Why are FIFA and EA Sports ending such a long and lucrative partnership? RJ
” has spawned into a football subculture and embedded itself into the sport. Its legions of fans include the world’s top professional footballers. Lionel Messi, considered by many to be, spends hours on the game; he is said to treat it as a source of tactical knowledge as well as fun.
Players closely monitor the game’s rating system, which scores real-life footballers on a range of attributes such as pace and passing. Stars have railed against the game’s producers for perceived slights against their talent. Ahead of this year’s release, Wilfried Zaha, an Ivory Coast international who plays for Crystal Palace, said he has given up playing the game because of how he has been appraised.
Another reason for the split is a sense that a lack of competitiveness has hurt the game itself: recent editions of “” have been criticised by fans for failing to improve the game in a meaningful way. The introduction of in-game purchases of players has been controversial, too, as gaming purists consider a “pay-to-win” model inherently unfair.