Random: Here's Why One Of The World's Best National Teams Isn't In FIFA 19

They should be in the game.

Interesting. I wasn’t aware as I don’t particularly follow the game.

I was enormously disappointed when I had bought FIFA 12 on 3DS and there were no Turkish teams whatsoever. I wouldn’t have bought it if I had known (and without some transparency in this regard, I didn’t buy any subsequent instalments).

Perhaps Davor Suker is a PES fan? Or maybe he got scammed by some loot boxes and is making a stand?

I recall a FIFA game in the past where the Netherlands didn't feature.

You know, now would be a perfect time for PES come back. Grab all those licenses(specially Brazil's), and come back to the big boy table Konami.

E. A. Sports.
It's in the game.

What's with the clickbaity headline?
What would be wrong with:
Random: Here's Why Croatia Isn't In FIFA 19
?

What's the point in having the FIFA license then?

@Chayshirin Well........they wanted clicks.

I still remember Actua Soccer 2... Names was fictional, but gameplay was really fun. I don't care about that...

"If it's in the game, it's in the g-" Oh.

@MattFox Konami has the Brazilian liscenses for the clubs.

Pity they butcher everything apart from the gameplay. But then, they ain't on Switch, so I couldn't be arsed.

@DockEllisD No, they are not.

I love how no one noticed for 7 years. If anything EA probably tried to overpay

@janpampoen of course they are, what are you talking about? Unless I was hallucinating when I scored a goal with Modric last night

Wait! Aren’t they in FIFA18? I’m pretty sure I played against them in the Workd Cup mode since they were in my country’s same group. I’m more shocked with the information about Brazil than Croatia non being present. Anyway, they deserve to be there!!!

Does the fifa series have a team/player editor? I haven't played sports games in a long time, the last being NBA/NHL 2K2 on the Dreamcast, both of which allowed you to create your own team and players. I never made any teams to match existing teams, but rather made teams consisting of super deformed players.

I doubt EA is losing 100,000 euros in sales over this, so I suspect they're happy enough.

@gortsi Modric is, and some of the players are (depending on if their clubs are registered). But the Croatian league and team is not.

Yeah that's what the other guy was asking. As long as the respective teams are on FIFA, Croatian players are in them with real names and appearances. And I don't think the Croatian league would be in the game anyway, it's the national team that's actually important

as a Croat I can tell you that our FA is the bottom of the barrel. scum, mafia guys, sexual predators and so on. Šuker was always known as a greedydnndkdkkd, often selling tickets for matches he got from the FA. it's a miracle we even have a team with this kind of leadership, let alone the 2nd place in the world cup

Trash game from trash company honestly didn't deserve the sliver of publicity this article gave it.

Whilst I'm not exactly a huge fan of EA... it's hard to conclude anything other than Croatia being the biggest loser from this. The amount of people that pass up buying FIFA because the Croatian football team aren't on it, with the utmost respect to the beaten 2018 World Cup finalists, is going to be bordering... zero. So, why wouldn't you just take the money and run...?!

@misterMike yea, I get that. You'd still think they'd take the money and then just make it disappear, rather than investing it back into the game as opposed to just flat out turning it down!

If it was me, I'd invest any and all gaming related revenue into competitive gaming/eSports for the association. That's an area where the sport has a much more level playing field, versus the atrocious sums of money that are in the English, Spanish, German, and Italian games, in particular.

@misterMike Yep, seems the most logical explanation. I do find it hard to believe that KONAMI could out bid EA, but I guess it's possible if they targeted a handful of teams and Croatia seems a pretty smart target given recent performances and current star players etc.

@misterMike Yep, that's also true, but then it's odd that the Croatian FF are telling EA to pay more, as that would undermine their relationship with KONAMI if there was exclusivity in play. I think exclusivity can be ruled out. My assumption would be that KONAMI paid Croatia a sum that was calculated in line with a unit forecast for the game. When EA offered their sum, the Croatian FF calculated the amount based on FIFA's enormous unit sales last year and concluded that it was too low an offer. That scenario would at least make some sense. I can kinda see why EA would offer less though... the unit sell through on FIFA versus PES is just crazy amounts.

I thought everyone knew this? Serbia has been absent for the same reason for ages. Slow news day i guess....

Croatia was in FIFA 18's World Cup mode along with several other new countries like Costa Rica, Serbia, Tunisia, Senegal, Panama and Morocco that weren't included in the main game. But during the transition from FIFA 18 to 19, EA didn't include any of them including Croatia. You could just take the Croatian team; Dinamo Zagreb and replace all of their foreign players with Croatian national team members likes of Modric, Rakitic and Lovern, but you can only do this during off-line matches.

I'm surprised 100,000 euros wasn't enough six years ago. Not just Croatia but any team. Times that figure by all the Fifa countries and suddenly all those microtransactions start to make a lot of sense...

@Sakura7 Yep, I agree. Were FIFA points even a thing in 2012? Certainly the digital download and content would have been a considerably smaller piece of the pie versus today...

FIFA sells over 2 million units of physical product in the UK alone every year. Add on at least 750k digital downloads (conservative estimate) and you get a pretty eye watering amount of money before you even get into the FIFA points... and before you even start to factor in other territories...

Hideous amount of money it has to be said.

So yea, you can see Croatia's point of view on this... but some money is better than no money, so it's still a bit silly that they didn't reach an agreement.

@Chayshirin even better, just "Random: Croatia isn't in FIFA 19"

No need for the question. If people want to know why they'll click like the good old days. These "here's why" headlines are the bane of journalism these days and I'd rather not see them creep onto this site. It looks desperate.

@Baker1000 @Chayshirin Nothing clickbaity about this. Placing second in the World Cup certainly qualifies Croatia as one of the world's best teams. But if you don't follow the World Cup, you may not know that they even earned the silver. "Croatia isn't in FIFA 19" sounds a lot less interesting than "One of the best teams isn't in FIFA 19."

@Dr_Corndog
Someone who does not know Croatia came second in the world cup is unlikely to care about this news. And someone who buys Fifa so shortly after launch probably already knows that Croatia are one of the best teams in the world. Anyhow I had read the story earlier on Eurogamer, and this was the headline:
Why World Cup runners-up Croatia aren't in FIFA 19
Sounds like a more informative, more professional headline to me. From what we have on NL is only a short step to "What national teams AREN'T in FIFA, number 3 will AMAZE you"

@Baker1000 I agree. Nintendo Life is a lovely place and I would hate to see it descend to that level.

And btw Ronaldo is no longer in Real Madrid! The accompanying photo must be from an older version of the game.

@Dr_Corndog I follow football, I watched the World Cup. This site is mainly a British source, and Croatia beat England in the semi-final. Writing "Croatia" would've generated the clicks from those interested. I don't disagree with labelling them one of the best teams in the world (at that World Cup) but the headline actually lead me to believe they were talking about a football club, perhaps one such as Real Madrid (hence the photo) or another top European club. It is a clickbaity headline. It's designed to make people click to find out which team, not click to find out why. Nintendo Life know half of American readers wouldn't have clicked to find out why Croatia aren't in the game, they don't care - it's Croatia, not Germany or Brazil.

I don't know how things are in America, but I can tell you in the British online media this kind of clickbait headline is becoming a plague. Particularly local newspaper websites that post articles to Twitter. Sorry, but it just annoys me and I want better for this site.

@Coach_A *it's not in the game

@Coach_A clearly not 😂

@janpampoen yes they are!!!!!! If their club team is in the game they are in.

Which is most of both.

@DockEllisD if their club team is in the game then yes. Which is most of them. Most of both those squads play for teams featured in the game. The big names for sure.

@EmmatheBest What's your problem with the game?

@Dog - It was developed by EA for one thing. The second thing is the lack of accuracy, which I'm sure you already know about, considering the title of this webpage.