Greed is Destroying Football Gaming

I've been a fan of football games since I was about six years old. I remember trying to play Career Mode with Manchester United back on FIFA 2001, restarting every time my Scholes got a red card because I never really figured out how to play it. But 24 years later, I'm still playing football games—Football Manager, FIFA, and even occasionally eFootball. Combined, I've spent over one thousand hours playing these games in 2025.

But now it's January, and more and more throughout last year, I've been thinking one thing: football games are just getting worse. I'm actually writing this video while sitting in the menus of FIFA 16, and I think that's a large part of why I'm feeling this way. I kno…