Completely agree with the above.
I would much rather have no licenses at all in the game and have an amazing edit mode to create the kits. I think it was PES 2008 that had licensed Ivory Coast, Czech Republic, etc that became outdated 2 months after release date meaning we were stuck with outdated kits for a further 10 months.
Another bonus would be bringing back pre-set faces and hair like we had in PES 6 with the option to add facial hair without having to create the face from scratch.
Something else I have thought of that I've not heard anyone else mention is to do with boots. I've noticed that there is never a normal black/red Adidas Predator boot to choose since PES 5 or 6 (I cant even remember if it was even in these tbh) so something different to combat this would be to include a miAdidas option for boot selection.
This way you could have your player wearing Predators but customise the colourway to match what he wears in real life. For example: Grafite for Wolfsburg plays in white/green Predators to match the club kit. I feel this would add an extra subtle sense of realism into the game.
Tattoo's are something else which has appeared more and more on modern-day footballers which still aren't included in the game. Obviously the tattoo's would be perfect but a couple of template designs/writing to add onto players of to be pre-set onto the players would be great.
The boots thing I like, but I wouldn't mind having the same boots as last time eg. nike, adidas and puma, but however updated to the latest boots eg. new vapors, new predators, but then the plain black, white, red, blue you could add a design to.
Tattoo's I thik would be a good idea if you were able to take your shirt of after you score a last minute winner.
I came up with afew ideas not really related to edit mode, but still improvements I and many others would like:
Become A Coach
Kick About (basically the same as Free Roam)
Indoor 5-Aside Training Pitch
Controllable Cut Scenes/ Choosable Statements after matches
A Change Kit/ 3rd Kit (As said in first post)
And the Improvement better than all- In rival matches there is a higher tempo, more physical, better atmosphere, and abit of pushing and shuving.
Let me know what you all think, especially the rival matches.