3. Women's Football
Before anyone attacks me for including this one let me make one thing clear. I am very much in favour of the inclusion of the womens teams in FIFA 16. However my main concern is that the lack of game modes available for these teams could seem them reduced to little more than a pointless novelty.
EA Sports have confirmed that the only game modes the womens national teams will be included in will be offline friendlies and tournaments as well as online friendlies. Given that the most popular game modes in FIFA are generally the Ultimate Team mode and the Career mode it seems unlikely therefore that the womens teams will receive much attention in FIFA 16. You might argue though that EA Sports are just testing the water with the inclusion of the womens football feature in this years game to see how popular it proves to be before deciding whether or not to make a fuller commitment to it. Fair point. However consider the following: Imagine you run a company that sells crisps. You have developed a new flavour of crisps (womens football flavour) and want to see how popular the flavour is, so you decide to include packets of these crisps in a multipack alongside some of your best-selling flavours. However the packets of crisps containing the new flavour only contain about 3 or 4 crisps per packet, compared to the other flavours which are full packets. Its not going to take long before the lack of crisps in the new flavour packets makes people not care about these crisps and go back to just eating the original flavours. The point that Im trying to make with this analogy (if its not already clear) is that if EA Sports intends to assess the popularity of the womens football feature properly, then they cant just include such small sample of it up against the much fuller, more satisfying experience available in the mens section of the game. Its just setting it up for failure, making its inclusion seem well pointless! Perhaps with the inclusion of more features and game modes for the womens teams in future editions of the game will eventually see them become a key feature of the FIFA series, but for now Im struggling to see how they will have much of a role in the current edition of the game.