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I don't want anything to do with EA nor FIFA. How's Konami's eFootball these days for couch play? I don't give a rats about pay-to-win online. Can I mod it with real player/team names and run it on Linux?

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If you don't want anything to do with EA, Konami ain't much better. They actively sabotage their former employees job prospects.

> One employee from a staffing agency said that Konami "files complaints to gaming companies who take on its former employees," causing one game company to "warn its staff against hiring ex-Kon" - "ex-Kon" being a nickname for ex-Konami employees. "If you leave the company, you cannot rely on Konami's name to land a job," one former employee said.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/konami-accused-of-blacklisting...

Honestly if you play fifa 14 for the rest of your life, are you missing much? As a couch game I mean.

I've gotten hundreds of hours of entertainment off FIFA and PES; never missed having any more features.

I think the first EA fifa 97 was on sega mega drive 2 that I recall playing. It's amazing to see how far they came over the years but after 2014 I stopped caring about the all the new options as I was to old to learn all the new controls.

Hell, you might even get a kick (heh) out of playing old soccer games from the 90s.

Sensible Soccer? :)) Fun times

KONAMI's PES (Pro Evolution Soccer) - (or Winning Eleven as it was called originally), has always had better gameplay. What it suffered was lack of liseneces.

Now it is free and called eFootball... and obviously not that same, but PES has always been the favorite of fans gameplay wise.

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