Oh, to be a Rangers fan.
Your club’s been pulled from the depths of the financial abyss (just), you’re losing players left, right and centre, you’ve got to start again in the Scottish Third Division and now you might not be able to use your beloved Rangers in FIFA 13 either…
I’m an Everton fan and even I feel sorry for you. (That’s when you know it’s bad!) All is not lost though. A licencing deal with Rangers could still be on the cards. “As far as Glasgow Rangers are concerned, we have not made a decision at this time on whether we will pursue a separate licensing agreement to include them in Fifa 13.” But would a lone Rangers stuck out in the Rest Of The World teams be enough though? You’d be able to use them in Exhibition Matches, Head to Head Seasons and use their players in Ultimate Team but there’d be a gaping hole in the FIFA 13 Career Mode of so many Rangers fans. For Rangers to be in Career mode EA would have to strike a deal with the Scottish FA to licence Scottish Divisions One, Two and Three along side the Premiership. Would this prove too costly? Would there be enough value in the deal for EA to even consider it? From a personal point of view, at the moment the Scottish League in career mode doesn’t interest me. Not because it’s not a great league but because of the lack of promotion / demotion prospects. It has no longevity. There’s nothing better than starting as underdogs in the English Division 2 and building a team from scratch to challenge at the top of the Premiership. I’m sure Scottish FIFA fans would love to do the same in the Scottish League! And for a Rangers fan the thought of bringing newco Rangers back to former glory in FIFA 13 would surely be really exciting prospect. Will Rangers be in FIFA 13 in time for release? Should EA licence all Scottish divisions? Let us know what you think?
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Rangers In FIFA 13 Career Mode?
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We should just put all the scottish leagues in fifa13, the scottish league is Boaring due to no promotions or relegation’s!!
YES PUT THE SCOTTISH LEAGUES IN!!!! every Scottish football fan would love it!!
No to all the Scottish leagues. If you think about it, most of the Scottish Prem team have a 2 star rating in Fifa 12. Once you get into Div 3 teams you would need to start handing out negative star ratings to keep it balanced with real life.
Leave out the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Divisions and just put Rangers in Rest of the World.
I think they should put all divisions in. Just set all the other division 3 teams to like 1 star, div 2 teams to 1.5 stars and division 1 teams to 2 stars, and upgrade the minimum spl to 2.5 stars.
The reason being, it would make the league much more interesting with a relegation battle, and promotion prospects, and not only that, it will promote the little league teams, such as brechin city, who usually wouldn’t dream of having their squad available to manage from the living rooms of south london to new south wales.
It would seriously help out the little teams, as the financial gain would be minimal, but how prestegious would it be for a division 3 player to be in a real popular football game. I’d love it!
The cost of getting a contract with the 3 divisions will be minimal, a few hundred thousand at a push, but the increase in sales from people from these little towns will be massive, as they will have more reason to buy the game, so they can manage their local team.
I also think Fifa should get the rights to the Chinese league, so we can still have Drogba and Anelka and the like.
You can actually swap teams into different leagues in Fifa12 so your Career Mode point is rotten
Have to say I will miss the old firm games and the challenge a rangers game provided when managing lower rated teams in the spl! It would be fantastic if EA get the licences for the lower leagues. Having promotion and relegation would add a little longevity to the scottish game in career mode (even though the spl currently only has 1 religation spot irl, which is rediculous!) I just can’t wait to play career mode with the staggies finally!
I believe the SFL holds the rights to the lower divisions in Scotland. Strange one considering we have 3 seperate governing bodies. The SFL seems happy to market the Rangers brand and lets be honest these lower clubs could use every penny they can get.
One thing i will state though is quality in Division 2 and Division 3 are pretty much the same top division1 clubs would probably make 2 stars them selves dropping to 1 star, Division 2 and 3 would have 1 stars and 1/2 star teams.
The relegation/Promotion chances you might have a point, but if EA can manage the play-off system properly then it has potential for 3 changes each season in a 10 team league. All the way until the SPL anyways. Given by the fact Fifa has struggled with the SPL split they might not include the top 3 of lower division and 2nd bottom of higher division playoff.
I really hope they do strike a deal with the SFL though. These leagues do play sucsessfully on football manager (PC management sim) i really see no reason to why they shouldn’t work on Fifa.
Look I feel your pain. I would hate for the Rangers to be out of the game because my team Fenerbahce and the rest of the Turkish teams except Galatasaray were not in fifa 12 because of match fixing… Fifa gets really boring when you can’t play with your favorite team… thats why im looking forward to fifa 13 cause they will be back..