NXT Gamer's Matthew gives us a huge run down of all the new features and tweaks in the upcoming FIFA 11:
"The domestic football season is underway across Europe and as ever this signifies the release of the annual offering of FIFA. For many years now, the FIFA series have been the most popular and biggest selling game from EA Sports franchise globally. With FIFA 11 on the horizon, this doesn’t look set to change with the inclusion of many new and improved features – so let’s take a look at some of these..."
Online support for a number of 2010 EA Sports titles is set to end next month.
NBA Jam ? w00t 0_o Thankfully I don't buy any sports games. I hope they are talking about NBA Jam disc based version not the On fire downloadable one
I can understand the need to shut down servers. But doing it for games that only came out last year is a bit ridiculous.
I normally try and defend EA on here because I don't think they are as bad as many people make them out to be but but this would annoy me if I owned any of these games.
They're probably following 2k's lead. 2k has already shut down nba 2k12 servers. Which means the average life expectancy u can get from playing nba 2k13 (if u were to buy it now) would be about 10 months. Don't expect to play online longer than that. That means there product is a NO buy for me. If they offered LAN option on the pc side u could always use Tunngle to play online, but they don't so there's no way to play online.
wow they shut down 2K12 servers already???
at least EA gives people 2-3 years to play online, wow. nobody can complain about EA now
and to be fair to EA they shut servers down based on what percentage of people still play online. I remember them saying that they shut servers down which make up less than 1% of traffic across all EA servers, at least that's what they say.
"nobody can complain about EA now"
- torchic
Yes we can. 2k sports are also on my "no buy" list.
"The decision to retire older EA titles is never easy." That's also what they said when they shut down the servers for BF2: MC.
I think maybe with the release of pay for your own server on BF3 this is what EA might continue to use for all games giving an option for people who want to play it online.
I'm so sick of EA and all the BS, i'm sick of a lot of publishers anymore.
Mr. Kennedy of TheKoalition.com writes:
If you have been a frequent visitor to TheKoalition.com then you might have seen our initial piece for our “Focus On FIFA” series. Here is part 2.
Manager Mode
The staple of FIFA’s offline play. A considerably important feature for the FIFA video game franchise. Over the years it has had it’s ups and downs…plenty of downs. Here are a few:
This week, download select EA Sports games for $20 or less. Plus, you’ll get the same amount you spend back in promotional credit to buy more EA Sports Games. Customers who buy Fifa Soccer 2012 for $20 can get Fifa Manager 2012, Fifa Soccer 2011, and Fifa Soccer 2010 for free.
?/10 ?
... I feel gameplay has changed, but not improved, and replays are still horrible. Not to mention the AI with their penalty-taking skills (they miss 4 out of 5 times...(!) )
Damn... I was really looking forward to FIFA11, but this is disappointing.
Downloaded both FIFA 11 and PES 11 and played several matches on both today. I kinda liked the PES demo a lot more than the FIFA. PES felt more old school and more plain fun in my eyes. I understand many will disagree but this is how I felt it anyways.