Nintendo's half-arsed online cripples FIFA 18 on Switch

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FIFA 18 just came out on Nintendo Switch, which should be reason for cheer. It's a decent port of this year's game, albeit running on an older engine and understandably without all the bells and whistles of its PlayStation 4 and Xbox One counterparts (and missing a few features such as The Journey mode and small details such as quick substitutions).
I've been personally looking forward to this version of FIFA 18 in the hope it'd fill a hole that's recently opened up in my life. Every month, myself and a group of mates get together for a PES mini-league, giving over a whole Saturday to pizza, beer and football games. It's fairly serious business - we've got a trophy and everything - but one of our number recently upped sticks and moved to Japan. No worries, we thought - we've got a Nintendo Switch each, so surely we'll be covered when FIFA 18 comes out. We'd even happily stomach making the switch from PES to FIFA to make it happen.
If only it were that simple.
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