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FIFA 11 Tackling Clubs & Quitters

Kitana Media — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:39:54 +0000

Nice article up on Eurogamer today, discussing how the FIFA devs are combating online quitters. Theres also a mention on Clubs too, and how EA are working on rectifying the issues many people had with that particular mode.

Get the full story by clicking here.

Thanks once again to fifa_king for the heads, good to see the community involvement picking up nicely!

FSB EXCLUSIVE: 2010 FIFA World Cup News

Chris Davies — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:00:32 +0000

So you want a 2010 FIFA World Cup exclusive do you? But not just any exclusive, not just “England have been programmed to lose on penalties every single time they occur” or “playing as Cristiano Ronaldo will unlock a hidden minigame called Handbags”.

Well in that case, we’ve got something to tell you. Just remember where you heard it first.

The online part of 2010 FIFA World Cup is a little bit different from what you’re used to.

So what is this world exclusive news? Online ranked matches will never be the same again. Fed up of constant random matches with no real meaning bar moving up and down a list of hundreds of thousands of people? Well, I was, and this new way of doing things sounds like a much more interesting system.

The new world league ladder will contain ten divisions. Every player begins in the bottom division, League 10. A “season” consists of ten league games, with the usual rules of a league season applying – 3pts for a win, 1pt for a draw, and nothing but the look of disgust on your virtual players’ faces for a loss.

If you can accumulate 16 points during a season then you’re promoted to the league above (unless you’re in the top division, in which case you win a Championship title to add to your trophy case). However, if you only manage to scrape together 8 points or less, then you’re relegated to the league below (unless you’re already in the bottom division, in which case you’re banned from playing the game online ever again*).

If you finish with between 9 and 15 points then you carry on in the same league for another league season – and at this point, you will head into a four round cup competition. You are awarded ranking points based on your league and cup success for the season.

So there you have it. The online ranking system has had a facelift that it truly needed. Hopefully there’ll be even more information released soon so keep an eye on FIFASoccerBlog.com for more when we have it!

Huge thanks go out to EA (particularly Simon Humber) for allowing us to tell you the news.

* – This bit may be a slight fib.

Stryxa Online Leagues World Record Attempt

Chris Davies — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:11:04 +0000

Do you often play games for 24 hours straight? Well in that case you’re crazy and you must be really tired a lot of the time, but if you’d like to make the record books and you think you can do it, Stryxa are hosting an official FIFA 10 Guinness World Record attempt on Tuesday 26th January (this year) at St. Paul’s Church in Covent Garden, London.

If you’re interested, you can find more details by clicking here!

FIFA 10 (The Online Game)

Chris Davies — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:43:04 +0000

All the FIFA sites are currently focused on the upcoming July 15th NDA expiry, with several sites finishing up their previews and articles about the sparkly new features we’ll be playing with come FIFA 10′s release. But in the meantime, here’s a little article from EA themselves about FIFA 10′s online play.

The official EA SPORTS FIFA Blog was updated a few days ago with an article imaginatively entitled FIFA 10: The Online Game. See the snippet below…

A common complaint we hear is the lack of visibility in our ranking formulas. We addressed this, so now at the end of each game, you will see how many ranking points you got, broken down by criteria: team level, rank level and our brand new match performance rating. Even if you lost, having played the game well (good passing % for instance) will get you extra ranking points.

The 300 Milestone

Suffwan — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:13:45 +0000

Did you know that over 280 million games of FIFA 09 have been played online? If the average game is played with five minute halves (excluding extra time, penalties or the guys who quit after you score a goal), that’s 1,944,444 days – 46.6 million hours or 2.8 billion minutes – all spent playing FIFA.

Don’t feel like a geek, half of those minutes are probably ours.