I played 3on3 Freestyle on Xbox, right after the game released on the platform and had its trailer. To start off with, it was actually fun and engaging. It was a fun, arcadey-like soccer/football game with a ton of replay value. But then, as I continued to do matches and continued to level up, I realized the true nature of this game and I started to absolutely hate it. Every match onwards, I was placed with basically starter-level players while I was around maybe level 11 - 15 and had already made progress in the game. And almost every single game, I was being faced off against a team that consisted of players above my level, I think they were around level 20 - 25. The matchmaking system completely sucked. But, the worst part is that I was always being placed with teammates who were literally between levels 1 - 5. My teammates were always the absolute worst at this game and I can't even count how many times I lost online matches due to having bad teammates. I was completely ignored every single time I asked for the ball, and even when I was wide open and able to take a shot. I literally was right there, ready to score, and my teammates still passed the ball between each other and completely ignored my existence. There was several times I could have been able to score my team a point, but alas, I was never able to because of my teammates disregarding the fact I even existed. And then, they never played defense properly, and we always kept getting scored on. Over. And over. And over again. We rarely got a single point while the other team got 5 - 8 points in a single game. Their coordination with blocking shots and passes was horrible and it always resulted in us getting schooled by the other team. Meanwhile, I was the only one actually trying my best to block the ball from getting passed or landing in the hoop, and the other team still managed to outmaneuver and outplay us, mainly because my teammates sucked at defense. And most importantly, they always ended up trying to take impossible half-court shots for 3 points, which always failed and always resulted in a turnover. They always attempted to shoot the ball into the hoop from impossible distances, which always caused the ball to bounce off the rim of the hoop. I was trying to be realistic and shoot the ball from closer distances that were close to the hoop, and I only went back to the 3-point line if I wanted to do a 3-point shot. But not my teammates. They just wanted to go all the to the half-court line, and in some cases, even attempted to shot the ball all the way from the opposite hoop, a full-court shot. And because of all of this, I lost. Constantly. I was always on a losing streak in every online match, and I've had multiple cases where I literally just lost 100% of the time, no matter what. I have rarely won a single online match due to this. After so many times of losing matches and hearing that "Don't feel too bad" crap over and over again, I quit playing the game outright and have never touched the game since. I was getting paired with awful teammates, losing pretty much all of the time, and literally getting smurfed, so I decided enough was enough and I wasn't gonna be putting up with it any longer. I have refused to play this game ever since, and I will continue to outright avoid it like the plague. This game is an unfun heap of trash that practically hands victories to higher-level players and might even be pay-to-win. Never playing it again. Ever.
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2025
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