Fisher saying that fans are to blame and that real fans wouldn't boycott does seem convenient when posted on a rabid and angry Facebook page a week or two before a planned boycott.
If you play them all religiously the differences make it worth it, if you dip in and out every few editions there's probably not enough drastically different to justify it other than everything being up to date.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/the-agony-and-the-ecstasy/2016/oct/03/football-fans-protest-club-owners-blackburn-coventry-charlton?CMP=fb_a-football_b-gdnfootball
Continues on, also features Blackpool, Charlton and Blackburn
It kept the same settings as 16 so straight away on top difficulty and it seems that this year the AI isn't untouchable in possession and do actually balls up passes and lose possession in League One. Bizarrely in career mode Tudgay and McCann are on 6/7 year contracts.
The forum is overwhelmingly against the owners to the point where only a handful of 'usual suspects' are regularly suggested as otherwise, often without logic. What's he doing with all his power to drive sensible people away other than saying stuff they don't like?