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No Demo Yet: We'll inform when is out

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Cozmo

Youth Team
Originally posted by TristanAbbott7
Top Ten Excuses For The Demo Being Late:

1 - Our office dog ate the "setup files".
2 - We were too busy giving Madden 2004 it's 4th update despite only being out for a month to bother about some stupid soccer game.
3 - We were under the impression that you wanted a VIDEO demo!
4 - FIFA 2004? Crap, is it that time already?
5 - Some of our staff are on strike because Rio Ferdinand can't play for England on Saturday and we just felt kind of sympathtic for him.
6- Our network is down so we have to mail the setup files by regular postal mail. It should be ok though, we expect the files to get there by next Friday or Saturday.
7 - The chimpanzee who converts the full version to the demo is waiting in line at the grocery store for more bananas to arrive. The rest of us don't know what he does to make the demo work!
8 - Hrjove told us we can't release it until he has convinced the world he is important. Yes, really important and not just a regular fan like the rest of you. Looking like 2010 then!
9 - We found out that we're not 100% sure about the offside rule. Or physics!
10 - Ok, it's a fair cop. We didn't want to release the demo becasue we'd rather you all got impatient and bought the final version before you found out that the game was utter crap. Please don't go an buy that PES3 game, pelase please please. It may play almost perfectly but it doesn't have the crowd chants of the Ecuadorian Rainforest Division 4 in it so how crap can that be?



Hands down - it is funny...but you ARE AN IDIOT, bring your bs in the PES forum where it belongs
 

Wisher

Club Supporter
ea

you know what would be messed up?

If they release it and it requires a 128mb graphics card :P or even if they release it mid november hehe..
 

Jomi

Reserve Team
These EA producers are the master of propaganda. They should quit making games and go into politics so Arnie Schwarzenegger got concurrence !!

Goodnight everybody,don't forget to live though .
 

Broodrooster

Reserve Team
Come on guys... didn't we all knew EA's reputation in advance?! It's been like this every year, allthough i think that this years excuse is a bad one... They can e-mail the right setup files right?
 

TrebuTa

Club Supporter
Originally posted by Broodrooster
Come on guys... didn't we all knew EA's reputation in advance?! It's been like this every year, allthough i think that this years excuse is a bad one... They can e-mail the right setup files right?

yep!

they might be the same as valve!
 

TrebuTa

Club Supporter
Re: In times like these...

Originally posted by machiavellian04
... you know who your true friends are!!

Don't forget that the PC version's date has slipped by a week (now 07/11/03), so maybe that's why the demo's a week late. Give the EA programmers a break- Canadians are great people!
Well... the one's I've known have been. :)

Yeah, it's a little disappointing- but C'est la vie!


EA is just insulting us! they think we don't know what they are trying to do! such a low excuse they think we are donkeys or what?
 

number nine

Reserve Team
hey guyz, i have benn talking to someone from canada whose friend is a test-person for EA's fifa 2004, here's our conversation per ICQ:

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number nine: k, hi, i am dominik gall from austria, member of gfo, and i jusrt wanna know if it's right that u have a friend @ ea
73(hn0 DêJ: yes it is, he goes to university with me so i know the guy
why?
number nine: coz i am waiting 4 da demo and i hope that u can tell me more about the release, and why ea sports doesn't release stuff on weekends
73(hn0 DêJ: well
what he told me was this
-the game itself has been finished some time ago, but it takes them a couple of weeks for each game to be released b/c their printing apparently takes between 2 and 3 weeks
-their primary focus is on ps2 so they are slow releasing anything for pc b/c they want the ps2 version to be ready first

number nine: ah ko, and whaT's the exact problem with the demo?
73(hn0 DêJ: ....
-the demo is nothing but a limited version of the full game (no beta code is released by EA for the demo)
-and finally, they do not release anything over the weekends b/c they do not technically work over the weekend - it's as simple as that

number nine: hmm... i don't think that this is very customer-friendly by ea
73(hn0 DêJ: yeah, but they are business and businesses are never customer friendly
also, like i said, they are primarily focusing on ps2 so they are hassling everyone using a pc
(the pc version is essentially a direct port from ps2 to pc)
number nine: okay, thx for the answers

73(hn0 DêJ: np
number nine: have u also played a beta- or demo-version of fifa 2004 likfe your friend and how comes that your friend can test games @ ea?
73(hn0 DêJ: anyways, like i said on the forum
he did say that it should be available 1st half of next week so yeah
expect to see it then
also, seeing that most stuff in north america is being released either wed. or frid. you can expect this on wed. i guess
number nine: okay thank you, and what time can i expect it? again 8 p.m. european time?
73(hn0 DêJ: he works for ea as a tester...that's how we gets to test the games
i did not get to play it, but he said that it's much better than previous versions b/c they have to now compete with pes3 on pc
but also he said that a lot of promises that ea made will not be fulfilled in this version b/c they want to release the game to make profit
number nine: oh man


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So what do u think?
 

number nine

Reserve Team
could somebody pls post this conversation between me and the guy from canada into the EA-FIFA-Forum pls? i cant log in there!


and i have already signed in 2 times there today!
 

machiavellian04

Reserve Team
EA's arrogance continues, eh?

Well, I have a 3GHz PC/Radeon 9700 etc.- to play a direct PS2 port-over?? WTF?!

All they want to do is churn out slightly enhanced versions each year- like a production line. The PS2 is based on 'ancient' technology!!!!
Why not use the Xbox, if they have to convert it from a console. Oh that's right- their only goal is to make maximum profit. We sheeple will buy their half-finished products year upon year, eh?!

The future is Pro Evolution Soccer!

*** Remember FIFA 2002??? I was absolutely appalled when I bought that piece of crap! ***

Maybe next year we'll get another 'good' version! See the pattern? LOL
 

number nine

Reserve Team
I think it would be cool if we won't buy their game, so then they will ask theirself: "what did we do wrong?"

And then, hopefully, next year's fifa 2005 will be a "non-half-game"! A FULL GAME!
 
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