Ideas
Every single person who plays Career Mode is a person that isn’t playing Ultimate Team, that isn’t buying FC points and that isn’t getting addicted to the dopamine rush of opening packs.
They can’t get money off you if you never enter the casino, so they continue to make Career Mode worse and worse until you feel you HAVE to play UT to justify the $70 purchase.
That’s why simple to fix things like pitch wear, like Athletic signing non-Basque players, like all black shoes, like press conferences and morale making no difference, like news posts just having the wrong information…all of this is by design to make career mode players feel they aren’t getting their moneys worth off career mode alone. Maybe let’s try the other game type. The one that turns teenage boys into gamblers.
Icons in Career Mode is the warning shot, Career Mode will turn into a monefied live service too, in a few years what will this game look like? I shudder at the thought.