Having a community brainstorming day today and want to hear your thoughts. What kind of things would you like to see EA Australia do?

No troll responses please. Be proactive. What do you want?

A playable game.

Dont just produce another Rugby or Cricket game. Actually work on the gameplay.

A complete game that's adequately troubleshooted (is that even a word?), runs smoothly and doesn't rely on online and downloadable content to get the most from a gaming experience.

Better representation of the A-League in FIFA. I mean they do a great job, but I feel in Ultimate Team its forgotten. There was only 2 or 3 informs IIRC this season, whilst the MLS, albeit a larger market, have one nearly every week.

Better servers.

Let the people host their own servers.

EA singlehandedly kills communities overnight when they turn off servers for games in favour of the newer in game of the time (Bad Company 2->BF3 is the best example).

Do away with having to hire servers etc and let people host their own dedicated clients.

-PB

A game that doesn't crash?

Oh hang on, i guess to EA asking that makes me a troll?

Stop making games and then releasing a games worth of DLC and charge customers for it.

Especially if that content is already on disk :evil:

Get rid of that always online rubbish as well.

Nerf Jets in Bf4.

Bring back mod support to BF4.

Also give me a Bf4 alpha code.

Edited by macktheknife: 31/7/2013 05:31:56 PM

Fire Bowden :p

Possibly try and do something to promote not the most popular game-modes in certain games. In terms of FIFA I only really play seasons on FUT and 4.5-5* teams on H2H because it is too hard to find a game otherwise. I am just talking maybe for a weekend so you have a chance to win some trophies or have more variety.

Or, give people the option to search outside their teams rating if they wish. I had to abandon seasons because it was virtually impossible to find a game playing as Celtic. If I had the option to search outside of their star rating, I would have gladly done it.

Lobby the government for a proper rating system that doesn't see games like Saints Row IV banned from sale.

It's like the government hasn't heard of ebay...

I think you guys have to take into account that not everyone is from the UK or the US, make your system more user friendly for those outside these countries.

Whats the point of introducing a new tournament each week when most people here can't find one match?

The same could be said with the bronze and silver cups.

Why should I have to 10 to 15 minutes to find a match in proclubs?

That's just ridiculous in today's world.

Fix simple glitches, like the LB glitch. Something so basic like this should've been noticed before the game went to retail. Ten months later and it still hasn't been fixed FFS.

You also have to fix your customer service, we pay good money for these products, we shouldn't be left out of the loop or treated like shit.

A job


On a more serious note, actually im serious about the job thing, but anyway.

Downloadable content. We pay a lot for the game as it is, I don't want to have to pay more for downloadable content. You EA not Zynga.


A bit of a realism. Its nice getting international job offers, but every 3 weeks in game is a bit too much surely.

I don't play online much, so here's my comments:
Remove the glitch where you can't play any games that you have on they transfer deadline day.
I know there are issues with rights, but we want the J-League and the CSL!!!
Also, you don't get to keep money when you end one season and start the next one... Some there is basically no point in winning e champions league, because there is nothing to do with the money other than buy scouts and pump up play wages massively and then make them in sellable because negotiations always break down due to personal terms.

Just the little things that frustrate me.

I would like an option in FIFA where you can be in career mode and your superstar player has to do mundane things like walk through an airport terminal or buy groceries. The twist is you have to avoid being photographed by celbrity sports stalker mr Bowden.

I don't play online much either so pretty much all of this ^


Also, a feature where if playing career mode as a manager, you can actually make your manager as you can a player (so you can see him on the sidelines, in cutscenes unveiling new signings etc). They tried something like it this year, but all you could get is a generic, fat, old dude who is extremely poorly animated.

Oh yeah, and get rid of the constant freezing in career mode. Seems like every couple of games the game will freeze, either when pausing mid match or when my career mode is simulating days between matches.

I feel kind of bad for how much I laughed at this :lol:

My FIFA wishlist..

Note I basically only play offline.

Although I :lol: everytime, should probably remove the glitch where the linesman is in the centre of the field and when you spot him he runs back to the sideline.

Cut-scenes of signings being unvielled would be pretty cool. Maybe when you sign them and they agree to terms, you have/can go through a sequence of choosing their kit number and the like, and then have a cutscene of a press release with them holding the jersey up?

I'm a mega kitnerd, so in offline career I'd like the opportunity to create/design my own kits (whether from scratch or using other teams templates and changing colours) so I can update my teams kits - nothing worse than being 5 seasons in with the same old kits IMO.

And also in regards to kits, be able to choose GK kits too. Nothing worse (IMO) than playing Socceroos vs Korea - Aust GK wears red, Korea wears red. Korea GK wears yellow, Aust wears yellow. Having a least two keeper kit options per team, and ability to control which one is used for each game, would be awesome IMO.

Not sure about normal mode, but in manager mode:

1) When you make a sub, you should be able to skip the animation. Getting sick of seeing the guys prancing around for a bit before the sub is made, i just want to get on the with the game.

2) In the menu in manager mode, i dont want to keep hearing the guy who does the results of all the leagues and the fixtures coming up. Ive uploaded my own music on the game for a reason, id like to hear it. There should be an option for which results id like to hear or which fixtures coming up or also an option to turn that feature on or off.

Fix the fucking injury commentator.

1) When you're watching a replay and you have to press select to get rid of the replay menu it's also the same button used to change the song and sometimes it glitches and the music stops playing all together so you have to restart the game

2) Being in the 2016/17 season in career mode teams still have similar line ups to what they have now I.e City still have Clichy, Nasri, Silva, Balo, Kompany etc players need to move around more

3) In UT when Jeff says your player is hurt and there are no injuries (players won't miss game)

4) Jeff's usual inaccurate and incorrect injury analysis

I don't even think Bowden is paying attention. He's busy stalking some celeb for another photo opportunity.

Switching player. Im sure i mentioned this somewhere, but just to be a pest.

When its a corner in career mode, im defending, i try to switch to one of the guy in the box, but instead it goes to my striker. What good is tht to me. Even when the opposition sends in a cross and i press the switch player button, it will switch to my right back who isnt even in the box or one of the midfielders who wont be challenging for the ball.