Another week, another Back To The FIFA post for you to start thinking about. If you’ve missed this before, you can catch up on the previous posts with this tag.

In the last post we asked about Online Modes, but this week we wanted to concentrate specifically on Pro Clubs and OTP. Virtual Pro hacking has been an issue ever since unlockable progression was introduced. There are always assholes that don’t want to level up fairly and just want an edge as quickly as possible, but there must be a solution.

Is having two virtual pros the answer? Having one stored online and one offline removes the issue of VP hacking, but it presents it’s own issues. Do you keep the existing accomplishment system and have to unlock everything twice? Do you remove the accomplishment system from online altogether? If so how do you reward frequent play and determine growth? Should VP progression stay offline and have stats levelled out like FIFA 09 online? How about a system where your VP is stored on the cloud and pulled down when you log in to the servers, with unlocks only being available if you’re connected?

What about features? What do you think is missing from the modes that would make managing and playing with your club easier and more enjoyable? Could there be more options in place for OTP to deal with idiots? We want to know what you guys think about all of this. As ever, let us know in the comments.

If you want to add feedback via Twitter use the hashtag #WishFIFAWouldBe and head over to Sweetpatch.TV

Very, very similar to FIFA 11′s Trophy list but there are some nice additions for FIFA Football’s touchscreen passing and shooting.

Soccer Legend
Unlock all other trophies (excluding additional content trophies)

Pinpoint Accuracy
Score a goal using the screen (touchscreen) shot, or a rear touch pad shot

Sharp Shooter
Score 50 goals using a touch shot

Pressure is On
Score a penalty kick using a touch shot

You Pointing at Me?
Make a successful direct pass using the touchscreen

Thread the Needle
Make a successful through pass using the touchscreen

Control the Open Space
Make a successful lob pass using the touchscreen in a match

Nimble Fingers
Score a touchscreen or rear touch pad goal from a touchscreen pass

Pass Master
Make 100 successful passes using the touchscreen

All My Own Work
Win a Match with Manual Controls

Safe Hands
Play any match as the Goalkeeper with no assistance

Perfect Keeping
Play as the Goalkeeper in a Kick-Off match and finish with 100% Saving Accuracy

Once in a Lifetime
Score as the Goalkeeper in any match

Aerial Threat
Score a header in a match with a player with the Aerial Threat Speciality

Crosser
Create a goal with a cross with a player with the Crosser Speciality

Distance Shooter
Score from outside the box with a player with the Distance Shooter Speciality

Playmaker
Create a goal with a player with the Playmaker Speciality

Poacher
Score from inside the box with a player with the Poacher Speciality

Woodwork and In!
Score off the post or cross bar in a match

Training Time
Work on your skills in any Arena Practice Mode

Back of the Net
Score 5 goals in the Arena

Warming the Gloves
Make 10 saves in the Arena

Home and Away
Play and win every Stadium

Home Maker
Change the Home Stadium of any team

FIFA for Life
Spend 50 hours on the pitch

Around the World
Play a match with a team from every league

In the game
Create a Virtual Pro

Rising Talent
Complete 100 Accomplishments with your Virtual Pro

Virtual Legend
Play 100 matches with your Virtual Pro

Against the Odds
Win a Head to Head Ranked Match using a weaker team

Experimental
Play 5 consecutive Head to Head Ranked Matches with different teams

In for the Win
Take a Head to Head Ranked Match to extra time with a weaker team

Good Form
Play 5 consecutive Head to Head Ranked Matches without losing

Hundred and Counting
Play 100 Head to Head Ranked Matches

Mastermind
Have a substitute score a goal in Career Mode

Good Week!
Get yourself selected in the Team of the Week in Career Mode

Great Month
Win the Manager of the Month award in Career Mode

Established Keeper
Play a season as a goalkeeper in Career Mode

It’s in the Blood
Go from being a Player to the Manager (or Player Manager) in Career Mode

Folklore
Become a Legend as a player in Career Mode

If you’re yet to check out FIFA Football on the PS Vita, check out the latest trailer here.

There’s plenty of on pitch action in there, as well as a good look at some of the more stunning arenas you’ll be playing in if you pick the game up. Just 5 weeks to go…

Click here to view the embedded video.

FIFA Street is out on March 13th.

“Having the full national team, in the hugely popular FIFA series, with authentic jerseys and players, is a big win for Czech football fans,” said Miroslav Pelta, President of the Football Association of the Czech Republic. “Seeing the team in the world’s most popular sports videogame in the coming years is something that will definitely build the connection between our team and our fans.”

It’s always nice to see these deals get done, but with our League and Team list post hitting fairly high levels of comments, it’s safe to say that there are still some teams people feel are missing. So who should EA be approaching next?

You can read the announcement at EA.com

As well as that gargantuan projection for this year it’s also been revealed that Ultimate Team already made EA a whoping $100 million last financial year which is essentially FIFA 10 and FIFA 11 combined.

It’s no surprise then that EA are looking to shift the FIFA Ultimate Team model in to it’s other franchises and here’s what EA President Frank Gibeau had to say:

“On the question about digital expansions within the Sports label based on what we’ve been able to do with Ultimate Team, we’re certainly looking at that as an opportunity in our other sports, but not just limited to our sports - We have a very ambitious plan to drive digital revenues off of our console businesses in our shooters category, in the racing category, in action. So we’re taking the key learnings that we’re developing from Battlefield and FIFA and we’re applying it to our entire suite of brands and across all of our different labels”

So there you have it, expect more micro-transaction goodness from other EA titles in the not too distant future and if they mimic the success of Ultimate Team, the future is indeed very bright for EA BUT is it bright for gamers?

Hit the comments guys and let us know how you feel about buying packs and micro-transactions in general.

Source: Eurogamer

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Wordfromthewise – Silver Liga BBVA

Aidan – FC Gooners

Chyngyz – EPL 75 Star

Johnpaulluna – ASTORIA FC

Neil – Blitzkrieg

Ole Martin – FK Oslo

Pablo – Inter Milan

Tim M – Irish

Tuome – Spain

Think you’ve got something better? Pop a link in the comments…

To be in with a chance of winning all you need to do is purchase any Gold, Premium Gold or Premium Gold Jumbo Pack, either from the Web app or in game, within the above time frame. Each pack purchased will count as one entry into the competition and you can enter multiple times. If you’re a winner, you’ll be contacted by email from the 24th of February.

Grand Prizes: (Available only to UK Residents)

• Signed Manchester City Shirt, 1 pair of tickets to Man City v Bolton at the Etihad Stadium on March 3rd, 100,000 coins.

• Signed Newcastle Shirt, 1 pair of tickets to Newcastle v Sunderland at the Sports Direct Arena on March 4th, 100,000 coins.

• Signed Chelsea shirt, 1 pair of tickets to Chelsea v Stoke at Stamford Bridge on Mar 10, 100,000 coins.

• Signed Arsenal Shirt, 1 pair of tickets to Arsenal v Newcastle at the Emirates Stadium on March 12th, 100,000 coins.

Secondary Prizes: (Available only to UK Residents)

10 Prizes of 100,000 coins

If you aren’t eligible because of your location, don’t panic. There will also be 10 Prizes of 100,000 coins for FUT players outside of the UK.

For full details, see the announcement on EA.com

Good luck.

It has been a strange time on the Fifa Ultimate Team market, player prices are jumping around everywhere, and what seemed to be good investments, turn into disasters. Everyone has noticed the price drops, it is a huge thing to take in to consideration if you are trying to build your Ultimate Team. I remember back in December, I bought a Neymar for 15,000 (below average market price), hoping that his price would rise. It turned out that his price not only didn’t rise, it plummeted. His average price is now under 9,000 – not a massive loss, but it was totally unexpected. I decided to research this further, and find the reason that player’s prices drop this much half way through the year, here is what I have learnt:

Why player prices have been dropping:

There are a few factors that have contributed to the player prices dropping, the most important probably is the massive increase of people buying packs:

• Increase of Supply:

During the winter period, many more people than normal have opened packs. As every economist will know, an increase in supply, will lead to a decrease in price. Players are becoming less rare and therefore their market price has dropped. Not great for people who have spent lots of money on very high priced players. So if you were someone that bought lots of packs during the winter, it was partly your fault that prices crashed!

• TOTY packs and IF cards:

When an in-form card of a player comes out, understandably people would prefer to have this card instead of the original, because it is better. This in turn means that the original player’s price will drop dramatically. Take Iniesta for example, before TOTY his market price was 250,000 , after this his price dropped to under 200,000 as everyone rushed to the packs to find the higher version. It has since risen slightly, showing that buying players just after their in form version is released can yield high profits.

How will the price drops affect you?

The majority of cards that you have in your club, have dropped in price by at least 5%. The players from TOTY and TOTW however, have increased by an average of 10% since their release, due to people not knowing their market price. If you have any players that have recently had an in form version released, their prices will drop.

It is extremely hard to predict whether your card will drop in price, perhaps the only way is by watching the trends on Ultimatedb.nl. You may be annoyed, but remember back to Fifa 11 where this all happened at almost the exact same time of the year. Perhaps the prices even dropped by less, I can remember really struggling to even sell players, because they had become almost worthless.

How can you maximise your profits?

The drop in prices will affect players with less money more than those with more. If you have little money, you will find it hard to start trading and making profits, as prices are all over the price. If you have lots of money however, you can take advantage of the price fluctuations, and cash in on players when their prices peak. Always check the player prices before you sell, this will ensure that you are not being ripped off.

• Buy low, sell high.

Obvious really, but I see many people ignoring it. It is easy to sell players cheap, but that will not do you any favours, wait until their price rise.

• Buy in form players as soon as they are released.

Their prices are proven to rise by alot after they are released. If you get a player for 60,000 just as they are released, it is likely that their price will be around 80,000 in about a week. Buy as many of them as you can, if you can afford it, you may just get lucky and rake in 100,000′s of coins.

• Buy regular players when IF’s have been released.

As you will have learnt, player prices drop after an IF card has been released. It is likely that their price will increase later on. Remember that you need to buy the players after their prices have dropped, buying before the drop would be plain silly! If you see the player’s prices rising slowly after a drop, this is also a good time to buy, there is no better way to make profits than buying when a player’s price is rising!

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The information was taken from a financial call yesterday in which EA also announced that Battlefield 3 had breached the 10 million sales barrier too. So, they have plenty to be pleased about at EA towers right now and with a bumper February/March which will see the release of Mass Effect 3, SSX, Kings of Amalur, Syndicate, Grand Slam Tennis and our beloved FIFA Street, they should remain happy well in to the summer.

Oh and FIFA 12 also found itself top of the UK Chart once again for a fifth consecutive week…

Source: CVG

It’s Wednesday and that can only mean one thing, it’s time for the next installment of Back To The FIFA. This week we want you guys to have a think about FIFA’s online modes and what new features you’d like to see over the next five years?

FIFA 12 marked a revolution of sorts for FIFA in the online space and there’s no doubt that Head To Head Seasons has improved the multiplayer experience immeasurably in comparison to previous games. But what do you think is the next step for H2H Seasons, or do you have a totally new idea for an online mode you’d like to see in FIFA?

As well as game modes that form a core part of FIFA on our consoles, this generation has also seen a swathe of supplementary online components like Game Face, the FUT Web App, Creation Centre, EA SPORTS Football Club and the  recently announced FIFA Street Network. These are all great but they can of course all be improved and what other FIFA online “apps” would you like to see? We’re dying for EA to put Custom Tactics online, which is surely a must for FIFA 13 and beyond?

Finally, an area of online play where FIFA has yet to excel is the mobile market and although an iPhone version of FIFA is great, we’d really like to see our FIFA console experiences connected persistently where ever we go. How could EA do this, what in-game content do you think would transfer well on to a handheld?

Your feedback has been amazing so far, and we’re recording absolutely everything. Hit the comments and help shape the future of FIFA online.

If you want to add feedback via Twitter use the hashtag #WishFIFAWouldBe and head over to Sweetpatch.TV