9. "It's Too Buggy"
To the outside world, every FIFA release must look like a complete mess. In the few weeks following a new entry into the franchise, countless gifs and youtube videos inevitably spring up all over the internet showing a long laundry list of humorous gameplay bugs that supposedly riddle the game. To the uninitiated, these videos essentially confirm that these releases are churned out every year for the money alone, regardless of the quality of the finished product. Of course, considering the state some other games release in these days, FIFA actually does pretty well to ship a rather solid and functional game to market every single year. While yeah, there are some dodgy bugs that pop up now and again, they're rarely ever more than superficial one-offs. And hell, in the rare instances they do effect gameplay it's only ever momentarily - hardly the gamebreaking, controller-throwing blemishes that they're made out to be.
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