Your ideas for the next FIFA - Write what you wanna see in EA Sports FIFA 09
FIFA 08 has already been released ... Now you can share your ideas for the next version of FIFA (FIFA 09) here with EA developers.
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I alos think that u should do things in manager mode where you can take training sessions, build and improve stadiums and get new strips etc. I also think that you should add the 1st 2nd and 3rd scottish divisions.
c the ref.
put more stadiums in it.
change lounge mode back to how it was on fifa 07 and 06.
more leagues.
be a pro mode act like a carer mode ( go on 4 longer).
change manger mode so u can change sponsors on shirts.
put sponsors on shirts in create a team mode.
able to change the look of players already on the game.
world cup every 4 years.
african cup of nation after every 2 years.
and copa america.
and the euro cup.
and the asian cup
add more footballs, especialy champo league and fa cup balls.
add reserve teams eg arsenal liverpool etc.
add more players.
more trick stick moves.
add press match conferance. like pes.
add pre match conferance.
improve practice mode.
improve training sessions on carer mode (actually do it your self)'
improve the fans and fans' chants.
improve the commentators. they r always about 5 secs behind.
better player ratings and positions. on fifa 08 theo walcott is a LWM and rated 71, and if you put him up front his rating got better.
see the fourth official holding the board up 4 subs and added time.
see players getting taken off by the stretcher or the car thing if they r injured.
there should be a button where you can dive if you have the ball and two foot tackle someone (always gets the other player injured) if you dont have the ball. if the dive is delibrate you should get booked or something and get booked or even sent off if you 2 foot someone.
there should also be a mode where you start from a local school team in the school league and build your way up the ranks to the prem.
change the ecc to the Chapions League and the efa to the UEFA Cup.
better celebrations.
in manager mode u shud b able to change the kit or keep it the same after every or couple of years.
when you create a player u should be able to give them real boots, like nike vapour adidas tunit. like on fifa world cup 2006.
add better legendary players on the classic XI.
u should b able 2 unlock palyers 4 the national team. like on fifa world cup 2006.
add challenges in it like arsenal v barcelona champo league final.
add historic teams in it so you can use them in lounge and kick off mode eg england 1966 team.
unlock more historic stadiums not just highbury.
c players arriving to training and matches.
add the biggest stadium in the world on it.
c the players celebrating with the trophy.
please make th ecelebrations look better involving other players and not just the scorer wondering around on his own, how about running in real time.
why is it too hard, not challenging hard but annoyingly hard i have the ball at the back with a defender and im closed downb by 2 players within seconds constantly throughout the whole game, this is not realsitic
Iranian Premier League
Greek Super League
Russian Premier League
Colombian Premier league
Israeli Premier League
Argentinian Premier League
Nigerian Premier League
South African Premier League
Bulgarian Premier League
Croatian Premier League
Albanian Premier League
Maltese Premier League
Chilean Premier League
J League
Chinese Super League
Hungarian Premier League
Cyprus Premier League
AND THE ROMANIAN LEAGUE
Secondly, a more varied list of stadiums would be very nice. My suggestions: Hampden Park (the home of Scottish football), Ibrox or Parkhead or both, the Maracana, and the MCG (a long shot). Proper stadiums for all the teams in the big leagues (Premier League, Spanish, Italian, maybe German or French) would be fantastic, if slightly unlikely. But if you can have White Hart Lane you can have Fratton Park, eh?
Finally, either increase the number of leagues dramatically or get rid of a few. The presence of the League of Ireland is currently quite absurd, however if the Northern Irish league were added, that would make it alright. The Argentine league is a must since the Brazillian is there. The Russian should be in, being far superior to the Polish for example. And so on.
thats all for now .
thanks .... if they do .
Fifa 09 needs:
-More stadiums (Macarena Stadium anybody? )
-Higher level of customization on players (e.g dribbling style and running action). I didn't like how the "average" body shape looked stubby and fat. More freedom in terms of body shape and muscle mass. Get a fashion update too EA, some of the haircuts in there are just homo. PES have got an edge there.
-Definately the ability to design a traning schedule, i don't like the leveling up in fifa 08 on ps3, its like playing an RPG except with 20 players to take care of, if you don't use auto level. Takes too long, setting training programs for the squad, and then assigning certain drills for strikers, defenders, etc. The time spend training up different drills should then be used as a way of allocating exp. points for different skills.
-Expansion of Be-A-Pro mode. I think this already on the agenda. Good work on introducing the concept and working towards that ultimate goal of an online 11 v 11 mode.
-More licenses, teams, leagues, etc. The number seems to go up overall each year so keep at it.
-Making the sponsors appear on jumpers. Now this would be a expensive process for EA as asking nike to put their logo on some made up team could be a stretch. Good idea though.
-Outsource player modelling to indivudal teams based in each country. This wouldn't cost that much to EA, but player faces and way off sometimes.
-Design a specific interface for PC, utilizing mouse precision. Stop porting PS2 menus with feel clumsy on the PC.
- Rendered videos of press conferences, team meetings, pre and post match dressing rooms.
Points on Fifa 08:
-Loved the new atmosphere and "Arena" home screen. Feels fantastic. Spent 2 hours once just mucking around with Ronaldinho. GOOD WORK.
-Menu system and interface is really beautiful on the ps3. Menu system itself is abit confusing at first but becomes relatively powerful with familiarization. Still room for improvement.
-Graphics are good, but can be better. Stadiums are always full on ps3, i think this was different on the PC demo i played.
-Auto save system was a bit clumsy and I found myself having to re-create players because they were used in a manager mode i deleted. A bug that should've been caught in testing.
Other than that, Fifa 08 is a great game to play, very entertaining, beautifully presented and real positive step.
I totally agree with what billy has mentioned. We can create a player about 14 years old. make him sign for his local club and then improve him year by year. Its like a whole new co-op season.
I also forgot to mention testimonial matches. Fifa should add these to manager mode.
=The Be A Pro season should be more like the career.
I think Fifa should also improve the celebrations...Jean has a point. Why not give Luis Nani his Flip? Again i agree with Jean in season mode we should be able to have a euro cup tournament and a world cup tournament.
Heres something none of you went deep towards to... CHANGE THE CREATE A TOURNAMENT MODE. We should be able to choose our team but mainly create our cup. We should be able to make the size of the cup, the shape, the weight, the height, the width, patterns, name plates and mainly the material make (Always Gold
This one relates to crowds...THE MANAGER!! The most important man in the game! lets make him visible. How about we start with subs, when we make a sub why dont we see the manager just talking to him and making hand motions and gestures. This would bring alive our game.
Now its time for Fifa to bring the referee back on the pitch. Isn't it strange how theres no ref? you make one foul and hes back from out of nowhere!!
Injury's worry me... no forget the players we want the medical team to arrive on the pitch. These players get injured they walk off the pitch when you sub them. when you arrive at your mobile messages. It says the player broke his leg and will return at (date) you cant walk if your leg breaks. BRING IN THE STRETCHER!!
What about penalties??? We see the team talking but we dont see them stretching, And we dont see the physio's massaging the legs. What about the manager on the pitch with a little team talk. When penalties are taken we should be able to see a small celebration from the taker if they score but one mainly from the team.
We should get points for discovering new skills. I also think they should improve the co-op season. You guys should make it 10-15 seasons long depending on the players age. We should see them signing autographs, getting into arguments, talking to the manager in his office, and most importantly we get to choose out of 3 statements what your players going to get. The better answer the better morale they get. We dont want to start the game, play the game, end the game and go back to starting the next game. We want a story line!! Lets make a HUGE IMPROVEMENT For FIFA 09. LETS BEAT PRO EVO BUYERS!!
They should (in manager mode) have after match intervies like in real life, so you could get to select say your comment out of three chioces that the playstation gives you and if you say good ones your teams morale will go up and fan support and the boards support, but say negative things then your support and team morale will suffer.
It would also be good if you could have your teams club song or your national teams national anthem sung during the international games.
show the aggregate score on the second leg round... it makes it look more real :D
thanks you
fifa you r the best what ever ppl say
and also you could have this thing where you sart as a kid and play for something like st albans rangers or the comets then every year (a game year)you get older then play for like london colney then play for under 21s and c if u can make it into the proper leauge and paly until you retire tht will be cooooool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thank you
i hope you use my ideas i think there good lol :D
then every1 will buy the game
Also add referee and its crew to the game... and show when the ref adds a tine they look at the 4th ref and raise a number then the 4th referee raise the added time.
Add atleast 1 Brazilian Stadium... (The Maracana Stadium for example, I mean its the symbol for the Brazilian Football!)
And to finish, Add the Argentine LEAGUE and some more some More South American CLUBS to the game so we can make a Copa Libertadores and for Europe have a Champions League.
If those ideas be added to FIFA 09, it would be greater then it is and You would probably get more buyers and fans of the game!
Also include the Costa Rica Premier league and the Argentina Premier League.
Then the Rest of World teams number must be expanded, if you consider for example the costarican league a bad league (which sure isnt and is greatly improving) at least try to put the best teams of its league like Liga Deportiva Alajuelense which was Concacaf club champion or Deportivo Saprissa which went third in the first Clubs World Cup or Puntarenas FC which is the former central america champion. But I dont say this just for the costarican teams I am also talking for the South American people which are also unable to see their teams in FIFA game and surely there are south american teams which desserve to be in the game and also other central american teams.
Then I share the opinion the referee should appear in the field although I think it is not the most important thing to improve.
The international teams are also very badly chosen or maybe again comercially chosen. With the FIFA 07 it was very sorry to see several teams which didnt qualify for the FIFA World Cup Germany 2006 in the game (eg. Austria, Belgium, Greece, North. Ireland) but couldnt be able to use several teams which DID qualify for it (eg. Costa Rica, Ivory Coast, Angola, Togo, etc.) this was impressive since it is a truly lak of respect for these nations since they truly earned the best places in the world.
To finish what I must complain of is the continous errors we experience as game players. It is very annoying when the game pauses making a strange noise in the middle of a game and your only way out is switching back on the console.This must be your biggest concern since I experience this problems since the first FIFA game I bought which was FIFA 2002 and I buy it all the years since then and in all its versions I experience similar errors which I dont experience with any other game.
Follow the general philosophies of Football
1. Players need to approach the ball when its passed to them.
2. Through balls need to be WAAAAAAY MORE consistent in direction. Often times I want to send the ball through two defenders and instead it sends it outside the defenders which results in a turnover.
3. PLAYERS NEED TO TRACK BACK ALL THE TIME! After a failed attack you might as well let the computer counter for a goal. You get the ball back faster anyways. WHERE'S MY SUPPORT AT?
4. PLAYERS SHOULD NEVER BE OFFSIDE. The only time a player is offsides is when a pass is miss timed. Players don't run offsides because they just feel like going for a jog.
5. ALL PLAYERS SHOULD BE CLOSING OFF SPACE! Being that EA took out the "Off the Ball Control" I can only control one person at a time [excluding the double team] so the AI should be closing down other passing lanes as well, especially since it seems that the CPU does it close to 70% of the time.
6. PLAYERS NEED TO BE MAKING RUNS! FIFA 07 did a pretty decent job at having the players AT LEAST go forward. In FIFA 08 they barely move. You have to press R1 [make a run] mulitple times for the AI to even respond. Thats pretty ridiculous for a Next-Gen console.
Other additions
7. Referees need to be included on the pitch during the game. This is just laziness. How much more money would it cost to Mo-Cap one referee running back and forth, and reaching into either his shirt pocket or his back pocket. I got a $20 dollar donation if you need it.
8. Chipped and lobbed balls, or any pass in the air, have really suffered a landslide since last season. Can we at least get back to last seasons accuracy? [which wasn't anything great either]
9. The audience needs to be alive now. Its next-gen now, but the audience isn't even current-gen. Its more like PS One audience [flat and just twitches every now and then].
10. Can we get Clive [Tysley] and Ally [McCoist] back? OR BETTER YET! Why won't EA SPORTS be the first game to allow you to select you crew? I know its a bit more work, but I think hearing the same guys game-in and game-out is startin to piss me off. Andy Gray doesn't know what he's talkin about anyway. hahaha jk.
11. I know the US sucks at soccer, but can we get an DOME Stadium while you're at it? As far as The States goes, we're leaning more and more towards "All-Season" stadiums which means a retractable roof. That's all. Seattle comes to mind.
12. BRING BACK THE "OFF THE BALL" control. That was huge. If EA is going to make the AIs crap then at least give me the luxury to make up for the things they neglected to pay attention to.
13. There's nothing "Classic" about the new controls either. R2 is turbo? Are you kidding me? I know Madden likes to keep things pretty exotic but R1 is turbo in every other sports game from every other developer. There's no need to change that. Its not for individuality. Its for convenience.
13 1/2. L1 needs to be "call second defender" not circle. I already adressed how the AIs are crap. So I dont trust my own players by themselves. When "call second defender" was L1 it was easy to set a double team. Now, with that control being moved to circle its EXTREMELY awkward to double team. Actually, its virtually impossible when you just need a quick bluff.
14. Subs, Managers, Trainers, Medics, Security and whoever else that you would usually see on the sidelines needs to be ON THE SIDELINES.
I know doing the Elastico or The Rainbow are all fun to do, especially when you finally get it down and mastered. The problem is there is WAAAY too much focus on the "Fun" and not enough focus on the "Real". Sure, improving the fans, stadiums, and refs isn't going to do anything for the gameplay, but HOW OFTEN do you see a rainbow, elastico or any of the other exotic moves included this year's FIFA actually executed in a game you've ever watched? I do know this, everytime I watch a game on television there's ALWAYS Fans, ALWAYS subs, ALWAYS Managers, ALWAYS Refs, ALWAYS medics, trainers and security. So why worry about the "sometimes" and start worrying about the "always"? And these are things to ADD to the game. Everything in the game right now is fine and perfect. But dont remove anything to add something. You're not progressing that way. Add more realism to the game [and believe me, there's not much of it] and then FIFA can be as enjoyable as it was in the past.
Thank You.
and i want referees.
and the Argentina 1 division
and the greek league 1
and a full lisend netherland and nigeria team.
then i want commentators in every langurage:)
and i wont to see the Sponsors back on the shirt.
i wont to see real managers in the games. like sir alex ferguson, jose mourinho on the sideline for the opponents.
and you can design your self as a manager.
i also wont the colombian nationalteam.
thank you fifa. love that game