" 1st of all i cant understand how you can compare two totally different games like madden and fifa..its like comparing a basketball team with a football team. as for ultimate team the past 2 years they released it in February i think ( its not even such a good mode imo ) and also if this is ur 1st time playing a football (soccer) game its bound to be a bit harsh for ya at first(so keep playing duder) and last am rly pissed off that i have to wait 3 more days to play it! "
EA makes both Madden and FIFA, it's fair to compare one sports game the company makes to another sports game the company makes.
Another thing I really don't like about FIFA, and from the comments EA has been doing this for a while, is the constant nickel and diming (I don't know what the term is with UK and EU currency) of people who buy the product. They shouldn't charge money for ultimate team, and they also shouldn't charge money for league updates since none of the other EA sports titles do this. I kinda get the reasoning for the league updates (multiple licenses for leagues that costs a good amount of money) but I don't get the reasoning why they're doing it with ultimate team. ESPECIALLY since they're implementing the online passes.
A while ago I talked about why I hated last year's Madden game and why I wouldn't be getting it. To summarize that blog: the interface was terrible and the AI was unfair.
So this year I decided to go with the OTHER football game, FIFA. Already this game is leaps and bounds better than Madden 10, but I still have a couple issues with it, which will compromise the majority of the blog. Again keep in mind these are first day impressions.
Issue #1: Why the hell is the online pass system broken?! I thought it was just me, but I was looking on other forums and apparently the online pass system is having problems across the board. Thankfully if you just restart the console the online passes will actually accept, but why is it broken in the first place?
Issue #2: Where the hell are the MLS stadiums? I know the MLS sucks, but they have cool stadiums, like the Philidelphia Union's stadium.
Issue #3: Where the hell is the Super Liga?! The game has both devisions in there, why isn't the super liga included? Well atleast I can create the SuperLiga, but still.
Issue #4: Where the hell is ultimate team? It's in all the other EA games now, where is it in FIFA?
Issue #5: NO SERIOUSLY, WHERE THE HELL IS ULTIMATE TEAM?! It was in FIFA last year! They made an entire facebook game out of it! Where the hell is it?! The only reason I can think as to why it isn't here yet, is that they're adding connectivity with the facebook game.
Issue #6: The learning curve is a bit too harsh, but I feel like I'm actually getting better at the game instead of feeling like I don't have any control... most of the time.
Besides all that, the game's still good. The new modes they added this year are fun, but a bit daunting to new players. I personally think they should have a seperate franchise mode instead of "Be a Manager" mode, since "Be a Manager" mode is more involving than most casual players would like.
The creation center is surprisingly fun, if a bit buggy. I'm still creating the chicago bears though so I can experience some football vs. football action! (jay cutty is the goalie since that's all he's good at.) The creation center also gives you the ability to download teams the guys at EA didn't put in, like Ghana (why aren't they here?).
Overall I still think the game is worth buying even though it feels a bit unfinished in some spots. Here's hoping EA will improve on these areas next year, and given how EA actually cares about the FIFA games, they probably will.
" I have to agree with the majority here. All the data you've collected is pretty bad. Also, are you just trying to make yourself feel better about piracy? "
I don't pirate games.
If you are looking for a ulterior motive though I will say this: I am a PC gamer who hates DRM. I don't like it when any video game company makes a big deal about piracy and does stuff that hurts the consumer. I feel that region locking system and adding DRM that interfers with actions a consumer does (like trying to back up games, or run games with out a disc) do more harm than they do good. I also don't like when companies use piracy as an excuse to not release games in various regions (like how capcom didn't release the miles edgeworth game in europe).
That aside, I still feel that companies are correct to stop piracy. If I was a publisher I would urge sony to do something drastic with the PSP to stop piracy.
More people are pirating games on the ds, however more people have a nintendo ds than they do an xbox 360. What I'm saying is that there's a higher RATE of piracy on the 360 than on the DS. Also PC figures are still less than psp figures. In the blog I pointed out that the most pirated pc game of last year had 4.1 million downloads while the psp had 5.28.
The way you're figuring these numbers is a load of nonsense. You're taking unreliable piracy data for singular games and factoring it against the total installed base. You don't even have figures for PC... A slightly more reliable way of calculating this data is comparing your pirated copy data against know sales data. That's far more important to the business world. Some guy who uses a word processor on his PC in Pakistan isn't part of the PC gaming installed base. "
That's why I didn't calculate PC figures because not everyone who has a PC is part of the installed PC base. I was just comparing the most pirated PSP game to the most pirated PC game and found that more people bootlegged the game on the PSP.
Are there problems in the way I calculated these figures? OFCOURSE! But the point of the blog was to try and give a rough estimate of the rate of piracy for each console.
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