EA Play Collapses as FIFA 21 Early Access Rolls Out

EA Play more like EA sit on your arse for a few hours while you wait for them to fix the bloody servers.

10 hours early access = 9 hours of server maintenance and 1 hour of actual game time.

If this is something that has been going on for a while, you would think EA would have this down to a science...or maybe this is part of the plan....

Is it bad/wrong that I’m happy to see EA have a mess up like this?

Although, I guess the problems show so many will continue to throw money at EA and continue to fund their bad business practices.

And this is me shaking my head in dismay.....

So you're telling me not only Smash players were hyped to see some new characters in their game earlier today.😅

What's the rush? I am sure it's not that different from the last one I bought, FIFA 14. Just kicking the ball into the goal. Same as it was with the previous FIFA game I owned in 94 for the Megadrive. Same as it will be when I get my next one, FIFA 34.

come on you expect ea to actually invest in servers. they just need them to work enough to milk the cash cow sheep.

This is terrible!

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FIFA should be considered as a digital drug.
It is bad, the experience is always the same no matter how many other things you mix into it, but everybody insanely buy it every year at day one.

I will never understand this madness and I'm proud, I'm football abstinent.

@Enigk
Actually, FIFA 14 was quite significantly different from future iterations in one way: it allowed for accuracy with the lobbed manual through balls. The truly skilled had a field day, especially using it to lob the keeper from various angles and distances felt great. They nerfed it thereafter (I stopped playing from 15)

Why don't they post it at 9am and ease the demand instead of waiting till 4 and knowing it's going to ***** up typical EA.

Pes2021 is itter boss this year try it it smokes FIFA out o the water💪👍

I was planning not to buy Fifa this year... but I'm about to give in... sigh

I stopped buying FIFA from last year because it is a waste of money..nothing new besides updated teams, some new stadiums and few small gameplay improvements. I have seen some gameplay from FIFA 21 and is the same game, does not feel a brand new game. Maybe I am wrong but for me is a pass. I hope that next year to be a really true next gen game that worth our money. Sorry if I made mistakes in my writting.

So fifa is a soccer game?

@Enigk Well, you could kind of boil any game down to the sum of it's parts like that to be honest. I mean, the new Crash Bandicoot game, why bother getting it? It's just a cartoon animal jumping and spinning like it was 20 years ago?

Well done for using the dismissive, really unimaginative non-football fan jibe of "it's just blokes kicking a ball into a goal" line though.

Don't get me wrong, I totally agree with you, it probably IS exactly the same as last year, and the year before etc etc, but you're missing the point that, if you are a football fan, the fact it has new players, kits, stadiums etc is fine with most people.

Can't wait to play with Chelsea for my Career Mode. I love football and I love management sims, play FM most of the time, but for my entertainment centre, FIFA is perfect for some casual management fun!

@tomassi I just don't see why people pay so much money for new virtual names and outfits. As long as the servers for previous iterations are live then surely you could just play that. Granted there have been story modes in the games recently so at least that is something.
The Crash Bandicoot one isn't a great example due to the gap between 3 and 4. COD or Assassin's Creed, in its heyday, are better examples. I get burned out on yearly entries. My next Assassin's Creed to play is Origins and played Spiderman recently so in no rush for Miles Morales. That's just me. You can have too much of a good thing!

@Enigk I know you don't understand, that was the point I was making. You're not a football fan (I'm guessing) so you can't possibly understand why anyone would be happy to part with fifty quid once per year to play their favourite game (FIFA or PES) and with their favourite team in it's proper kit, not last seasons. But if you ARE a football fan, of course those little things mean the difference!

@tomassi I don't mind football itself but there isn't enough to it to keep my interest for 90 minutes. When I watch I tend to have the commentary off as it annoys me, listen to music while half reading a book. I think I have ADHD as I get bored quickly so have to finish games as quick as possible. I get bored after a few weeks of a game so don't tend to buy games at full price as they are not worth it for me.

Glad to see the micro did not effect sales thats good, and why y'all mad y'all tye ones that crashed it all trying to get on at once lmao

@GamingFan4Lyf simple solution ether look fifa21 up in PS STORE or xbox store depending on the console u have ea play if do don't need go into ea play app

@djlard u do know if u think that about Football ⚽️ then America Football NFL AND NHL are the same

@ellsworth004 Its not soccer its FOOTBALL WHILE AMERICAN FOOTBALL (NFL) runs with the ball more like Rugby with gear on

@Falkirk4life was just quoting the article.

@ellsworth004 soccer, hockey, basketball whatever...

Just that game where poor can freely yell at a few millionaires "work harder you dumbfu(k b|tch" 😀😀😀