So you refused to even try something based entirely on the opinions of other people?
I bought this year's game, as I have every year for awhile. Yeah, it's had its ups and downs. I don't go out of my way to nit-pick and accuse EA of wasting my $60, though. I also have thoroughly enjoyed the game and gotten more than my money out of it. And I'm counting down to this year's release as well. I'm always entertained by the game.
But then, I also don't sit down every year and think of reasons
NOT to get the game. Call it optimism, if you will. I just see it as not going out of my way to be pessimistic.