EA Servers Not Available

While the FIFA community sits and scowls at the lack of features in the upcoming FIFA 12, I am thankful that they’ve finally realised their limits.

Now let’s be honest, FIFA 11 was and is a great game.  But with the terrific gameplay came a lot of problems this year.  A large number of them having to do with online head to head and pro clubs.

In my opinion, EA have made a very good decision to not “recreate the wheel” this year.  Instead, they’ve chosen to put their efforts towards fixing last year’s online server problems (so they say).

Now i haven’t had really any problems with the servers this year but that’s just by dumb luck.  The average head to head or clubs player most likely won’t exactly rave about the servers.  Let’s face it, they are a problem. 

FIFA 12 Pro Clubs

Now let’s talk pro clubs.  They were revolutionised this year and i absolutely love them.  The ability to have user controlled keepers is a major gamechanger.

But what happens when the keeper (and half of the team) is disconnected from the game?

Now imagine all the smiling faces that Fifa 12’s developers can wake up to if simple issues like this were fixed.  That would certainly hold us clubs players off until fifa 13 i think.

And i’m not saying that there should be no disconnections.  It’ll always happen.  But if the percentage of disconnections could be cut down by even 20%, that would be a massive improvement in my book.

6 Comments
  1. ECP September 4, 2011 at 4:42 pm

    Agreed with everything you’ve said above.

    1 Quick Question I have for you.

    I know this was an issue at the start of FIFA 11, I’m talking about the length of characters that are allowed for club names. This really ticked off alot of people, most notably AoF – Academy of Football which was used perfectly in FIFA 10, why EA cut down the characters allowed to be used is beyond me. I would like to know if you heard of any news on this, is it back to normal like FIFA 10, we could use up to 20 characters, now it’s only 15 or so, quite dissapointing imo, less creative club names these days!

    • Craig Cole September 5, 2011 at 8:02 am

      I’m guessing the number of charactors was capped to fit into the leaderboard designs on FIFA 12. I’ve not heard anything about how many charactors your club name can have on FIFA 12 but I’ll try and find out…

      • ECP September 5, 2011 at 3:56 pm

        Thanks alot mate I would really appreciate that!

  2. nick September 5, 2011 at 11:35 pm

    glad you answered that cole because i had no idea!

  3. ECP September 10, 2011 at 12:00 am

    Any news on that yet Craig?

  4. Killy927 October 21, 2011 at 4:24 pm

    In Fifa11 pro clubs the CPU players sucked so bad that scoring a hat trick a game was very east, but now in fifa12 they made the CPU players amazing, i have all the speed accomplishments but yet when i have a 5 yard head start they are able to catch me, its very annoying because that is so unrealistic.

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