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EA announces 100 million lifetime sales for FIFA, free Ultimate Team download

by Mike Schramm on Nov 5th 2010 7:00AM

Electronic Arts has announced that its FIFA soccer franchise has reached sales of over 100 million units during its 18-year-long lifetime, and that's a lot of virtual soccer balls. FIFA Soccer 11 helped push the series over the century mark, selling 2.6 million copies in its first five days, making it the fastest selling sports video game of all time.

To celebrate, EA is giving this year's version of its tie-in management game, FIFA 11 Ultimate Team, away for free along with the main game. Last year, the DLC was sold for an extra charge, but in FIFA 11, players can download the new mode for free, and it features both an enhanced multiplayer mode where players can pit their teams against each other, as well as a full-featured web app to auction and trade players outside of the console title.

That's pretty drop-kickin' awesome if you ask us. If you own FIFA 11 on the Xbox or PS3, you can pick Ultimate Team up for free from the in-game menus right now.

Source: EA Sports

Tags: dlc, ea, electronic-arts, fifa, FIFA-11, fifa-11-ultimate-team, microsoft, multiplayer, playstation, ps3, web-app, xbox

Reader Comments (20)

Football, not soccer

@Crimson Major

Well, it's developed by EA Canada and you're on a blog owned by America OnLine, so it's "soccer" my friend ;)

@jamiepgs

But they are talking about a game called FIFA 'Fédération Internationale de Football Association' definatly seems to be Football worldwide and not soccer ;)

@jonp81
I'm not saying Soccer is used worldwide, I'm British so definitely it's Football, but it's a Canadian developed game being discussed on an American owned blog, imo they're free to call it Soccer without people bitching about it.

@Crimson Major

seriously people, get over yourselves. learn to bitch about something worthwhile like the environment or something. football, soccer, hockey, it's all the same as long as you enjoy it.

@ravissimo

Not really...football is football, soccer is soccer, thats like calling a doughnut a pancake :)

@Spunky Monkey 190906

Oh, and for the record, the only people bitching about it are the people who replied to it complaining about bitching. You should know by now that the accidental slip of the word soccer instead of football in any football / soccer related topic will attract attention from people who want to correct it for the fun of it and to start debacles like this, lol

@Spunky Monkey 190906

The thing is, there's nothing to "correct". It's called soccer in the US. End of story.

Football, not soccer

It was well known that UT was going to be free, so its kinda BS that "To celebrate they are giving it away" :P

Sorry im late.

Football, not soccer

Good news. Hoping to some free DLC for the PC players, in the near future.

And, yes, the name given by EA is wrong. It's Football, not soccer.

You guys know that Soccer is actualy a term invented by the English Football to distance themselfs from the, in their eyes "barbaric", American Football?

@DrRadon
Actually, I believe that's only half true. You're right in that "soccer" is a term that is originally English, coming from Association Football, but that was to separate from regular football which we now call rugby.

OMG EA is so generous!

In other news you need to play 10 games to buy your first pack of cards, or for the very reasonable price of $2....

Now, patch the games bugs ; and not UT's bugs.

Like you did last year.

EA Muppets.

Eww, its shrek, what a way to ruin my meal >_<

Yeah, its football, not soccer.

I wish people who stop praising these useless pillocks. The game has been flat out broken since day one and still hasn't been fixed.

Oh and they removed the two-four player guest option in UT. So now I can't play with my friends on UT when they come over. Thanks EA Sports.

@Bekefel
Couldn't agree more. This game has been a huge let down. Guess it kind of shows how much EA really care about their fans, releasing a game that is so broken and making us wait until mid november to fix it, that is if this patch actually does the job something we all know it probably wont...

Oh and yeah removing the two-four player guest option in UT online tournaments is definately a step in the wrong direction.

And yet, Wii gamers get awful versions of the FIFA games. The gameplay is good, but the PES games are much better on Wii than FIFA (in features, gameplay, graphics, etc.).

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