Sports games are literally the worst when it comes to predatory industry bullshit like microtransactions, ad abuse, dlc abuse, and rehashes, and yet the retarded sports game fans keep eating that garbage up.
They are nothing but cucks who have contributed to the degradation of the gaming industry by refusing to boycott shitty business practices.
The problem is that people who tend to play that shit ONLY play that shit, so they don't have the perspective of experiencing business practices that aren't abusive. You see the same problem with people (usually women) who ONLY play The Sims, particularly The Sims 4. Have you seen how much these women will spend on new hair styles for their Sim? I say this as someone who sunk thousands of hours into The Sims 3, which was at least a complete game without the microtransactions.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_packs_for_The_Sims_3
The completeness of a game is what you make of it. Having the option to buy a new hairstyle is stupid, pointless, and arguably predatory, but it doesn't mean the base game isn't a game.
It's like building a new story onto your house. You already had a house. You lived in it just fine for years. But now you have more house. It's extra.
If we're going to make the argument about incomplete games you have to pay for to make into real games, the only genre that I think truly applies there is gacha games. They're designed to be mathematically impossible unless you spend a certain amount of money or grind for weeks on end, coercing you to save yourself dozens of hours of your time in exchange for a fee. And then once you beat that boss, the next one is the same thing but even stronger.
Yeah, when I say complete game I mean you don't get the feeling that there's missing content. The base game in TS3 felt like a full game, and I personally sunk thousands of hours into it without any additional content. They went overboard with the sheer number of expansion packs, but those generally added enough content and game play to be worth the money. The stuff packs on the other hand are a gyp. Those were predatory, but you could ignore them without missing out on anything important.