FIFA 19 players who own the game on Nintendo Switch have expressed their upset at developer and publisher, EA, after an advertised game feature didn't release on the system.
The content in question is a special Squad Building Challenge which rewards players with a random, highly sought after Team of the Season card. The challenge was advertised in-game in the Nintendo Switch version, but it never arrived; it appeared as expected on both PS4 and Xbox One, but Switch players were left without the promised content.
So what actually happened here? Well, to clear things up, an EA Community Manager responded to upset players on EA's online forum, stating that the in-game advert shouldn't have been in the Switch version as the content featured was never intended for the console. As you can imagine, other forum users didn't take the answer particularly well, with many asking why the mistake was made and why the content can't be available in all versions of the game.
"This SBC was not intended to be available for the Switch, as such the advertising panel for the SBC has since been removed accordingly."
Amazingly, this isn't the first time FIFA 19 Switch players have been left in the cold. Back in December, Nintendo shared a promotional message for a 'FUTmas' event across social media and the Switch news feed. Just like this Squad Building Challenge, the Switch version of the game didn't receive the same treatment as other platforms, and EA eventually came forward to say that the advert's messaging on Switch "wasn't intended".
Have you been happy with FIFA on Switch? Do these mess-ups impact your enjoyment? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below.
[source eurogamer.net]
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EA has never cared about FIFA so why should they care about advertising?
Is it so difficult for EA to say “we would like to apologise for this error”
They keep doing this......
I felt insulted to have to buy PS4 just for The Sims 4, the game i really love but on the machine i really hate it.
If EA continue to give Nintendo gamers cold shoulder, well.... I really hope there are another Life Sim / Builder games by healthier 3rd party developers with better features than The Sims and we can forget EA and their stinky policy.
Stop. Buying. EA. Games.
All the sins of EA (and there is a long list) could be wiped out in a second if they simply announce Madden 20 for Switch!
@JHDK Truer words have never been spoken.
How anyone can even look at anything said or advertised by EA and not quetion and scrutinise it after all the skullduggery and crap they have done over the years is beyond me. The only reason they still exist in their current guise is because of their sports titles and their mass market appeal. Their logo is just a badge of shame at this point.
I’ve defended EA in the past as at times they haven’t been as bad as people make out and they’ve made some amazing games.
However overall they have become a shambolic mess.
Their treatment of the switch is laughable. Massive user base and they just refuse to work on it.
Can we get that anti-microtransactions bill passed in the US now? I’m not a vengeful person, but the day of reckoning needs to come for EA and Activision.
Why anyone still buys games from EA is beyond me.
Who is EA and what do they make?
They aren't relevant.
They used to be super relevant, but a company that only releases one game is not newsworthy.
@cyrus_zuo
At this rate, they release almost every sports game on the market, a bunch of shopters, and plenty of other micro transaction and loot box filled games each year.
So yes, I would say they're still relevant, but for all the wrong reasons.
I'm still confused as to why anybody bothers with these idiots anyway.
The only game I play that they "make" is pvz heroes
Well, as long as people keep buying their garbage, they'll keep shoveling it. I haven't purchased a game by them since Fight Night Round 3, and I don't plan on doing so. Their business practices suck, and they are anti-consumer, and I believe that they are going to have a hand in the dismantling of the best parts of the industry itself.
I'm sorry, but don't complain about them in one breath, then buy their product in the next. You're sending the message to them that they're on the right track.
How is this not False Advertising which is against the law here in the U.S? I wish someone had the money to sue this greedy company. Where are all you class action lawyers we need your help.
Wtf is FUTmas and why should people care
@Fazermint EA is the scourge of the video game world I feel ashamed of the games I Bought from them but no more :3
"FUTmas" Did they think carefully before posting that, that doesn't sound pleasant at all?
FIFA... lol. EA is the perfect developer for a football game like FIFA. It is something that barely changes over the years, with way too much money involved, especially for people who don't deserve it. Fans keep following it and get very angry when it doesn't go exactly as they hoped.
Also, to our friends in the US: it is called football. This game would be called FISA otherwise.
@DarkSim01 Because they rely heavily on the mass-market playerbase of which a large proportion unfortunately don’t know any better that they’re being taken for a ride. A very costly one.
@MysticGengar
Because only The Sims 4 i want so bad from EA, i mean developed by Maxis.
Why EA still burning relationship with Nintendo
EA is the worst gaming company there is, in my humble opinion. I dont know if they`re incompetent or if they actually falsely advertised this. Don`t know whats worse.
@Stocksy Yeah it is sad of what EA has become. By the time there gone in the future there legacy is people will only remember them for there bad things they did not the good accomplishment they achieved.
........Maybe I shouldn't have bought that copy of Unravel 2.
People still buy games from EA?
I'm sorry but anyone who purchases anything made by EA deserves the crap they get.
You spend your money on junk and you don't expect junk? Really? How dumb must people be to constantly buy products made by EA?
@Razer
What's that old saying? Play stupid games win stupid prizes?
@BanjoPickles exactly... i mean really dude, and these people actually have the audacity to complain like they are not a huge part of the problem...
"Genuinely stupid person buys broken EA product, complains about products, but then buys more broken product"...
Crazy are the people still paying full price for crippled FIFA on Switch.
The FIFA fans were warned that this version was trash back in September 2018. And most stayed away.
"...weekly FUT champions event and Squad Battles, are nowhere to be found. Daily and weekly challenges that dish out rewards for completing certain requirements, also haven't been added. There also won’t be Advent Player SBCs on Nintendo Switch."
Have it on PS4 when I am home (tons of fun) and play something else on the GO. EA should just use the money to make Sea of Solitude for switch.
I haven't purchased a single EA game since 2010... on my 360.
I genuinely consider anyone who at this point buys their junk has forfeited any right they had to complain... at this point if you still purchase EA products then you have a genuinely low IQ and complaining about what content you get in your silly little EA game is really your last worry in life.
@Razer What do think of the EA games like Unravel and Unravel Two?
@Anti-Matter Please, please don't take this the wrong way, but some people are getting tired of you consistently bashing the PS4. We know you hate it, we know you regret buying it, we know you only like a few games on it.
Would you consider lowering the amount of hatred that you show towards the console, because as I said above, some people are starting to get annoyed with it. Thanks.
"This EA game was not intended to be available for the Switch, as such all support for it has since been removed accordingly."
Fixed that for EA to express how they really feel.
@Matthew010
Um... Sorry.
Maybe i carried away a bit by my feeling about EA toward Nintendo, after i heard this news.
i will never understand why people buy sports video games?? just...go outside...and play the sport..?? why pay $60 when you can get a ball for $15
@LaytonPuzzle27 whats that?
Edit: just looked, never played them. They are published by EA and i really want to see EA go into administration one day.
Boycott FIFA!
Play International Superstar Soccer instead!
I just want a good hockey game.
Is it really that hard for them to setup these in-game adverts in a way that they can exclude certain systems from receiving specific ones?
@Anti-Matter I hope I didn't make you feel bad. I'm very sorry if I did.
@Razer
The last EA game I purchased was Fight Night Round 3, over a decade ago. I was well-aware, even then, that EA was somewhat of a shady company, but they were still putting out decent games that didn't require microtransactions and the like. It reached a point, though, where their output didn't do anything for me, and I couldn't support their practices, which I saw as being counter-productive to the industry.
They've lost me, and to support them is to support the dismantling/exploitation of an industry that I love. There are more than enough companies that fill that tiny void.
The only modern EA games I buy are the Sims on PC. 19 years of addiction.
Was there any public voting system of any kind that Nintendo Life has found the results and concluded that Switch fans are angered? May we see the official results of that scientific analysis?
Way to go EA. Way to reward your fans.
I bought 18 and 19 and the gameplay is much better on Switch than on other consoles, thanks to the relative lack of the built-in cheating system which is plaguing FIFA games more and more.
Unfortunately, there are so many things missing from the Switch FUT that 19 will be the last FIFA game I buy if they don't add those features to the next game.
Bear in mind, I was done with the franchise on other consoles, after many years, before the Switch version came along and playing online became fun again.
Not because I lacked skill (I was an online Division 1 winner every year) or the proper team (I always had full-blue TOTY/TOTS teams) and it wasn't because I had to pay a lot for those players (I used the market and never paid any real money in-game).
It's because the game has been so rigged on other consoles for a long time, that it was an insult to any honest gamer.
@DarkSim01 because they're fun? I enjoy them.
Ive an idea... Play to EA’s arrogance and influence them to make a console of their own... Then we can watch as low sales of the console amuse us.
I have a feeling they were gonna do it on the switch but then at the last minute decided not to do it on the Switch to screw with the Switch owners, and possibly save money???
I'm ok with half effort ports. Everyone else seems to be.
But at least charge accordingly. If the game runs at a lower resolution, has inferior frame rate and has less content, it isn't worth the same price or more than the other versions.
Nintendo needs to start enforcing this. Release sloppy second ports and flips all you want but be honest about it and be reasonable with pricing.
@BanjoPickles it's just crazy how they still manage to suck people in, these practices would simply not exist if people spoke with their wallets and whats worse still is they actually think they have a right to complain when they buy anything that belongs to EA.
At this point if you buy EA products its almost like wading out into crocodile infested water and wonder why you're being attacked...
"You know they are trash, you know they make and produce trash, why are you surprised when you get your pre paid trash?"
@JHDK
At this point I expect an 'All-Play' Madden '20 Switch version...and it doesn't come with a football.
EA is falsely Advertising FIFA 19 content for Switch? that's not surprising.
wish ea just disappear for good.
And my boycott on EA games keeps paying off yet again.
What’s sad about this whole mess is that I find the gameplay on the switch far better than Xbox/PS4, I own the game as well on Xbox but don’t play it. Switch fifa has so much potential but ea just don’t seem to make any effort to try grow the game. The worst part is when you try to contact them for help or a reason why the main guys Corey and gzaro don’t bother replying. The guy (eaAndy)who responded on the forums is as helpful as he can be, and does help as much as he can.
Reading the newest few comments and having in mind this old fashioned comment system I will state once again:
EA behaves the way it behaves (good or bad) but the real question is:
WHO gives Nintendo Life's the permission to use Nintendo fans as a name and conclude that they are angry?
Where is the analysis of it?
Or does the author feel that whenever he doesn't like something he can decide that Nintendo fans feel angry?
This is called MANIPULATIVE JOURNALISM which is a very, very bad kind of journalism.
Long live Pro Evolution Soccer, I say.
It's a running competition, which company do I like less, EA or Disney?
They are Comcast/Verizon levels of bad at this point. With absolutely zero respect for their customer base.
This is what happens when you let companies get so large.
EA has really dissapointed me in there fifa series on the nintendo switch. I am a proud owner of a switch, but EA hates or even discriminates the switch players. We always get left out with game modes and challenges, lets not even begin with the gameplay. Our version doesn't of Fifa isn't worth $60 in comparison with the other console versions. Gamemodes missing, challenges missing, gameplay is not even close to the frostbite engine and yet ea makes us pay the full $60. Sorry to say this, but ea is just looking to make money on the switch players and hate/discriminate all the nintendo switch players. We deserve to be treated equally, especially if we pay the same amount !!!
@Cosats stop defending ea dude.
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