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

[Barozi]

Chazore said:

Barozi said:

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. 

So according to your flawed logic, EA should remove the ability to create customized characters at once since none of them have ever played in any NFL season.

And if not, why would that be okay?