EA Sports FIFA Superstars
EA Sports FIFA Superstars is a football managing game developed by Playfish and Electronic Arts. It is available for play via Facebook, its mobile application is available viaApple iOS. In the game, the users take on the role of a football manager, managing their own teams. The players manage their team by purchasing players, hiring a coach, upgrading stadium and keeping the club fit in practice.
Features
At the start of the game, the user will be given 15,000 coins, eleven bronze players and one silver player to start with.
- Play - Play the two types of the matches, Friendly matches and League matches. In Friendly matches, the players can play with the other friends that play FIFA Superstars. Some of winning matches gains Match Credit to play league matches. The player takes the penalty if the match is drawn, to score the winning goal. No goal means the team loses. In league matches, the players will play six types of the leagues. It have Superstars League, MLS Barclays Premier League, Ligue 1, Serie A, La Liga and New Pro League. The players will start with Superstars League. The lowest class of the league is Tutorial League that will randomly choose the South African teams, after win the match will be promote to next league, Juniors C League. The Superstars League have the other users that is not the user's friends. After win the match will not publish any thing on the beaten team owner. The real leagues will give more rewards when the club beaten all the teams in each leagues. And New Pro League, The players will play with the teams from Barclays Premier League, La Liga, npower Championship, Serie A and Major League Soccer. Your statistic will be appear on the Leaderboard, this league need supporters that starts with 50,000 supporters . Ask friends for supporters to unlock next match. Score the points to claim the rewards, claim reward in each five matches (in npower championship, gift is claimed after 6 matches due to total 48 matches). All leagues need the ticket called Match Credits. Players can earn match credit by winning friendly matches, complete the league, wait for countdown clock, ask friends for credits, take the shootout practice and buy from store.
- Match Predictor Predict the real match from around the world and earn token to trade-in rewards.[1]
- Be a Fan - Choose the Premier League team, and buy a team crest, stadium, jerseys and fan kits. Once completed, player will be able to purchase player from that club of your choice.
- Manage - Choose the starting eleven of the club, sell players and change the formation of the club.
- Training - Keep your players fit by giving them some workouts to do, more time for training will give more training points. It improves the chance of winning. Losing the league match will reduce training point.
- Stadium - See the club stadium.
- Trade - Trade with other users to get the players you want.
- Store - The store have four types of items. Players, purchase players to improve the team. There are five types of players. Bronze (Cost 10,000 coins and lowest performance.), Silver (Cost 25,000 coins and lower performance.), Gold (Need Level 10 to buy, cost 65,000 coins and high performance.), Gold Plus (Need Level 15 to buy, cost 250,000 coins or 90 Playfish Cash and higher performance), Elite (140 Playfish Cash and highest performance.). Staff, Coach and Personal Trainer. Match Credits, take penalty shootout to gain one free match credit or use Playfish Cash to buy. Stadium Upgrades, upgrade the stadium to improve the rewards.
Like the players
To become a fan of the players and club, move the mouse towards the player image or team crest, wait until Like icon appears. Then, click on it and press Like.
Match Predictor
To predict the match, the predictions must be done in the weekend or day that the match will take place, enter the score and click Submit to confirm the prediction. Users will win stuff if they predict correctly.
Superstars of the Week
"SOTW", this is updated every Wednesday, the teams are based on players' performance in the past week. They will have a blue number, that shows they are limited edition, and can be obtained in packs or the special SOTW pack, that usually costs Playfish Cash.
First birthday anniversary
In May 26, 2011, the game celebrates its first birthday with the name "FIFA Superstars Birthday Blast". By selling various items from May 26 to June 3. The items were:
| Items |
Price |
| 5 Match Credits |
5,000 coins |
| Coach |
1 coins |
| Gold Transfers |
10,000 coins |
| 5 Match Credits |
5,000 coins |
| Gold Plus Transfers |
15,000 coins |
| 5 Match Credits |
5,000 coins |
| 1 Week Talent Boost |
1 Superstars Cash (was Playfish Cash) |
Once the player collected all items will receive the stadium called "Superstars Arena".[2]
Login issues
In July 2011, many users has experienced the login issues about white screen, under maintenance and others. The official forum of Playfish has posted the thread about the login issues and giving away coins for the user in this inconvenience.[3]
In August 11, 2011. The another white screen/login issues has occurred again and it was resolved on August 12, 2011.[4]
Nomination for Golden Joystick Awards
The game has been nominated for Best Free-to-play games in Golden Joystick Awards 2011.[5]
New user referral from Premier League clubs website
New users can earn free team crest, stadium and two free player by entering the club website and start playing and complete the tutorial via their website to earn rewards. The clubs currently having referral are Chelsea, Newcastle United F.C., Fulham F.C. and Aston Villa
In 2011-12 season, Liverpool crest has been later removed from Be a Fan and their official website by displaying 404 error message instead.
Player Database Update
The update occurs after the transfer window has been closed. The update will change player's rating, player's team, teams in Pro League and National League. The last update occurred at September 21, 2011. The Pro League and National League will go offline for a few hours for team update.
See also
External links
References
- ^ "FIFA Superstars update 11/08/11", Playfish Forum, August 11, 2011, accessed August 13, 2011.
- ^ "Happy Birthday FIFA Superstars", Playfish Forum, May 25, 2011, accessed August 13, 2011.
- ^ "FIFA Superstars login issues - Now with 65,000 FREE Coins *Updated*", Playfish Forum, July 2011, accessed August 13, 2011.
- ^ "[RESOLVED] Fifa Superstars Connection Issues - 11th August", Playfish Forum, August 11, 2011, accessed August 13, 2011.
- ^ "FIFA Superstars - Best Free Game Nominee Golden Joystick Awards 2011", goldenjoystick.com, August 2011, accessed August 13, 2011.