EA getting slammed on social media for adding Colin Kaepernick to NFL 21 when he hasn't played since 2016

[Chazore]

Barozi said:

Chazore said:

Except he's not playing in the NFL right now. I looked him up on wikipedia and he's basically bothering more with his autobiographical book than playing directly with the NFL, which would be seen and heard of on TV if he was anyway.

People got miffed when 343 was dicking around with Halo lore, and fans had their valid reasons, just like Football fans have valid reasons for a massive corp to stop using a player who played in the NFL 4 years ago, and currently isn't playing.

The main focus with these games, that you're not understanding, is that they are based on current seasons, not 4 or 20 years ago, otherwise we may as well have football player dating back from the 1920's by the "who cares" logic, and we know that doesn't fly.

Again, I hate sports, I hate EA sports games, but I understand that what they are doing is honestly stupid and pissing off fans interested in the games. If the sports games aren't allowed to be consistent, then honestly, why should any other game?.

I disagree completely.

Kaepernick is an active football player. He never retired.

Proof: https://www.nfl.com/players/colin-kaepernick/
UFA = Unrestricted Free Agent

EA Sports adds him as a free agent. What's the problem? It's part of the official "lore". If you don't like that, blame the NFL.

Besides, sports games have tons of old players and teams to use. NBA 2K series for example is full of classic teams, almost 70 in fact. Many of them can't even be considered legendary, they just had to add teams from each franchise so those fans wouldn't get angry.

https://www.2kratings.com/classic-teams

And yes, they of course also add players that currently don't have a team into a free agent section. It's been that way for years - no, decades.

I never once said he had retired from football. I said he wasn't playing for the NFL currently.

EA still gets the blame for even coding it in in the first place. NFL don't have hired game coders, last time I checked, nor do they actively publish the game itself, that's all on EA, as they make the game and sell it.

You know when I said "add players from the 1920's" I was being literal to that example?. Like I want to push that logic so hard that it doesn't make any sense and is lauded for what it is, which is stupid, because these games are meant to be about the current season (for the majority part).

It's fine that you disagree, but others do not, so we'll have to chalk that up to the usual opinions part of the open discussion.