FIFA 16 Includes 9 New Stadiums, Features 50 Licensed Stadiums & 28 Generic Stadiums

[Peter_OS]

Where's BMO field EA??

Give Toronto some love!

[VTPack919]

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Carrow Road is going to be a blast to play in....

Norwich manager mode confirmed.

[dubcity]

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Some may call it petty. Others would call it business. As you said, it was mainly about getting Camp Nou and Santiago Bernabeu. They got that, and took the league exclusive at the same time. 4 is better than none, which is what PES has, and people who are into La Liga are probably going to go with Fifa based partially on this. Sounds like a sound business move for EA.

A sound business move that hurts the consumers. Yeah, I'm not patting them on the back for that, lol.

[bad_philanthropy]

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In a lot of ways it's too bad the budget and organizational scheme of the FIFA team doesn't allow for more stadiums implemented year to year. The NCAA Football series had fantastic, detailed stadiums, for nearly all of the 120 teams near the end. I'm not slagging the series or EA—just surprised there isn't some better tech or even workflow for this sort of thing.

I just don't understand how one year you can create around, what? 15 new stadiums for the Premier League, and then the next it goes down to 9?

[bxphenom7]

A sound business move that hurts the consumers. Yeah, I'm not patting them on the back for that, lol.

Second this!

[asu666]

Nice list. I appreciate the team continuing relegated BPL stadium licenses and adding Portsmouth to boot. I'd like to see more MLS stadia added. Seattle is a good addition; however, I'd like to see KC's and LA's stadiums added too. Columbus would be a good one too.

[jb12780]

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Portsmouth probably needed the money so they got an exclusive deal.

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[Turbojugend]

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Portsmouth probably needed the money so they got an exclusive deal.

https://www.easports.com/fifa/news/2015/fifa-16-fratton-park-and-simon-humber

[Krebstar]

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Portsmouth probably needed the money so they got an exclusive deal.

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Nope, a tribute!

https://www.easports.com/fifa/news/2015/fifa-16-fratton-park-and-simon-humber

Now I just hope they can stay in the football league for another year.

[jb12780]

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https://www.easports.com/fifa/news/2...d-simon-humber

Nope, a tribute!

https://www.easports.com/fifa/news/2015/fifa-16-fratton-park-and-simon-humber

Now I just hope they can stay in the football league for another year.

That's awesome. Nice gesture by the FIFA team.

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[Krebstar]

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Carrow Road is going to be a blast to play in....

Norwich manager mode confirmed.

And they have some nice kits.

http://www.footyheadlines.com/2015/07/norwich-city-15-16-kit.html

[GeauxGleaux]

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In a lot of ways it's too bad the budget and organizational scheme of the FIFA team doesn't allow for more stadiums implemented year to year. The NCAA Football series had fantastic, detailed stadiums, for nearly all of the 120 teams near the end. I'm not slagging the series or EA—just surprised there isn't some better tech or even workflow for this sort of thing.

I just don't understand how one year you can create around, what? 15 new stadiums for the Premier League, and then the next it goes down to 9?

worth noting that all 120 of those teams were in the same country, and the majority beholden to the same licensing group.

[believeinnow]

Can someone share a link to that whole 'EA owns the rights to all La Liga Stadiums'? I can only find links to the league name and logo from 2008 but nothing about stadiums. I think that could be an urban legend from people who just love to hate on EA. Or the deal expired, which is also possible. Don't forget Camp Nou wasn't included in FIFA 13 because EA and FCB couldn't agree on a new agreement before launch.

If a stadium isn't in the game, you can assume one or all of the following reasons:

1) the licensing fee to get the stadium is too high for EA to pay for. Don't forget, stadiums can be privately or publically owned and gaining the rights to use the name and the stadium itself could be too much for what EA is willing to pay.
2) the club isn't popular enough in FIFA to warrant it's inclusion
3) EA can only allocate a certain amount of resources to build new stadiums in a year. When they had that groundbreaking partnership with the BPL, I bet a lot of money was involved. If La Liga, Serie A or the Bundesliga aren't willing to invest, I doubt EA would spend money out of their own pocket.

A good chunk of the stadium sin the game outside of the BPL are with clubs that EA has a relationship with: Barca, Dortmund, PSG, Sounders, Whitecaps, etc... Definitely part of the agreement is the inclusion of their stadiums.

[HenryClay1844]

I'm sorry, but it's a pretty disappointing list if they don't greatly improve Career Mode this year, I'll only pick it up at the price drop and play PES and Football Manager this year on principle alone.

[Krebstar]

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Can someone share a link to that whole 'EA owns the rights to all La Liga Stadiums'? I can only find links to the league name and logo from 2008 but nothing about stadiums. I think that could be an urban legend from people who just love to hate on EA. Or the deal expired, which is also possible. Don't forget Camp Nou wasn't included in FIFA 13 because EA and FCB couldn't agree on a new agreement before launch.

In 2013 Adam Bhatti, PES European Product Manager, wrote a message on the Winning Eleven Blog forum:

"This issue however is not something technical, it actually due to licencing. EA have been extremely aggressive with signing deals with clubs and leagues this year, and it has meant we can't implement major European stadiums, including NO Spanish stadiums. People were getting worried when they announced exclusive deals with Spanish teams. Well it turned out it meant we couldn't implement their stadium, amongst others."