First of all when people in this thread say "EA" they mean EA games ("Challenge everything"), not EA sports ("it's in the game"). Two completely different companies.
Fifa is published by EA sports. No one is ever bad-mouthing EA sports, when you hear the old "EA is evil" stuff, people always mean EA games. Fifa is made by different studios, Fifa 13 was made by EA canada, not by "EA sports" If someone doesnt like a sport game, he simply stops playing it. When someone doesnt like a shooter game, he makes it his mission to tell everyone else about it.
The reason you never hear people shout and moan about EA sports is because players of sports games arent like shooter players. They don't need to voice their opinion as much. Shooter players are a bit different in that sense, as they usually think "they" know best how to make games (Mods have obviously played a part in that illusion,and the fact that shooter games easier form some sort of fan-cults around them than sport games)