Breaking Down EA Sports Football Club

by pastapadre
Posted July 19th, 2011 at 7:15 pm

The only announcement made at E3 by EA Sports had to do with the “Football Club” feature which is being introduced with FIFA 12. Even though similar elements of the feature have been utilized by FIFA and other franchises in the past – think of this as an attempt at a more relevant NCAA Football “Season Showdown” – Football Club hopes to provide even more reason to play FIFA year round and do so for no additional charge.

•XP will be earned by playing FIFA 12 in any mode and by completing various tasks. That XP helps to “Support Your Club” with the one of choosing receiving those points (on an average per user basis) and being ranked against others within their leagues.

•New “Football Club Challenges” to complete on a regular basis prompted by real life events. This will be familiar to those who played 2010 FIFA World Cup or tried “Madden Moments” but with more support behind producing them.

•A news feed system for FIFA will deliver data and results to friends and also make it possible to spread the info through social networking sites.

Check out expanded details in the blog posted by EA Sports today. Dedicated FIFA fans are a different breed so maybe these ideas will take off here but similar ones have fallen completely flat with other undertakings most notably “Season Showdown” for NCAA Football. Considering the way they’ve hyped it up I’m just not seeing anything revolutionary with EA Sports Football Club except that they’re providing it for free.

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Godzzilla94

in the words of the other guy, first, i feel special.

Anonymous

This is your moment. In”fem”ous must have taken his Midol this morning so you get to relish in your moment
Infemous

lame.
Infemous

lame.

VopIN

i love fifa but couldnt care less about all this
http://twitter.com/ajs41072 Anthony Suriano

If it’s similar to season showdown in NCAA, there’s really no point to it. You can pretty much guarantee that a Manchester United or Barcelona with be leading the top of the list. And, so what if my team sits atop the rankings. It doesn’t win them any trophies in real life soccer. At least with user rankings on a leaderboard, you get a sense of accomplishment, since you had something to do with the ranking by winning your games.

Anonymous

Yeah I feel that way too. It’s a great concept but you just end up with the law of probability taking over, and the more popular teams in real life are going to have a higher representation in the game.

That said, while Wolverhampton won’t have a shot in hell against Man U, Chelsea, or Arsenal in the EPL, it might be a lot more competitive for leagues like the MLS that don’t have a whole lot of superteams. My early guess is Sounders, Galaxy, and Red Bulls though.
Benreedijk

have a read of the blog post. average xp not total.

http://www.ea.com/soccer/news/easfcmoredetails-01

Anonymous

Interesting. I’m still a little skeptical though. You would think that with enough fans, the average XP per player would be about equal for every club.

ryan

It also separates the teams into their respective leagues, so if you support an MLS club, you’d be competing against the fans of other MLS clubs, etc.

It’s a nice side feature but I have no idea why they are hyping this as a big feature. I can’t see myself giving a shit other than the 5 seconds I look at the table that I have 0.01% impact on, then not looking again for about a month.
ryan

It also separates the teams into their respective leagues, so if you support an MLS club, you’d be competing against the fans of other MLS clubs, etc.

It’s a nice side feature but I have no idea why they are hyping this as a big feature. I can’t see myself giving a shit other than the 5 seconds I look at the table that I have 0.01% impact on, then not looking again for about a month.

Anonymous

so its a glorified EA BIO?
No

I have a feeling we will be seeing something similar in NHL. The producers have said that there’s an announcement coming up that will affect how we play all game modes.
http://www.facebook.com/PatrickRunge Patrick Runge

The XP stuff is OK, I just hope it isn’t quite as obtrusive as Season Showdown is in NCAA. What I’m excited about, though, is the scenarios. I loved the scenarios in the World Cup game, and I love the Madden Moments. If I didn’t have to pay for them in Madden 11, I would have played through them all. I think that’s a really nice addition to the game that I’m looking forward to, and I hope NCAA and Madden include similar features as well.
http://www.facebook.com/PatrickRunge Patrick Runge

The XP stuff is OK, I just hope it isn’t quite as obtrusive as Season Showdown is in NCAA. What I’m excited about, though, is the scenarios. I loved the scenarios in the World Cup game, and I love the Madden Moments. If I didn’t have to pay for them in Madden 11, I would have played through them all. I think that’s a really nice addition to the game that I’m looking forward to, and I hope NCAA and Madden include similar features as well.