FIFA 18 was promising on release but has quickly been ruined by EA Sports in the eyes of many fans.

There are so many long-running issues in the series that over 10,000 outraged fans have signed a petition simply labelled '#FixFIFA'.

Some are just funny glitches but there also some rather serious problems that need to be looked at. With a long list of problems, here are the 10 biggest ones that are plaguing the game.

FIFA 18 has a lot of issues and thousands of fans are petitioning for EA Sports to take action

Kick off glitch

A long running issue in the FIFA series, not only FIFA 18, is what fans have labelled 'the kick off glitch'.

The glitch is simply that teams are more vulnerable during a kick off. I know there's the cliche in football that the most dangerous time is when you've just scored but that doesn't excuse this.

Defenders fall apart just after a kick off and makes it easy for your opposition to run past everyone and score. This is incredibly frustrating when it continuously costs you your leads.

Penalty glitches

Another issue in the game is with penalties. There is a continuous flaw in which a slow and low driven shot crawls under the goalkeeper even if they guess the right way.

And if you think that's bad, wait until you watch this glitch below:

AI defending is too overpowering again

A big complaint with FIFA 17 was the fact that the AI did most of the defending for you, making it ridiculously difficult to score goals.

FIFA 18 initially went from one extreme to the other, making defending extremely difficult. That at least meant the game was fun with crazy, high-scoring games.

However, after a patch by EA Sports that was quickly changed and the game went back to the oppressing defending of FIFA 17, once again resulting in slow, tedious gameplay.

Awful input lag

Another huge issue in FIFA 18 is input lag. This is when the player takes a while to take an action that you command them to do on your controller.

This has even been effecting people who are hosting the matches, it has nothing to do with internet speeds or connections.

Trying to tackle a player only for your defender to wait a second before lunging is rage inducing and leaves the player feeling powerless.

Pro Clubs Friendlies

The Pro Clubs is neglected to the point where the game won't allow players to play friendlies

Pro Clubs Friendlies simply can't be played. This issue has been going on for over a month now.

Many players try to queue up for a Clubs friendly and simply cannot connect to a match and if they do, all of their team are shortly kicked from the lobby. A basic mode of the game can't be played.

EASFC Catalogue

The catalogue which allows players to spend currency earned in-game on virtual items is completely broken.

And the biggest issue of all is that people aren't receiving the Ultimate Team coin boosts they buy. Trying to earn and save up coins is difficult enough, not being able to use boosts makes things really tough, especially for newer players.

Career Mode

Career Mode still suffers from the same ongoing issues included the awful match scheduling

Pro Clubs isn't the only mode that needs some love. Career mode is still stagnant and has many of the same issues that it has always suffered from.

There's still the issue of the same transfers happening in every save and the issue with scheduling - no squad will handle playing a game two days in a row.

And on top of all of that, playing against the AI is boring. Every team you come across will have the same play style - it's the same thing over and over again.

Ultimate Team makes EA Sports a ton of money every year and will always be their main priority.

The Weekend League needs to be extended

Having to play 40 games over three days every week is a lot of time spent and a big commitment. Most people simply don't have time to play that many games over the weekend.

Legions of fans have begged EA to expand the Weekend League by a fourth day, 10 games a day is still a fair amount but would be much more reasonable.

FIFA Ultimate Team is pay to win

If you want top FUT players like the Icon cards then be prepared to spend lot of on packs

Ultimate Team is undoubtedly EA's biggest cash cow - the popular game mode makes them millions.

There has been a lot of controversy recently surrounding gambling in video games, so much so that Belgium have labelled loot boxes as gambling.

With so many young people playing FIFA, EA could have big issues if their packs system was deemed as gambling.

Of course you can save up in Ultimate Team, but by the time you've saved enough for Lionel Messi, FIFA 19 will be out. If you want a FUT squad of top players, you might have to pay thousands of pounds on packs.

Lack of communication from EA

This is the biggest one of all. EA are incredibly closed off and quiet to the public about these ongoing issues.

Fans were left outraged when EA Sports Community Manager released a statement on EA forums telling fans: 'Simply saying FixFIFA is not helpful in the slightest, what are you expecting us to do with that feedback?'

Fans have repeatedly informed EA about the game's issues but this post seemed to suggest that they didn't know what needed to be fixed.

EA needs to have on-going communication with the public so that fans know issues are being addressed and so that FIFA can benefit from actual, constructive criticism. Until then, nothing will get done.