Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-33874350-20180104043608/@comment-2605:A000:132E:822F:544E:AA66:5060:67F1-20180105024159

Fdalbor wrote: The messups by FM with their control of the team challanges is beginning to take on epic qualities. It really killed our team efforts and we lost our top 200 position because of the lack of some of the lower members having a decent Panarama race. At times I wonder how in the world did these people ever create such a good game. They look like they have no idea what they are doing much of the time. Did not see any fix, usually they dont try to fix team challange problems the teams just have to live with them. There are I think, two obvious factors.

First, I heard FM created this game before being aquired by EA. Which may lead to

Second, the original devs are probably either

A) no longer there (replaced by cheaper imported labor) or

B) no longer have any Authority or control.

There are many stories about EA destroying many games that started out great, until they got involved.