

If they aren’t in the full international team, and, let’s say, play in the Bundesliga, they probably aren’t there. Players I know of in the real world who are up and comers simply don’t exist in the game. While I’m not going to criticise the licenses they’ve lost, or even rank them against the newcomers this year, it does, and has had an effect on the game. This year’s game is evolution, but certainly not revolution, and while that may seem like a marketing phrase, it’s true, and it feels like, despite numerous on-the-pitch areas improving, it just feels like a very piecemeal update. The community appears to be openly hostile towards you whether you like or dislike the direction the game is going in, and quite honestly, PES 2019 isn’t going to do much to assuage things. As long-running series’ go, PES is in a really strange spot right now.
