One of the biggest issues with Career Mode has always been that it's not given players much incentive to keep playing after a season or two of playing. Once you've won once, there's not really much else to do, with players difficult to lure away, financial dominance sure to follow, and the same stadiums and teams featuring throughout.
After two seasons, transfer activity also begins to take a hit. The giants of the game buy literally everyone, and there's not much else to do. For FIFA 19, then, would it not have been a great idea to give managers more objectives? Why not work in stadiums, sponsorships, and kit customisation into the mode?
Unfortunately, from what we've seen in the Beta, it doesn't look likely that FIFA 19 will do enough to retain interest in the mode after a season or two of playing. It's still the same stuff as before, with a new lick of paint.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
