Ask EA – Ask Electronic Arts any Question Regarding FIFA

can u please read everything that people are writing to u. everyone wants to improve the game and their are some easy ways you can do that. You should add all of the tournaments from the different leagues (carling cup, african cup, eufa champions league, world cup, euro etc...), show the managers,linesman, and refs, a little more handballs, add academy teams and players so u can actually play games as them, play exhibitions during the league, have the actual schedule of the teams, and be able to run practises live during the season to make ur players better. dont always have a full stadium it should depend on the teams playing. add better newspaper headlines. add all of the countries for the world cup so that anyone can qualify such as canada. you should be able to play in all of these tournaments during the season.

What i would love to see in Fifa 09 is a new manager mode which allows you to start from scratch pick your coach, assistnt manager e.t.c. But the best of it would be Building your own stadium! And then you can start in the conference and create your teams kit,logo and characteristics ....There should be a choice that you can search for players or create your whole team. This would open up a new world fifa like you could play in other peoples stadiums and against the club they've made.....This would push PES even further away from a great football game....I thin you should seriously think about this idea

hello,

many of us over at the uk community have been wondering how to unlock the other two rivals for your profile club,any help would be greatly appreciated as we have been asking admins and mods and even ea staff on the boards and no one seems to know, pleae HELP SOON! THANK YOU!

we would also appreciate some feedback over at the ea uk community boards, if you guys wish to answer, there would be more than 50 members in happiness when you were done.

are you gonna make a version for ps2 this year, please do and can you do a carear mode where you are one player who can move clubs train and stuff oh and any chance of making mikel john obi look like himself

This may sound stupid but can you tell me what the download a squad file feature is ?

I have been collecting the Fifa Series '97.

i was wondering about the following:

Will J-League be included in version '09?

It's good to see that there's the Australian League (A-League) included, are there any plans to introduce more South American Leagues as well as Cups?

Replays: I have noticed when a Substitution is made or a Red card has been given, the replays at the end are all but lost. So the question is: are there any plans on changing this? or is there too many difficulty getting around this scenario (programming wise)?

Cup Matches: maybe include Aggregate score during the game's Scoreboard

Moving on to the Graphical side of things now....

Crowds: I have noticed quite a few changes over the years.
such as: "crowd segregation", for me this is a great idea and i was hoping that a few improvements can be looked into such as:
Real life positioning. what i mean is some stadiums have away supporters sitting in certain areas i.e. Delli Alpi home of Juventus, away supporters in real life wouldn't even dare sit on the end curve. not a big deal but worth looking into i guess!

Also in crowds, Please include some Flares when a goal is scored. let's face it, it is and will always be a part of the game world wide.

Anyway that's my 2 cents, hope these are a few things to consider.

EAsport is FIFA09 for PC will be the same gen like X360/PS3? Please EAsport, dont dissapoint PC gamer for 09..

My questions.

Can I make a goalkeeper in the mode Be A Pro?

Can teams buy me? e.g. : I play in the Bayern München, want me Middlesbrough and Derby County. I want play in the Middlesbrough, i change. Thank you very much for answer. (sorry for my english i amateur of english speak)

why don't you make fifa (PC) fully comptabile(tricks) with all kinds of analog joysticks(not only for logitech ...)???(like in pes and NBA LIVE...)

can you change the team players of the world XI on fifa 08 on x box 360? and if not how come?

Why do I always lose my connection to ea while Im playing need for speed prostreet?

the fans was saying....argentina need to be in the fifa...

no more words

juanma

why dont the commentators in fifa o7/ps2 dont say my players names.is there a bug in the disc.im a spurs fan.

Hi EA! I have so many questions for you guys!
I wanted to ask you about the recent FIFA games that have included the Classic XI team: In Eric Cantona's biography it says that he prefers the left foot? But Eric was right-footed.
I enjoy so much playing as Eric in the new Be-a-Pro mode. It's so much fun, but knowing that he was right-footed bothers me a little. Only a little.

Cristiano Ronaldo is listed as one of the best this year, that's nice. But what happened to Zlatan Ibrahimovic?
He's a much better player than rated in the game. The same goes with Iker Casillas, Rafael Marquez, Kaka, etc. Sometimes I feel that some of the attributes/stats aren't correct. Maybe I'm not observing the players correctly, or maybe I'm crazy.

Where's the Santiago Bernabeu? I think you guys lost the rights or something, because in real life I see that the Santiago Bernabeu is promoting the new Pro Evolution game. But it's okay, I know it's not EA's fault.

But please, include Zinedine Zidane in the next game for the PS2. Please. I know I and so many other Zizou fans still miss him.

I also read that FIFA 08 was probably going to be the last for the Playstation 2 console. Is that true?

Hi EA (If you read this).

I'm really enjoying FIFA08, and have bought all EA-released football games since RTWC98...including F.A. Premier League Star and Champions League. A few things that could be added to FIFA09 include:

1] A referee. Why does he (and now should be she as well) only appear to summons a player? It would definitely add to the realism.
2] All players at each team on the game as the game goes to release. Why are Samuel Kuffour and John O'Brien not on the game - to name a few?
3] The feature of losing players that are only on loan to the team when the game goes to release.
4] More realistic commentary, and a decent choice of commentators. I think that just one version of the game should be released worldwide, with language selection available throughout the game. This could then include the option of being able to chose Clive Tyldesley to commentate on Derby County vs. Fulham and LA Galaxy vs. Kansas City Wizards or a Spanish commentator to commentate upon "El Classico" or "Old Firm".
5] The ability to select a new signing's number as he arrives - so he doesn't steal number two off of your favoured right back.
6] A larger selection of stadia. You could maybe select the top 3/4/5 most-attended stadiums of each league featured and place it into the game.
7] More thoroughly thought-out multiplayer functions, e.g the ability to create a league for as little as three players, as "Lounge" has no round-robin feature.
8] A wider selection of "Rest of World" teams, from Asia, South America and Africa. This could then supply more ideas for more leagues, including the South African league or the J-League. A more-improved attempt at getting rights to national squads would also improve the game. Why can you not get hold of them for the Netherlands?
9] The inclusion of worldwide hidden gems into the transfer market at random intervals during the game could also improve play. Examples include Milton Nunez from Honduras. (Related: Would it possible to have each player on the game still playing who has featured their "face" to be reaquainted with them?)
10] A wider variety of celebrations, including the "A-Star" celebration from England. These celebrations should also vary occasionally, for example, Steven Gerrard running to the Kop to dive, only for Jamie Carragher to grab him and life him up into the air.
11] Finally, the inclusion of "Legends" or "Classic" sqauds. These would be amazing, especially with faces! Putting Maradona, Alan Shearer, Eric Cantona, Johan Cryuff and Franz Beckenbauer in the same team would be immense!

Thanks for your time. Hope you get time to read this. And this is 100% not a rant. Just opinions from a huge fan of the EA Sports football game series. Keep up the good work,

Olli.

I am having problems with the tiger woods 08. I am trying to put my photo on put it is not working I have put my email address in and password but it is saying that it is wrong. Could please tell me what I am doing wrong as I would like to play this live.

Thanks

why have the fifa manager game more licensed leagues then fifa the game?

i don't know that i answer have from you and post this to the EA netherlands.

is fifa09 coming out for psp plz put refeer on pitch and subs warming up and 4th official and liars men

why does online gaming not work for the ps2. alot of people are expreninicing this. ea should star to do something about it. it always loses connection to ea servers butfor oher games i can always play online.

whenever i quit a tournament or manager mode the game always resets the squads and when i save the squads before hand and then try and reload them after it will not work, is there any way to change this?

thanks, Steve

Why does it always tell me that Celtic and Rangers do not have enough players to sell one to me whenever I go another team in the SPL?

I am currently playing a manager mode as Killmarnock and haven't been allowed to buy a single player from either Rangers or Celtic despite having more than enough funds and each team having up to 24 or 25ish players on their side.

Help!?

plzzzz i beg you add central american teams like saprissa,la liga,heredia and many more plzzzz.
-thanks

i cant get into online single matches, i cant get past the bit when you select the sides, does anybody know about this, or experienced this before???

every single damn year i think the cover is gonna change for fifa since 2005 rooney and ronaldinho have been on the cover why not put KAKA AND ESSIEN also always the spotlight shines on man u and barca but there crap why cant it be chelsea and R.madrid and

Could you please tell me why the following features were taken out......

Futsal
Indoor Soccer
Snow and Sleet in weather
Some Stadiums
Some Leagues

is fifa 09 gonna be on playstation 2? coz there wasnt much difference between 07 and 08 on ps2. plz make the next 1 different.

y do u consetrate more on barcalona that any other team? I mean real madrid is doing way better than barca! we r going to bet them next week. make 09 about real madrid man u or milan! barca sucks my d**k!!!!! hala madrid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

can you put The Netherlands I mean They have Ruud Van Nister...and Robben

In Fifa 09 can u include The Egyptian leauge or even Al Ahly I mean they did go to the Fifa World Cup 2 times. And also Put the national Team of Egypt they are better than South Africa and ar not there ( They won the African National 5 times....a record)

THIS IS FOR U JOE BUSH,IF U LOOK AT FIFA 07 AND FIFA 08 GRAPHICALLY,WHAT DO YOU THINK LOOKS MUCH BETTER AND WHY?

I have purchased many of your fifa games and every one that i have bought has broken or gone wrong at the moment i have a xbox 360 and bought fifa 08. once again the game has broken and will not load at all!!!!. Can you tell me why and what can i do?

i think in manager mode or outside manger mode you should beable to create your own stadium in fifa 09

4 or 5 duch players are top rated but i have not heard of them before and they also have no club

1.how come no african club(s) in your game.
2.As a suggestion, i recommend that your punch line for fifa 09 should be:- FIFA 09: TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL or THE NEXT TEST( TNT)

Why fans in FIFA looks like a paper? Why in Russia players look the same? I think you need to do something!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i always wondered why in fifa games they never have colombia in the international league i always wanted to know why?

CROATIA CLUBS SPLIT HAJDUK

y is santiago bernabeu missing. why does casillas look completly diferent than real life.

this is for kieth. wen u quit manager mode the squads are reset so just load up your squad. rit something to me if u read this.

why dont you put in serbia league or partizan in rest of world

how com you are making fifa street for ps3 and 360 but aren't making it for the Wii. is there a chance that the game is going to come out for the wii some time after it comes out for the other consoles.

ive been playing FIFA since fifa 02 but the problem with the games has been nothing interesting has happened in the seasons, there should be a takeover of your club where you get an extra 5 million and players put under suspention for behaviour out of matches and more going away for international and asking for tranfer requests

I bought Fifa series game since Fifa 97... every game i bought i was waiting to see the Argentinean league... I Never had that luck.... ARGENTINA is one of the two best teams of the history... Actually 1th of FIFA ranking.. Argentina had the best player of the history.. Argentina had Clubs Champions of the world. The Spanish League, the Italian league, the Germanian League, the Premier, MLS, Greek league...every league in the world have 1st level Argentinean players....

STOP DISCRIMINATION! FIFA, EA and AFA (Grondona), stop discrimination please.

Alejandro.

pd: you know Messi, Maradona, Crespo, Lavezzi, Aimar, Cambiasso, Zanetti? of course yes... where they from?!

pd2: you know Ivan Cordoba, Forlan, Acuña... and thousand other no argentinean players? where they was forming?

Ok, no more words... ARGENTINA SHOULD BE IN FIFA.

only create iran profesional league and create azadi stadium.thank you

Hi! First of all let me say that i've played fifa since 98. And loved it until now, It really dissapoints me that you only work on the next generation console versions, when in the PC world, it looks like im playing fifa 03 in graphic terms, i KNOW you can do better. So my question is, why do you only improve the console versions graphics, and not the PC? The only new thing every year is kits and rosters.

Hi,

First of all, I really enjoy the new Fifa 08, I think the Be a Pro mode is incredible and definitely an advantage over your competition.

My question is when I am playing on my PC using my ps3 controller, most of the buttons do not work, it seems as though Fifa only registers buttons 1-9 and these are terrible for playing with as it doesn't include X O square triangle and some other ones.

Is there any way to change this so I can have a more enjoyable game.

Cheers

I recently bought Fifa 08 for PS3, But I notice that in the CREATION ZONE you can’t create a team this year…Is there any way I can still do that?

hello I think you should include Venezuela in FIFA 09 we had The Copa America in Venezuela I think we deserve some merits we did very good I m being buy fifa from a long time I have play all off the games for ps,ps2 and now ps3 just to play with Venezuela and Japan but there are never in the game why and also you forgot real Madrid stadium ahhhhhhh

when i created my player i started a manager mode and my player is there but when i quit the and if i go to play with my brother and look at the squads he isn't there the player is only with the team in mamager mode how can i save the player on the team for the hole time for fifa 08 for the ps3.please help me.thanks

can one person play in computer and the other in joystick?