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.
Point is simple: Sports fans expect to be ripped off.
Like another poster said, there is a whole subgenre of "Gamer" who ONLY buy sports games. They are actually just Sports fans, and they are literally buying it as "memorabilia" and for the ability to watch fake games play out when there isn't one on tv, or a reason to have their sports buddies over "for a game" when there is no game on tv.
These are the kind of people who trash talk anyone who plays a video game that ISN'T a sports game.
Then there is the dudebros who only buy Current Year Sportsball Game and Current Year Call of Duty with 100$ season pass. These people don't even properly understand that other games exist, and are spending the money for the imagined prestige of having spent money on it.
On point with this one. I know plenty of non-gamers who have consoles to stream and play sports games.