so i have a kind of work around for this that I was able to make work. For the verifying your EA account picking your favorite team and going through the first game thing. you have to use keyboard and mouse. i tried atleast 20 times to get the controller to work and it wouldnt do it. Ive seen alot of people saying oh just unplug your keyboard and mouse and it works. it does not. so the way i was able to get it to work was after i made it through all the start up junk i force close the game. Then i plugged my xbox one controller back in and launched the game. it does pop up that annoying. Choose active controller about a 1000 times. The trick is to click it fast enough that you can select something on the menu. like Franchise longshot. LITERALLY ANYTHING. if you can select it and it will get you off that main screen it goes away. After i got it to go away once it never came back until i relaunched the game and had to do the steps again. i was able to play longshot for over 3 hours with the controller no issues. and this morning i was able to get into the Franchise mode and online head to head with no issues. Its a huge PITA but once you get it to go away youre golden. I really really hope EA puts in a patch for this but until then ill keep doing this trick. Good luck
