[Oldschool17]

I guess what you gentlemen fail to understand is that every single component of a game should be treated and scored equally...Franchise should not be more important than Season, Online should not be more important than editing players or collecting playing cards.

Now until that time comes when all gamers wake up and expect equality across the board with our games there will continue to be areas of neglect. The excuse that Online isn't that BIG is tired and by all accounts misleading when I'll bet you that well over half the people who own a ps3 and 360 did it for the online components of the console.

Also how do you explain XboxLive memberships in the MILLIONS not to mention the 10 Billion DL's by Xbox Live members?...Online is important..You guys that play only with yourselves in franchise and stare at stats wouldn't understand though because while your doing that many of us are playing H2H and/or in leagues...Would The SHOW even mess with a League feature or online if it were not a crucial component of the game?...I don't think so.

The problem is attitudes like many of yours who continually discount any portion of the game because it does not appeal to you...There is LIFE BEYOND FRANCHISE and its actually quite fun.

Lets just chalk this up to an agreement to disagree along with the fact that most of the responses fail to even get what the true point is..Its not to give the game a 6 or anything like that...6 was just an arbitrary number. The point is the scores, if we must have them, should make a statement to the producer that will give a clear indication that defective portions of all games are not satisfactory to all gamers...Its kinda like all gamers supporting each others best interests instead of selfishly deciding they don't give a rip about X part of a game because it doesn't appeal to them...This is why reviews that give any game a number are not necessary...Those numbers are for the gaming companies and their stats..Not for gamers