I quit the game. This is the best decision for my case. Most users play this game for fun and entertainment except those few users making farming accounts with the intention of selling them for making profits. So, as long as someone is having fun and entertainment where the npositives outweighs the negatives, he can continue to play and support this game. For my case, while there still was some fun, it has been the same repetitive scenario every season or so: I had trouble to find the players I want - whatever the source, auctions, recommendations, scout list.... it has been the same problem for me. In some previous seasons, I spent many many hours every day till the end of the 3rd week or so to look for the desired players to appear and still I could not not find certain players. Buying players at a higher price was not a problem but I could not even get the players I wanted, so what to buy? This game became more like a pain in the ass job. At some point, I became sick of it and time has come to say that enough is enough. I am not willing to continue to play this game only to go through this thing again for another season, seasons or a year. I will not even wait for the new academy players to come out. Adding this to the other negatives of this game, it is no longer worth it for me to continue; the negatives outweighs the positives.
Does this game company even collect and consider feedback before deciding which changes to make, what new things to introduce, and also after having made certain changes, to find out what users think and what difficulties and other undesirable things they experienced? The last time that I noticed that they collected feedback was some years ago when they made changes to the game engine and they asked to users if they felt that selecting or changing orders were working. So all this time, they have been doing like they wanted, according to their point of views only. Do they expect users to accept (and adapt) for every situation or what? For the case here, it is no more about adapting... things have gone too far where I cannot bear through certain ****s in the game anymore. A company simply cannot expect a user to go through the inconvenient and frustrating process every time this user needs a player and is looking for specific ones.
Sometimes, I am like do they even want the money? A business company that will want money will provide things that are in demand to potential customers but surely not things that they do not want or need, but Nordeus is the kind of company that will provide cigarettes at a higher price to people asking for water in the desert.
I do not like at all the direction that this company has gone, and still going. Their scammy ways (false sales, innappropriate bet offers, and other tricks) only reveal their intentions further.
I do not see why I should continue support this company and this game for even another season, even as a 'free user'. I came back as a customer, I bought a lot (spent more than 100 USD), only to get penalised for spending to improve team by being put to compete against higher level active opponents and same level but high quality opponents, and also the most annoying one is being like a person under punishment or a slave by having to stick to the screen watching the ****ty auction lists waiting for the desired players to show up to bid that only caused further frustration and anger. I will not stay even one more season. You people at Nordeus can trap others, get them addicted and give them false hopes only to use them as your offer completing bots despite them being unsatisfied with many things in the game, but this will not work with me.
I also noticed how the admins here were like ignoring or not replying to certain complaints despite that they were genuine ones. They only focused about complaints that were related to the main functional parts of the game. It is evident it is about priority or they following what orders that they received.
I am the customer. I play the game for fun and entertainment. I am not here to have significant frustration, anger, inconvenience and being like under punishment or a slave in the game every season. If Nordeus does not give importance to customer satisfaction and demands, so be it and then their loss. Maybe they take it for granted or they know that their main source of revenue are those offers that many users complete in mass every day, but I am not going to stay to complete their offers when I am a genuinely unsatisfied user. Enough is enough.
I had a good time here on this forum. This forum is what made this game more interestinng and fun. From plain chatting, to simple discussions and sharing views, to arguments and even fights... - all these were part of the fun. Thanks to everyone, double thanks for those that supported me on the forum or in the game, and a special mention to Nik of course.
This will be my final quit. I will not come back again. If I will want to play football management video game again, I will look elsewhere.