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New FIFA 09 Video Explains Adidas Live Season
Posted by Adam Barenblat at 10:00 AM on September 4, 2008
Back at GC in Leipzig we told you about the Live Season System, a nifty little feature that will be showing up in FIFA 09. From the video this looks pretty promising. The Live Season System allows you to follow your favourite player through his real career and the game will update weekly accordingly. The catch? You'll have to subscribe to each league or all of them in a package and unfortunately, only the first week is free.
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mrchimp
Posted 10:31 AM 4/9/08
His Austrian accent does make it sound almost like 'week', easy mistake.
mrchimp
tmanflys
Posted 10:29 AM 4/9/08
It's not just the first week, it's the first league, according to this guy.
tmanflys
holybarbie
Posted 10:24 AM 4/9/08
meh yet another fifa wow I wonder what they can do now, I vote on big robots
holybarbie
Playstation
Posted 10:19 AM 4/9/08
This doesn't make sense, so let's say Rooney played bad that week, so I'm stuck with a bad Roonery throughout the week?
Playstation
Jerry Cola
Posted 10:16 AM 4/9/08
All i want to know is if they are going to include the lower English leagues in the game. I'm a Plymouth Argyle fan and they are in the Championship. I'd rather keep playing Fifa 08 and play with my home team than play 09.
Jerry Cola
Smash88
Posted 10:13 AM 4/9/08
Honestly, this should be included in the game. We are paying high prices for games at is, now we have to do micro-transactions to get weekly updated info. EA is back at it again, just when you think they are moving away from being evil, they just do a 180 and come right back.
Smash88
waterhand
Posted 10:55 AM 4/9/08
This sounds like a great idea, but will EA stop the service when FIFA 2010 comes out?
waterhand
neoraul20
Posted 10:51 AM 4/9/08
PES 09 for me. Is good to see new features like this on Fifa 09 but to charge for that, screw them.
neoraul20
Pornosaur
Posted 10:48 AM 4/9/08
Not a feature I'd even want I don't think, but I'm thinking about making the jump to Fifa09 over PES09 after Konami's abortion of an online component in the 08 version.
Pornosaur
nitromic
Posted 10:41 AM 4/9/08
Do you expect anything less from EA. Sure they have made some turn-around this year with innovative new franchises, but they are still up to their old tricks. Too bad about T2.
nitromic
limitbreakerx
Posted 11:16 AM 4/9/08
you guys are teh nubz if you think this feature sucks. okay it kinda sucks because you have to pay for it, but people that have been playing soccer games always look forward to these roster updates. except they used to be fan made and therefore, free.
i think it just depends on your individual situation. are you willing to pay or not? if not, okay, but it's not ea's fault for offering this "new" feature. we'll just have to wait and see how much this thing ends up costing.
limitbreakerx
Ryuujin1024
Posted 11:09 AM 4/9/08
lol, PAY for it, what is the point of that who on earth would waste money like that. Seems like a pretty useless feature to me let alone a feature that's an add-on.
Ryuujin1024
EMPTYUK
Posted 10:58 AM 4/9/08
In theory this sounds amazing. Constantly updating statistics, real life effects on the game etc etc...
I think however there is a real downfall here too. Essentially your game experience will be directly affected by something you have absolutely no control over. I'd much rather have a great in game system that published and brought to the forefront when teams and players are playing well as opposed to real life data affecting my own personal gameplay experience.
An example; what happens if say in my career, I have Rooney and he plays amazing for me as a gamer as my skill level is high. Is this then trumped by his own form in real life (which to be fair has been average at best)? Do you punish the user for something they have no control over?
EMPTYUK
fastmb
Posted 11:35 AM 4/9/08
thats a terrible crowd animation oh well , looks like another madden same year after year ... Next!
fastmb
Rob_Velocity
Posted 11:53 AM 4/9/08
Price will be the deciding factor for me. I won't pay 800 points for it, anything below 600 will have me tempted and 400 will sell it.
Rob_Velocity
aKed
Posted 12:10 PM 4/9/08
if it was a weekly payment thing, then yeah, definitely no a cool feature. But since he said "the first league is free" thats fine with me. I usually only ever focus my attention on the premier league anyway.
aKed
imique
Posted 12:04 PM 4/9/08
Why should we pay for something which is free in other EA games.. they're just renaming dynamic DNA that they introduced in the other games and asking to pay for it.. what a ripoff!!
imique
fcb1899
Posted 12:23 PM 4/9/08
my bad...
he does say the first league is free.
fcb1899
fcb1899
Posted 12:21 PM 4/9/08
err...
I believe he said the firts WEEK.
fcb1899
Machines2
Posted 12:49 PM 4/9/08
It's the first LEAGUE. And no, they are not just renaming Dynamic DNA. Pretty clear if you watch the video that they talk about how massive the database of soccer stats is going to have to be compared to the NBA which has only 30 teams and smaller rosters. With your first free LEAGUE, you are getting exactly what you get in NBA Live's Dynamic DNA. Not rocket science.
Machines2
speakafreaka
Posted 1:40 PM 4/9/08
Wait... is this for manager mode too? what if i trade, say Kaka to arsenal.. will he not be updated because i've only got the premier league pack?
speakafreaka
Flakundenga
Posted 2:12 PM 4/9/08
well the feature is cool but charging for it not so much; then agan this is EA so no surprise there. too bad because i would have loved to have updates about Kaka and AC Milan since we are most likely going to win the Champiosn League :P
Flakundenga
jwpunk
Posted 4:05 PM 4/9/08
@Flakundenga: Ac Milan floped last year buddy. They're not in the Champions League. They finished 5th in Serie A, Fiorentina finished 4th.
And poor Kaka, if they update him, will they also put in his knee problems?
jwpunk
TearsandScreams
Posted 8:17 PM 4/9/08
@Pornosaur: The one downside with Fifa online is the insane amount of quitters, due to there being no punishment for quitting. Drives you crazy. But online is much less broken than Pro Evo lately.
And as for charging, that is bullshit. I'd like to know if we can do 11 v 11 yet online. That will be fantastic.
TearsandScreams
caddy_boy
Posted 9:25 PM 4/9/08
erm... why are they charging, for just updating a few numbers.. yes understand it's very time consuming, but i've seen bigger updates done for free... so the pricing will be very interesting
caddy_boy
ElijahDProphet
Posted 10:36 PM 4/9/08
With one entire league free I think only the completionists will actually pay for the service in order to get all the leagues. I see no problem with them charging for weekly, real life, roster updates on over 1000 players.
What would be cool is if there was an option to NOT update our own team, so your competition would evolve 'naturally' while your own team would be based on how well you play.
ElijahDProphet
Makeda
Posted 11:56 PM 4/9/08
I love this feature and the football fan within me is more than happy to download and pay or it (well, the Prem, La Liga and Serie anyways) I would just like to see how much their charging per week per league for this before I make my decision.
Btw, is there a demo coming to PSN anytime soon?
Makeda
crdbrdbox
Posted 2:13 AM 5/9/08
@Makeda: The demo should be out on September 11th
I welcome this new feature. It'll help make playing your team different every time, make things more challenging if your team is down in real life. I can understand why they would charge for this service, especially since its updating every week (this would be a pretty awesome job, watch futbol all day)! Of course the amount of $$ they charge will be the deciding factor.
Unfortunately the only two teams I ever see and play online are Manchester United and Barcelona...
crdbrdbox
Eon.
Posted 2:43 AM 5/9/08
This is a great feature and the game has now become a must buy for me. Can't wait to use it and see Keane's hopeful imrpovements through the season in game for Liverpool.
Eon.
Machines2
Posted 6:53 AM 5/9/08
@Makeda: $5.95 per league for the whole year (after your first FREE one). Or all of them for $24.95 I believe.
Machines2
artofwar420
Posted 8:24 AM 5/9/08
This is really cool, but I hope it's just a ONE time deal, not a per year... WELL, don't they make one of these games every year? I hope you get it free if you paid the last game. I wish it was free. Or just a one time payment then you get the service for no cost forevers.
artofwar420
Makeda
Posted 12:20 AM 7/9/08
@Machines2: and @crdbrdbox:
Cheers for the info ^_^
*Looks like im off to my mates on September the 11th =D*
Makeda