Two funny myths
Two funny myths:
1) If you come from a country where they call football "soccer"--you must know nothing about the game. I'll try to explain this slowly. People who speak a certain language or dialect use the words in that language or dialect to refer to things. In some countries, futbol or football is called "soccer." That doesn't reflect anything about the person's knowledge of the game, only the word he or she has been taught from birth. If a Spanish speaker referred to basketball as "baloncesto," I wouldn't assume he had no idea about how the game was really supposed to be played. Work to remove predjudice from you life.
2) EA Sports programmers are combing these forums for ideas. I work for a large software company, and the truth is that programmers have almost no input on the features or requirements for a piece of software. Marketing folks do that, and they put less weight on "expert users" or soccer fanatics such as those who might post in this forum. They put more weight on the common user who might not know a lot about the game. That is because they know everyone here will buy the game regardless, even if only to say "this sucks" as some of you seem to do.
I have no doubt that EA monitors their own forums on EA.com, but EA is trying to satisfy the entire market of potential consumers, who are NOT represented by people who post here. Hell, I've bought every FIFA game since 98, and have hated some of them, but I'll pitch out $40 to see what's improved each time, and EA knows most people on this forum will too.
As for the problems people have with this game, I don't get them:
* Constantly chasing back to tackle attackers on the wings -- move the bar below the formations screen to more of a defensive setting to play deeper on the pitch and/or keep defenders with pace on the wings.
* superman headers -- only done it once -- sure, you could hold onto "D" constantly every time the ball is in the air, but you're missing out on some major improvements to distributing the ball from headers. You should try them out.
* players not moving into space? -- change your strategy to "possession" and/or press the "Q" key, which will move the selected player into space.
If you can't get this stuff to work, well then go back to playing ISS and be happy. But I suspect that people are just envious of the popularity of the FIFA game, since I can't imagine working as hard as you do to degrade a game. If you don't like it, don't play it, and let it go. There's a big world out there, people.
Two funny myths:
1) If you come from a country where they call football "soccer"--you must know nothing about the game. I'll try to explain this slowly. People who speak a certain language or dialect use the words in that language or dialect to refer to things. In some countries, futbol or football is called "soccer." That doesn't reflect anything about the person's knowledge of the game, only the word he or she has been taught from birth. If a Spanish speaker referred to basketball as "baloncesto," I wouldn't assume he had no idea about how the game was really supposed to be played. Work to remove predjudice from you life.
2) EA Sports programmers are combing these forums for ideas. I work for a large software company, and the truth is that programmers have almost no input on the features or requirements for a piece of software. Marketing folks do that, and they put less weight on "expert users" or soccer fanatics such as those who might post in this forum. They put more weight on the common user who might not know a lot about the game. That is because they know everyone here will buy the game regardless, even if only to say "this sucks" as some of you seem to do.
I have no doubt that EA monitors their own forums on EA.com, but EA is trying to satisfy the entire market of potential consumers, who are NOT represented by people who post here. Hell, I've bought every FIFA game since 98, and have hated some of them, but I'll pitch out $40 to see what's improved each time, and EA knows most people on this forum will too.
As for the problems people have with this game, I don't get them:
* Constantly chasing back to tackle attackers on the wings -- move the bar below the formations screen to more of a defensive setting to play deeper on the pitch and/or keep defenders with pace on the wings.
* superman headers -- only done it once -- sure, you could hold onto "D" constantly every time the ball is in the air, but you're missing out on some major improvements to distributing the ball from headers. You should try them out.
* players not moving into space? -- change your strategy to "possession" and/or press the "Q" key, which will move the selected player into space.
If you can't get this stuff to work, well then go back to playing ISS and be happy. But I suspect that people are just envious of the popularity of the FIFA game, since I can't imagine working as hard as you do to degrade a game. If you don't like it, don't play it, and let it go. There's a big world out there, people.