I get sucked into the hype every year and my biggest problem is I believe all the SI marketing leading up to release.
SI are very good at promoting their game, especially this year. Some examples...... most complete, polished and bug free version, AI squad building is better, ME improvements etc. FM 24 was the version for the fans improving the things that matter! And it's a bit of a disaster so far. And the problem is its all very subjective, so they can getaway with saying these things.
I've no doubt SI don't intentionally lie but they're a bit of mark with FM24 this isn't the most polished version ever.
Every year I say, "next year I won't buy it", yet you're right every year I'm on the hype train and pre order as I have for many, many years. Will I ever learn? maybe not, I have such fond memories of FM but perhaps I'm just more aware of bugs and issues as I've gotten older and become less tolerant of the repeated issues year in year out. And that's on me to continue making a decision to buy it knowing issues will be a part of FM. This year however I felt different, I really believed this would be a more polished experience, but I was wrong Again.