{"id":4087,"date":"2013-11-24T19:48:21","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T23:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=4087"},"modified":"2013-11-24T19:48:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T23:48:21","slug":"ea-skimps-on-fifa-14-ps4-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2013\/11\/24\/ea-skimps-on-fifa-14-ps4-features\/","title":{"rendered":"EA Skimps On FIFA 14 PS4 Features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not sure that <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2013\/11\/06\/ea-ceo-says-winning-worst-company-in-america-title-was-wake-up-call\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2013\/11\/06\/ea-ceo-says-winning-worst-company-in-america-title-was-wake-up-call\/', 'EA is really the worst company in America');\" target=\"_blank\">EA is really the worst company in America<\/a>, but they are sure doing their best to alienate long time FIFA fans by removing traditional and dare I say, common features from their newest versions of the next generation releases of FIFA.<\/p>\n<p>According to EA, <a href=\"http:\/\/fifasoccerblog.com\/blog\/ea-explain-tournament-mode-omission-fifa-14-ps4-xbox-one\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/fifasoccerblog.com\/blog\/ea-explain-tournament-mode-omission-fifa-14-ps4-xbox-one\/', 'Tournament Mode');\" target=\"_blank\">Tournament Mode<\/a> just wasn\u2019t that popular \u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cFor the new generation of FIFA 14 on Xbox One and PS4, we decided not to include Tournament Mode, which accounted for a very small percentage of games played in FIFA 13, in order to focus on the most important areas and modes in the game. We took those resources and budget, and focused on many other new areas of the game, including Living Worlds and Stadiums, Career Mode, and expanded Online Seasons.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Strangely enough, it was popular enough to offer in the FIFA 14 releases for the 360 and PS3.  There is a very outspoken vocal minority that is crying foul, but only time will tell if EA will actually listen, or if they are gunning to get their status as worst company in America.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.ea.com\/uk\/posts\/list\/2685976.page\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/forum.ea.com\/uk\/posts\/list\/2685976.page', 'FIFA 14 Next Gen \u2013 Exclusion of current features! MUST READ!');\" target=\"_blank\">FIFA 14 Next Gen \u2013 Exclusion of current features! MUST READ!<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/answers.ea.com\/t5\/FIFA-14\/No-tournament-mode-on-PS4-fifa-14-Also-there-is-no-way-to-play\/td-p\/1851269\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/answers.ea.com\/t5\/FIFA-14\/No-tournament-mode-on-PS4-fifa-14-Also-there-is-no-way-to-play\/td-p\/1851269', 'No tournament mode on PS4 fifa 14? Also, there is no way to play 2v2\/3v3\/4v4\/ online with my guests?');\" target=\"_blank\">No tournament mode on PS4 fifa 14? Also, there is no way to play 2v2\/3v3\/4v4\/ online with my guests?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/answers.ea.com\/t5\/FIFA-14\/REPLY-from-EA-Sports-regarding-the-removal-of-Guest-Play-on-all\/m-p\/1895989\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/answers.ea.com\/t5\/FIFA-14\/REPLY-from-EA-Sports-regarding-the-removal-of-Guest-Play-on-all\/m-p\/1895989', 'REPLY from EA Sports regarding the removal of Guest Play on all online modes');\" target=\"_blank\">REPLY from EA Sports regarding the removal of Guest Play on all online modes<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not sure that EA is really the worst company in America, but they are sure doing their best to alienate long time FIFA fans by removing traditional and dare I say, common features from their newest versions of the next generation releases of FIFA. According to EA, Tournament Mode just wasn\u2019t that popular \u2026 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2013\/11\/24\/ea-skimps-on-fifa-14-ps4-features\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EA Skimps On FIFA 14 PS4 Features<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,9,71,43],"class_list":["post-4087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-fifa","tag-ps3","tag-ps4","tag-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4088,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087\/revisions\/4088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}