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Electronic Arts has already issued a post-launch patch for FIFA 10, but problems remain. Reader Justin Duke alerted me in the direction of a major glitch this morning that currently plagues the game's "manager mode," which allows FIFA 10 players to build a team from scratch. The problem? Once you've taken a team through a single season, an in-game economy glitch won't let you keep going.
"At the end of every season you can switch teams," explained Duke. "When looking at your option of teams it will tell you the team's budget for buying new players. In my case, the lowly team I was looking at had a budget of around $600,000. Once you pick your team and it does the scheduling, your team now has a budget of over $2 billion, and no matter what you do that number won't change. This essentially makes the mode impossible to play because you can't make any improvements to a team."
Duke isn't the only person to have this problem. It's all over the official FIFA 10 message boards and GameFAQs boards, a glitch players seem to have just regrettably accepted as reality.
"It's an MM [manager mode] bug," said one user on EA's boards. "One of many."
G4 writer Sterling McGarvey did not encounter this glitch while paying FIFA 10 for review.
Users have even come up with elaborate means of avoiding the glitch in lieu of a real fix.
"Keep your autosave on to have two save files," said another FIFA 10 player, also on EA's message boards. "Create one for the first season, then create a new one for the second season...switch back and forth between them every few games and you won't have to rewind a whole season."
There may be good reason for players to move on, too. EA hasn't acknowledged the problem. I contacted EA about the glitch this morning and have so far received no response from the publisher. If and when EA decides to release a statement about FIFA 10's manager mode issues, I'll pass it on.
In the meantime, if you've experienced this or other glitches, drop me an e-mail with details.
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Ninjaofall
@samr Biggest selling EA title. I beg to differ. The Sims genre is EA's hottest selling Titls it out does all sports games. Anyway most of this issue comes due to corrupt save data ya group of ignorant kids. All you got to do is clear you system cache about every 3 months and usually you can avoid most corrupt data issues. Hence why making the two saves works so easily. Corrupt data craaazzy you mean my system is helping cause the issue as well. I know INSANE but true. Peace im out read some technical forums instead of moaning and whining on G4 forums. PEACE
sloort
If they don't fix this problem in Fifa 11 I'm done.
lufcfan2010
the problem is that when u start a new season with teams in league 1 or league 2 you do not get many funds to boost your squad which is quite unfair because after half a season you need new players
lufcfan2010
i am currently in my 3rd season with leeds united and am in the premier league with them, i have not had any problems so far with manger mode
Tachyon77
well i tried the newest pro... wasn�t bad so with this 10 years with fifa is history, you can�t play all EA next year will be a very sad year for ya....
tuereum
I have had the same problem of lossing rep for winning. I went the whole season undefeated and won the cup and I started lossing rep for winning. EA really dropped the ball on this one. Getting rep loss for winning defeats the whole purpose of this game mode. And the fact that they won't fix any of these bugs makes me never want to buy a EA game again.
tehflud
I registered just because I saw this article. I haven't ran into that particular glitch, but I've experienced problems with my rep jumping erratically, for instance, after a loss experienced a reputation gain of 84 points. Then in the subsequent match, a win, a rep loss of 30. I can't believe that a company would be so careless to release a game rife with glitches. With so many different problems across so many different titles it is appalling that EA is not respecting the customers enough to rectify these issues. I for one have been loyal to this brand since its inception, but if EA doesn't get their act together and fix these problems, I am going to start taking the risk of trying an alternative.
sloort
EA should be ashamed of themselves. They sit back and watch their games make millions of dollars knowing these problems are going to happen, and still do absolutely nothing about it. I will never buy another EA game on the release date again. They have to prove themselves to me before they get my hard earned money.
Aguiliya85
Man this stinks!!! i was with milan 4 years,move on to west ham and i cant improve my team anymore..EA need to do something quick!
Ninapuss
FIFA 10 is badly designed, deeply flawed and not fit for the purpose for which it was marketed. One wonders just how EA perceive their product liability. In virtually any other commercial manufacturing field on this planet faulty goods will be recalled, replaced and apologies made, but the best EA can suggest is that they'll address these issues in time for FIFA 11 and which they will expect us all to buy! It's a disgrace, and more so because the pre-launch promises of a vastly improved game were at best misleading and at worst bald-faced lies.
The bugs in Manager mode are so many in number that it is highly unlikely that any kind of cure-all patch will be forthcoming and it is unlikely that a replacement product could be made available to consumers before FIFA 11 is released, in which case I personally feel it would be only fair for EA to offer FIFA 11 as a free trade-in for FIFA 10 owners with a valid point of sale receipt.
I suggest that anyone so motivated should contact their local consumer rights organisation, the advertising managers of any publications carrying EA advertisements, and the vendors from where you purchased the game to express your annoyance at EA. If enough complaints are circulated in the commercial field rather than on well-meaning but essentially powerless forum boards, EA are more likely to feel compelled to take positive action on their customers' behalf. We just have to make the effort.
TreFacTor
Every game EA has released this year has had MAJOR ISSUES. I posted on the G4 forums about the bugs and glitches in Madden 10, but it still got rave reviews. I don't accept G4's reviews anymore, as they seem to be completely biased, and rarely do they help out the gamers or consumers by calling companies out when they have the perfect platform from which to do so! Every game from EA from Need for Speed shift, to Madden 10 to Fifa has incomprehensible flaws that can be found within 15 minutes of gameplay, so how can the developers, or the reviewers justify them making it into the final products?
This year will be the last year I buy any game made by EA especially Madden. i will wait for someone else to adequately reproduce what I see on Sunday, as it's obviously beyond the scope of anyone working at EA.
CujoSWAoA
NHL 10's freezing issues aren't fixed at all. The game will nearly constantly lock up your XBox.
NHL 10 has a host of other issues as well. They released Microtransaction equipment that you buy with REAL MONEY, but guess what? 80% of the equipment doesn't give the Stat boosts that they claim it does. Thanks EA. Legalized robbery.
EA Sports is a terrible company, they do not test heir products at all.
GatsuBlackSword
EA is just dropping the ball. Wow how the mighty have fallen; and while falling cutting 1,500 jobs.
hogey
I bought EA's NHL 10 about a month ago and found that it had bugs as well. Myself and several others all encountered freezing during the Be A Pro mode and Be a GM mode. It was fixed with a patch they put out a couple weeks ago but this kind of thing shouldn't happen whether it be in a FIFA game or NHL game. I'm curious if any other EA sports game is going to glitch free.
EA Fail.
Murkurial
If you want a more extensive list of the problems with Manager Mode, check them out here, http://forums.electronicarts.c o.uk/fifa-10-sony-playstation- 3-microsoft-xbox-360/697121-ma nager-mode-questions-answers-1 78.html#post11539748.
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Someone should really hit up the Better Business Bureau like people did a little while ago with Madden.
There are still glaring issue with the gameplay that EA claim they're happy with and won't be making any changes too. Thing from the idiotic CPU AI, to the terrible GK AI. The instance where no matter how many times you hit the B button to clear the ball, your defender will more often than not chest it down only to get it stolen from them time and time again, leaving the CPU (or even a human-controlled player) free on goal for a 1-on-1.
Due to "technical limitations" EA say that they won't be able to fix anything else. They've used up their two patch allotment and while they could pay for a third they say that they have no further plans to fix anything regarding gameplay and considering they have about 70+ MM bugs to fix there's no way that they can get that done before they have to start making FIFA 11.
They released a terribly unfinished game and people ate it up.
ghettoe
Wow that sort of kills my urge to get it. The last fifa game I bought was 08 and as big a football lover as I am, I'm waiting for the ultimate fifa. The one that will have no glitches and just be perfect before I buy another one. (Am I asking for too much?) Every year fifa gets better and I hoped to buy 10 because of the review, but when I buy a fifa game I don't want people saying it's similar to the previous one.
samr64
@gambit considering FIFA is EA's BEST SELLING GAME, i bet there are a few more then 4-6 ppl with this issue
Notafanboythatiknow
I have already played three full seasons and have not had any major issues. Though, I have not switched to another team. I will report any issue if I have them.
gambit1023
Who cares...it's just a soccer game anyway..so what..4-6 people in this country who actually bought it are complaining?lol
Socalmic47
Every single tester on this game should be fired and marked unhirable for life. It is completely inexcusable that such an obvious bug made it to release.
And the fact that EA is IGNORING THIS is complete bunk. You jerks have time to spend $400 million on a stupid Facebook/MySpace game company but you can't take the time to fix real issues?
FU, EA.
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