Thursday, April 26, 2012

If you can't do it, why try?

Ok so im starting to get sick of Clubs, which ive been such a big fan of since the invention. Fifa 09 was great, except for a few glitches where people would make a dream team when you were supposed to only have existing teams. Fifa 10, saw the introduction of VPs a great idea that immersed the players in to the game further as they could create anyone including themselves and play in a team. Of course living up to EA SPORTS notorious reputation there was many problems, they made the game brilliant and fun but there was many problems such as making the unused players have incredibly poor ratings, you would find people who had maxed out their pro run alongside an AI defender and it would be like watching a tortoise racing against a cheetah. Not to mention having very poor GKs that were regularly 5''6.
OK so now we get to Fifa 11, potentially the best of the FIFA series, adding many features and only a couple of issues to iron out from the previous installment. So.... What happened? You made the AI players and GKs even worse than before and i know you want to encourage people to play this game in 11v11 format. But your living in a dream world, have you taken a look at your audience? Fact is, its hard to find a team of friends who are all willing to play at once, so 11 people is unrealistic, i play this game daily and i have never played against 11 people. Not once. Maybe one day i will, but i can garentee it wont be more than 10 times, no way. Do i have to mention the lag too? Oh my, i see adverts for the game daily for a game that doesnt work properly, im sure there is a lawsuit there somewhere but thats something that should have been fixed by now and not just made less common. The GKs are too good too, stupidly so, 1v1s arent just hard, theyre almost impossible. My GT is K4MARA, im the former #1 GK in the world and im still somewhere in the top 10, but its way too easy to make saves, all you have to do is get used to crosses etc and put your saving assistance on to assisted and it is stupidly easy.
So i dont know, it seems you really have outdone yourselves with this one, most games i just adapt to find a way to counter the games problems, but this really is just bad. My club have all gone out and bought preowned versions of FIFA 10, its got the least problems and exploits in the entire FIFA series, but hey, the bar hasnt been set very high has it?
I think in the next im going to rent it and if i notice any problems i wont be buying it, and recommend everyone else to do the same, if it has a problem, EA have a reputation for not fixing it.
EA SPORTS, keep it simple next time, don't try and make a great game, just make a game that works, ditch GKs, ditch VPs and keep to ironing out the games issues not adding more stuff and bigger issues. Oh yeah, make some redundencies too, employ some people who play games avidly and know what to do and not once every other month.

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