The one major career mode flaw

In EA's NHL series, for the past 3 years they've updated the Be a Pro mode by adding endorsement deals, interviews and off-ice choices for your pro. They call it Live The Life and I think there are a few things that could be worked into FIFA.

Interviews - I always find the interviews to be a waste of time. Can anyone explain what they do? If you praise your team or unnerve your opponents, does it make a difference? Anyway, in NHL the interviews affect your relationship with your team, coach, fans and family. The only one that really matters is the fans as your popularity with them leads to endorsement deals. The rating also changes based on your performance in game. In NHL this is all superficial (typical EA) but it would be interesting to add to FIFA. Maybe have a page where you can see how the board feels about your performance so you don’t get a surprise sacking? If the team is on a losing streak, call a press conference to reassure everyone that there’s nothing to worry about. See what the fans think! Maybe see who the fan’s favorite player is and ticket sales go up when he plays, leading to more money in the transfer budget? There are a lot of possibilities.

Endorsements – In the NHL series you are offered endorsements and can choose to accept them for monetary gain or reject them. Some endorsements include billboard advertisements and sporting equipment all the way up to being on the cover of next years game. Yes you will be on the cover of the game that you are currently in. Trippy! I believe some of the endorsements in NHL end up being bad and you either don’t get the money or people don’t like it and you lose popularity. Like, you endorse some skates and they end up being made by children in a foreign country. As a manager in FIFA, why not have your Champion’s League winning team on a T-shirt? Or sell a DVD of your season? Lots of options here.

Off Field Choices – In NHL you get invited to go out with your teammates after games and sometimes this leads to you staying out late, showing up late to practice or just generally getting in trouble. If you are out late, your stats are decreased for the next game. Other choices include going to see your family which raises your rating with them and makes your stats increase for the next game (mom’s home cooking I guess). Make these choices available in FIFA for the Player Career and maybe for Manager Career, you get notified when your star striker was out at the club all night and is hung over. Punish him and the fans won’t like that you don’t play him or let him start and the rest of the team thinks you’re giving him special treatment?

Now I honestly haven’t played NHL in over a year but my brother is a huge fan so he keeps me updated on these things. I think the fact that EA has already implemented these things in another one of their games that it should be easy to work it into FIFA and with some upgrades it could make Career mode way more in-depth and interesting.

TL;DR - EA’s NHL series already has a Career mode with some interesting additions that I believe could be easily added to FIFA Career Mode to make it more interesting and in-depth.

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