Just because you're the typical FM fan that ignores all the bugs the game ships with every single year and writes them off as "features" doesn't mean they don't exist and irritate those of us that don't have our tinted glasses on.
So yes it is like playing a beta in a lot of ways and in several months when they've finally patched a bunch of times it'll play completely differently. That's just what happens when crappy companies like SI rush unfinished games to market and use the consumers as guinea pigs.
Haha mate. For the past three months my JOB has been to find and register every bug with the game that I could find. Not sure how you think I 'ignore' them. I can write you a list of every bug in this game and why it's not perfect, but that still doesn't mean it's unplayable or 'a beta' or some such bollocks.
It is nothing like playing a beta. I'd know, I played the actual beta. That thing was constantly broken and at times, actually LITERALLY unplayable. As for calling SI crappy, you really just don't know what you're talking about, do you? Like I said in another thread, the fact that a company of the size of SI can create such a huge and complex game like this year on year and have it come out as good quality is astounding. SI even saw off the behemoth of resources and money that is EA, that's how good they are. As for 'rushing it out', it's a yearly game. There's an enforced schedule. It HAS to be out year on year. That's how it works.
Finally, the customers are not guinea pigs. They have people like me to do that. If you had any idea how bad the game has been at stages of development you'd understand that, but as usual it's the people who don't actually know anything that are spouting rubbish,