FIFA Off The Bench

FIFA 10: The Online Game

by Christophe Labrune | 09-July-2009

FIFA 09 was the year of Online for the FIFA series. Usage more than tripled over FIFA 08 and each day since launch has seen more than 1 million matches completed. We even broke the 2 million-match-per-day bar in March. Let's step back for a bit, and see where this all came from...

About The Bloggers

David Rutter is the Line Producer for FIFA 11 on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. A lifelong football fan, David supports Leicester and Hitchin Town. In addition to playing FIFA, Rutter also enjoys CoD, GRAW, and NHL.
Aaron McHardy is responsible for gameplay design on FIFA 11. He did that on FIFA 08, 09 and 10, too. A professional footballer prior to working at EA, Aaron displayed his skills for the motion-capture cameras on FIFA Street and FIFA Street 2.
Marcel Kuhn is a producer on FIFA 11 with a big focus on the all-new Career Mode. Prior to EA, Marcel worked for a marketing agency in Germany for several years and, later, worked for a comic publisher.
Romily Broad is community manager for EA SPORTS Football World. Principally, that means he gets to play FIFA a lot and claim that it's actual work. Between games he also brings us the weekly FIFA podcast and all the cool stuff you might find over at EASPORTSFootball.com.
Christophe Labrune came to EA Canada from France in 2001 and, after some time in QA and localistion, joined the FIFA crew for FIFA 2004. He was Online Producer for FIFA 10 on PS3 and Xbox 360 and now runs the Football Live Team for the FIFA series. If you're a forumite, you'll find him there as "EA_FLT".
Stevie Morgan has worked in sports broadcasting for the past 12 years, despite always being picked last for football at school. He has also founded a support group for fellow fans of Southampton FC who, like him, have found things a bit much over the past few years and are suffering from post-Premiership depression.
 
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