I only just started playing online today. I was a bit scared because I've been reading for months how bad the online game-mode is. Laggy, always top teams, etc etc..
about the lag part: no problem here, in the good old belgium.
But about the team part. I did a ranking quick match. Got connected, choose Olympique Marseille, and suddenly found myself playing against Man u... I thought I was dead meat, untill I won with 2-0!
So I guess it's true.. People care more about the ranking than about playing good matches. But I don't get that.. What good is the ranking for? Epeeing?
anyway, next time I took Juve, and ended up against ManU again. after a thrilling match, I ended up loosing 0-1. No hard feelings, because the opponent was a good player, who didn't run too much and just played the ball around very well. A lucky shot of a good player decided the game, but I can live with that.
Bottom line is that I think that online PES is the same as every other game. U'll always encounter players that don't care about building up skill, but in the end, you will always find a player that is so skilled that you can learn something from it.
btw, it there a forum section for PC users, where we can share ingame usernames and where we can let others know what team we want to play?