r/fifaclubs • u/Cautious_Fact1767 • 16h ago
DISCUSSION EA broke Clubs matchmaking with update 1.6.4, took 8 days to acknowledge it, released an emergency fix with 1.6.5 yesterday, and their apology was literally one tweet. eight days of not being able to play with your squad and that's what we get
just want to make sure everyone knows exactly what happened here because the timeline is genuinely embarrassing
july 15: EA releases Title Update 1.6.4. clubs matchmaking immediately breaks for thousands of players. can't find matches, instant connection errors, squads completely locked out of league games
july 15 to July 22: EA's response is essentially silence. one post on X saying "some players" are experiencing issues. no ETA, no workaround, no communication. the post got 1.8 million views and the replies were absolutely rinsing them
july 22: EA finally releases 1.6.5 as an emergency fix and tweets a one line apology saying sorry for the frustration
eight days. eight days of not being able to play the mode with your squad because they pushed a broken update and then went quiet
and the thing that makes it genuinely infuriating is the contrast. when Ultimate Team has a token issue or a pack glitch, there's an emergency patch within hours. every single time. because Ultimate Team makes them money and Clubs doesn't
1.8 million views on that X post and still took a week. if that engagement was on a FUT announcement they'd have had a fix live by morning