FIFA 13 by EA Sports is the most popular sports game ever, and at the same time, maybe the worst.

Thousands of players who brought the game have been complaining to EA about the poor state of the released game, complaining that freezing, crashes, bugs and glitches have made the game unplayable.

UK players will be familiar with BBC Watchdog, who have already reported on the problems with the FIFA game and EA's poor response to the issues in their game.

Many people feel that EA are just rushing out a new game each year without being ready. This seems to have become quite a trend in the recent years for game developers to release an unfinished game and fix the majority of the game's issues after the public have brought and effectively finished beta testing it.
What is making a lot of FIFA players angry is that after they've spent £40 on the game and maybe spent another £40 on Coins for their FIFA Ultimate Team Online, then not be able to use due to EA's server problems.

Today EA posted this statement in the FIFA 13 Forum.
"FIFA 13: Ultimate Team is back up and running. Earlier this week, a very small number of users attempted to gain an unfair advantage by manipulating coins. To ensure a fair economy for all our users we decided to take FUT offline in order to restore a level playing field.

We take issues like this very seriously. Permanent bans for FIFA 13 have been served to all users who attempted to gain an unfair advantage.

We would like to thank you, the community, for your patience during the downtime. We'll continue to maintain the best experience for all fans of FIFA 13: Ultimate Team."


Despite the flaws, September 30, 2012 was the busiest day for online gaming for a single title in EA's history. The firm said 800,000 fans played FIFA 13 simultaneously.
Overall, the online server has logged that more than 66 million online game sessions have already been played, representing 600 million minutes of online play time.