Thursday, November 04, 1999

To :
Marc Auganel – Senior Producer
Gaivan Chang – Senior Development Director
Chris Taylor – Audio Director
Michael Gordon – AI Lead/Audio AI)
Neil Biggin – Commentary Editor
Support Division Head
FIFA 2000 – EASPORTS
Electronic Arts


RE : Questions and request for FIFA 2000.
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Dear EASPORTS,

I have played FIFA 2000 recently, and then I have got several questions about many aspects from the game itself. The questions are :

I. Audio aspect :
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Speech :
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a. Why while I played Fifa 2000 , the game speech from J. Motson and Lineker is so quiet? Compare to your Fifa 96 (which I think it’s the best and far from “silent” ) and Fifa 99.
b. In Fifa 2000 a lot of action commentary are missing from FIFA 2000 like : “freekick will be taken by…(players name) ” ; “ A long range shot!” , “ Foul by …(players name)” , “ That’s a three goal and that’s a hattrick!” ,”Substitution: ….(players name) will be replaced by….. (players name) , “ Good save by …. ! (Goalkeepers name)” ect
The questions are : Where are those sounds? Why can’t you just include them in FIFA 2000, b’cause on my opinion it is just exchanging those files in previous version (Fifa ‘96,’97,rtwc’98, wc’98, ‘99 and FAPL) and its very simple! (If they are in the same format definetely!) Or probably you’ve been limited by the size of the file itself? (e.g speech file limited up to 300 Mb).
c. A lot of players name are missing/not mentioned in FIFA 2000, why? Do I have to say that probably in the FIFA 2001, EASPORTS will eliminate all players commentary? I must say I really dissapointed about this matter. In FIFA 99 the players speech file size is +/- 18 MB, but in FIFA 2000 you only included +/- 11 MB that mean you really did not concern about this matter.
While I was playing Man Utd for instance, almost every player in the team are not mentioned by Motson, e.g:
1. Beckham
2. Keane
3. Irwin
4. Ect
And only Yorke, and Stam that are mentioned by Motson, what a terrible game I must say! Again I’ve played Real Madrid (60% not mentioned), Inter (90% not menntioned), Juventus (20% not mentioned), Barcelona (75% not mentioned) and a lot more! In ‘96 (100% mentioned), ’97 (100% mentioned), ’98 rtwc&wc (94% mentioned), ’99 (80% mentioned). Would you please explain why this is happened?, problem in quality control, checking or limited by file size, maybe?
d. Possibilty to exchanging speech files (players speech) by extracting . STR files. If you
do not mind, can you tell me how to extract the STR files so I could exchanging files
from previous version to FIFA 2000, for the sake of hearing my own favorite players
name? ( I hope I could use FIFA 99 and FAPL speech file (players speech) because I
believe they are in the same format . BNK. Please tell me how? ( I need to know a
suitable Extractor for STR files)

II. AI - Artificial Intelligence
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Moves, various fakes, freekick
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a. Again almost all fakes, dribbling fakes, dummy movement won’t work. Why? I still keep in mind that you’d already give a promise for this area! Why?
b. I think it is very easy to do direct freekick by pressing D- control in FIFA 99 rather than in FIFA 2000. I know there is a new feature for setpiece. But can’t you just combine it from FIFA ’99?

III. Rosters
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A lot of player missing
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a. Players like Juninho only appear in Brazil Int’l not in Middlesbrough, Zambrotta, J Bachini, Tudor, Fonseca, and Kovacevic are missing from Juventus, Guly and Serginho are missing from AC Milan, Ze Roberto is missing from B Leverkusen, and a lot more! Can you tell me why they are missing ? Again in this session, are you try to limit the size of your .db files? I have to tell you that we still got a lot of space for our hard drive! Please do as you’ve had done before in ’99 or previous version.
b. If there is a license problem for those players, why so many?


III. Graphics Animation and Stadium Selection
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a. Out of play animation in FIFA 2000 is great, but so little, compare to FIFA ’99. Why? Can I again exchanging animation file (formatted in .sci ) from previous game to FIFA 2000. Can you tell me how?

b. In FIFA 2000 there is no stadium selection, why?


First of all I would like to thank to EASPORST, management and all staff of FIFA 2000 for listening my questions. I know I’ve been asking to much for this perhaps, but I am your big fans of all EASPORTS and EA product (NASCAR, SUPERBIKE, KNOCKOUT KINGS, TRIPLE PLAY SERIES, NHL SERIES, NBA SERIES, FIFA MANAGER SERIES, JANE’S SERIES, SIMS SERIES), everthing from EASPORTS or EA products Please help me and listen to my voice.

Thank you for your attention.

Regards,

Icabola,
Icabola@yahoo.com
Chicago, Illinois


PS : Please reply.

CC :

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I must admit its a good letter and you got some good points in there, I would love to hear what response you get.

Be you won't get an answer. EA doesn't like you to say anything bad about one of their games.

David

Yeah u may be kind at the end of the letter but i can tell u, once they read the first sentence of ur letter, they would just chuck ur mail aside while thinkin ' ah, what da heck, made the game, complaints instead of complements, go to hell!' They would probably think this way. In fact, u haven't asked why they did not include Portugal club.

But i longed to ask this question, THW WHOLE F***ing CD has at least 650MB of data, why did they just use 370MB of it, where da heck is the other half, I can tell U, they can improve ALOT if they use up the whole CD.

Another thing I don't like is the celebrations, jersey, few camera views, small field, no indoor AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, the faces and body of players. They look like human at all, they look more like..aliens from an unknown planet. Not even from pluto. The players are too skinny, but even skinny, they wore their jerseys like when they had it when they were 5 yrs old. The jersey and their numbers were VERY BADLY done. I remember trashing a team 19-0 in 2000.
The celebrations, see, even the commentators say the celebrations were bizzare, in fact, i couldn't agree more with him, they look more like clowns than soccer players.

FIFA 98 is the best of the FIFA series.

My ratings for the FIFA Gaming series are:

1.FIFA RTWC 98'
2.WC France 98'
3.FIFA 96
4.99
5. FA premier league
6. 97
7. 96
8. 95 Sega version
9. FIFA 2000, I just hope they do well in 2001.

Ze Roberto is on B. Leverkusen squad man...The rest is all true...the game comentary really sucks... http://www.soccergaming.com/ubb/frown.gif

Yeah,

I agree with you all guys, FIFA 2000 players like a clown! Compare to NHL 2000 or MADDEN series (MADDEN 2000)

Just wait for reply from EA, please wait, I will inform you asap

Regards,

Icabola

Well done,Icabola! Just wait and see the reply from EA!

Hi,

Can you guys out there help me out to find the STR file extractor? Please help me, cause I've longed since '99..such a long wait.

Please SOS!

Regards,

Icabola

I beleive these are connected to the Vivo player in some way. For instance, the *.ASF music files are vivo files. You can make them in the editor.

Cheers,

Paul

I agree 100% with you!!!!

fifa 2000 sucks.. Wait until the games magazines review the game....

I don't think that they gonna sell mutch more, if they put the game down in to the ground...

Well, that means guys, one more year playing good old Fifa 99, or some Worldcup'98...

I am thinking go back to play FIFA 99! I am so dissapointed with Fifa2000

Regards

Icabola