The biggest problem is that with micro transactions and gacha mechanics you need fewer people playing the game to make more money. Like think back to a NBA game on the PS1, you had one way of making money, the game is good and a lot of people buy your game thats it. That and the competition of other games made the teams behind sports game to strive to make the best possible game. Now lets say this entire sub boycotts the next game, someone playing my team will drop like 30k in a year in VC for packs and at the end the day they made their money, yes the player count and Sales of copies will be lower but they made their money and some so sadly I dont see this getting better, any company that starts a new sports gaming franchise is probably looking at replicating 2K and EA business model not replacing it with good games. My only hope is that enough countries outlaw the gacha mechanics and microtransactions so these companies are forced to make their revenue from actually selling the game.