Moore "glad" some of FIFA's issues solved

By Tom Bramwell Published 19 October, 2009

Promised patch in Sony/MS certification.

EA Sports boss Peter Moore has acknowledged that the scale of FIFA 10's early sales success caught the publisher's online service people off-guard, but also said he is "glad our teams have solved many of the capacity issues that plagued some of you in the first few days out of the gate".

"We've been thrilled with the launch of FIFA in Europe and I'm obviously anxious to see how the North American launch goes next week [tomorrow - Ed]," Moore wrote on his blog.

"As we have throughout this summer and early fall, we continue to learn a lot about the changing habits of EA Sports fans and their voracious appetite for online content - so much so that sometimes it threatens the integrity of our robust online servers.

"We asked 'How Big Can Football Get?' throughout our FIFA 10 marketing campaign, and consumers in Europe quickly overwhelmed even our most optimistic projections, shattering online records that we had just set two months ago with Madden. We're thrilled with the interest and I'm glad our teams have solved many of the capacity issues that plagued some of you in the first few days out of the gate."

Elsewhere, on the EA forums, we've been told that the patch promised in a Eurogamer interview last week is now in certification at Sony and Microsoft.

Not everyone's as "thrilled" as Moore about that, however. EA reps on the forum have said they are not yet authorised to release the list of changes in the patch, leading a couple of tinfoil hats to speculate that EA hasn't fixed key bugs and is keeping the changelog out of sight to avoid impacting US pre-orders.

It remains to be seen what's in the patch, then, but you can get a sense of it by looking over EA's comments from last week.

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Comments (13) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • Zomoniac #1 2 years ago

    What an odd headline. Would anyone expect him to declare he was "disappointed that some of the issues have been fixed"?? Surely his pleasure is a given?

  • onezeonx #2 2 years ago

    ive not even started my MM yet as the STUPID mods at EA wont even confirm if this patch will force you to start MM again!

    Idiots!

  • Aretak #3 2 years ago

    "Why is gameface only available to Gold Xbox live subscribers?
    Can he explain that to me?"

    I'd wager you'd need to look in Microsoft's direction for an answer to that. Not that EA are shy about wanting to squeeze every last penny from you, but it's Microsoft who generally tell developers/publishers what they're not allowed to give away for free.

  • Darren #4 2 years ago

    You know, I get a feeling that these bugs only exist because EA's developers have to turn out a new sports game every year and release it by a specific date.

    @EarlBassett - Not only is the Game Face feature for Gold LIVE users but also photos and replays are too. Considering all of those can be used in the offline modes it seems very mean/tight (delete as applicable) of Microsoft to do this. Those things are, of course, free to use on the PS3 version.

    Seems to me that Microsoft are desperate to annoy Silver LIVE users as much as possible in an effort to get them to pay for a Gold subscription. Fine, I can live with them charging for online gameplay if they must as I'm not interest in it but locking out other things that are for the single player stuff is just not on IMO. I remember having to wait a week in order to download FREE DLC for Saints Row 2 and Batman AA, two games I actually owned. In the case of the latter the game doesn't even have a multiplayer component, it's offline only!

  • dirk_aircool #5 2 years ago

    Isn' it funny how many publishers are ' caught off guard ' when popular games with large amounts of online users suddenly take thier servers by suprise rendering the game almost useless ( online ) for those who buy on release date ( at premium prices ).


    I DIDNT MEAN JUST FIFA 10 . Codemasters are u listening Dirt2 , Operation Flashpoint ???????
    Edited by 2 at 20/10/09 @ 12:01

  • seasidebaz #6 2 years ago

    EA reps on the forum have said they are not yet authorised to release the list of changes in the patch, leading a couple of tinfoil hats to speculate that EA hasn't fixed key bugs and is keeping the changelog out of sight to avoid impacting US pre-orders.

    To be honest, it's more likely that a massive stat-boosting glitch has been found and revealing the changelog before the patch is out would reveal how to do it, thus forcing EA to reset the stats of everyone and causing people to get seriously annoyed.

  • Zomoniac #7 2 years ago

    Isn' it funny how many publishers are ' caught off guard ' when popular games with large amounts of online users suddenly take thier servers by suprise rendering the game almost useless ( online ) for those who buy on release date ( at premium prices ).

    Surely with FIFA 10 most release date purchases were at a substantial discount, and far less than is available now, far from a premium price.

  • andijames #8 2 years ago

    @dirk_aircool

    to be fair i've been playing it since launch and not had one problem online getting into a game/playing etc. Offline there's a few bugs yes but i think that's par for the course these days unfortunately. Seems the more technical games get the more chances of bugs appearing. Not good but the way it goes. At least they can patch games these days unlike back in the old days of offline systems.

  • TheGoose126 #9 2 years ago

    Can someone please tell me what the bugs are? Apart from sometimes not letting me play another online game with the same person I have not had a problem?

  • Masterless #10 2 years ago

    One "bug" I think is the player at the end of the match who tries to do keepy uppys but fails miserably after 1. My mum could do better than that!

  • TheStatics #11 2 years ago

    I had a bug online where I made a sub but the screen just got stuck on the pan of the Stadium that you get when it's loading the sub animations.

    The other guy quit before me so I got a 3-0 victory out of it though!

  • Joco84 #12 2 years ago

    I've had the not-connecting-to-anyone bug, but that seems to be part of fifa games these days.

    One workaround I have found is if you count to five on the screen where it says "checking to see you have the updated squads" and then press X, I find it connects 95% of the time.

    Give it a go, hope it works for those who have this issue.
    Edited by 1 at 19/10/09 @ 17:32

  • Mart #13 2 years ago

    http://fo rums.electronicarts.co.uk/dev-t...