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

[DonFerrari]

Hiku said:

shikamaru317 said:
So apparently he had a 74 rating in Madden 17, compared to an 81 now. So EA is basically saying that he has improved to an 81 over the last few years of not playing.

They change stats of dead/old players that haven't played in years in between games, and people don't get upset about it.

Speaking of Pele, he played when the sport was a lot less technical and physically demanding than it is today. No coach could look up Pele's techniques and playstyle online and design a defense around it like they can today vs Messi and Ronaldo, etc. He also never played outside of America (Europe has by far the strongest leagues) so as much as Pele is a beloved player, it'd be hard to justify the 99 player rating he currently has in Fifa 20.
For his era, absolutely. But compared to the players and defense he'd be up against today, it's more of a symbolic rating, but I digress.

Realism becomes paramount in these situations though. People were counting Abby's calorie intake compared to her training schedule found in the game, measuring her body mass, etc, until they found out she's modeled after a real woman. Then they became quiet, and went on to the next thing.

Though I don't disagree with the idea that EA are doing it for PR, but who cares.

Well, people like this care:

KLXVER said:

Well people dont like real life politics in their games. I get that. 

People are fine with it (Metal Gear Solid, etc) until it's certain things they disagree with.

If Pele was playing today he would be trained by today standards so he would be stronger and faster, still his technique and game vision is still better than any of today so he would dominate today Soccer just as well.

If you want to talk about European Soccer at the time, Santos was twice worldwide champion against european teams and Brazil was three times world champion with Pele and smashing european national teams while at that.