Battlepasses, especially ones with the “challenges” that are basically like play 100 games of this a week. Otherwise, you won’t get the unlock.

Not only do you buy a pass, you have to play the game like a chore, and it just isn’t fun grinding challenges that probably don’t fit with how you normally play. For example, Fifa loves to force you into stupid game modes no one would play, but the challenge is always something you could have done in a mode you would have played. Like… why?

They’re trying to take your money and pump up their hours played, and I’m sure a lot of people are falling into it. But as someone who was addicted to playing games, I don’t buy any of this stuff anymore, and I’ve never played less. If they’re losing gametime and money from someone like me, it makes me wonder how long people will tolerate it.

Statistically though it does technically reduce the mistakes, the issue is that they even still make them and in many of those cases they weren’t even on subjective ones.

My personal hangup with VAR is around the rule that contact = foul and if they show a freeze frame or a slow mo, it removes the context altogether.

I don’t think anything will ever stop people not liking decisions or consistency because there will always be subjective ones and people will always remember the bad ones especially against their own teams. But again that happened with general refereeing, people remember the hand of god, the Lampard goal against Germany and the Henry handball against Ireland. VAR would arguably have caught all those.

It is kind of funny to me, people talk about letting the officials officiate the game… they still are but they’re still getting it wrong with VAR and it is hardly the systems fault that someone looks at a foul or an offside and still doesn’t get it right. Going back doesn’t change much, people will still not like referees decisions and they will still cost teams dearly.

I think the concept of VAR actually never has been the real issue, the three issues are the officiating, the rules being so open to interpretation, and the players or teams constantly looking for fouls or begging for everything to get checked.

It just leads to everything getting stopped and delayed for the smallest matters even though it was entirely meant to only iron out major issues. The officiating not getting the major issues correct then belatedly apologising isn’t a fault of the system and never has been. The system for the most part captures exactly what it is meant to, every mistake is some numpty doing their job wrong.