EA says FIFA 21 on PC won't get the PS5 and Xbox Series X features to keep the minimum specs down

FIFA 21 on PC will not get the next-gen features coming to the game on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S in order to keep the game's minimum specs down, EA has said.

[cliveo32]

Wtf EA scum

[Eonjay]

Its soccer/football though. I highly doubt EA is doing something so incredible that it even needs top of the line anything. And even if they wanted to build for low specs PC (which it already runs fine on) why wouldn't you just give the users to select their settings. Even some console games let you adjust the graphic settings. They are lazy and they are cheap and they want to literally put the least about of money into copying and pasting this cash cow.

[demonseye]

i love trashing EA like any other. but this is not a scum move. they are launching a free update on a game that not many people are gonna spent extra money anymore. fifa 22 is coming out in a couple of months. and now they added some features for free on the console for Fifa 21 thats one of the better things EA has done. although i dont care for Fifa personally.

[shuvam09]

Icymi, even FIFA 22 on PC is based on the last gen version. They just wanna milk the kids with lower spec PCs and their parents'cards

[demonseye]

I mean yhea obviously it's EA and FIFA that hasn't changed since ever. but a free update for an old FIFA game is something they have never done. so I don't see that as a scum move the whole game in itself is definitely a scum move.

[LordoftheCritics]

So basically lets not give people an incentive to pursue better hardware.

Why even make next gen games.

[Fntastic]

It's pretty much nonsense, this never stopped developers bringing games with high end graphics back in 2004 with Doom 3 and Half Life 2. If people don't want to upgrade that's their decision. Granted GPUs and CPUs are much more expensive now than they were back then.

I know some people don't upgrade for 5-10 years but IMO that's ridiculous. I'd rather upgrade every 2-4 years if the performance differences are there and generally in that time they will be, and now we are out of stagnation for CPUs we'll be seeing around 40% more uplift clock for clock by the end of next year alone from current stuff.

My longest kept CPU was my i7 920 until the 5820k in 2015, i doubt I'll be waiting that long again to upgrade with current advancements, and before that was an Athlon 64, and before that the Athlon XP 1500+ which was a great cheap CPU for its time. I went 3700x in 2019 and now with a 5800x.

[KyRo]

It all comes down to money. If the game plays on more low end systems, the more potential there is for revenue. This is EA. Money is always first before logic.

[rakentaja]

Selling more copies is much more important than giving you the desired version.

[kryteris]

pc master race has been mostly a joke the last ten years. Most hardware is slightly better than modern apu's.

[Bluemaster77]

This is very dumb and wrong. Obviously you’ve never had the chance to use a powerful rig. I

[OptimusDK]

But again that was not what he said. He said most hardware… and he is right.

[ballisticvoodoo]

I know right? Why try and profit off a game that cost millions to make so you're happy. Seems senseless to me. I hate money.

[MehmetAlperTR]

F..... you EA...

[JEECE]

I guess they forgot about scalability.

[Inverno]

That would mean having to put some actual effort developing Fifa

[SullysCigar]

In effort terms, EA = Eff All

[RosweeSon]

They are only interested in profitability. Literally they don’t care about their games just that their fans will lap them up again even tho they still playing through last years 😏🤷🏻‍♂️ ✌🏻

[anast]

lol!

[FPS_D3TH]

Lmfao what a stupid fucking statement… just another reason this series is trash mind you.

Then again, those South American kids who keep propping this shitty series up likely don’t have pcs that would take advantage of this

[SDuck]

you know the whole world isn't America right? Fifa is huge in Europe. A continent not part of Murica

[FPS_D3TH]

True I forgot to add Europe

[MrNinosan]

Wasn't FIFA21 released almost a year ago?

Edit: Oh, the article is actually 9 months old.

[exputers]

Actually, that is the Interview/Explanation Article on a statement from last year (I was told to add it). The FIFA 21 feature that EA is advertising called "HyperMotion" won't be coming to PC - as confirmed from their official site and credit URL. Cheers.
https://exputer.com/wp-cont...

[chiefJohn117]

Lmao PC master race my @**

[Shiore2u]

L O L What a glorious victory for consoles! Lazy regurgitated annual sports game with microtransactions! Yes! This is winning!

[Ju]

The article is from ... November 2020...

[CantThinkOfAUsername]

Hmm, old article.

[zahdab]

what a load of bullcrap...

[Destiny1080]

most Pcs cant handle win 11, nevermind next-gen gaming features

[badz149]

I'm not cheering on EA here but regarding Win 11, watch Linus Tech Tips on YT (or others too) and see that the CPU requirement put up earlier by MS is nothing but a marketing stunt for now. PC tinkers have managed to bypass ALL checks - including TPM2.0 and Secure Boot to run Win 11 on PCs down to the dual-core CPU from almost 10 years ago.

[Zeref]

I think majority will be able to upgrade. I'm on a laptop with a GTX 1060 and it checked out for the upgrade.

[SugarSoSweet]

Wait Isn't usually the PC that's supposed to get all the advanced and best tech/graphics?

[badz149]

SSD is not a standard yet on PC. lots of people still have HDD and not to forget those only using small size SSD for Windows and install their games on HDD. again, I'm not cheering on EA here, just maybe that's the reason for them doing it.

[ocelot07]

Agreed and am guilty of this. I have 1 m.2 drive 1tb for Windows and a few games. The rest go on a standard HDD.

[badz149]

@Ocelot07

lots of us still do. Maybe in Win 11 they will make it easier or possible to just move our games between HDD and SSD without reinstalling as we do on consoles now.

[ufo8mycat]

Wait what?

Why can't you keep the minimum specs down by still including these features and they are just options you can toggle off/on in the graphics option? You know, just like every other graphics option, including ray tracing?

[-Hermit-]

Article is 8 months old.

[Zeref]

Huh? This is very weird

[MocBistro]

Uh..ohm... A simple on/off button would have suffice

[RosweeSon]

To keep their minimal costs down. ChEAp skates. Might as well bang legacy edition on all the boxes we all know the proper next gen version will be next year if not the year after when they drop at gen. which they won’t do for a year or 2 💰 😑🤷🏻‍♂️

[Junghova]

Pc owners get the Switch version

[ballisticvoodoo]

Ya man, EA is scum right? Trying to profit off a game. How dare they!!! The only reason devs make games is to give them to us all for free. Fucking idiots. Take away the profit you all hate and you wont' have game you dumb Mofos.

Gaming isn't free, you Pheasants! If you can't afford the price of entry find a new hobby. Gaming doesn't have a welfare clause in it. Work for your fucking games!!!!!

[ballisticvoodoo]

A lot of you think EA exists to please you free of charge. If you don't like their product then don't buy it. I'm no fan of EA but they are a company that is trying to make money. That is their sole purpose.
I know a lot of you think you are entitled to what you want but guess what? Shit in one hand and want in the other. You tell me what hand fills up faster.
Pathetic little Pheasants. You have no idea what makes the world spin. EA is not here to address only you. They exist to only make money.

[Fntastic]

Other game companies exist to make money too, but they don't purposely release gimped versions either. Look at ID software with the new Doom, it has been so well optimised that it runs and looks even better than the console versions even with a low end 2060 GPU! (as shown by digital foundry)

Either way it does not bother me as i can honestly say the last time i played a football game was one that was included on a game pack with my first PC in the 90s!

[fsfsxii]

who tf plays Fifa on pc? lmao its a social game that's played best on console with friends but yeah I guess most people complaining here have no friends

[Father__Merrin]

Will play horrid on keyboard mouse anyways

[Fntastic]

Another troll post from you? You have obviously never owned a PC if you didn't know there's such a thing as USB/bluetooth game pads.

[Father__Merrin]

It was a sarcastic post as we've always been told on here joypads are awful

[philm87]

They obviously don't want to exclude any of their player base. For those who don't know the new gen versions add countless numbers of animations and also massively increases the player AI capabilities, so it's not just something you can switch on/off depending on your hardware i.e. the new gen versions aren't compatible with the old gen versions.

[FlavorLav01]

Hmmm. Makes sense to me. All new gen consoles have an SSD. All or most computers do not.