Also, der Patch ist wohl fertig und muss von Sony respektive Microsoft freigegeben werden, was sich naturgemäß ein paar Tage hinzieht. Den Ankündigungen in den englischen Foren ist nur zu entnehmen, dass wohl die Probleme mit Live Season 2.0 behoben werden.
Folgende Ankündigung wurde von offizieller Seit im englischen Forum veröffentlicht:
Hi all,
An update for you. A bit earlier today I had a good chat with David Rutter on the phone and can update you on the following. Some of this you may have heard from him before of course, but I figure it’s worth going over some things so you know where we’re at insofar as the stuff we can say at the moment...
Game Face
As you know, FIFA 10 turned out to be the quickest selling sports game of all time, with 1.7 million copies selling in Europe over the first weekend. Which was brilliant news of course! But in that we’ve become victims of our own success a bit. We had a record-breaking number of connected users in all game modes around launch and that number continues to be extraordinarily high. As well as that, we introduced new, fairly intensive online functionality this year in the forum of Game Face. All that meant the load on the servers underpinning the online behaviour of FIFA 10 and Game Face was certainly more than we were expecting.
The result was brought down Game Face for a while shortly after launch in order to make sure people playing the game online could enjoy as uninterrupted service as possible. It’s back now, though. However – a word of caution there: As peak FIFA 10 time hits in Europe over this first weekend (beginning about now, I should think), we may see a bit of an intermittent service there as we manage carefully the number of concurrent users at any one time to make sure the servers can cope with the load. Basically, David says the team is really happy to have created a feature everyone wants to use. And everyone will get to use it, but it may take a few more days from now until it’s working fully up to speed for everybody who wants to use it at the same time. If during this time when generating your Game Face you get a message that the servers are maxed out, that just means you’ll need to try again in a few minutes once the number of concurrent users has dropped a bit.
It’s also worth mentioning that there has been some confusion over Game Faces not being able to be downloaded via Xbox Live once they’ve been created. We could have communicated this a bit better perhaps – so please accept our apologies there – but Game Face downloads are only downloadable to Xbox 360s by users with Gold accounts, as is standard practice for the extra online features of most games.
PS3 Game Disconnections
Dave gave me as candid an explanation of progress as he could at this stage, so what follows isn’t entirely locked down yet, so please bear that in mind. What we think we have identified is an issue with people’s friends lists on PlayStation Network. Essentially it’s down to the concept of ‘rich presence’ on PSN. That means that if you’re playing FIFA 10, all your friends who are also online will be informed of that. Now, if you have a lot of friends in your list, and lots of them are playing FIFA as well at the same time, there comes a point of ‘critical mass’ where everyone’s systems are trying to tell everyone else’s systems that they’re all doing the same thing. Phew. But that effectively sends the system a bit haywire.
Right now it’s not believed that this is a problem with FIFA 10 per se, and the guys are working closely with Sony to identify a solution.
The vast majority of people aren’t being troubled by this. We know that because we can see it. However, for those people that are, we have developed a workaround. It’s not ideal, but if you’re desperate to ensure you have the least amount of disconnections possible, the way to do it is to reduce the number of friends on your list as much as you can and try to make sure you’re not pinging loads of people every time you play the game.
It seems to be a bit of a problem that could affect any game with lots of friends playing at once on PSN at the moment. But David said he was very hopeful that once EA’s network engineers and Sony’s people get their heads around it, the problem should be addressed soon.
Live Season 2.0
Reports started coming in of a crash issue related to Live Season pretty quickly after the release of the game, in these forums in fact. It seemed to affect people once they had got to about their sixth game in the mode. On seeing the reports here, Dave and team were able to quickly identify a problem with retail consoles where the sheer amount of data tracked in the game with FIFA 10 got to a point that the game and console couldn’t cope anymore. So, rather than continue to sell the game mode they quickly decided to take it down.
Importantly, David said the fix for Live Season is done. This fix will be rolled out with a game update as soon as possible. We can’t confirm when that will be yet exactly; as I’m sure most of you are aware, there’s a rigorous testing and certification process that needs to happen before it can be released.
Dave also asked that I reiterate his messages from the last few days elsewhere in the forums for those people who have already purchased the game mode: there is a work around that will allow you to fully enjoy the mode without any hangs. What you need to do is delete your existing Live Season data and then re-download it.
For your information, what the team have done is remove yellow card tracking from the data and that essentially lets you carry on without any problems. New Live Season data for those people should be available ahead of this weekend.
FIFA Interactive World Cup (PS3) and online results tracking.
Inconsistencies here should now all be fixed. We deployed some fixes to the servers on Wednesday night here so everyone should be seeing that right now.
Also, for your information, the FIFA Interactive World Cup leaderboards will be reset at 6am tomorrow morning (GMT). Now the fix is in place, the leaderboards are being reset to make sure everyone has a fair crack at the whip.
Manager Mode
The stated intention with Manager Mode this year was to make improvements from an authenticity standpoint, and a lot of that ground work has been done. That said, the team are aware there are still some issues in the game that they’re not happy with. Feedback from the community here has helped them identify some of the more serious issues, and those will be addressed as part of the aforementioned game update. So that’s the biggies identified on the forums, such as players being sold without your permission, as well as a few others that have been reported.
And finally… from me
Thank you all again for your understanding as the guys work through these kinks in the system. It goes without saying, but the truth is that there are a few guys on these forums that care more about FIFA than anyone else, and that's the dev guys.
Right now they're working very hard to get things working as they - and you - would like. So, keep it constructive, and keep it nice. It'll work out much better for everyone that way