Weekly player updates for FIFA 09

By Robert Purchese Published 20 August, 2008

Plus demo due in early September.

EA has unveiled Adidas Live Season for FIFA 09, an online service that alters player attributes each week based on their real-life performances. [Apart from Fernando Torres, obviously, who is perfect in every way. - Ed]

Scouts around the world will funnel data from the Premiership, La Liga (a newly-acquired licence), Ligue 1, Bundesliga, Serie A and the Mexican Premier Division into PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game each week.

Live Season will be a paid-for service, but a free trial restricted to one of the leagues will be offered and run from activation through to the end of the season. Otherwise, subscription costs are unknown.

There will be a demo of FIFA 09 available on PS3 and Xbox 360 on 11th September. The full multiplatform release is due on 3rd October.

You can find out more about the latest instalment in the series that Peter Moore claimed built FIFA as a brand over in our hands-on FIFA 09 impressions.

Or head over to Eurogamer TV for a brand new FIFA 09 trailer.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (12) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • Merlinho #1 4 years ago

    Well score one point against PES2009.

    But I wonder how much it will cost? If it was free, it would be a major influence on me choosing a footy game. I'm not going to pay for it though, I'd prefer just to download PES option file.

  • Steroyd #2 4 years ago

    Finally, this has been a long overdue feature, I would have been contempt with January stat/transfer update but this will do nicely.

    Subscription costs though... :/

  • Tweakmonkey #3 4 years ago

    Updating squads is fine, but stats is a big no no. How can you play at a decent level if the player abilities are always changing? It's a bit of a joke this.

  • DaveBassant #4 4 years ago

    What a pointless exercise, omg ronaldos trickery stat has yet again increased +1 quick grab your controller! And they want me to pay for this?!

  • the_dudefather #5 4 years ago

    so if a player breaks his legs in real life does that effect the in game version?

  • BulletTheory05 #6 4 years ago

    Paid for stat updates = fail.

  • Merlinho #7 4 years ago

    Actually, I think I slightly misunderstood the article at first read. Updating stats would be ok, if it was along the lines of fixing players who have clearly been under or overrated e.g. Fabregas and Crouch on Pro Evo 5/6. However, weekly tweaks would be perhaps an annoyance. Definitely not worth a subscription. EA should use ideas like this as a Unique Selling Point, not a cash cow.

  • benstarkie #8 4 years ago

    Yep it is a ridiculous idea. I can understand making improvements in player ability through gameplayer performance but using reality as the benchmark is bizarre. It gives me no control over the improvement/decline of a player. dumb.

    But as long as FIFA gets rid of the on-rails gameplay I may consider purchasing it......maybe.

  • Redeye #9 4 years ago

    Apart from Fernando Torres, obviously, who is perfect in every way.
    Thanks for that, that's the funniest thing I've read all day.

  • itsfuzzy #10 4 years ago

    Very interesting. Dont see how it can work though. Squad updates are great. Player updates. How will they do that properly or fairly?

  • dazrichards #11 4 years ago

    I can only see this working for one-off games where real-life performance can be a factor in picking a team for a match. I presume these stat changes wont affect squads in saved tournaments and leagues etc. If they did change it wouldn't work. eg. so my 20+ goal machine is now 'out of form' or not as good as people thought?

  • Tweakmonkey #12 4 years ago

    They should really abort this idea.