EA Sports UFC Will Not Have Fighter Share, Will Release Late Spring - Possibly Summer

[sportsfan8812]

MMA Junkie has posted an interview with EA Sports UFC Creative Director, Brian Hayes and Lead Producer, Nate McDonald. Quite a few interesting tidbits of information came out of it.

They talk about how many fighters will be in the game, adding more through DLC, how they come up with ratings and much more. Unfortunately, it looks like the release of the game could get pushed to the Summer, but nothing has been confirmed. Another piece of bad news? No fighter share.

Quote:

Going off of that, a major feature people enjoyed in “EA Sports MMA” was the ability to create a fighter and share them online. Will the fighter share option be brought back for this upcoming title? That’s something we loved as well, but we can’t do it anymore for a number of reasons. One of the big things people did on a game like “Fight Night” is making Rocky Balboa, or Floyd Mayweather or whatever. But nowadays when people can make YouTube clips and share them, there’s this whole grey area where if our game allows users to make a Rocky character that’s the intellectual property of somebody else, it causes a ton of problems. There is a “Create-A-Fighter” and you could create you own Rocky, but when we are facilitating the sharing of content, it gets very difficult.

Read the full interview at MMA Junkie, here.

[Gotmadskillzson]

No fighter share because they are afraid of Youtube copy right blow back ? WTF......

Guess that would explain why they took out some of the editing features in Madden. And from the sounds of it, I'm starting to think this game won't come out until September. It is going on April and they still don't have a release date contract signed yet ? wow.

[Pappy Knuckles]

No fighter share sucks, but I assume that it won't be that big of a deal since we have CAF site templates to work from. It will be a bit more time consuming for sure, but if it's a quality recreation I won't mind.

I don't think that the release is gonna drag all the way to September. At least I hope not. I'm sure we'll be hearing something within a month or two.

[aholbert32]

EA would never release this game later than July but I think it will be mid June. They have been sticking to the late spring release line and Summer doesnt start until June 17th. Madden comes out in August. Fifa and NHL come out in September and Live is out in October. They dont want this game to get lost in the fall shuffle. Also EA Sports needs the sales in the 2nd quarter.

Very disappointed in the lack of fighter share. Thank god for sites like MMA-CAF.

[aholbert32]

The more I read...the more im disappointed. He's basically blaming Youtube for no fighter share and the inability to edit fighters wardrobe (which you could do in FNC). I do love that they have 12 venues in the game (Montreal, Anaheim, LA, Toronto, Vegas, Brazil).

[sportsfan8812]

Quote: Originally Posted by aholbert32

The more I read...the more im disappointed. He's basically blaming Youtube for no fighter share and the inability to edit fighters wardrobe (which you could do in FNC). I do love that they have 12 venues in the game (Montreal, Anaheim, LA, Toronto, Vegas, Brazil).

Yeah I agree. The answer for everything seems to be "maybe in the future" or "the next installment." No fighter share does suck but like you said, we do have those sites to help. And I don't think it will be September. I'm patient. I don't really mind waiting to be honest, but I completely understand everyone's frustration.

All those venues will definitely be pretty bad *** though.

[Thrash13]

Welcome to the next gen! At least it won't be nearly as bad as EA Sport's transition last gen. Those first games were bare bones, lol. This is EA's first UFC game though, and I think it will be a good one when all is said and done.

As far as release date goes, they're used to having NCAA Football release in July, so as long as they get it out by then, they'll be fine. Competing with Madden, FIFA, etc. won't work out well.


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[redsrule]

No fighter share is GARBAGE. Just like his "excuse" for it not being in there.