Well, you gotta love EA. Following FIFA 21 and Madden 22, EA Sports decided to bring to the PC the old-gen version of the next part in its FIFA series, FIFA 22. However, the Stadia version of the game, which most PC gamers can access via streaming, will be based on the next-gen build.
To be honest, we weren’t really surprised by this. I mean, we’ve seen the very same thing in the past. So yeah, it will take a few years until EA brings the next-gen versions of its sports titles to the PC.
Back in the PS4/Xbox One days, EA was claiming that it wasn’t easy to port the next-gen version of FIFA to PC. This, however, changed when its sports titles started using the Frostbite Engine.
The truth, however, is that the PC platform is an afterthought for EA Sports. That, and the fact that the publisher targets a wider audience on PC. Thus, and in order to keep the PC requirements relatively low, EA will keep releasing its old-gen versions on PC.
Needless to say that this is an awful decision. I mean, both FIFA 21 and FIFA 22 on PC are basically a re-skin of FIFA 20. Yes, there are some slight gameplay tweaks here and there but do these tweaks justify a $60 price tag?
Unfortunately, and while we heavily criticize EA’s decision, it all comes down to PC gamers themselves. If PC gamers bought and support FIFA 21 (and FIFA 22 PC), then we really deserve to be treated as second-class citizens. As simple as that.
Oh, and in case you’re wondering, we won’t have a PC Performance Analysis for either Madden 22 or FIFA 22.
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PC gamers won’t support EA and their Ultimate Team microtransaction nonsense. We are too smart for that. Console only gamers in general are younger and/or dumber.
Saves me buying it then.
The obviously can just give you the option to download one or the other. This is just laziness and greed.
This.
Same thing, with New gen consoles arrive, shame!
Next gen scam
The last time I bought anything from EA was in 2003 and 2004, both NFSU titles.
How people buy this trash is beyond my comprehension, it’s been the same game for 25 f*king years.
That’s basically every sports game out there, football being popular doesnt help either. Is the only genre that would make sense as a game as a service, but people keep paying full price every year like idiots.
No it hasn’t don’t be so stupid.
I love football but unlike the old days when we had a huge choice of football games we are sadly now only left with FIFA or PES neither of which is particularly good. However, as a football fan and gamer I normally purchase one but this year it looks like I won’t be bothering with either.
Yes it has, I’ve played this garbage for over 20 years at friends and family.
Same game every year with added gimmicks, an updated roster and more monetization schemes than a mobile game.
I’ve seen F2P games by Chinese and Koreans which are more humble on how they exploit their fans/consumers than EA and FIFA.
UK sales itself are enough to make EA richer and richer every year.
Talk about a bunch of morons!
If they stop purchasing, this crap will go as a service, which makes totally sense, since transfers occours everyday.
Dude it has a full page of changelogs, they changed some players names. only for 70$ and a unlimited cash grab slot machine.
No, i believe that the game is good and it network engine is sophisticated, my hunch is that the new features will not impact gameplay at all, just graphics, play it disabling all cpu assistance and the game feels different difficult and rewarding when you learn how to fully control it, this is an esport class game, nobody complains about the looks of counterstrike, what matters in fifa are the physics if those are improved in next gen versions, that would be disappointing
Its really amusing however that for a game where low lag matters, stadia receives next gen features, good luck playing on remote servers with a perceived 100 ms lag
“nobody complains about the looks of counterstrike”
I do and there’s way more to looks as to why that RNG shitfest is an awful experience that shouldn’t even be close go a sport.
there are issues with fifa but not a bad game in my opinion
you will see that these new features will only be decorative
what i hate in fifa is how you cannot enjoy great performance for too long from your team if you dont buy ea s stuff, but are a pretty good player
EA downgrade your performance one sidedly, your players will be slower and its not related with your own machine or connection, so you end up losing many games in a row, until you stop playing and then they think again and let you play at your full capacity again, it is an algorithm
Surely I will skip. Piece of crap.
It wasn’t a mistake, it was inevitable. Games are like interactive movies, of course young generation will want in on that. The days when you saw kids playing football in the suburbs are gone.
With popularity comes money. With money comes execs. With execs comes unending greed.
AAA is mostly dead at this point.
EA right now:
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Maybe because PS5 and Xbox are 100% faster than the 3070 Ti
The problem is, what is the difference? it’s a yearly franchise from EA, what is changing year to year outside of the microtransactions? Because “next gen” isn’t going to be able to improve those short of charging 70$ to get in the door.
For a company that had such a big foot print on PC they sure do F us over whenever they get the chance
Then I won’t buy it!
Wait, it’s Fifa?!
LOL
Who dafuq cares about this shlt anyways?
Wow, an almost intelligible and readable comment by you! Wow! This is progress!
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