FIFA trade jinxes another EA Sports cover

by Alexander Sliwinski { Aug 19th 2008 at 4:58PM }

FIFA 09 cover athlete Maurice Edu has been traded to another team, meaning EA Sports will, yet again, have to change the box art on one of its games. Edu, who would have been featured on the cover wearing his Toronto FC jersey, will now wear the uniform of the US Men's National Team -- not Scotland's Glasgow Rangers, which is the team he'll actually play on. EA Sports tells IGN that the cover of the game will ship with the correct art -- no "print out" version necessary.

This would be the second time in a month that EA Sports had to dump extra resources into changing a cover due to an athlete changing teams. Earlier this month the publisher had to fix the art for perennial high-profile American football title Madden 09 when cheesehead favorite Brett Favre unretired and left for ~~New York~~ New Jersey.

Tags: ea-sports, edu, fifa-09, maurice-edu

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Gavin @ Aug 19th 2008 5:06PM

Stop putting sports stars on the covers of the game...problem solved. After all, does anyone impulse buy these things because of who is on the cover? I certainly don't think so.

Hafk @ Aug 19th 2008 5:17PM

I think the Madden boxart looks much better with players, rather than John Madden's head.

Ken Shammy @ Aug 19th 2008 5:51PM

You'd be surprised. A couple of my friends totally impulse buyed Fifa Street (I think) cause sleazy Ronaldo was on the cover :/

Rodrigo- GO Nathan Hale! @ Aug 19th 2008 5:17PM

EA?

Jakka - The Heavy wants his sandwich back! @ Aug 19th 2008 5:17PM

In other news, the new comment system really gets on my nerves as it doesn't auto-save the data and I have to pick my current un-banned account from a list of my banned accounts each goddamn time I write a comment...

Oh and Fifa? Fuck Fifa.

paul @ Aug 19th 2008 5:20PM

Glad they didnt put the rangers jersey on the cover or nobody in europe would buy it

mr mobius @ Aug 19th 2008 5:39PM

What you mean, no one who likes to kiss the ass of the Vatican will buy it. The other half will absolutely love it.

Tom18230 @ Aug 19th 2008 6:11PM

Ahhh sectarianism....

Kersh @ Aug 19th 2008 5:21PM

I really don't understand why people care about this. As a huge hockey fan, if Rick Nash got traded right before that game came out, I wouldn't even think about it. I would just look at the cover and think "that's right, he was traded right before this game came out".

Fernando Rocker @ Aug 19th 2008 5:23PM

Joystiq: The new comment system has a problem. When I click Returning, it doesnt save my email. I have to write my email everytime I want to make a post.

The "Remember option" is checked.

Anyone having the same problem?

Phantom @ Aug 19th 2008 5:25PM

looks like the joystiq comment system is always cursed to some problem .

Kersh @ Aug 19th 2008 5:37PM

I am, but I don't really post enough for it to annoy me (too much).

mr mobius @ Aug 19th 2008 5:41PM

On IE it saves it but I still have to double click to get the option to choose the email address. I also now have to click to go to returning. Meaning the new comment system hasn't fixed the old bugs but has created new ones.

How hard is it to get a comment system that works? Or is this what you use to differentiate yourself from other blogging websites?

Ken Shammy @ Aug 19th 2008 5:50PM

I use Firefox and don't have any problems. Buuut that might be cause I use my password manager thinger on it :O

Jakka - The Heavy wants his sandwich back! @ Aug 19th 2008 5:53PM

/signed

Obie @ Aug 19th 2008 7:47PM

Same here, no problems on Firefox...ya know...cuz it's awesomeness.

ComradeTrotskii @ Aug 19th 2008 7:58PM

Testing testing one two.

While everyone is talking about it a question: Is there any way I can keep my username while changing my email address. I haven't used the email address I'm registered under for about a year, I don't even think it still exists. Subsequently I have no idea what my password is (I'm relying solely on the good grace of Firefox to do that for me) and I really want to get rid of the Mario icon so I can be like all the cool kids.

Also If Maurice Edu is the biggest star you guys in the US can muster to put on the FIFA box I'm really not surprised you have no interest in the sport, from my understanding he has played maybe two or three full internationals? It's nice that EA are putting an upcoming player (who given a few years could possibly make it in the middle reaches of some of Europes better leagues) but its hardly star power.

Arturo @ Aug 19th 2008 9:13PM

No problems for me. I'm using Firefox 3 with the username/password remember feature

mr nimblewick @ Aug 19th 2008 10:20PM

Did EA put the Joystiq comment system on a game cover?

Po0py @ Aug 19th 2008 6:32PM

Really this is not surprising when this type of thing happens because it is the start of a new footballing season and that is when most players are transfered. Coincidentally that is when there is a new Fifa PR campaign. *yawn*

deft @ Aug 19th 2008 5:43PM

So now the cover curse is that Players get transfered to other teams?

Especially with FIFA 09 having not one but two transfered players:
Adu going to Glasgow and Ronaldihno going to AC Milan

*hopes for Guillermo Ochoa to be transfered to an European team then*