The most successful Canadian FIFA influencer Elias "EliasN97" Nerlich has sharply criticized EA Sports. On his Youtube channel, he announced his withdrawal from FIFA 22 - but he still wanted to produce other content.

In addition to the gameplay, the lack of variety and motivation in the popular Ultimate Team mode (FUT), Nerlich criticized the handling of the professional FIFA scene: "The whole e-sports topic concerns only a small amount, but what they are doing is mentally ill bad.»

The co-owner of Fokus regularly complained about the, in his opinion, too low prize money that EA Sports provides for e-sports. The developer also needs to bring tournaments back into offline competition, he said.

Eligella Cups in FIFA 22 "currently no longer planned"

Eliasn97 organized an international offline tournament in December with the "Eligella Xmas Cup" itself. "An eight-man team has managed to put a tournament on the line, which a billion-dollar corporation has not been able to do for two or three years," Nerlich said. In his opinion, Corona is no longer an obstacle with the right organization.

Further Eligella Cups are "currently no longer planned in FIFA 22," said ELIASN97's management at the request of the German Press Agency.