As long as I can remember Football Manager games have always been praised for it's realism and great football representation however this year's discoveries such as:
- training being completely broken and irrational,
- pace and acc being by far the most important stats for a player (while some stats don't even matter at all),
- still massively flawed game engine which leads to all the good tactics using the same instructions,
- set pieces still being broken,
- illogical player interactions,
- ai managers making stupid decisions (mostly not giving enough playtime to the wonderkids which leads the save to stagnate as no new talents emerge),
.....and possibly more new flaws to get revealed by the community have led me to think that we may not actually play what we think we are playing. I'm not saying that the game is not fun and I know that no game is perfect and there is always gonna be shortcomings in some way but I think we can all agree that the dissapointments this year overwhelm the positives.