Additionally, its gameplay had many aspects that were widely disliked by players, such as an artificially limited number of saves per level and the presence of computer-controlled "sidekicks" who were an active impediment to the player.

Conventional artificial turfs, like AstroTurf, had been disliked by players due to the injuries and soreness associated with playing on the previous generations' harder surfaces.

Some wild-card entries are disliked by other players who feel these pros have gotten a "free pass" into the tournament without going through "qualies" or through internal politics.

It has been disliked by coaches and players all along, but some prefer it over penalty kicks.

Gary Neville often compares Sven to Fergie and cites that whilst tactically, they were on par, Fergie was more stubborn and was happy to be "disliked" by players or could deal with confrontation where as Sven was looking to appease all parties.

His success did not prevent him from being disliked by some BYU fans and players.

The publisher eventually recognized this behavior was generally disliked by players, and offered to replace discs with a copy of the game that prompted before deleting other files.