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First EA Sports UFC News Generates Fairly Positive Response

by pastapadre
Posted July 25th, 2012 at 5:45 pm

The deal to acquire the UFC license from THQ happened in the days leading up to E3 and it only took six weeks for EA Sports to announce that the first iteration of the new series was already in the works at the EA Canada studio. While there is still a lot to learn about the plans for the EA Sports UFC the first piece of news – that the team behind the Fight Night series is developing it – prompted considerably mixed reaction from fans.

While the Fight Night series has been technically lauded and succeeded in many respects it also is perceived to have catered to casual gamers over the hardcore and lagged behind expectations with its career mode and online play. Despite that the poll last week delivered a response that EA Sports should be pleased with even if it falls short of what they may have anticipated considering the manner in which they talked up the Fight Night team’s accomplishments.

•Encouraged by the news: 53%
•Discouraged by the news: 24%
•No feeling one way or the other: 23%

Like THQ’s first effort with UFC Undisputed 2009 consumers will likely be open to and intrigued by the new product coming from EA Sports. Essentially it’ll act as a reboot for the UFC brand that saw a stunning drop of 70% in sales over the three iterations released by THQ. The real potential for growth may not come until the next wave of consoles though and rushing out an entry next year would be a risky move.

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Mason Drews

I’m very discouraged. Anyone but the Fight Night team… now this game will likely go to the garbage “total punch control” after years of THQ’s edition I will not be purchasing this game if this is the case, right stick is for grappling… period.
- Ron
  
  From the demo of EA’s MMA, it did give the option to have the UFC controls. But I agree
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Crimson

Generating fairly positive response? Really? Who didn’t see that statement coming? If not for EA Sports news, what other sports gaming news would Pastapadre come up with? Its getting pretty bad out there when EA is the only producer of sports videogames. That just SUCKS. I pray that 2K Sports never leaves us to ever depend on EA alone for sports gaming. Somebody needs to raise some funds next gen for sports gaming development and save us all from EA.
- http://pastapadre.com/ pastapadre
  
  Well theres NBA 2K and MLB The Show. Otherwise you’re stuck with EA Sports if you are interested in sports games. Only can hope for improvement rather than being upset about that reality.
  - NOT SO FAST
    
    OR WE COULD LEAVE GAME SYSTEMS ALONE.EA IS MONEY HUNGRY……..SO WE SHOULD STOP FEEDING THEM
  - Crimson
    
    There ain’t enough “hope” in the world to make people believe in EA being more focused on improving their games, over their being intently focused on dominating the whole genre of sports gaming, with the EA Sports brand. A lot of us have heard the tired slogan, “EA Sports, its in the game” for generations now, are we growing increasingly sick of hearing it. If only some AAA game publisher like Naughty Dog or Rockstar, would look at the state of sports gaming, see an incredible opportunity, and take a leap of faith, by investing in a sports gaming division, and see what they can do in that market. Any kind of sports gaming news coming down the pipeline without that EA Sports logo, would be a breath of fresh air to MANY. The next gen of sports gaming has got to get a lot better than this, or why even bother? Better, more powerful console hardware with computer quality graphics, aren’t reason enough to get excited for the next gen, if all we’ve got to look forward to, is more of the same old rehashed, crappy EA Sports games that we’ve seen this whole generation. Its 2000 and fucking 12, and we’ve had enough of EA milking the same tired sports franchises! WHAT IS IT GONNA TAKE????
jab16

The 53% percent that were “encouraged” by this news need their heads examined or they must have never played the last two Fight Night games. The FN development team are nothing short of a joke and they knew little if anything about real boxing. I laughed my ass off when FN gameplay developer Brian Hayes said that Marvin Hagler was from Philadelphia and called him a Philly fighter, LOL! Any REAL boxing fan knows that Hagler is from Brockton, Mass just like Rocky Marciano. Plus these are the same clowns that had British HW boxer David Haye IN STUDIO doing motion capture work and STILL got his style wrong! I feel sorry for the UFC game now because all these clowns are gonna do is put a bunch of arcade crap in the UFC game to cater to the casuals, not the hardcore fans of the sport.
Dylan Inman

I would be encouraged if they kept the THQ system as the base of the game and then build on to that
DougPlank46

Another great game that EA will no doubt ruin! I wish somebody would burn down the EA headquarters with all of the devs inside! EA mma was a pitiful fucking gane that nobody liked and now that is the game that EA will sell to the people stupid enough to waste money on it!
http://www.facebook.com/DyllanBuddhaSmith Dyllan Smith

People bitched and whined about THQ’s games concerning the UFC, and personally I enjoyed playing all three of them. I didn’t have much to complain about. I thought some things needed improvement in the game, but other than that I was satisfied. In comparison to the other MMA games that have been made, I thought these were the best made.
Ron

This franchise is going to the grave. I’m starting to notice that all of the EA franchises are dying. Madden is geting worse and everyone has forgotten about Live. This is bad news for MMA fans. THQ has more experience at this point with MMA games. EA’s game was decent but the same team will not be on the next UFC game. So in my opinion, this will not be that good. Plus THQ showed improvement on each game. Unlike EA