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February 22, 2011 David Bryant

FIFA Manager: Your Feature

It’s not very often fans get to choose what they want in their next FIFA game but this year that’s exactly what’s happening to the FIFA Manager series. This week the exciting new initiative “Your Feature” was launched allowing FIFA Manager fans to decide exactly what they want the development team to work on and implement for this year’s game. Here’s how it works…

Step 1: The community come up with their FIFA Manager wish list.

Step 2: Rounds of voting take place to find the communities favourite ideas.

Step 3: The community are kept up to date during the development process via the “Thread of Fulfilment” receiving updates and screen-shots as the community features evolve and get implemented.

Personally I think the “Your Feature” initiative is a breath of fresh air for the genre and clear show of trust from the development studio. Gathering feedback is one thing but letting the community decide how the game is being made is something else entirely. We’ll keep a close eye on this one as it progresses keeping you up to date on the community wishes that make the grade and enter development.

You can catch the full article here: FIFA Manager: Your Feature

Do you think this initiative could work for all FIFA titles? Could you see this happening for the console version of FIFA?

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9 Responses to FIFA Manager: Your Feature

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  2. Sam says:

    Woweee. Sounds great. I think it would do a great job if they used this for FIFA 12. I think it would re-instill some confidence in EA back into the community.

    February 22, 2011 at 9:59 am

  3. Kevin says:

    I’m with Sam. This feature for FIFA 12 would be a cracker.

    February 22, 2011 at 6:21 pm

  4. Tom Mills says:

    They will need to get moving on it if they want to do something similar for FIFA 12.

    February 22, 2011 at 6:29 pm

  5. David Bryant says:

    Its a big step for a developer to do this and it shows a lot of trust in the FIFA Manager community to come up with ideas worthy of making the full game.

    Can’t help but think the console version would attract swathes of people wanting Hernandez’s face and Sneijders hair as community wishes…

    Hopefully we see more things like this from EA and its studios in this case “Bright Future” promising sign.

    February 22, 2011 at 10:42 pm

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  7. RedGooner says:

    Like this, definitely want to see it implemented into FIFA 12.

    February 28, 2011 at 5:54 pm

  8. The Man of the Hour says:

    It’s already too late for FIFA 12 I think.

    February 28, 2011 at 6:39 pm

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