Your Ideas for FIFA 09

ALL THE SCOTTISH DIVISIONS SHOULD BE IN IT E.G LIVINGSTON COWDENBEATH
ALLOA .ETC

My biggest issue is that defending is too hard. I like the way you can jockey in fifa 08 but it's not good enough... I find that playing in legendary the ball movement is too fast for the joystick to keep up with and often your vision of the ball is impeded by the opposition or your own players back. When i press the jockey button i want my player to stay the ideal distance from the opposition as to not let him get away... this includes staying goal side and varying my pace to match his. Jockey could even be added as an upgrade in defense. This way if a player has a jockey level of say 50, a player with a skill level of 90 should fool him easily, and go straight past (so long as its 1 on 1 and he has time and space to move). But a player with a jockey level of 90 generally wont be fooled by a player with skill of 50. Also, if an attacker tries a skill move but the defender has a high enough jockey level to read the play, he takes the ball off the attacker; i shouldn't have to push the tackle button if the attacker comes into the defenders zone when he is jockeying. This would also help when cycling through players in defense. Sometimes if the wrong player is selected I will make him run the wrong way, subsequently letting them score. It would be far simpler to hold the jockey button until i find the right player; at which time i can either continue to jockey or make an attempt for the ball.

The other big problem I have with fifa 08 is that skills are pretty much useless. They can only be performed when pretty much walking and are only helpful against defenders that are already committed to the tackle; in which case it is just as effective and far easier to simply run around them. In the same way that the jockey button needs to be improved, so does the skills button. I'm not sure how well this would work but could an the player cycle through opposition defenders in the same way they cycle through their own in defensive mode; and then attempt to beat this player; in which case it should be easy if the opposition player is not in jockey mode. skills could then be performed and if the right skill is used and they defender hasnt got a high enough jockey level to read the play, he is beaten. It should be that beating the defender down the wing is easier than beating him back on the inside. In some cases (if the attacker is crowded) it may be necessary to select multiple defenders to beat; this would be significantly harder as their jockey skills would be added together somehow.

I also want to be able to vary my pace, not just two speeds. I want to be able to select a target to run at like a defender or the goals. I want the other players on my team to call and tell me what they want me to do, ie through ball, pass, shoot... Sometimes the keeper might be out of position and I'm able to lob him, the players around me should tell me. Players with vision of level 90 should have options pop up on the side or top of the screen for them that a player of level 50 wouldn't get. It is very hard to know when your attackers are in a good position for a through ball when you can't see then; a player like Gerrard should recognize when to pass the ball and the option should become available. In the same vein a player with a high level of positioning and vision should actually have good positioning. I shouldn't need to tell the player to do a 1-2 pass. If he passes the ball and realizes there is space in a good attacking position he should run to it. A big issue that shouldn't take too much to fix is if I pass the ball in the general direction of more than 1 player I want the ball to go to the player of most benefit to me... Too frequently do I intend to pass the ball to 1 player and it decides to pass it to another and consequently goes to the opposition. Scoring at the near post is far too easy... In premier league if a striker scores at the near post questions are asked of the keeper... I score at the near post probably 95% of the time simply because it is far easier. There is an obvious flaw when evaluating players performances. When playing on LEGENDARY i had a striker who scored 95 goals in a season, the closest person was his counterpart with 70 but the next person had about 28... neither player made the top 20. I don't care whether those players were always in the perfect positions according to the game... if they can score that many goals on LEGENDARY they must be doing a lot of things right and deserve better than a score of 7.47.

I also find that the AI defense is good when i am sprinting but pathetic when jogging. Even on legendary if I jog I can simply run into the 18 yard box unchallenged unless taken from behind; the defense won't move up until it's too late if i jog. I also want to pass a low, hard ball to the back post... why must it be the front? Also the keepers are useless with crosses. If a lob shot and a cross are taken from the same position the cross is far more likely to go in. For some reason when I hit x instead of b, the goal keeper trips over himself and lets a goal in. Also, with crosses, why can't i select the player i want to cross to and then simply tap x once to send it there, tap twice for low and hard, three times for along the ground. And when i put a cross in and hit shoot... that means i want all players attacking the ball to shoot given the opportunity, not just the one i had selected at the time... he might miss it and then ill miss my opportunity to score with the next player because I never told him to shoot.

thats pretty much it except for making it harder in general... thanks

please,fans logos and songs live

the weather off euro 2008 is savage we need dat on fifa also like to see snow so we can use an orange or yellow ball

The real celebrations like kaka points to the sky and nani backflip and benjani's queer fing he dus to the crowd!

More into detail player creation

More stadiums in the loading screen instead of jus the same boring 1

More free kicks and penaltys and cards given wen playing on manager mode

Should be a manager mode and a player mode wer you can create a schoolboy and work him up to become the next best thing!! 25 + seasons!!!!

A selection of different commentators for the different competitions

Play the finals at a neutral ground ( F.A Cup - Wembley Champions League - bernabeu for example,)

Real stadium names even if you cant create them all jus use a default stadium but at the beginning say the stadium name of the team we are playing, Top 5 teams in league should have their stadium and ther should b a top league default stadium and lower league default stadiums.

Atmosphere needs to be a lot better fans are the 12th player and help drag the team through tough games, for massive games in the champions league or F.A Cup the fans should have scarfs and banners and in Italy ther should b Flares like off Champions league 2007!!

Make this game the best ever because i have got GTA and it'l take a savage game to get me off dis lol

I know u can create the best game ever!!! look forward to beating all ma mates on it!!!

MUFC FOR LIFE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Crowd should be like on NBA 08 ps3 - real real real !!!!!

there are a lot of creative ideas out there but i think we should have real managers eg sir alex , rafa, av grant etc at the start of the manager mode with the create manage option and then they can choose if they want to continue with their current club eg man utd,liverpool,chelsea etc or pursue a career with other job offers or start a new chapter with a lower division club!!!! that would be really cool.

Dear EA,
1. I think that there should be a new Players Mode where you are basically living the life of the player. There should be matches, training sessions, interviews, press conferences, discussing boot deals(eg. nike and adidas), injurys, warm ups before you come on as a substitute, sponsor deals, emails, autograph sessions, fanmail and using your wages to buy different sorts of equipment.
2. Also the Manager Mode should be more realistic with interviews, watching your club's youth games, discussing your sponsors, talking to your scout, press conferences and meetings with the club's owners, cheif excecutive or chairman.
3. I think you should be able to make as much bids as you want and should be able to change your shirt sponsor.
4. Apart from this the scouts need to be much better like they should be able to travel all around not just one continent at a time and they should scout better players for example on your first season the average overall of the players scouted are 40-50-60, they should be 60-70-80.
5. And last but not least there should be more leagues. Especially more african and asian leagues.

First of all I disagree with a lot of requested changes.
Explanation:-

Computer AI:
Fifa 08 provides an extended difficulty for a larger learning curve, the AI is great but there is always room for improvement. Admittedly on World Class I find I get slide tackled from behind a lot and goes un-whistled and can sometimes result in injury, and I get whistled for standing tackles and almost always get a card with a slide tackle, that used to annoy me to no end, until I learnt to play with it, and bias refereeing can also be found in any football match, strategy and skill became a more focal point. So with AI I agree the difficulty makes for a great challenge, but would like to see more smart defending and less blatant un-whistled fouls

Player Creation:
The skill points allowed and the skill points that can be bought in the fan shop is more then enough, no one should be able to make a superstar player right from the get go, I have created a player without even using fan shop points and have got him up to 90 in 6 years, and felt well deserved of it too. When I found a certain loop hole with not saving you profile to buy experience points over and over again I felt I didn’t get into the season as much when I started with a much higher rated guy, even a player ranked 50 can be effective if you know how to use them right!, things I would add is more hair and facial hair styles and I have always though smart speech would be premium in sports games, a text field where users can phonetically spell their names so computer commentators can pronounce them in game, this would really bring created characters to life (understandable this leaves the game open to abuse of the inbuilt speech recognition software where users could create any kind of crude word for the game to pronounce, so certain blocks of stringed syllables could be implemented) another fact to bring created players to life would be if the game recorded past achievements with preset phrases about “how the player signed with a certain club at a young age and saw promotion into a certain league� who knows I’m sure preset achievements is not a unreachable notion, and to hear that your player was the EPL’s top scorer two years ago would bring such depth to a created player that has been worked hard for (it could even work for current players as well)

Game depth:
I know there is only a certain level of depth that fifa wishes to aspire leaving the championship manager type games to take care of the rest, and with that being said I would like to comment the depth which fifa 08 went into was pretty impressive, I have heard people complain that certain leagues where not included but I think it’s an achievement in itself of how many have been included, improvements on the matter, who knows, more leagues could work, perhaps more managerial depth, scouts returning multiple options instead of one, stadium upgrades are more visual, especially in existing stadiums, Anfield, old Trafford. I know stadiums are a big part and might take a long time to digitally build but please don’t underestimate the effect of a large number of stadiums and upgrade options, I felt like I was playing in the same stadiums over and over, I couldn’t wait to face teams like Manchester, Chelsea or Liverpool just to see the change of scenery

Content:
I don’t much see the need of adding more cut scenes in the middle of play, I find myself skipping a lot of them anyway, if there was a purpose to the scene it might make it more interesting, for example whilst in the scene you have a option to make one of three choices, which could sway or hinder your match, perhaps trying to get crowd involved, a little questionable call could be argued, but to harshly would result Yellow, or maybe might make him think for next time, but also something I could live without, although I must see bigger lead ups to important matches winning the ECC felt like winning the Johnstone Paint, there needs to be prestige. A large build up, profiles on in form players, danger man, even if it’s made up based on player rating (would be better if it’s based on season performance eg goals, performance rating that there is a stat for already in the game) and drama, questionable calls, show home crowds erupt, players tempers flare, even in a player on your team earns himself a yellow card with his temper, totally out of your control, shouldn’t have made that slide tackle shouldn’t have ya? And most importantly the glory or disappointment, a skip around and a team photo is such an anticlimax, especially when I’m lying back on the couch in a pool of sweat for working my ass off to win, I just don’t feel the love!

Be A Pro:
By far one of the best new modes I have seen, and I wholeheartedly agree with a lot of notions expressed by many gamers where this more needs to be elaborated on, more in depth, create a player and start his career as a free agent, controlling only one person, work your way up to a premier team or help a current team to the premiership as a franchise player, earn that national shirt (even though I know world cup has its own game perhaps you could just background sim world cup matches who knows) but this mode needs to be refined, sign an agent, fire an agent, become unemployed for missing training, party hard and play like crap the next day, BE A PRO don’t just make it a catchy title, work with it and make it a sub game! (this plays on my dream for an EA dream game that will never happen, a mix of all their games with a base game of like the sims or something, enter a sports career and buy the fifa expansion to run off the base sims game… yeah I’ll keep dreaming)

Just a couple of my opinions, I don’t want to bore you, as I don’t create the games… I just play em’…

weather stuff like euro 2008
free kicks like fifa 2005
kit + boot updates from psn + xbox live

please make liga 1 Burger (ROMANIA) FRom fifa 09 and more real and Comentary Rom:D dar more important liga 1 :D BUrger :D and stadium Liga 1 is 10 in World

have angus scott in the studio presenting it with macca or gary liniker with alan hansan

We should be able to choose our own commentators 5 from sky ,3 from Itv ,2 from Setanta and 5 from Radio 5

womans league

Ronaldo and Rooney on the cover

Put match of the day on there to show highlights

Live scores appearing on the bottom of the screen while your playing and the commentators show the league table as it stands every time a goal goes in

See the players getting off the coach when arriving at the ground

i would like wateva they said and i think we should be able to actually see the players lift the trophies and you should have ALL the teams FOR EXAMPLE
HAVANT AND WATERLOOVILE EXETER CITY AND OTHER COFERENCE TEAMS AND UNDER

The manager and the player should sign autographs at the end or the beginning.

When you score with Ronaldo you actually see his real life celebration at old trafford. eg like the smug look he did when he scored against sporting lisbon

You should be able to hold up the trophy at the end or walk up the steps at wembley

The refs shake hands with the players at the start of the game and the end

They should have the blue square on there

All the grounds should be on there from the premier league

The commntators should talk about the signing of a player at the start of the game

i have waited for so long to play with the hungarian championship

please let us take free kicks like fifa footbal 2005 let us pick the spot like actuall players and down the right corner spin the ball left,right up or down and don't forget international manager mode and put greece's league in

better gfameplay and you wouldnt give a damn about anything else anyway. as long as the actual game is amazing

corners are better now than set buttons like fifa 05 etc
make freeciks better. right now its like getting 1/10 in. bit annoyiung
fix the folus. you touch the cpu player and you get a yellow.WTF!!??

>>Able to manage national teams(etc. England,Portugal)
>>Self created players
>>Self created clubs(logos,kits,boots,sponsors)
>>changing sponsors and kits every few seasons.
>>start off the game-managermode- with the team qualifying for whatever the real team has qualified for the previous season
>>Having new budget/club owners every season.
>> transfer budget renewed every time transfer window opens. with higher amounts.

i think the fifa franchise should allow the user control the golie in be a pro and they should really remove the austrian league and should add the argentinian and other big leagues. They should also add the division 1a from the mexican league where the user could have a biiger variety of teams in mexico. manage international teams i really dont reccomend adding women soccer team because this sport was meant fo men only and it wont be as fun. The games apperance shold be improved. more crate a team kits and have the generic cleat replaced with real brand like nike and addidas which are only are available when u cpmplete all the achivements in your pro.
other than that the game should be left alone the game is good as it is the gameplay is great and im obssesd with it . Oh yea and plaese add the referees on the pitch it will make the game feel more realistic.

I think cristiano ronaldo should be on the cover.

the comentaters need to say your name when u score get the ball or show skill

1)create stadium mode 2)see fans better 3) see refs,linesman,manager expressions 4)make be a pro mode better where u actually control the player through the season without goin online! 5) fighting between players or players can push ref over! without gettin ban 4 six months! 6) freekicks made better to suit each players own freekick ability i.e ronaldo's run up and way he hits the ball! 7) in the choose cup mode at start menu i.e fa cup,prem league,etc have the champions league! 8) more realistic injurys! 9)able to have more control over the goalkeeper! 10) better options at corners more control over players not just aim and power like fifa 08! thankyou lets hope we dont wait to long like GTA 4

I would like to play with many other leagues, icluding well developed asian one, african one, etc. Please if possible include Russia championship too. Best, Ruslan

and no fights or streakers or anythin like that. ppl will think your promoting it. bad influence on kids if they grow up thinkin its fun and ok as its on a game.

EA, have you noticed that nearly all of these suggestions do not actually make fifa any better. they want things like better faces, create stadiums n all that rubbish, when ppl jus wana play football on there. thye'd get bored of all that stuff and they dont realise it. focus on gameplay and make it better. make the player able to play beautiful football. not being able to create stadiums. its a foobtall game. if they wna do that tell them to buy other games. if you focus on that you'll take emphasis away from football. ill work for you if you want. ha...

ppl are sayin more fumbles from keepers etc...if ur playin then u'l get pisssed off. esp a slice shot when its easier 2 score. ppl are sayin it now but they wont like it. dont 4get it is a game and dont take that away. 08 is perfect...jus a few minor touches to game play maybe required. otherwise great. these losers dont kno anythin. EA your on the right tracks. trus me.

1 owner mode where you can hire coaches and give the manager money to spend
2 more stadiums
3 should be able to create stadiums

For the love of God, why don't you have teams like Venezuela and Colombia? They exist, you know?

.put c . ronaldos free kick on there where he takes 3 steps back.
.also when they take free kicks make them line the ball up like real life maybe.
.put my favourite stadium on there santiago bernabu because it's better then league 2
stadiums.
.on the front cover have ronaldo and messi or ronaldo and rooney
.and whoever said transfers online don't be stupid how would that happen.
.don't forget 8 v 8 online be a pro would be hilarious and more realistic.
. also update players atleast every 2 months because nani 80 he should be atleast 84 -83
. not to mention real madrid are really slow on this game and there players are rubbish i mean now they have won the league twice in a row and some how barcelona are better then them how does that work out look what is happening in real life as madrid better then barcelona so put madrid up and barcelona down as they are to good . although i am a man u fan and chelsea rubbish come on man u old trafford awesome and chelsea wont win anything.

1. No creation stat limits
2. more depth to training, scouting
3. promotion bonus [like realistic 30 mill]
4. emotions like, players don't jump about after a pointless league game and just clap after winning the champions league :-s
5. be able to add players into tranfers
6. changing ball movement
7. players making automatic smart runs, instead of standing still or running in one direction..
8. more creation options [hairstyles that people accually have now]

in the manager mode i want to make a team and take them to the top. first starting with the small street players from the 4th division (the local park clubs).then buying the big boys from the premier league. Big tournaments offering Microsoft points for the winner.
more celebrations more teams ALL THE TEAMS LIKE THE WHOLE WORLD AND THERE DIVISIONS.

THERE DEFFINATLEY SHOULD BE UNIQUE STADIUMS FOR EACH CLUB, MORE CONVERSATIONAL COMMENTARY, AND FOR SURE, LINESMAN, REFEREES, FANS REACTIONS, AND THE SUBS AND RESERVES ON THE SIDELINES. HAVING MORE PEOPLE, LIKE THE SECURITY GUARDS, AND OTHER "MOVING PEOPLE" ON THE SIDES MAKE IT A MUCH MORE REALISTIC ATMOSPHERE.

i think they should put more leagues from south america like from argentina, colombia,chile, etc...... and they should also do a copa libertadores thing

Heres my ideas/suggestions for the next fifa 09.

1. Add More Stadiums (Celtic park, Ibrox etc)
2. Add weather conditions
(Snowy, Rainey, Foggy, etc)
3. Arguments and punch-ups, Hand shake at end
4. Add more leagues
5. Have a better Player edit system
6. Add more club songs
7. Design a new kit after the season if wanted
8. Better Transfer and scouting system
9. Have a training mode
10. Better Celebrations
11. Sponsers on the shirt
12. Have the Referee, Linesman and 4th official
involved. (lets see them all)
13. Create a face or\and body for you the
manager
14. Let us manage national teams
15. Let us arrange pre-season friendlies if
we want to before a season
16. Live incomming results/goal alerts of other teams in the same league you are playing
in
17. let me know who other teams have transfered
18. Add a community Academy for each team
19. Have a reserve and U19 team for each team
20. More national teams
21. More Club Teams/Leagues
22. Scrap the soft decisions
23. Hand balls
24. Add more real referres
25. improve the tricks
26. see how other teams in other leagues are doing
27. Have a daily newspaper everyday be published
with club and international news across the
continent.
28. Have every team in every league finish
in a realistic league position
29. Try and add training kits

1) Fifa 09 should focus more on manger mode instead of "be a pro". you should be able to actually have a bigger stadium or buy a bigger stadium with revenue, and control prices on tickets, merchandise, etc. in manager mode.

2) HAVE THE 2010 WORLD CUP TEAMS INCLUDED AND BE ABLE TO PLAY A WORLD CUP TOURNAMENT.

3) Add more stadiums!!- get rid of create a player and use the memory for more stadiums, please!

4) better commentary- be able to choose different announcers.

5) be able to download all current jersey on online store.

1)3D Fans.
2) When on a semi-final match, show an on-screen aggrigate.
3)More movements with the ball, instead of just sharp ones.
4)More celebrations
5)More team crests, colours, symbols etc. for when making own football club
5)Able to see manager shoting to players at sidelines
6)More commetaries
7)Able to see the looks of fan's faces when your winning or losing.

i really think there should be more focus on the championship. things like teams stadiums facts on how long theyve been in the chapmionship etc. exspecially molineux

plus there should be different commentators.

There should be an online transfer marker