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 only excuse for that practice back then was lack of dlc on consoles, and in the early days I think they would actually add features.
These games should either go purely subscription based or free to play as there is literally no excuse to release these games yearly now.
Yes that's exactly what would have happened if sports games fans weren't cucks.