EA Sports UFC Could Release Every Other Year

[Steve_OS]

While we wait for an official release date for EA Sports UFC, Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson feels like the game could be released every other year.

"Do I think that UFC would be an every year game? I don't know, he said. "It feels like it's in that every-other-year mix, but in all honesty we haven't made that decision yet. That really comes down to how long it's going to take to make a great game and when do we think the audience is ready."

[RUFFNREADY]

GSP's face looks cool; but how will it look all busted UP! lol
As for Mr. Wilson's thoughts on every other year release; he should think about that for other EA franchises; so they can give Us (the consumer) better bang for our dollar!
But, what will the ignite engine be like with them updating their product, and EA not updating their rosters, just over the year mark? Or is EA planning to charge Us a fee to use Synergy/Ignite to update rosters and attributes? Hmmm!
Money to be made somewhere; and you know EA will find it!
cheers

[Pappy Knuckles]

Re: EA Sports UFC Could Release Every Other Year

Hopefully they can squeeze out a Fight Night in between this UFC game and the next one.

[LingeringRegime]

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Good. I hope they go that route.

[Maverick32093209]

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When I read the first part of the title I thought it was going to be that EA Sports UFC could release SOON. This news is interesting. The current game is 2 years old...it still held up.

I think that it depends on how many copies are sold. I can see doing the first two years back to back...then going with every other year.

[LOEAnubis]

That's not a bad thing, especially since fighters only get two to four fights a year. The stats can't change much and the engine shouldn't need to be overhauled yearly.

[SHAKYR]

Fight Night is still in their rotation so this makes sense.

[p_rushing]

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It depends. If the game is great, then 2 years is fine. If the game has a lot of issues or lacks features, you won't be playing it for 1 year.

With it being EA, until they prove it I won't think it is a good thing.

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[allBthere]

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Hopefully they can squeeze out a Fight Night in between this UFC game and the next one.

if that's the case I would hope they are already in development

[Thrash13]

Re: EA Sports UFC Could Release Every Other Year

I definitely think it's a positive for EA Sports to release the UFC game every other year, and I think they should do the same with their future golf games as well. There's no way Madden will be anything but yearly, but some of the others will benefit from a two-year cycle.


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[hakeemdaprince]

Due to the current cycle, I think all sports games benefit from this. Update stats yearly and we can get those better games visually and gameplay wise. 2k is going to need an engine overhaul though but they can't afford time off. They should have took advan

[jeremym480]

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Ideally, I would like to see them come out with one next year adding more fighters, modes, the ability to create female CAF's, doctor stoppages, etc.

With that said if they release some fighters via DLC as well as either

a) update their fighters rosters every month or so

or

better yet b) give us the ability to edit attributes, then I suppose that I would be okay with this.

[The JareBear]

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I really hope they go every other year route. This is something that gets clamored for with Madden and I want to see if it works with EA MMA. Again, I want it only because I assume each new game will come packed with substantially improved mechanics and great new features.

[DaveDQ]

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This isn't about creating more time to develop a game. It's about the dollar. If EA sees this game sell big it will have a annual release attached to it.

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[jeremym480]

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I really hope they go every other year route. This is something that gets clamored for with Madden and I want to see if it works with EA MMA. Again, I want it only because I assume each new game will come packed with substantially improved mechanics and great new features.

I've never really understood that either...

I mean, if someone doesn't think that the game improves enough from year to year, then why not just have some self control (something that I admittedly don't have) and skip it?

Either way it's still two years of dev time whether a game is released or not isn't it? Of course, they would save some time because they wouldn't have to work on patches and stuff, but since those can be rolled over into the next iteration, then how much time is really saved?