In regards to sports games, virtually everyone I know who does play them have had issues with them in regards to annual release vs product quality. Their is room for growth and expansion to the IPs in question, but they simply don't because they're reliant on the loot box mechanic which provides them with massive amounts of money while doing next to no work. This has driven away at least a fair amount of people from these IP for ruining any kind of real enjoyment for the games while also pretty much building many of these publishers entire business models around a piss poor game and mechanic. This has also lead to stagnant over all markets with real solid releases being few and farther between as publishers like EA have just decided to ride the gravy train rather than develop existing IP like Star Wars, we've seen how many games in or almost done in development canned because they weren't loot box slot machines like FIFA, or developing new IP. Anthem is a fantastic example of the stagnant shit show that we've seen this market turn into. Even when they're trying to develop new IP at this point, it's being done in the most incompetent ways with the most corner cutting approach possible. This is the FIFA development aspect at play. They expect to put in virtually no work, slap together the most barely function mess, and expect us as customers to happily and blindly buy it up to toss untold amounts of money at the IP for next to no game play or player reward.<br><br><br>Maybe the market NEEDS these IP to go down. IF people have the demand for the IP and done in a proper manner, then someone WILL produce it for money and do it in a more proper manner that they don't face legal backlash over it. Under cutting these IP now on the other hand has a very important over all effect on the market however. It means that these hated publishers will have to actually start making games again. They'll have to actually produce and develop IP with actual quality behind them or they will go under. That is the position we are now seeing EA in right now. Make no mistake, EA is collectively SHITTING themselves at this point. Their very core business model is under threat, they've under cut the quality and as such the support of their existing IP, and the new IP such as Anthem and Apex they've taken the same lazy development approach to that is tanking the only legs they have to stand on as a company. Ether they will adapt and start producing products of some kind of at least reasonable quality again like what the new Star Wars game looks to be heading into, or they will die a deserved death.