EA wants "more online" for FIFA 11
In an interview with
CVG, EA Sports producer David Rutter has said that they would be
"idiots not to do more online stuff" in future FIFA games.
"I think online is very important. We have a ridiculous number of people playing FIFA online every day," he said.
"We've had almost 300 million games of FIFA played online since launch and it's not let up. It's just constant. That's really nice and yeah, we'd be idiots not to do more online stuff."
Rutter also commented on surprising outages for FIFA's online service, stating that blockbuster real-life matches heavily influence the amount of people playing online matches..
"When the community guys were over in Vancouver it was during the Champions League final and we went from 40,000 people playing FIFA online to zero in the space of five minutes when the game kicked off," he said.
"Then at half-time it went back up again to 20,000, then back down to zero for the second half and then back up again to 45,000 at the end of that match. So we have a TV in the office now so we can spot server outages, see who's playing and where."
