Hello from the FIFA 10 Development Team

[Szxc]

Originally Posted by EA_JaramilloSantiago

Hi everyone,

As for the stadia, dream2extreme is right. We need a license for all of the official stadiums in the game. Our licensing team tries to get new ones every year based on what we believe would be the stadiums most welcomed by the consumers. In addition, we would like to put as many as we can in the game, but there is only so much time during our production that we can dedicate to making these stadiums. Unfortunately, at this moment, I cannot tell you what new stadiums will be in the game.

Why can't you add stadiums but give them fake names? If you include a good edit mode we can rename them ourselves.

[Coplandbear]

Originally Posted by Szxc

Why can't you add stadiums but give them fake names? If you include a good edit mode we can rename them ourselves.

Good point

[tancho11april]

Please remove Mancherster United!!! This way I will be able to play against other teams in online mode and may be win when i play good - there won't be a long ball to Ronaldo in the 90th min.

[ketito]

Thank you for the replies Jaramillo. I noticed you guys are taking notes about manager mode. Here are a few things:

A friend told me to try it out but i was not so sure about it... But once i did i got hooked. There were a few things that made manager mode after 3 seasons to get boring already.

-One of the things were the UNREALISTIC results in FA cup (Premiere League) were it looked that the game would make teams of equal strength reach the finals so you get a chance to win. You see results like Manchester U 1 vs Reading 4(!)

-When you are playing in the EFC or whatever is called, you see the same teams on 2 groups! That was sad to look at.

-Dont make the players reach ratins like 95 in only 2 seasons!!! And they started with 68!!! Another huge minus!!

-I would like to play manager mode with my brother, because we hated the way in a created league (offline) you are always 1 game behind from the rest. It's boring and dumb.

-Please improve the AI gameplay. One of the reasons my brother won't try manager mode it's because the AI it's to robotic or easy to beat. Makes silly changes and don't really use tactics... The AI changes formation if it got a red card, but that's it.

-When i recieve a foul while i was attacking, don't change screens and see that the whole team i was attacking it's already on their side of the pitch, make it like ISSS (snes) where you see the player go pick up the ball and place it where the foul was, while the team it's returning.

-Sometimes a player recieves a ball, and takes about 1-2 seconds to make the pass, standing there not moving even though you already pressed a button to pass it. The player for some reason just stands there for a couple of seconds and then passes it.

-Don't make the GK to save a ball by falling to the ground when the ball it's coming at a really low speed withno danger nearby. The GK ALWAYS goes to the ground for any kind of ball.

-When you make a pass with L1+x (so he makes a run as soon as he releases the ball) can you make the player to run in other direccions too? Always runs in a straight line, when there are other holes in the defense to exploit.

Thank you again!

[ANBU-Outlaw]

Just a quick suggestion - have the referee at least attempt to avoid the ball by jumping or ducking out of the way. It's a little frustrating when he just stands there and lets it hit him.

[K_V_F]

Wow great to see someone listening. Here is my list. (i mostly play online)

1. Make some kind of incentive for 2v2 online play. Like ranking, or ranked be a pro or clubs. I want to be able to pick up the game and play with my best buddy not wait for fifa clubs or 5 people in b a pro to press the friggin ready button.

2. We also need more options in match creation in B a pro. Online lobby's are not doing too good as most people still go to be a pro. I want to be able to make a 2v2, 3v3, 5v5 games etc... i also want to have the ability to kick players who hold up the game by not pressing ready when there are 4 other people ready to play.

3. Im sick and tired of playing agains man united, inter, barcelona etc. there are HUNDREDS of teams out there but no incentive to play them. Figure out some kind of ranking bonus for using certain teams and playing against certain teams. For example i likt how ultimate team rewards you with 2.5 bonus for playing on legendary etc. So if I beat Aston Villa with Benfica i want to get a bonus of some sort, and if I lost I dont want to lose as many ranking points.

4. Licensing. Russian and Ukrainian leagues are ranked so high in fifa rankings but are not in the game.. even powerhouses like Zenit, CSKA, Shaktar, Dynamo are not in... that sucks.... Where are all the african international teams? Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Ghana?

5. Penalty shootout loss should give some sort of ranking.

6. I would also love to have the option to play ranked matches online with international teams where I call up hte players I like.

7. I want to be able to preset tactics for online play as well.

8. A training arena where you can practice corners, free kicks (with a wall) is a MUST!

9. Dummy move is too slow. Its almost impossible to fool a defender by letting the ball go through your legs as your player turning ratio is too slow. Perhaps agility shoud affect that.

10. I want to be able to head the ball towards the ground by double tapping or something just like in the older fifa.

11. Passing in the box is horrible! Fifa 08 had passing across the box fairly simple. In this one there is never enough power in cross box passing. I dont think tripple tap should be the only option for that. Most of the time a simple pass button should put the ball on the tape for the player running in.

12. During online play its too hard to do a driven corner due to latency issues. Change it from double and tripple tap to something else.

13. It would also be gret to make set plays and bring them into the game. Corners and free kicks into the box are a bit weak at the moment

14. I know that Man U is a powerhouse team but they are just ridiculous online. Maybe team chemistry and stats should be revamped. Their advantage should be showing in something other then winning every fight for the ball or getting every rebound with any player.

15. Flick pass is not an uber move and can be done by most players... hell even I can do it in real life. Dont think a player needs ball control of 85+ for that one.

16. Offsides should be reworked too many problems there. real life refs arent perfect, dont use the two lines to determine the offside. Take out the lines please and make through ball a bit more difficult.

17. Passive offside is non existent right now. That needs to be adressed

18. Manual controls need work. Manual Lob pass and through ball power are horrible. They should power up faster.

19. Shirt pulling and player holding would be nice. In otehr words a button to draw a foul. Being restricted to sliding tackle on D kinda sucks. Someone put in a sick adea of holding or taping the slide tackle button to determine the agression in the tackle.

20. Ball curve is a bit ridiculous sometimes, especially during crossing maybe needs to be toned down a bit. A right footed player making a cross at full sprint from the right flank will not hit the net. but that seems to be the trend.

21 bring team chemistry back. (im sure its hidden in there and MAN U seems to be the team with 100%), I think that way speed will not be the number 1 priority. I remember pumping anyone with Nigeria in 08 because their speed was sickening and people didnt know what hit them. the UT chemistry is pretty cool for example look at Man City lots of stars but no chemistry.

Overall I think fifa 09 is a greate improvement from 08! Physical play is a fantastic addition! keep it going you guys are definately heading in the right direction just remember the the future of gaming is online as no AI can simulate a human opponent

Thanks!

[cooler08]

Originally Posted by EA_JaramilloSantiago

Difficulty level is always a tricky one. We want to make the game accessible for rookie gamers, and challenging and rewarding for experienced ones. Do you guys think it is too difficult or too easy in specific difficulty settings?

I think it's to easy in Fifa 09. but i think if you work on these 4 things mainly, the difficulty levels should be more challenging and realistic.

1. Deeper defensive line.

2. Better AI free kicks.

3. More savy AI.

- Players on Worldclass or Legendary should beat the keeper in the majority of 1v1 situations.

- More variation in playing styles so the AI is less predictable and less easy to 'handle'.

- AI Players should sprint more often instead of jogging especially when they're in open space.

- If you try to run straight through the CPU team team from kick off to score, the CPU players should be more aware of your run and attempt to close you down.

- Adaptive AI. i.e, if you score one goal a certain way. the keeper will remember this and be more alert in this type of situation next time just like a real life keeper would. this same sort of thing can apply to outfield players.

- CPU team players should take you on with skill moves. especially when your playing big teams such as Man utd and Arsenal.

- CPU teams should make tactical substitutions based on how the game has developed, instead of making them at random.

4. In Manager Mode, reduce the number of XP points players recieve as they get far to many when you upgrade your Staff to a high level.

Originally Posted by EA_JaramilloSantiago

Manager Mode: Many of you hace suggested several improvements for Manager Mode in FIFA10. While we won't be able to address all of them this year, I can tell you that many of the issues you mentioned will be solved for FIFA10. We know that Manager Mode is one the most important Game Modes in the game, and as such it received a lot of attention from the development team this year. This means having more realistic results in sim matches (i.e. more realistic league table); having a more compelling transfer system; improved atmosphere, player growth, and many more. In the end, it is a matter of prioritizing and have a plan that will continue to improve MM not just in FIFA10, but in all the FIFAs to come.

It's great to hear that Manager Mode is getting improved this year. Can i bring your attention to this thread, it's a list of glitches in Fifa 09's Manger Mode. Hopefully, it will be of some use to your team to iron out the glitches.

[himel7403]

Hey Santiago,
I've an objection about the difficulty. Please read this.
The situation in FIFA is the defensive third can easily be busted wide open in the game.
So to make the game difficult what ea does? makes a goalie god who saves the day (like in FIFA08 )
but breaking the defensive line should be hard.. u have to work hard for it..
so passing should be intelligent, tricks must be required, understanding be2in other team mates (we see in fifa09 how the players collide with own player and lose the ball !!) should be better, and when u find the gk under ur nose u r the boss..
u can hit the bar hit the net miss the goal anything depends on you mostly not the goal keeper.. so u have to work hard for get a opportunity and when u get it u've to utilize it..
and another thing make the game more random.. so that others cant memorize the position angle and shoot and its a certain goal!
Real life football no one scores every goal in the same way..
but as fifa is a program it seems scoring in 'own fashion' sometimes exploiting bugs

*and there are many constructive threads in this feedback section please spend some (more) time to read it :angel:
u can make some sticky threads also..
and thanks for u being here in this feedback section hope it will be good for fifa in future

[Szxc]

PLEASE make it impossible to buy UT packs with real money (no matter how much money EA want). This only benefits rich people and kids who make their parents spend money on it. It ruins the UT experience for people with normal wages (students etc.) who just want to build their team and enjoy the game.

[Jhnssn504]

Please add the option to play as a fixed player in every offline mode. So I can play as only one player in Manager Mode and the rest is controlled by the AI just like in the BAPS mode. One way to solve this would be to add it to the cursor change slider. So if you set the cursor change to the very bottom you will get a "fixed" setting and you'll be able to select what player/position you want to play at.

This way people like me that really only enjoy controlling one player has the opportunity to play manager mode. Hopefully this isn't to hard for you guys to add, thanks.

And also, make the AI being able to to skill tricks. And remove the one player from each team limit on trying to get the ball. 2-3 players from the same team should be able to try to head the ball from a corner for example.

[danny159]

to be honest, I think a lot needs to be changed to be honest, especially, attempt to stop online expoiters, what I mean by this, is to stop people constantly using 1 2 passes, all the way through the game, most of the time I can deal with it, but every now and then they get lucky, and end up scoring, I end up concentrating so much on defending I can't even enjoy the game, also people running through defenders constantly coz every now and then u wont stop them and again, there is no skill in this, its just people that can't do anything else

I have no idea how to change this, maybe make the gameplay slower so that we can defend it better and be ready for it to happen, because it is so annoying, I like to play football on the game, passing, controlling the game, and their is no advantage whatsoever in this, because also people just hold A from defence and the pass goes straight to their player up front which is so annoying, because you don't have to aim to pass and because of these reasons, I won't play the game anymore coz i never enjoy the game, i just sit there getting annoyed. maybe could, make the passing even less accurate for these times and one twos as well, just make um so that the more its done, the less accurate it is or something i dunno just please attempt to change it.

also, the ultimate team, fantastic idea and a lot of the times its great, but these bugs are annoying and I think that silver packs shudnt be available until you have won all of the bronze trophies so no one goes straight to the gold packs and then winning the tournaments easily because it would be much more challenging for players if you could win the trophies without gold star teams etc.......thats if your planning to have this on the next version of fifa anyway

sorry for writing so much, but if this is suppose to be a realistic football simulation then they need to sort the gameplay out or at least stop people from exploiting things like what was said before, thank you if you could be bothered to read all this lol despite all these annoying things about the game, it is still my favourite game out lol

[Fenomeno00o]

Make it possible to round GK.

[klashnekoff nth]

jamarillo look at these threads!

Easy system for ea to improve manager mode

Animations for fifa 10

Manual vs Assisted

How to make Fifa 09 realistic - the easy way

[klashnekoff nth]

Originally Posted by Fenomeno00o

Make it possible to round GK.

Practice!

[klashnekoff nth]

Question on graphics!

Euro 2008 > Fifa 09

what makes euro 2008's graphics better is the lighting and also the colour distribution. Fifa 09 at times looks quite dry to be honest.

forget this stupid lighting system you have now, ditch it and use the system from euro 2008 also better realtime cutscenes like in euro 2008 but most importantly like in pes

look at thias video, fifa also is in need of better replay angles and this is the same with cutscenes

YouTube - Pes 2009 Uefa Champion League Final
YouTube - PES 2009 ManU Road To Champions League Final & Celebration

[dodgedamighty]

can u please please bring the five a 5 side mode back please every1 wil love you for this get a licence wiv goals or powerleague and doit so we can use it in ultimate team

[Xeneize12345]

Hello, i would like to share some ideas that i have for FIFA 10.
1. Well for us spanish speakers, specially those who live in the american continent, we have to use the mexican commentary (which i find somewhat annoying) but we have the chance to download spain commentary (which is OK) But I would like if FIFA would be able to give this edition of FIFA Argentinian commentaries since almost all around south and north America almost every sport channel has Argentinian commentaries, it would be nice to have em or at least for us to be able to download them.
2. FIFA has great real faces for some players, like Messi, C Ronaldo, Benzema, Ribery, just to name some. But It would be great if you could add more faces to the game or maybe just have at least give the 3+ star teams at least 1 key player a real face. I know people online that have made some of the player's real faces to be almost identical.
3. I think that you should add more important leagues than the korean league or the australian league or other leagues from countries i never heard of. I think that you should add the Argentinian league to give more leagues from the American continent and maybe give the game the Copa Libertadores, Copa Sudamericana and Re Cope Sudamericana. Also make the International Club World Cup real qualifying, with Libertadores winner and champion's winner going straight to semis and sudamericana and other cup winners in quarter finals. Also other key leagues that should be added would be the Greek league and the Russian league. If you do accomplish to make any of these leagues it would be great to give key teams their stadium, like if you make Argentina league give Boca Juniors the Bombonera (Legendary Stadium) and River Plate the Monumental.
4. I think that it would be best if you could add real chants to the game for those teams who don't have. Like give all the International teams their chants to make those International matches almost real-life. I think that the chants are what make people go watch their team on Sundays and I think that giving teams their real life chants would give the game a big plus on making it even more realistic, instead on having some random chant. Like Boca Junior's "La 12" chants or River Plates "Borrachos del Tablon" chants which would make the Argentina super clasico just a new experience for the game.
5. Just a small thing for Manager mode, it would be nice if you could add the ability for when you are managing a team taht in the beginning of the season for the team to be able to select jersey sponsors and when you change sponsors to actually have the sponsor's logo on the team jersey.

Well if i think of any other suggestions I will make sure to come and post. I would extremely appreciate if you took in mind my suggestions.

[ketito]

Originally Posted by Xeneize12345

I would like if FIFA would be able to give this edition of FIFA Argentinian commentaries since almost all around south and north America almost every sport channel has Argentinian commentaries, it would be nice to have em or at least for us to be able to download them.

Oh my God! Yes! Argentinian commentaries would rock! I love those guys who are on FOX SPORTS all the time commenting on Libertadores and such!! I would even pay for that add-on!

[EbzTheKing]

I have a few ideas for FIFA 2010
i personally was slightly disappointed by FIFA 09
simply because unlike 08 people stopped playing Football properly
too much dribbling and quick passing to the strikers,
and not enough of the tactical and midfield battling.
that defeats the purpose of the beauty of dribbling and threatening defences when it's so easy to do. In FIFA 08, because of the slow pace the defences were on top now and able to stop players completely overwhelming the defence. In 09, the attacking side of the game is now on top, you will always have a chance of scoring a bunch of goals against any defence without any imagination or any form of midfielding genius, by simply forcing the strikers in behind the back line by either running with the fastest player you've or through balls.

My idea for 2010 is to first have the X button do a strong barge and O do a regular barge by having two different barge challenges they're can be more fouls, big penalties, more yellow cards and this makes for a more realistic match.
Matches should be 14 mins long at the average. This will result in these matches feeling more realistic and also making it easier for EA to make a more difficult and a more tactical style for the beautiful game.
Big players like Ronaldo and Messi shouldn't be able to dribble players at will, also players like Gerrard and Lampard should be able to dictate matches more effectively.
And custom celebrations should be saved for Be A Pro (in the place of custom celebrations they're should be actual player celebrations like Kaka fingers pointing up, Drogba's side pumping, etc and these should have 6 variations).
And finally the players should look a little larger on the pitch like in
PES 2009 and FIFA 08.

[thanvar]

Hello! One huge problem in the gameplay of FIFA 09 that needs to be fixed when FIFA 10 gets released is the one concerning the "advantage rule". In PS3 I use the d-pad instead of the Analog stick and whenever a player of mine gets fouled and an advantage is called, the play only continues for a short moment until the ref whistles and cuts my play! It's a problem that has been reported by many people here in the forum (all of those who use the d-pad!). So, it is clear that there is a gameplay bug there. Please fix it for FIFA 10. I'm pretty sure that it is something "fixable".


Good luck in taking part in something wonderful that millions of people enjoy. It has to be an amazing experience!

[Footy_la_la]

Being realistic, my only suggestion is to simplify the navigation of menus. In and out of game.

e.g. When I want to change the kicker during set-pieces, the "player role" option ought be available when you press the start button.

Also, when setting up the "custom tactics" It would be convenient if you could just scroll through the players and make the necessary changes all in one go instead of having to exit, and then! change the player.

Basically, just make the more demanding options conveniently available.

Thanks for reading.

[Placebo]

Originally Posted by EA_JaramilloSantiago

Difficulty level is always a tricky one. We want to make the game accessible for rookie gamers, and challenging and rewarding for experienced ones. Do you guys think it is too difficult or too easy in specific difficulty settings?

The problem with difficulty levels is that you apply them by faking AI behaviour and ignoring the stats of players, a good example of this is the underdog AI logic you use when meeting a "minnow" in a cup competition, players of 55 overall for example do not magically become as strong as Drogba, as good dribblers as Cronaldo, as good shooting as Gerrard and as good tackling as Terry, but that's what happens to them in game and it's a frustrating experience, you should take a look at how minnows generally get some success against good opposition, it's by working ultra hard, closing down space, double teaming the better players, strong aggressive tackling (sometimes too strong), maybe minnows should get slight bumps (10% of their ability) to allow for the "up for it" factor, but they should not become Premiership quality players for one game, that's just unrealistic and poor gameplay implementation IMO.

[Darkleader009]

Why EA care about ps3/xbox 360 than PC

[Placebo]

Because there's far more money in console games, far less risk of piracy, I work for a developer so I can tell you just how soul destroying it is to see the game you've slaved over for years being pirated for free within hours of its release.

[riccardomodena]

Originally Posted by EA_JaramilloSantiago

Hey guys,


Difficulty level is always a tricky one. We want to make the game accessible for rookie gamers, and challenging and rewarding for experienced ones. Do you guys think it is too difficult or too easy in specific difficulty settings?



Take care everyone,
Santiago

For this matter, please read the other thread you opened " A space to chat about Gameplay issues and ideas" in the Fifa09 section, i linked some of the posts that speak about it:

A space to chat about Gameplay issues and ideas
and this:
A space to chat about Gameplay issues and ideas
and this: A space to chat about Gameplay issues and ideas

There's not only a CPU difficult level but also a different difficult way to play the game. More experienced players (like me who i am 40 yeras old ) want to play as less assisted as possible, so beside manual controls (the greatest winning point vs Konami), we need also less assistance in the defence (keep pressing X or calling second man, although it's needed, we don't whant auto tackle...) as well as other features described in those posts...
So, these different levels of play could be put in the on-line to distinguish skill levels between players and rewards the less assisted as the hardest level.
But that need also to be considered in the Offline: the CPU should play in a different way when in the "more difficult level of play mode" since the human players not assisted, will play more "human" doing more mistakes and not having the chance to do auto passes, auto crosses, auto shooting etc... while in Fifa09 the CPU play always as it was "assisted"...
For this reason me, who i'm playing full manual, i have to play in the 3° difficult level against the CPU.

So, if you are struggling about CPU levels, consider this. You will also gain twice of the levels.