FIFA 09 adidas Live Season FAQ

[deathcab 86]

Originally Posted by gladewolf

I think it's a good idea, I'm just stuck on this payment thing. I can't see why they need to get paid for this service.

Great Idea = More Sales of Fifa09
More Sales = More Money.

Is it that much extra work?

• First of all there are only 6 leagues being updated.
• Secondly EA actually save themselves work for the next Fifa because they'll already have an up-to-date database of the top 6 leagues.
• Thirdly I already pay full price for a game that is basically an update (albeit a very good one) of the previous year. It's not as if they reinvent the wheel every year.

Don't ditch the idea, just make it free.

The thing that annoys me the most is that I'm probably going to buy the updates, because, like everyone else, I want the game I play to be as good as it can be.

problem is im not sure if its possible to be free. Remember they need to pay someone to keep track of 6 leagues worth of players (i think thats around 15-20 teams of 25 players each). Its a lot of work.

[Sumo]

I like the idea very much, but have one question:

When the forms of the players are updating each week, will the server be temporarily shut down?

[r0000ney]

I like the idea, and also have a question:

Can the player form attribute be edited in the edit mode, and can it be applied in manager mode? Will form change over the course of the manager mode season, affected by how a player performs within manager mode, and would this affect his price?

[J-Star]

u have\= 2 pay!

[Robalenko]

You gotta be kidding me. They could hire people like us to keep an eye on players and their current form. It doesn't take much, neither would it cost much

[II Sathiroth II]

here is my true opinion about this new feature...

YouTube - What I think of "FIFA 09 adidas Live Season"

[deathcab 86]

Originally Posted by Robbie8912Play

You gotta be kidding me. They could hire people like us to keep an eye on players and their current form. It doesn't take much, neither would it cost much

im not sure if it would work. It would be hard to get realistic stats. For example if adebayor or rooney had poor form, everyone would say that yes, their stats should go down. Then you'd have the man utd and arsenal fans who would disagree. The community would never be able to agree.

And sathiroth that video is pathetic. You still don't get the point that YOU DONT HAVE TO BUY IT. IT IS OPTIONAL! and the fact that your campaigning against an innovative feature (free or not). Its even sadder that you've made a video of yourself surfing the forum.

Maybe yes, id accept that people have a right to an opinion and the right not to like the feature, but your taking it way too far

If you really dont want stat updates then go buy PES this year. If i remember correctly the stats and formations for PES2008 were out of date even on release day

edited for spelling

[II Sathiroth II]

Originally Posted by deathcab 86

im not sure if it would work. It would be hard to get realistic stats. For example if adebayor or rooney had poor form, everyone would say that yes, their stats should go down. Then you'd have the man utd and arsenal fans who would disagree. The community would never be able to agree.

And sathiroth that video is pathetic. You still don't get the point that YOU DONT HAVE TO BUY IT. IT IS OPTIONAL! and the fact that your campaigning against an innovative feature (free or not). Its even sadder that you've made a video of yourself surfing the forum.

Maybe yes, id accept that people have a right to an opinion and the right not to like the feature, but your taking it way too far

If you really dont want stat updates then go buy PES this year. If i remember correctly the stats and formations for PES2008 were out of date even on release day

edited for spelling

ive never denied the fact that the feature was optional or not, what im stating in the video is is it worth geting..... and another thing the new feature doesnt give you squad updates at all... all it does is update the players form week in week out......

In fact i like the idea, as i clearly stated in my video.....

[WaddyFIFA09]

i think there's some good points on this forum, but let's see what it's like before we start thinking it's lalalala

[II Sathiroth II]

Originally Posted by WaddyFIFA09

i think there's some good points on this forum, but let's see what it's like before we start thinking it's lalalala

agree....

all i was stating in the video was the possible out comes of the new feature thats all...

[Robalenko]

I just feels like I would be paying to see my team slowly drop rating (I'm an Honest West Ham supporter, and it will happen) Also, I play with all sorts of different teams from all over the place, So I would have to pay for the bundle to be satisfied. I will, but that doesn't mean I'll be happy about it

[Ferraritifosi2]

i think its a grea8 idea,,,,i wud definately buy this....but unfortunately i live in india and i use the uk store....so i wont be able to buy this service...any alternative EA?

[jaymc1407]

Listen, i think its a cracking idea and if you dont like it then dont get it. its as simple as that. no one else cares. stop complaining just because your the only one who feels its a lalalala idea.

i dont see the problem in this idea because there will be no advantage gained because not only do they increase in rating they also decrease so it works in both ways.

im sick of, when playing fifa, inbetween the winter update, playing players who are playing badly at the time, and they are still rated very highly. it makes sure that all players are rated according to their present form, and not from their previous form a couple of months ago.

thank you fifa for upping the level of football gaming to a new exciting level.

[j wheazy]

its an OK idea if its free, maybe even a good idea if its free.


its an absolute **** idea if we have to pay for it.

Originally Posted by jaymc1407

i dont see the problem in this idea because there will be no advantage gained because not only do they increase in rating they also decrease so it works in both ways.

they are basically making people pay for an advantage....and lets face it, people are going to use whatever stats make thier team better. its not going to go both ways, where the person who pays for the service is going to use the lower stats. he is just going to turn the service off until his player returns from injury.....


c ronaldo is the best example of this. you know all the man u fanboys are going to use the regular stats until november when ronaldo gets back from injury

[g3neral banter]

Originally Posted by jaymc1407

Listen, i think its a cracking idea and if you dont like it then dont get it. its as simple as that. no one else cares. stop complaining just because your the only one who feels its a lalalala idea.

i dont see the problem in this idea because there will be no advantage gained because not only do they increase in rating they also decrease so it works in both ways.

im sick of, when playing fifa, inbetween the winter update, playing players who are playing badly at the time, and they are still rated very highly. it makes sure that all players are rated according to their present form, and not from their previous form a couple of months ago.

thank you fifa for upping the level of football gaming to a new exciting level.

i agree, its a good idea and if you think otherwise dont get the free trial and dont pay for the extras. when playing online just search for thoses without the update!

[jaymc1407]

However, i have just had a thought. For everyone who plays in online teams e.g. yourfifaleague.com, fifalife.ulmb.com etc. i wonder how this feature would effect clan games. say if you played for liverpool for example, and one week you play a game against a team, and liverpool played well in real life the week before so they use this feature to get an advantage of attributes. would that be fair? because why cant it reflect how well you play in game and on the online game rather than how well the real life team plays?

Also if liverpool play a team and they had a poor game the week before in real life, there is an option to turn off the feature, and therefore the team will not be altered at all. this could cause all kinds of controversy and it really does make situations very confusing in my eyes. so im looking forward to how this feature pans out.

i hope it does work because from first thoughts it sounds tops but as you begin to try and think of repercussions, then the feature seems to fade with optimism.

Should be an interesting and risky year for ea indeed!

[j wheazy]

Originally Posted by jaymc1407

Also if liverpool play a team and they had a poor game the week before in real life, there is an option to turn off the feature, and therefore the team will not be altered at all. this could cause all kinds of controversy and it really does make situations very confusing in my eyes. so im looking forward to how this feature pans out.

this is what bothers me the most. if you suscribe to the service, then you should have to keep the service.


there is a HUGE potential for an unfair advantage for people who pay for the service. it just doesnt seem right.

[jaymc1407]

Originally Posted by j wheazy

they are basically making people pay for an advantage....and lets face it, people are going to use whatever stats make thier team better. its not going to go both ways, where the person who pays for the service is going to use the lower stats. he is just going to turn the service off until his player returns from injury.....


c ronaldo is the best example of this. you know all the man u fanboys are going to use the regular stats until november when ronaldo gets back from injury

Yeah i agree, i believe that everyone should have the same stats and therefore the only fair sollution is to either scrap the idea, have everyone get the feature (which means that it will have to be a free feature otherwise there will be people who wont get it), or be unable to pair up players with one player having the feature enabled and another having the feature disabled.

[jaymc1407]

Originally Posted by j wheazy

this is what bothers me the most. if you suscribe to the service, then you should have to keep the service.


there is a HUGE potential for an unfair advantage for people who pay for the service. it just doesnt seem right.

totally agree mate. ea should really go back to the drawing board with this and either quickly fix it or take it out for this year's release and wait until they have thought this through properly and came up with a fair solution

[g3neral banter]

Originally Posted by jaymc1407

totally agree mate. ea should really go back to the drawing board with this and either quickly fix it or take it out for this year's release and wait until they have thought this through properly and came up with a fair solution

im not following this...why dont you just disable the feature when you play online?

[CowRonaldo]

Originally Posted by deathcab 86

why are you so against this?

you don't have to pay. Ea are offering to keep stats up to date. wasnt it less than a year ago, EVERYBODY was complaining about how overrated barcelona was. This is a near fool proof way of stopping this from happening.

Oh wait, are you all just afraid that you might have to adapt your online play from week to week with different teams/players instead of using the same old beefed up teams and cheating tactics?

Problem is because you have to pay it's not fool proof.

If Barcelona is playing badly in real life, all I have to do is turn live season off and I get the default super strong Barca.

If it was free for everyone and you couldn't turn the option off in online modes, then it'd be more realistic as everyone would use updated teams.

[SamsArmy]

Originally Posted by g3neral banter

when playing online just search for thoses without the update!

EA haven't announced if we can do that or not yet, but as I said. . .

Originally Posted by SamsArmy

Here's what I suggest for Live Season:

• Live Season Match Finder: Give subscribers the ability to limit online game searches to people who subscribe to and are using Live Season. Better yet, create a lobby system that only allows subscribers of Live Season (and are currently playing with Live Season teams) to enter. EPL Live Season Lobby, Bundesliga Live Season Lobby, Any Live Season Lobby, etc. I'm sure many people won't want to play against people not using Live Season if they are paying for the service.

http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/f...ml#post5593889

[j wheazy]

Originally Posted by CowRonaldo

Problem is because you have to pay it's not fool proof.

If Barcelona is playing badly in real life, all I have to do is turn live season off and I get the default super strong Barca.

If it was free for everyone and you couldn't turn the option off in online modes, then it'd be more realistic as everyone would use updated teams.

and if it were free and teams fluctuated up & down, it would also increase the variety of teams being used online....its should be free & it should be mandatory. would be massive for online play

[wiggettlegend]

BEST IDEA EVER!


Major Kudos EA , for us true fifa gamers we will pay £12 a year thats penuts man , for what is essentially the most updated game out there.

I cant wait to see Ashley Young playing at the weekend and then seeing him getting an excellent form on the Wednesday

Absolute Genius.

Them guys have the best job ever watching football matchs and then inputting their opinions on how they performed into fifa I WANT THAT JOB lol

[UkHardcore23]

So you's got Addidas to pay you's for sponsorship yet you also want money off millions of gamers? Good old EA up to thier usual tricks.