[msdm27]

This issue applies to EVERY sports game... and almost every one of them fails to include a shooter/1st person mode. And it's mainly a design decision since they try to represent a real broadcast.

Here I believe the idea of "sim" can be seen both ways, as one could argue your point in saying that's the most realistic way to represent one playing as one specific player; but one could also make the argument that a broadcast view/zoom view/all 22 is also sim as it represents how the game is presented in real life to us viewers.

This is without taking into account the technical issues that might come to play when creating this sort of view for a football game. I just think a first person view on a tv will never be able to show the field of vision of a human.

Take NBA 2k for example that has "1st person" view, and even this shows your player on screen, probably because it still allows you to have some spacial guidance in relation to court dimensions/teammates positioning.

I guess my preferred point would be.... I'd actually prefer if they'd developed the broadcast cam in way that would make it possible to throw deep passes without them being a shot in the dark.

I'm actually quite excited about the extra zoomed out cam they've taken from ncaa14, I just like the "strategy" part of being able to see the whole field.... as if I'm playing the game from the NBC cam. I'm ok with just looking at replays to get a look at the details in player representation.