microtransactions

* Premium currency

* Packs

* Randomized content

* Different pack prices/probabilities

* Players can obtain stronger teams through purchased packs

* Live-service game

* D1/D7/D30 retention is being monitored

* Proprietary matchmaking

* Extensive telemetry [Xbox Store](https://www.xbox.com/de-DE/games/store/goals/9PF2ZS4XB4JH

Take a look at the link for context.

What do you think? How far apart are the marketing claims and the actual reality?

The new competition challenges require you to play and win games in each rank of 1v1 ranked. I’m currently Rank 4 and have just played my first game.

I was under the assumption that if I played one game in Rank 4, it would count as a game played for all ranks below that; Rank 5, Rank 6, Rank 7 etc.

So now if I want to complete the majority of these challenges for the good rewards, I’ll have to lose games to rank myself down.

I know this game has had a lot of criticism so far and I’ve usually let a lot of stupid things slide but this for me is just ridiculous. Imo, the challenges should be “Play 8 matches at Rank 7 *or above* in 1v1 Ranked.

Something drastically has changed with the servers or matchmaking in this past week. They were bad enough already but now I'm being penalised when I have the better connection

I'm in UK and if i play on London server, I have 12-20ms ping with no spikes, my opponents can and have been from Italy, Portugal, spain etc, so they have higher ping playing on an away server, yet they play perfectly and I can't do anything for delay and heavy unresponsive gameplay!!!

It always happens when I connect to the Frankfurt server as other have mentioned, but it should never happen on my local server when I have at least half the ping of my opponents.

It happens whether I'm wired or WiFi, with 1.6gb connection.

I'm tempted to play using my mobile hot-spot to see how that fairs, it can't be any worse.

It has been unplayable for about a week now, no natter what time of day/night i play

They behave like fullbacks for some reason and because I don’t want to change to WF’s and take a -1 I’m pretty much stuck with them there. At least give us the option to pay points to make them natural at a position they are familiar with. Massive oversight by the devs here.

Every week it's the same tournaments and I win them once with the lower rated squads then don't touch them again because the team isn't unique it's just a minmaxed lower rated team and the rewards are inferior.

Why not give us something different each week like during the World Cup, why can't we have something that shakes things up, how about basics only cup, how about African only cup how about strikers only cup and so on. And you can give relevant rewards (30 basic player pack, African pack, strikers pack and so on) if you want.

This stuff isn't rocket science, set them up to last a week, input the requirements, make them marginally more rewarding than the unrestricted cup and then let it play out, it's such an easy thing to do in order to make the game a little bit more fun so I can't understand why it's not being done.

Well, this sucks

The game that I’ve vouched for since day one, the developers that I’ve supported and backed, I’m done with it. This game feels like shit and it doesn’t help that the devs have no urgency to make any changes after the last update. It’s not all on them though, this terrible community that just abuses the same bs all game have ruined this game just as much as the devs.

I’m sad, I love the concept of this game, I love the unique players, I love the “evolving” style that the players have, but it’s all just overshadowed by incompetence and the same garbage fidget spinning and mechanic spamming that almost everyone does now that the rest of the players left. Theres no urgency to fix this, and as much as I love the ambition of the game and its devs, there’s not going to be a game for those ambitions to come true in if you don’t fix the game now.

Genuinely the game feels like a chore now no matter what game mode I’m in. Im a divisions 4/5 player who is average at best with an average squad so I know I’m not one the ones that should complain this much, especially because it seems like all you listen to are diehard mechanic spamming “players”. It’s crazy though, you know which football game does the SAME EXACT thing? FC…

I’m so upset that I’m done with this game, because it had promise, it was a new footballing game, but there’s just no point coming home after a long day working and immediately getting “get cooked” “skill issue” spammed by someone that takes advantage of your inability / procrastination to fix this garbage gameplay.

Hopefully I’ll play this again, hopefully it’ll be better, but right now I’m just done trying to support this.

(Comments, you can save the “oh no what ever will they do now that your leaving” posts, I know I deserve it but chill😂)

I’m Rank 4 and seem to stabilize around mid-rank. I can’t seem to reach Rank 3 which would put me in the top 500 of the ranked leaderboard. I don’t consider myself a casual player but I don’t know how good I am? Normally being close to top of leaderboard is great but I’m seeing the player base on this game isn’t much also… peak of 800 daily players it seems.

Generally curious where do I stand. Am I decent for being in rank 4 or garbage and most active players are already the top 500 players?