Hi udcc,
a very good idea, but I think the servers are creaking under the strain of the sheer amount of games, across all platforms. That may be the reasoning behind the wait we have to suffer when we try to play friendlies etc. Also. there would be no incentive for the devs to do this, unless they could find a way to 'profit' from it.
I think in the first place, they need to improve the game mechanic. I see changes are been made consistently, but it seems to be at the detriment of gameplay. The goalkeeper coming out of the penalty box to clean-up (while another defender is closer to the ball) is laughable. I don't know if this was done to deter the 'volleyballers', or help them.
In relation to the 'volleyballers', wouldn't it be easy to reduce the 'kick distance' of players? I have just played a game where the opponent had 41 'shots' at goal to my 3. It's incredibly frustrating to have a goalkeeper constantly kicking the ball out to an opponents defender and just see the ball been lobbed back again. This probably accounted for 90% of the game. The only thing you can do against this, is reducing the kicking of the GK, but then he is more likely to kick to an opposition forward and then of course you have to wait until the ball goes dead to implement.
They need to employ a programmer who understands a little about sports gameplay.